sometimes headlines can give the wrong impression but this is exactly what it says on the tin. this is despicable. it took a phenomenal, expensive, coordinated effort to get from north carolina losing 400 million dollars & a gubernatorial race over a bathroom ban to this in 10 years.

Equally amazing is how often some folks will try to convince me that I should want or need the same thing as them, even when I've already said it's ok that we are different and I am willing to go along with their preference. Even getting what they want, they need me to want the same thing too.

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And there you have it. The anti trans campaign in Maine was never some "grassroots movement." It was bankrolled by billionaire Richard Uihlein, who poured over $800,000 into targeting trans kids over sports and bathrooms.

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

as ive been saying, every city has its own personal transgender Helen of Troy

anthropic is in a way more dangerous than openai because they've duped people into believing they're actually the Good Guys and the others provide perfect foils for that assertion b/c they're so comedically villainous. But anthropic is not and will never be anything remotely like good

“Why are women less bullish overall on AI than men” is not actually that mysterious of a question

the final insult of AI is going to be forcing us all to become linux guys. we're all going to be like oh yeah downloading stuff on linux is super easy you just juice the tarball and compile the pulp in the sudo command line. not like windows where you have to click on things

“Separating the message from the messenger” or laundering information from its source is such a huge, huge problem

The pope doesn’t increase credibility by presenting his encyclical with a billionaire AI overlord. Presenting it with data workers, with communities protecting their territories against technological exploitation might have. But this is just another normalization of AI inevitability discourse

Google is so borked

I was trying to explain what ChatGPT is to my mom (she thought it was a messaging app) and after my explanation and some thought, she volunteered, “Oh, so it’s the magic mirror in the beginning of Snow White when it only tells the queen what she wants to hear.” Perfect analogy.

Hear a lot that AI can be used to enhance learning rather than outsource but every day I get emails like this (subject:"Turn big ideas into A work") offering me 50% off Grammarly to generate my work with AI, check it to see if it sounds like AI, then rewrite it with AI to not sound like AI.

I think what is most depressing about this chart is that right now, it is hard to imagine any public or private investment occurring in the near future that might mitigate, let alone reverse, the gap between PhDs granted and available academic job opportunities.

it's so wild how much of this is projection. like,,, if I'm on transit or in the airport wearing a mask, I'm not *scared* I'm just trying to avoid getting sick for a week?

What authoritarians know about moral panics is that the collective unconscious loves an enemy it can simply destroy much more than it loves a complex problem to solve

“the most ethically virtuous AI company is paying $1B/mo to the nazi pedophile racist transphobia billionaire so they can use the one datacenter project that is actually environmentally disastrous“ dawg i think this entire industry might be biblically evil!

Always worth remembering: ChatGPT isn't a tool, it isn't a companion. It's a product -- and everything you type in that box is data you are sending to OpenAI.

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The Vatican could have told Anthropic to stop stealing data, exploiting labor, killing the environment, deceiving us with anthropomorphic designs & lying about product "capabilities." Instead they partnered with them, like partnering with Sackler family to discuss harms of oxy.

The way you know Bluesky is not a representative sample is several people are livetweeting their reading of an encyclical

“In practice, however, technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it… With the heart of a shepherd…, I ask everyone to abandon the construction of yet another Tower of Babel and to join forces in building up the common good.”

Just devastating beyond words. Saw posts a few days ago encouraging people to go see Murry's art at a museum event later in May, and friends holding "Art for Murry" events to bring community together. Thinking of Murry, and all who knew and loved him.

He's cooking with this one.

I wrote this a couple months ago to put all the things I was forced to learn about catholicism to good use

We are also releasing a new research primer, "Myths about Generative AI, Productivity, and Labor Displacement", which discusses five common myths around generative AI at work. This primer will be the first of many. labor.dair-institute.org/primers

A quick new blog for you all: Anthropic's dirty deal with Elon Musk is not surprising because (a) Anthropic already openly loves pollution-based computer buildings (b) Colossus is VERY far from the worst; the whole industry is moving to gross, bloated megaprojects ketanjoshi.co/2026/05/13/w...

It’s encouraging to see way more people getting really angry about big-tech and MAGA-endorsed digital surveillance.

me when I don't remember 25 years ago

When people’s very existence in a field has been framed as DEI by those in power, this bias becomes embedded in the ostensibly objective technologies people increasingly rely on to make sense of large amounts of data

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

Love an essay on the great value of AI in historical research funded in part by <<checking acknowledgments again>> Amazon.

the same people who are saying that AI skeptics just “hate technology” have been supporting or even enacting the draconian cuts to scientific research that enabled both these products and tons of other technology while they send women back to the kitchen to churn their own raw milk or whatever

people really hate a trans woman who stands up for herself

never fucking forgive them for what they've done to the computer

if you are a trans reader of mine and you struggle to explain to cis family and friends why you hurt so much lately I wrote this so you can send it to them. I feel like we know this pain intimately but I want everyone to understand it, because we are going to need help if it’s ever going to stop.

not to call anyone out specifically: many cises responding they didn't know and imo that speaks to how most ppl have done no work interrogating the transphobia they've spent their lives absorbing. would you say that i am a whitewoman or a jewishwoman? i bet you wouldn't, even by accident!

The ads now explicitly say you have to outperform the plagiarism machines in order to deserve a job. Further down, there’s another ad that says “We find out what AI can’t do, then we teach it”. You have to be better than the system so you can teach it to replace you. Dystopian nightmare mask off

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UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Man how I'm trying to get students to care about civic education and society and developing a philosophy about the world, but my deep-blue state only wants me to focus on job prep and AI readiness, which means there's only money if you frame initiatives around those goals.

the discourse suggests you're a sucker if you don't use AI, because it's THE tool for shallow, sloppy digging, and that's what academia is isn't it? how dare we expect scholars to read everything they engage with? how dare we expect people to be accountable for the things they attach their names to?

I don't think most people have even tried to grasp how it feels for trans people to be segregated, hunted, betrayed by allies, met with silence and neutrality by friends & family, and then wake up every single day to see articles and polls asking if there's a Centrist Solution to the Trans Problem.

As a result, we can access our written past only by paying for ChatGPT's mangled misunderstanding of it. But we can't see the original writing on the Internet Archive, a free online library without ads or algorithmic feeds. Do we really want to starve a library to feed billionaires? (3/3)

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

optomistic 20th century sci fi writers: the future will have flying cars pessimistic 20th century sci fi writers: the future will be the torment nexus 2026: don't type the word "you" into the search bar or the machine will try to roleplay with you

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

Being involved with faculty governance right now feels like trying to hold the line while you're under constant siege. These initiatives to chip away at (or sometimes smash) the basic functions of a university *just keep coming*.