"If using AI to write is, at its worst, an industrialization of the mind, then AI detection, at its worst, becomes a surveillance system for thought."

:-\ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/n...

After 18 months of work, we dropped eps 1 and 2 of our new season, The News. We think this project is making some real interventions, as @chenjerai.bsky.social likes to say, into the scattered and confused debates about "the media." Check it! @dannagal.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

A link to the paper is in the article. news.northeastern.edu/2026/05/21/e...

Season 2 Episode 2 is out! We asked Rita Gehrenbeck-Shim, a teacher at Boston Day and Evening Academy, about what Boston Public Schools' new bell-to-bell smartphone restriction looks like at her school. (She spoke on her own behalf and not as a BDEA or BPS representative.)

Bikes Not Bombs needs volunteers to load used bikes to a container to Rwanda.

This is a perfect summary of my opinion on helmets. Keeping the focus on personal responsibility, whether helmets or high-viz, distracts from the systemic changes needed to protect people outside cars.

Season 2, Episode 1 is out! We talked with Profs. Nancy Deutsch and Bethany Teachman, co-directors of TYDE (tyde.virginia.edu), about what their research says–and doesn’t say–about social media and teen mental health. nurturingminds.podbean.com/e/what-resea...

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While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

"The object of suspicion therefore shifts from the submitted product to the student’s embodied presence. It is no longer the em-dash, the hallucinated citation, or the uncharacteristic fluency that invites scrutiny. +

Bike Month Begins: Here's how to find group rides and events near you, plus a code to redeem free rides on @ridebluebikes.bsky.social: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/05/01/b...

An email from the Provost confirms what several of us suspected. "...We have a new vendor for [teacher rating and course evaluations]....We also learned that some [course evaluation] comments were being tagged with evaluative comments via the use of an AI tool.

"As is plainly visible in our score chart, neither of the three companies have been publicly transparent in standardised ways that would enable us to track progress towards a fossil-free internet in any region." internet.exchangepoint.tech/what-do-clou...

Join our training on May 6 at 1 ET: Protecting Our Water Resources, Air Quality, and Public Health from the Data Center Buildout. You’ll learn the strongest possible policy interventions to protect water, air, and public health from the data center buildout. bit.ly/policy-in-practice-training-series

Bike Month Kick-off Party! Saturday May 2, 2026 at RoundHouse Brewing Co. Hyde Park. Join a group Ride Convoy! @massbike.bsky.social @bikeboston.bsky.social @mass.streetsblog.org

The History of Jazz Has Instantly Expanded Newly released archival live performances by Ahmad Jamal, Joe Henderson, and Cecil Taylor illuminate their legacies and the art form at large. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

New BIAD interview🔥 @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social and @classicjpow.bsky.social w dive into the WNBA’s game changing offseason, from CBA talks to the 2026 draft and the era of million dollar deals. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=98ap...

If you're early-career /a student /new grad wanting to pursue tech policy, @christopher-parsons.com has given you an incalculably valuable gift: a comprehensive guide, w/ his trademark thoroughness, on how. Also contains good advice for aspiring tech lawyers, & I'll add a few notes on that front 🧵:

the reality of road safety campaigns @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

7 Mass. shelters are waiving adoption fees for dogs of all ages this weekend

Thrilled that @profkori.bsky.social will deliver a Keynote address at Boston University in just a few weeks!! Readings from her current project, "Blissfully Childfree: A Memoir in Letters" Joins us if you are in town! April 29, 4pm.

As it turns out, @mayorwu.boston.gov possessed more robust polling data that debunked those claims. There is, in fact, broad support for bike and bus lanes among Boston residents. We're now making that polling data public for the first time. Read it here: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/04/09/i...

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Boston Uncovered: This Spring, Pedal Boston’s 1,100-Acre ‘Emerald Oasis’—With Noshes And Scenic Blooms thanks to @emnecklacebos.bsky.social Ride Dates (10 AM): • April 18: Franklin Park → Jamaica Pond • May 2: Jamaica Pond → Shattuck Visitor Center • May 9: Shattuck Visitor Center → Boston Common

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Best railcar graffiti I've ever seen

A reminder to authors: If your book was among the many titles pirated by Anthropic to train their AI, make sure to file your claim by March 30th. Your publisher will be filing, but my publishers tell me that the only way to *ensure* payment is by submitting your own valid claim. #AcademicSky 🧵1/n

The producers and editors (and cohosts) let one of the cohosts repeatedly pronounce Roisin Gallagher's first name as "Royzin". slate.com/podcasts/cul...

Here's @ai2.bsky.social's *most sophisticated* "thinking" model, Olmo 3.1 32B Instruct, stepping on its own face.

I’m leading a search to hire a colleague at Northeastern. The position is open rank, for a teaching faculty member who’ll be full-time in the Philosophy department and specializes in AI Ethics. They’d begin this coming fall semester.

Universities can do better by our employees, faculty, admin, contract workers, and students. Let us show the way to a new form of labor — of exemplary value produced in a humane and just way. This is possible and, in this moment, required to break the bonds of authoritarianism gripping our nation.

are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a... pls repost

A Christmas miracle - www.tomshardware.com/software/lin...

Hi, hello! My book _Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England_ is forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press. I think about print all the time but in ways you might not expect. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.

"The prompt is currently 3,500 words long (down from its peak actually), and took a few months to perfect. It pulls together a decade and a half of my work in information literacy and argumentation theory. It also takes a bit of time to run. +

i'm hiring a postdoc to map the age-verification space and do some audits if you’ve worked in this area, pls apply: aial.ie/hiring/postd... pls share widely

Not from The Onion www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...