IDF shoots baby; pleads mistake: the infant was critically wounded by the same bullet that injured his mother. His father, Fahd Abdul Aziz Abu Haikal, a lecturer at Bethlehem University, was shot in the hand. They were traveling from Bethlehem to visit family in Hebron.

The entire point of all this is to basically cast objections as either dumb self-interest ("NIMBY") or secret tactical misdirection, as if these communities are just sitting there faking energy data because they're worried the chatbot is going to take their jobs. It's extremely condescending

Some of the world's biggest proposed new gas-fired power stations are being built to power these things, and people like Stancil just cannot process why someone might have real, rational reasons to not want that to happen.

This is condescending and, most importantly, completely ignorant of the actual, real and material reasons communities object to data centre developments (primarily: environment and resource concerns, which they genuinely understand very well and can explain with specific, accurate detail)

do political badges include the poppy

"The researchers also found that agents wasted tokens pursuing tasks they can’t complete. Prompted to go to a YouTube page to find a video uploaded 46 years ago, Claude Sonnet 4 scrolled endlessly downward without understanding that YouTube began in 2005 and there was no video for it to find"

AI killjoys unite!

since apparently JKR is spouting nonsense about "gametes" again, here is my in depth primer on why anti-trans groups have become so obsessed with gametes & why the actual science does not support their claims (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...

Happy to see @rweingarten.bsky.social is starting to catch up with the rest of us on the dangers of "A.i." in the schools. Now it's time for her to CANCEL the @aft.org's partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft to push "A.i." on teachers and students. www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

There are so many layers to this: an article about the "AI-driven transformation" at RELX (including our overlords Elsevier) ... "generated" by "AI agent" Isaac Lane! "Isaac" is an "independent thinker" ... whose bio seems to be a collection of edgy Silicon Valley tropes.

The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.

In exchange for thousands of acres of property, data center developers promise jobs, infrastructure, and much-needed municipal revenue. Here’s the gag, though: The jobs are temporary, the infrastructure is useless, and the revenue is diminishing and offset by monster tax breaks.

Yes, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, pls explain including an AI vendor exhibitor with the marketing: “intelligent enough to not need a trained librarian”? This association's entire purpose is to support + advocate for librarians, & this is not that. See aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/why-is-ala...

CUNY Tech Futures “leverages industry expertise to build new curricula reflective of the evolving tech skills demands from employers.” 😵‍💫

To my library colleagues who went all-in on AI: we told you so. We told you they would use technology you were training to replace us. We told you that it wouldn't matter to admin if AI couldn't do even a fraction of our job. And you dismissed us.

The lesson I would take from this is that solidarity across ranks and including students works.

How Industry Representatives and Responsible Adults are responding to the public deterioration of the myth that The Youth are unequivocally championing AI.

For all the pandemic deniers out there: "COVID-19 pandemic inflicted a setback of historic proportions. An estimated 22.1 million excess deaths occurred between 2020 and 2023, with nearly a decade of gains in life expectancy & healthy life expectancy wiped out by 2021" iris.who.int/server/api/c...

compare and contrast: when IDF soldiers were caught on tape raping a Palestinian captive at Sde Teiman prison and prosecuted, Israeli civilians rioted outside the court and all charges were eventually dropped

What a beautiful scene. Bookmarked to watch when I'm feeling down.

The Israeli dispossession of Palestinian property in 1948 did not only include homes and lands. Many also lost access to bank accounts and other wealth. Today that stolen property is estimated to be worth over one hundred billion dollars. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/isra... #Palestine #Israel

We tried to warn you about Anthropic. Now they're using xAI's ultra-polluting community-killing nightmare data centre to power your toxic claude relationship All the new paid subs from @rutgerbregman.com and @quitgpt.bsky.social's campaign, now powered by Musk 🫠 www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...

This is insane. This is the government’s “independent” advisor on antisemitism. He sees four antisemitic cartoons targeting Zack Polanski. His response? To demand an end to the antisemitic targeting of Polanski? No. It’s to attack the Green Party.

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

Universities/academic libraries: "We're reducing our footprint. Our printers use biodegradable ink. Here's a library guide about the climate crisis." Also universities/academic libraries: "Use AI use AI use AI use AI 'ethically' use AI use AI use AI use AI use AI use AI use AI use AI"

Oh hey. The study, cited hundreds of times already, was claiming to have shown the positive benefits of ChatGPT on learning.

As in Gaza, now in Lebanon.

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia

Yeah, can we just drop the tired (industry-driven) myth that (what seems like purely) technological change is a product of “natural” generational differences between The Youth and The Olds?

What a STUNNING quote: “I just think the American market is ahead of us [and] the same thing is going to happen here....it just will take a bit longer and it will be a bit harder because more people will be saying, ‘hang on a minute, we don’t want to be burning greenhouse gasses"

this is going to be a thread of analysts openly celebrating fossil fuel companies' skyrocketing ultra-profits off the back of the bloody and deadly attacks by the US and Israel, including several hundred dead school children RBC analyst Biraj Borkhataria: www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Love that the motherfuckers committing a genocide, sinking fishing boats, bombing schools and hospitals, kidnapping our neighbors, and murdering Americans in the street are playing the “violence is never the answer” card. And some of y’all are falling for it. Be better.

The US government is basically acting like a robber killing hostages

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

it's me, i'm the crow

You know how everyone is (rightfully) mad at Elon Musk for DOGE cuts resulting in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in African countries? Mark Carney did the same thing without any negative press. Cut $2.7 billion from international foreign AID which will result in thousands of deaths

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

Last month, the City Council passed two bills related to the right to protest. Today, I am letting one go into effect, and vetoing the other. I’d like to take a moment to explain why. As Mayor, I will always make sure the right to protest, prayer and protection are guaranteed for every New Yorker.

“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes…you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

Striking but not surprising the way these "academic leaders" are throwing increasingly intense tantrums while ramming through these repressive measures to distract from their continued looting of public support systems like education. (1/-)

Jesus Halford Christ

Man fuck off those aren’t even words

Are you struggling to find a way to teach AI literacy? Struggle no more! I’ve created a rough outline for a workshop. It’s critical! It’s ethical! It’s responsible! It’s probably decolonial! Feel free to use it and to share it with others.

Quiet part out loud 👀

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Stop what you're doing: the AI revolution is upon us. You may soon be able to use ChatGPT as ... a timer. Guess I'll scrap my plans for an oil-powered stopwatch that spews emissions equal to 600 km in a Ford F-150 per second and that sprays clean drinking water all over the place like a firehose.

A French coder estimates that using Claude Code will account for 1 tonne of CO2 over a year - 10% of the average French individual carbon footprint. We have never encountered emissions-intensive software like this, ever before (with the sole exception of Bitcoin) www.linkedin.com/posts/gwitte...