Andrew Breitbart, asshole until the end, was actually right when he said "Politics is downstream from culture." The MAGA takeover of government was downstream from the MAGA takeover of fitness spaces, MMA, sports media, and even spaces like celebrity trials and true crime Gotta take that shit back

This is a center-left country where fascists win by using the media to change key public opinion. We have to fix our media ownership problem.

This is ALSO a media story. Non-white, young, and low-income voters were misled about what Trump would do. Now they’re learning, and they hate it.

It’s clear that if you care about teachers and students, you can’t in good conscience advocate for AI use in classrooms.

In light of that 404 article about librarians fighting against AI:

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

Bit late to this but it's such a clever piece of AI criticism, developing a literary critique of Sam Altman's auto-metafiction story as a way to explore the grave threats to the "intellectual infrastructure" of the humanities - and HE more broadly - posed by AI lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

File alongside putting in clauses that prevent people from suing the Ford govt when its policies will kill & injure people.

“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina

This is child abuse and nonconsensual human experimentation.

This is torture. Slow torture. Israel is torturing an entire population of human beings.

Many people are saying

I’ve a young friend who recently quit a job for a mental health AI project a fraction as evil as this. She just couldn’t do it. To keep working for this trash once you’ve seen what it is is worse than peddling fentanyl. Maybe some say they’re trying to make it better. Yeah, “better” fentanyl.

This is the favourite argument nowadays. Let's bless the status quo. This is "the reality", so why not embrace it? It seems to me that it already reflects the quantitative/probabilistic (central tendency) approach of genAI to truth.

15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.

"The cost of all this success was a short, transitory burst of moderate inflation...& then the burst...stopped cold. It was over after the middle of 2022." "I characterize 2024 as...a worldwide failure to break the misinformation system..." All. Of. This. In re: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is expected, but so sad to me

"plenty of decisions are already being taken on the basis of physical appearance" uuhhh, what argument is this??? we are already racist, so let's continue?

This kind of statement should be read as on par with the AGI hype, and made for the same reasons

I’m giving a talk at King’s College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @warstudieskcl.bsky.social on current developments in information/cognitive warfare, and the future. Fully automated influence operations are no longer hypothetical. How to defend?

ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful. Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least. It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people. And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.

Learned a new term en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_e...

Excellent job inviting these technologies into our campuses to work closely with vulnerable young people, university administrators and edtech people. BRAVO. apnews.com/article/open...

It's about as good at therapy as the old Eliza too. (Derogatory)

OpenAI monetized the Eliza Effect, and doesn't care if it kills people

JFC. “Only after about four and a half hours of conversation did ChatGPT first send Shamblin a suicide hotline number.”

It’s not the second or the third or the fourth either.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Buried deep in the omnibus bill for its fall economic statement, the Doug Ford government has moved to repeal its own law requiring a climate plan and emissions reduction targets be established, via @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and @meyer.bsky.social #ONpoli thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...

How many of these will we have before we do something about it?

There are no words for how evil this is

I just heard a bunch of middle schoolers were all abuzz about…are you ready? They’re buzzing about JD Vance and Kirk’s wife.

“Canadians are prepared to step up to set Canada on a secure and independent footing. But meeting those needs cannot come at the cost of dismantling the very programs that make our society equitable and our economy resilient.” - @kjscott.bsky.social

Straight up eugenics though

Technocalipers.

No, it can't. We cleared this up a few years ago: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

FRTs always do

Network media and big papers caping for and capitulating to this administration has so much to do with their deep-held belief that all Americans are fucking stupid. They're siding with the guy who says "Gas is $2 and groceries are cheap" as if we're not paying for gas and groceries

Firmly believe one of the ways to improve trust in journalism among young people is to support them in learning to research, write, and report themselves. Even if they never pursue it as a job, it helps to understand the process, and encourages them to engage with their local journalism outlets.

This is a real D GOTV message! There are a *whole lot of people* (without immunity protection) that need to go to prison after this. No more Merrick Garland pussyfooting, Ds. Lock them up and throw away the key. 📺 bsky.app/profile/rpsa...

Another one

read the entire thing www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

"Everyone start obsessively texting your chatbot boyfriends in lieu of human interaction or it's the Second Great Depression for all of us"

love that society has decided this is fine

Smells like bubble bath.

Whiplash how fast they went from sadistic triumphalism to pants pissing