“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

Fellow NYC residents, if you haven't yet sent a letter to your City Council member demanding that they support @nycplan.org's call to increase and stabilize NYC public library funding, please do. It will take 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Many higher ed faculty could learn quite a bit from these students

JV Dance

Did you know that the federal court system is hacked by the Russians? To the point that the courts are afraid to put documents into their own computer systems.

Antifa is now what we used to call “soccer moms”

I’ve had similar conversations with people about writing my book. … They went in similar directions.

5ecretPa55word! oops

So the legacy of this regime will not be "many as one" or anything like that, but instead a motto we'll all look back on as the order he attempted to issue to the body politic. It might as well say "WAGE CIVIL WAR"

Hadn't seen this "Cartography of Generative AI" before. From Estampa, a collective of programmers, filmmakers and researchers working in the fields of audiovisual media and digital environments: cartography-of-generative-ai.net

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE official sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal (Ashley Oliver/Fox Business) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

"Tomelilla is the first local government to attempt to deliver infrastructure and education using doughnut economics" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I get the point of this & agree. But I actually think shattering norms is the most consequential of these three things. The Constitution sets up a legal framework & laws codify our values. But norms dictate whether we (individuals & institutions) even follow laws. We once did - atm not so much

Ta-Nahisi Coates was so careful, so gentle, so sympathetic and still Ezra Klein comes out of that conversation looking so completely clueless. So embarrassing for him. I just wish once Coates would’ve simply asked him to explain who he means by the “we” he kept referring to.

Someday people will start noticing that the most eminent roboticist in the world has an uninterrupted multi-decade record of deep skepticism about almost all uses of robotics and “AI” that has been proven uniformly correct

This makes me so mad I'm going to resubscribe to Hulu just so I can cancel again with a new angry note

Rest in power, Assata. May her memory be a blessing www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaqX...

What the fuck.

Powerful 3-part piece from back in June/July about the war in Israel-Palestine by @matthewcassel.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/series...

We should have a lot of debates about whether this a good idea but it’s also important to be 100% clear this was not a chatbot but a purpose built model. ”AI” models are incredibly powerful but chatbots are an intellectual and societal dead end and a whole lot of provosts are distracted by them

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them." ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025 www.arl.org/blog/john-un...

Democrats are going to go to jail for this, right? To be held without bail while ambiguous accusations of involvement are looked into. Or they’re going to open investigations against people just to harass & tarnish their image. I hope Zohran is ready

"We've never uttered most of the quotes that will be attributed to us in the future." – Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill & Mark Twain

This ad about how great Google Gemini is ends by telling us how Ted, the protagonist and a big James Blunt fan, “found something he didn’t even know he was looking for” at a James Blunt concert where James Blunt is playing not “High” by James Blunt but “She’s So High” by Tal Bachman.

How lucky to be able to read some previously unknown writing by Marshall Berman.

Using the word “redlining” in an article about a tennis match featuring a Black player, 𝑖𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡, sure is a choice www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...

Looking forward to this tomorrow! Hosted by @codeatlang.bsky.social Free & open to the public. Registration required at the link below.

I just realized that you can take all the one syllable band names from the 1990s and make them into names of crafty Millennial brands Spoon & Tool Cake & Creed Lush & Blur Pulp & Bush Live & Ride Low & Moe

Any time anyone has ever asked me to help them write a better sentence, I’ve kindly obliged; but I’m really fucking sick of these companies getting rich by scraping up every sentence I’ve ever written without asking, so lazy people can write better sentences & pretend they don’t need help doing it.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

Proposed neologism. Glassolalia (noun) - A unique style of enunciation in which the speaker pronounces “L” sounds in that weird throaty style of Ira Glass. This is a good coinage because, in a shibbolethic manner, saying the word reveals whether or not the speaker has this condition.

The attack on core departments, tenured, and tenure track faculty is now accelerating in blue states, building upon the assault on NTT colleagues. Far from resisting Trump’s assault on higher ed, University admins in Democratic run states are spraying fuel on the fire to make it burn faster.

Please please don’t forget that just because a social media person somewhere is making some truly sick burns, the walking hair gel that employs said person does not deserve a spot anywhere near a higher elected office

I cannot agree with this more. And I've been saying since November that the most important work any of us can do right now is to support the most vulnerable among us who are asking for support.

Honestly the worst news I’ve heard about Mamdani yet. Every politician will try to neutralize him in their own style. Trump & Cuomo are outright colluding, Obama will take a charm offensive. Gives new meaning to “they go low we go high”. Stay strong Zohran. You’ve got much more to offer than “hope”

AOL To Discontinue Dial-Up Internet theonion.com/aol-to-...

Cinema on the Stereo

Had a planet, Couldn’t keep it. I’m so sorry to my daughter and all future generations

If the ATV had a huge MAGA flag you know this dipshit would be celebrating the wheelie as a joyful outburst of patriotism

End of an era. "In 2023, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, an estimated 163,000 households in the United States were using only dial-up for internet service — representing just over 1 percent of the nation’s household internet subscriptions."

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

oh great — so now we’re paying export tariffs too 🎉

Having researched the politics of withdrawal & refusal, I've studied many feminist separatist communities & womyn's lands, most 1970s-80s Pacific Northwest Fascinating to read about this one: for older women in Texas(!) and a landlord/renter model rather than a co-op www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

At an event commemorating the 200th birthday of the United States, a sitting Supreme Court Justice was invited to celebrate "the memory of the Founders and the document they drafted in Philadelphia." Justice Thurgood Marshall declined

It’s like these people have never seen a mafia movie. The thug doesn’t come by the shop and ask for payment one time and then go away …

Also worth noting: They’re killing the media industry *first*. Techbros have been very clear that their goal is to put as many people out of work as possible. This is nothing more or less than an attack by the 1% upon the rest of us that, if left unchecked, will crash the global economy.