“Just like most international and local experts, the Global Dialogue sounded the alarm bells of humanitarian impacts and risks of AI but the actual AI for Good Summit spent the week listening to what the industry say 'good' means,” — Giulio Coppi, quoted in this piece

I'm not even joking when I say that, as a former writing teacher, I think even the act of bullshitting through a 10-page paper on a book you only skimmed is also incredibly valuable learning.

Oh hey, public outcry and pressure still work. "Meta Suspends AI Image Feature After Days of Backlash" variety.com/2026/biz/new...

Interesting: AI summaries mean Google is now indisputably a content creator and can be held libel (in Germany, at least) for incorrect AI information. www.dw.com/en/german-co...

I’ve been thoroughly convinced for years that “business school” doesn’t actually teach anything of value and is a scam on both the graduates and the public at large. I’ve yet to meet anyone with an MBA who actually knew more than me any ANYTHING.

I got a phishing email pretending to be from openai claiming I violated their terms of use lmao

We are actively looking for news & views (short pieces) that offer feminist perspectives about the current political moment: the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, Epstein and institutional complicity, AI, fake news and deepfakes, etc. More info on how to submit: www.feministstudies.org/home.html

Love this point and would add that EVERY domain has its experts even if they don’t come immediately to mind. We librarians hear “you shouldn’t use ai for xyz, but it’s great if you just need to find some information quickly” regularly from people who haven’t thought at all about information seeking

my bet is that there is at least one highly placed person at every US university who redirected large portions of institutional funding to go all-in on the following things, in succession: 1) Second Life 2) MOOCs 3) "The AI revolution" my further bet is that this person somehow still has their job

God this is fucking shameful. No alleged cost savings could possibly be worth incurring this type of irreparable damage to your brand

strong parallels to how we were told to make individually responsible risk assessments around COVID at the same time any useful sources of information were systematically dismantled

I don't have any great examples but so many of my local gay bars and queer events have been using these exact template style flyers for their events and it's making me soooo crazy. i know there are gay people who can make flyers!!!

this is not at all relevant to the post but my mom is obsessed with tennis and after I came out to her the first thing she did was read both of Renee Richards' autobiographies

@durba.bsky.social writing about connections between institutionalized misogyny, Epstein's countless faculty allies, and Harvard's starvation of WGS. An important analysis of the particular ways the Ivies have gutted WGS. (All free, all open access on MUSE)

Ron Salaj has posted his chapter on 'The New Spirit of Education and the Techno-Politics of AI' which goes from a genealogy of machines-for-learning to an analysis of AI Ed in terms of 'seriality' (Sarte) and 'interpassivity ' (Pfaller) meaningmaking.it/new-chapter-...

the SUNY council on writing passed two new resolutions, including this one against AI "grading" sunycouncilonwriting.org/resolution-o...

It was a fuck up with enormous, national consequences. Not only did the Democratic Party declare itself Nazi-agnostic, but it may *actually* end up losing us the Senate, the very thing supporters insisted any criticism of Platner would do. This is a major league fuck up, and was 100% avoidable.

Having a dead guy in the senate feels like a metaphor for the whole institution

the reason to believe this is that they keep saying it out loud, directly, and unambiguously

I just think Maine deserves better than this

"At its core, what gets diagnosed as a literacy problem is often the technology working by design. "

perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity

Data centers are now a labor issue, a racial issue, an environmentalissue, a climate issue, a privacy issue, etc. Gotta build that solidarity - our enemies are certainly showing us that we must (and can!) Anyways, pre-order Paris' new book!

Buffalo! This Friday at 6pm we’re sending in the clowns: Trans Film / Trans Space presents a trio of drag clown performances followed by a free screening & conversation about the People’s Joker! The joke’s on us at HallWalls

gonna get a lot of use out of this note from my doctor

Hi, trans people have been studying the movement since it emerged in 2016/7 and their success is down to a) a huge amounts of money from organised christofacsists b) the particularly incestuous nature of the UK media class and c) the "left" folding like a wet paper towel coz they too hate trannies.

i like how every few years we have a situation where it's unclear if a senator is alive or not

Please inderstand LLMs don’t know what you mean when you prompt “preserve the original sense.” They are probability generators. They literally do not understand what *any* words mean.

If you consider that liberals view trans women as drag queens, and thus spectacles and performers first whose critiques must be pleasant and funny and whose suffering must be hidden for the show, then it makes sense how mad they get when we’re a little human about the troubles

sure wish more democrats could’ve figured this out, but they are addled with AI cash

"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

If I wanted to be in communion with the Catholic Church, I would simply not appoint my own bishops, simple as. Skill issue.

first ethical millionaire

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

Industry's capture of AI literacy continues apace...

The aim of customer chatbots is not to be useful, it’s to make you give up in despair and go away, having received what can contemptuously be referred to as ‘support’.

I will, gladly, throw away my chance to talk to an AI Alexander Hamilton, thank you

hot Ludd summer

I'll never forgive the ai freaks for making it so hot outside.

"The most popular class Cyrus has taught is called Avoiding AI, which explains what Generative AI is, some of the concerns around it, and how to disable it and find alternatives." These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech: www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

Bluesky is both the sports app and the Catholic schism app, everything you’d need in one place

"I do not support boys playing in girls sports. This is already settled law in Ohio, and as governor I will enforce and uphold the law," Dr. Acton said. "As a doctor, public servant, and a mom, I will always stand up for fairness and protect kids' health and safety" Fuck the Democrats

More to my fields - I want the college presidents who have gone all in on AI to lose their jobs and never work in higher ed again.

What makes the idea that the world’s problems could be solved by the creation of an artificial superintelligence such obvious BS is that we’ve already had the tech to solve the world’s problems for a long time but it’s been gatekept by capitalists just as any ostensible salvation by way of AI would.

“I’m not hurting anyone. We just don’t want data centers.” “I just graduated from Stoklosa Middle School. I am the future.” www.bostonherald.com/2026/06/30/l...

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM