Big yikes at "S.J.S.U.’s A.I. Everywhere strategy."

I keep saying, I think it’s wildly irresponsible of any educational institution, from kindergartens to universities, to be embracing this technology with zero information on its effectiveness or long term impact

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

It generates text based on its training data. It does not thoughtfully select the best sources or fret about getting them right or go out to learn new things by talking to researchers or visiting archives or dropping in on a conference or two. It generates text based on its training data. That’s it.

Uninterested in leading a pile-on but no, AI does not “have access” to everything ever published. Not archival material, obviously, but not secondary material either. Nor across times nor languages. AI is not human knowledge personified. It’s exactly not that, in fact. It’s not even a search engine.

Yes. It's important to understand that they did this in spite of de Blasio trying *not* to fuck with them. They hated him anyway, both because he was a liberal and because his wife was black. Lesson is not "don't piss off the cops" but that they will implacably oppose you no matter what

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

i used to think rfk jr. was a crank. now i think he’s possibly the most actively evil and murderous member of the trump admin, even more so than stephen miller, and my revulsion towards and hatred of him grows with each new horror.

With all the subtlety of lynch law.

“3,400 deaths in a day: India's extreme heat days are deadlier than we imagined.” #ClimateCrisis

this is a core fascist narrative

One of the greatest Kennedy Center Honors performances ever: Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, Jason Bonham on drums, and Shane Fontayne on electric guitar. It moved Robert Plant to tears as he watched alongside Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. (Edited for format)

Why not? Being a hack landed Kata Swisher a TV show.

Ossoff: "This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand. That our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas. Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions."

You can vote for a party with people in it like this or one full of pedophiles and their defenders.

It should be a lesson for every goddamn body.

We'll be working on things like "how to use AI to avoid direct accountability when blowing up entire group chats and family trees." Can't wait.

"The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires."

The EU's wider rules, which kick in from February 18th, 2027, are simple: Users must be able to remove and replace batteries with basic tools, or specialized tools that are provided with the product for free, and compatible spare batteries must be sold for at least five years.

As Alabama officially commemorates Jeff Davis today, here's a better way to remember the Civil War era. "The first Constitution created the Union. The Reconstruction Constitution tried to redeem it." Bill Britt in @alreporter.com

"For two nights now, a battalion of Sherrill’s New Jersey State Police... has turned up the heat to 11 by firing rubber bullets, tear-gas canisters, and flash-bang grenades while violently pushing back the demonstrators, both with mounted officers on horseback and with riot shields and batons."

This is an insane get.

Night Hunter by Vitali Skvorkin

This is good.

It certainly is but every mainstream outlet is going to help them sell it. I hope they fail.

The historical lesson within MAGA conservatism's relationship to art is in line with that of the second Ku Klux Klan, which manufactured lots of kitschy merchandise and was itself a giant grift. As I've said 10,000 times at this point, they even sell the same slogans.

A new report shows that nearly half of U.S. households did not earn enough to cover their necessities in 2024.

Read this meme in this voice.

I use this map in classes all the time and overlap it with maps of persistent poverty counties, medical deserts, excess mortality etc. bsky.app/profile/taul...

The historical lesson within MAGA conservatism's relationship to art is in line with that of the second Ku Klux Klan, which manufactured lots of kitschy merchandise and was itself a giant grift. As I've said 10,000 times at this point, they even sell the same slogans.

The last two women candidates were blamed for these things during their campaigns, not even as president.

omg

Also I think what they're doing is trying to redefine vice as masculine-coded because that's all Paxton has to offer. Sure he's as charismatic as a tree stump but he lies, cheats and steals and that's alpha.

Meanwhile the US continues its extra-judicial killing spree. We're now up to 205 murders. apnews.com/article/boat...

“As Congress returns they need to hear from us—stop the corruption, the ballroom, the slush fund, the self-enrichment; vote for Ukraine, not Putin; vote to rein in his illegal and failed war in the Middle East; vote against giving ICE tens of billions.” open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...

So what happens to the non-Americanists in the department?

They have been fired.

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

james talarico sir, for the good of the country you must spend the next 5 months eating bbq and going to football games and having sex with your girlfriend

♟️ 😜

The political takeaway from 2020 was that there was no sustained willpower to tackle the question of civilian control of the police, and nothing is going to happen on that front until that changes.

So what happens to the non-Americanists in the department?

Please take note: Fernando Mendoza did not go to the WH with his Hoosier teammates. Fernando Mendoza did go to his graduation ceremony from UC Berkeley (he got a business degree in the 3 years he was there but wasn’t able to attend his year’s ceremony). That is all

Just in case you were wondering, our Bicentennial Celebration in 1976 was held in multiple venues, and the artists included: The Eagles Fleetwood Mac Loggins & Messina (Their final performance before splitting up) Dan Fogelberg Elton John The Beach Boys America Elvis Presley Bruce Springsteen 1/2

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

This is probably the one thing he should be listened to about lol.

the fact is these democratic governors do not have actual control over their own state police forces, and that’s a seriously scary problem that no elected wants to talk about or deal with

"AOC may not be the right vehicle for the revolutionary constitutional change demanded by this moment. But I trust her, more than anyone else in U.S. politics, to approach her own candidacy as such a vehicle, and to decide whether or not to run based on what is needed, now, in this moment."