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This is textbook racism. As in, this is an example that an elementary teacher might use to explain racism to a child: "If someone says all members of a particular race are stupid, that's racism, kids." Any news outlets that uses any word for this except racism is not reporting the truth.

My institution is switching to canvas next year. Can’t wait!

Something that’s been bothering me is how AI conditions people to doubt their own capabilities. I had a student say “__ is really hard. I couldn’t do it without AI” and I had to try to convince them they absolutely were capable. It’s a topic I taught just a few years ago and students did great with.

It’d be nice if more people in power would call this out for the pure unadulterated racism that it is.

There's a learned helplessness here that feels a lot like obeying in advance. Use your brain, don't let anyone tell you you can't, and definitely don't tell others they can't.

This is incredible

This is what higher ed is telling all of us to get excited about. A future where if you want to be able to critically think, you pay the man who eagerly stepped in to help bomb Iranians when another company requested the bare minimum of safeguards be in place.

One of the most depressing things about the war in Iran is how a bunch of grown ass men are acting like this is a fucking video game.

Our LMS thinks that pre-quizzes isn’t a word and that I probably meant pee-quizzes instead…

Thinking about just throwing my phone into the ocean and living off the grid. I get around 30 of these a day, never open them, and mark them as spam. It does not seem to have helped.

Its always unnerving to see people talking about war like its sports game, supporting their respective teams, like its not something with extraordinary destruction that, under the BEST of circumstances, those who haven't been obliterated, will need to spend many decades attempting to rebuild from.

Their “advanced AI” killed children and hundreds of other civilians, so either that was the goal or it wasn’t very good. Which would Anthropic like us to believe?

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I was in Phoenix for work and left my camera at home but still got a picture with two lifers in it! #birds

I just finished this today! It’s wonderful.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

This whole law is absolute garbage, but the lack of a grace period makes it clear it was intentionally written to be vindictive and cruel.

imagine the thousands and thousands of unbelievable horrors going on if we're just hearing about "regularly kidnapping legal residents, dropping them off in a different state, and telling them to deal with it"

A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.

They kill. They lie. They repeat.

This is the craven torture of a helpless person by federal agents. There can be nothing short of trials and stiff prison sentences for these people and everyone above them in the chain of command. bsky.app/profile/amre...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities, observers say federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citizens and noncitizens alike. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Two days after an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, a federal agent asked an observer, "Have y'all not learned?" Her phone was taken and she was briefly detained. Two days after that, another federal agent said, “You did not learn from what just happened” to a different observer.

The number of these that end without any charges mean they are terrorizing people for the sake of terrorizing people. (Their violence would be excessive even when it leads to criminal charges)

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

There are people in Minnesota who are violating the law, and it's the people who are flash-banging babies, shooting people who pose no threat, and deploying tear gas against peaceful crowds. The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.

Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

Grok is not a human representative of X, therefore should not be quoted as if they are a human representative of the company. The company’s AI chatbot generated CSAM of users bc human beings programmed the AI to allow such things What are we doing here

Some of my favorite albums released in 2025 were (not really in order): Cold Specks - Light for the Midnight Attention Bird Utopia - Best of Kings Sacred Paws - Jump into Life Dead Pioneers - Po$t American Case Oats - Last Missouri Exit S.G. Goodman - Planting By The Signs Geckøs - Geckøs

These were my favorite books I read in 2025. Like in 2024, the top row stood out above the others, but all of these were really great reads. The authors and titles are in the alt text if the image is to hard to read.

the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything

This is so gross. Anyone who has lived in Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul specifically) will tell you that the Somali population there is among the kindest and hardest-working people you'll ever meet.

Absolutely this. But taking the easy way out does such a disservice to our students and undermines the point of education.

this is just gutter racism

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

There are few places I feel better spending my money than a worker owned site that produces deeply researched and important articles alongside deeply silly ones. It’s a bargain at full price and you’re supporting the people doing the work instead of a CEO’s fourth yacht.

I just started reading The AI Con by Emily Bender & Alex Hanna. Highly recommend it based on what I’ve read so far.

I'll say it again: it's amazing how many Americans who enjoy dystopian science-fiction media are also proving themselves to be 100% on board for signing over most of their cognitive function to technological tools run by sinister, giant corporations.

I went through the trouble to make this image for the above caption but then I saw the bowl of kibble by itself and that just seemed funnier to me as a “meme a dog would make“

I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.

In a world of terrible royalty payments from platforms like Spotify, @bandcamp.com Friday is a great way to support artists. Attention Bird Utopia (check them out if you like Wilco) and Sincere Engineer (catchy pop punk from Chicago) were my picks today.

Does the training begin "everything these tools were built on was stolen, this is fledgling tech and anything it produces has the potential to be catastrophically wrong, and using it is destructive to the environment and to our ability to reason. Here's why we're gonna do this anyway"?

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

In Feb. on Velshi I said Trump won due to racial anxiety not economic anxiety, as evidence by his policies. The bill Republicans passed is the proof. Months of stoking racial fears through anti-DEI mandates, ICE raids, to push through a bill that takes food and healthcare from struggling Americans.