Another way to look at this is when ICE, CBP, et al lie on reports, now they can blame AI. “U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wrote… that the practice of using ChatGPT to write use-of-force reports undermines the agents’ credibility and ‘may explain the inaccuracy of these reports.’”

Has any one written anything about why so many people seem to use AI so much? Asking bc I truly don't get it - even aside from the terrible environmental implications, and so many other terrible things it does economically. But why do people like not doing their own thinking/seeking/making?

Has any one written anything about why so many people seem to use AI so much? Asking bc I truly don't get it - even aside from the terrible environmental implications, and so many other terrible things it does economically. But why do people like not doing their own thinking/seeking/making?

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be? Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it

Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble. A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments. We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.

this

we are going to win

this is a great piece - and maybe explains to me why i haven't really watched tv and movies for like a decade...

Three of my books were here; you should all file a claim…

Summers must be removed from his post at Harvard.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Tonight was a very bad night.

Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

Infuriating. MA voters said we don’t want a standardized test to determine whether students graduate, and now they want more standardized tests? Do we need some kind of constitutional amendment banning high stakes standardized testing, to prevent this chicanery? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/16/m...

"Lia Smith was a student-athlete, but she wasn’t allowed to participate this year because of a hostile government and the cowardice of the NCAA. Two years ago, Lia was a talented young swimmer at Middlebury; now, her name is almost entirely absent from the college’s athletics website..."

Political theorists have lots of explanations for this

Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Zhao, White House says reut.rs/49eixmn

I got completely off Blackboard this year for my big intro class. The students seem to be okay.

here is my favorite sign from today

Fenway Health, founded to give queer people the health care they were denied elsewhere, ceases offering gender affirming care for minors. www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe. Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

I thought Trump wanted to stop US military action abroad and keep American resources in America; but instead they are interfering like crazy: bailing out right wing Argentinian government, and trying to do regime change in Venezuela...very Nixon/Reagan/Bush www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

I used to live in Roger’s Park ❤️

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Exactly right; we need a plan and strategy to build it back *better*.

MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

“When the Department of Justice recently opened an investigation into George Mason University…. Professors quickly published a resolution supporting their president and the university’s efforts around diversity. Now, Justice Department officials say they will investigate the faculty, too”

Looking for a good love story this weekend? Vox’s This is Love did a beautiful podcast on my work on Carson and Freeman’s relationship…https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-love/id1337100398?i=1000716218534

Excited to have this piece on Carson and Freeman up in lithub ❤️

”We are obsessed with personal choices – diet, exercise – and ignore the most important determinant of our health. ”Public health measures like universal healthcare, drinkable water, clean air and safe roads have a much bigger impact on our health than any number of gym sessions or kale smoothies.”

wow, they got the headline right

I'll be at Women and Children First (one of my all time favorite bookstores) in Chicago tonight, with Jenn Morea, talking Rachel Carson...

Asked earlier why he was there, Lander said: “I don’t think there’s any place that’s more important to be right now than bearing witness and trying to stand up for the rule of law. A big question on the campaign trail is how will you stand up to Donald Trump.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

What we are seeing in Los Angeles right now with #NoKings is after several hours of a massive protest that was 100%, law enforcement—abruptly and without provocation—began firing tear gas, flash bangs and pepper balls at protesters. It was broadcast live on air. “Unrest” is on them.

Is the military parade…trolling Trump?? Legit playing Fortunate Son as they roll on by him 😎

this from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/taylorlo...

A good time to donate to this org (I just did): www.pairproject.org