"Can tech save the world?" is the wrong question. The right question is "what kind of world do we want to build?", and then the tech can help us get there. It's the re-invented worldview that the tech gives you access to that matters. The tech needs to support that worldview, not dictate it.

*logs on*

Haha I spent the evening performing a four hundred year old opera with real humans dancing and singing and at the end a joyous audience leapt to their feet. Music is the best, you should dedicate your time to it.

Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water https://theonion.com/report-every-place-on-earth-has-wrong-amount-of-water-1851544516/

‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race

The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.

"The Chagall deal...is what an institution looks like when it has run out of moves...selling the title for $55 million against a $330 million annual budget. That buys you five months.” Boom. anadearchuleta.substack.com/p/the-chagal...

from OU’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning: Creating AI-Free Learning Spaces. www.oakland.edu/cetl/teachin... These perspectives are desperately needed on our campuses, where the LLM hard-sell is in full swing.

This is how you prevent organizing efforts - by paying people out.

If you’re against DEI, you’re a segregationist and I’m tired of folks, for the sake of politeness and naïveté, pretending the discussion is anything but that.

Perfect case of what we termed academic content assetization in a recent paper, where HE institutions use their learning platforms to gather teaching materials from staff to then repurpose as future revenue-generating derivative products

What a gross move by my alma mater. Faculty are not worth even a quick (probably AI generated) email to say hey there, the institution’s going to make some money off of your work, much less actual conversation about ownership, revenue, etc. Certainly legal, totally despicable.

Once upon a time, when film editing moved to computers, Final Cut Pro on a Mac was a revolution in inexpensive professional post production. And the user interface was super simple. Anyone could learn it. So a lot of producers decided they don’t need a professional editor. Short 🧵.

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

“All Are Neighbors” started out as counter programming to a rally on Wednesday on campus with Turning Point USA, the organization founded by Charlie Kirk that advocates for conservative policies to students. It turned in to its own celebration of inclusion, advocacy, and faith.

Honestly, it’s exhausting to have such dumb, corrupt, incompetent, reckless and evil people currently running the country. What a sad expression of the failure of education and morality in a country that once could pride itself on advancing talented and capable people.

Sad and long-expected news: Michael Tilson Thomas died last night at 81, nearly five years after first being diagnosed with brain cancer. This will take some time to process. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

RIP

Waco Bridge says only 438 people attended tonight's TPUSA event at Baylor. That is, uh, significantly lower than the capacity crowd they claimed to be expecting. www.instagram.com/reel/DXdVObk...

Painting a thousand words….

Baylor University should grant LGBTQ students the same fairness and openness it has readily shown in allowing Turning Point USA to host an event on campus in April, the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists said. baptistnews.com/article/awab... #tpusa #bayloruniversity #lgbtq

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

pope tweets good

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best thing I am learning from Mamdani is to stay cheerful and keep going. Rage is tempting but it slows you down

Buttigieg: I’ll give the Turning Point folks a lot of strategic credit for going to a lot of different places. Going to these college campuses is kind of the equivalent, in their minds, of the way I feel when I go on Fox News. The difference is, when I go on Fox News, I’m telling the truth

Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

Holy shit, I have NEVER been more excited for a movie.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

heartbreaking.

Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus. arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

All About Eve, but it’s a writer and an LLM trained on the writer’s work.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Maine lawmakers pass nation’s first statewide ban on large data centers By Joanna Slater Legislators in Maine on Tuesday passed the nation’s first statewide ban on large data centers, part of a growing backlash to the energy-intensive facilities that fuel the rise of artificial intelligence. Gift

People are asking ChatGPT things I would normally just ask a friend, parent, mentor, therapist or medical professional for or about. It takes work to build and maintain those relationships, and figure out who is the right person to ask, but the alternative is a digital tool known for lying to users.

The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.

"Write the piece, not the prompt.” This is a fun piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Read this from @colsonwhitehead.com because it's funny & true & because, alas, it's not enough to oppose AI, you have to fortify that opposition frequently, because it's like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, friends and comrades are going down all around us. Gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Old movie binge continues. Bing at the end of Bells of St. Mary‘s = every human ever contemplating Ingrid Bergman.

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

watching these guys trying desperately to defend something so utterly inauthentic and blatantly and cynically staged will never get old lol

Turned on NBC. They talked about “President tipping a DoorDash driver $100”. This woman participated in GOP ads before playing other roles. There is no DoorDash deliveries to the Oval Office. Please exercise proper judgement when consuming news.

My friend is a Guggenheim Fellow! Go Reinaldo!!

Really important story from @wired.com: The Christian Nationalists who want to destroy the American secular state are now making their presence felt www.wired.com/story/govern...

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

Thank you @rweingarten.bsky.social for joining us in Texas and supporting us in the fight to protect public education. Texas students deserve the #FreedomtoLearn! 👏👏

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call