I think the Democratic establishment severely underestimates the extent to which the younger half of the electorate would cheerfully send Bill Clinton to Gitmo ourselves

Michiganders, both of our senators voted for the trans athlete ban this week. Please please please call them and tell them they have to vote against the ban on gender affirming care for minors that just passed the house. This bill will kill children. Slotkin: (202) 224-4822 Peters: (202) 224-6221

DTE this is insane, and I can only imagine what we'll be paying after the Saline data center us running. 2 people in a small house. Doors/windows aren't drafty. Thermostat: 68 day/64 night. Off-peak hours for laundry/dishwasher. Christmas lights only on for a few hours. We unplug unused things. WTF!

This take is garbage, the author is garbage for writing it, the editor is garbage for greenlighting it, and this rag is garbage for publishing it.

I was today years old when I discovered “Butlerian Jihad” has nothing to do with Judith Butler

The @umich.edu needs to prioritize staff pay over yet another football scandal (hint: could be the patriarchy. you aren't fixing that with lawyers). It's time to meet @usu-umich.bsky.social at the table with an offer that isn't completely insulting. Staff make the university run!

Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow chicagoshovels.org

This is incredible news. So this massive Oracle/OpenAI data center Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is trying to push on Michiganders can’t even find financial backers. Yet, if you drive on US-12 you wouldn’t know the project HASN’T been approved by the amount of construction already happening.

We're writing the UM regents! Please join us! Management's disgraceful offer is both less than what we have received the last three years without a union (11.35%) & significantly less than what other unions on campus have gotten in their first contracts (~17%). UM staff deserve better!

I've decided to punt everything to 2054.

I have a lot of issues with @dananessel.bsky.social, but she is one of the only Dems (ironically w/@reprashida.govpeeps.us) out here saying STOP. Whitmer and Benson are all in on this data center scam, and they need to hear from all Michiganders. Call Whitmer asap 517-335-7858

#TrinityHealth has started asking patients, at least in urgent care, if they can use audio recording during visits. Because of the power dynamic, this is actually an illusion of choice for the patient. My guess is that this is an AI option to "save time"...

I recently watched A Few Good Men, and was reminded of how exceptional it is. Definitely top 15 on my list, and probably my favorite of Reiner's portfolio, followed closely by Misery. When Harry Met Sally is the film my partner and I watch together. Reiner truly made something for everyone.

At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.

Speaking of which, you can help us send a message to UM management. 3% raises for Ann Arbor, and 1% for Dearborn and Flint is disgusting! UM works because WE do! actionnetwork.org/letters/grad...

This Lions game is going to warm me up after our @usu-umich.bsky.social union picket for fair pay at winter commencement! Hutchinson, what a run!

Big update on the data center front: A Saline Township resident is taking legal action, suing for violations of the Open Meetings Act. THIS is what we need to be doing! Bookmark the Rural Defense Legal Fund page for upcoming legal fundraising info:

insanely fucked up to see a mass shooting on a hanukkah event and claim it’s because the country it happened in recognized palestine as a state but that is what israeli politicians are doing

I support learning about any technology to effectively identify its limitations, and communicate about its societal impact. This is very different than mandating usage across professional fields. Ignoring GenAI-creep, specifically, won’t make it disappear, but it will keep people ignorant.

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

I beg of more people to hate the computer so that we may improve upon it (and tech culture).

🧵 There's an add running on many podcasts right now for student Google Gemini. I don't want to condescend to students, because I think many are savvy about GenAI, but please understand that "free" year they're offering means training their AI by uploading *your* work, your intellectual property.

Repealing Section 230 would chill free speech by allowing platforms, not users, to be held responsible for what its users say. Platforms will become much more censorious over what its users can post. This is extremely bad They're trying to rush it. Call your reps, don't let them

Suffering of people in Gaza manufactured by Israeli restriction of aid, not weather, Oxfam says.

There's wisdom in all people, no matter their age. Listen to your elders, sure, but also listen to what a toddler has to excitedly tell you, or what they're mad about. Listen to the problems of a teenager. Pay attention to what the young 20s have to say and the 40 year olds. Listen to people.

Anyway, moral of the story is down with Common Core and edtech, up with working with your school librarian to update your English curriculum. (And if you don't have a school library or librarian, it's time to get advocating for them.)

This was the 1st general election I voted in. Our current timeline has been made possible by this single SCOTUS decision 25 years ago. If you were too young to vote, or not yet born, I highly recommend reading & watching the news from 2000. It was an absolute shitshow.

The University of Nebraska is closing their statistics department. Especially if you're all in on AI this is so short-sighted. It's like launching the first spacecraft into outer space and being like "welp time to close astrophysics and rocketry and only teach classes on buckling up your seat belts"

I don’t care at all about college football, especially Michigan. But as a staff person there…what the actual fuck!

People need to understand that AI is a project and not a tool.

When adjusted for inflation, Bob Cratchet (the over worked and severely underpaid employee of Ebenezer Scrooge who is the archetypal working poor Victorian) made about $53,000 per year. If you make less than $53k per year, your employer is fucking you over worse than Ebenezer Scrooge.

These tech bros are afraid of their own mortality and death, and they are projecting their fears onto us. I talk to my dad all the time. He passed in 2017. I hope to never see a chatbot with his holographic image and voice.

This situation is a damn mess. Every year it’s a new massive, public mess.

If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan. If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION. If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.

One of the reasons I detest so many of these gAI companies and services is how much they erase and dehumanize actual human labor. It’s honestly terrifying and reason enough to shun them entirely.

"Instead of an AI chatbot, you might, for instance, try asking a human being with experience in the area you’re looking at for advice Calkin suggested." Really puts that 'I couldn't raise a baby without ChatGPT' Jimmy Fallon/Sam Altman interview into perspective.

for those still missing the point, you are helping major tech companies backed by the US military manufacture consent for ever present monitoring by using these arguments.

The question isn't, "how do we build better, less harmful data centers?" The question is, "do we need this type of AI?" The answer is no.

Yeah. We said all of this repeatedly. That's what Uncommitted was all about. But, you should have done this to save Palestinian lives, not win an election.

I was just thinking yesterday about the 1998 AI-themed X-Files episode (Kill Switch) Gibson co-wrote! (see repost below)

I really wish more of y'all would go read @greatdismal.bsky.social's Jackpot books. Like… I wish you'd already read them, but I *really* wish you'd go read them.

Jimmy Fallon: And does it taste good? I bet it's great. CEO of Company That Made Lemonade That Kills You: I don't know Jimmy, it kills you when you drink it, so I haven't, you know, I haven't had it. Yet! Jimmy Fallon: That's amazing, that's amazing. We have some if - if the audience wants to try?

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

AI is intensely creepy.

Our weekends need to be longer. How am I already making dinner on Sunday night?

How do I get a list of Michigan trade/construction unions backing Gov. Whitmer's fast track the Saline data center? Putting on my union organizer hat. To any union construction worker on this worksite: you are complicit in the theft of natural resources & future jobs of your fellow Michiganders 🧵🧵

How to adequately express my rage regarding the autonomy stripped from my community? For her involvement in pushing this deal through, despite *overwhelming* opposition from her constituents, Governor Whitmer should never hold office again. I also have other thoughts on those "good union jobs".