It is becoming clear that AI doesnt save time or money. It's a cheating machine, which is also helpful at fixing grammar, coming up w/ recipes, & making revenge porn. So the thing to do is keep investing in new tech & not the things we know are valuable in the economic, humanist, & civic senses.

The connections among Epstein, AI oligarchs, cognitive scientists, eugenicists, misogynists, rapists, and outright fascists are so strong it's stunning that they are not outlined in every account of AI development and deployment. If you are bullish on AI you might want to check yourself.

The Kennedy Center. New monuments. Wrecking ball to history funding and interpretive expertise and access. Arts and humanities are the most powerful stuff of society and we all know it.

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.

Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”

Reminder in the face of all the angry gaslighting propaganda.

In case it's unclear: Trump's Board of Peace is an autocratic takeover of the world. He'll wield "peace" like a cudgel--'that's a nice country you've got there, I'd hate to see something happen to it.' Any country that signs has pledged its fealty to a madman crime boss.

kinda feels like they already lost it. (also, what a thing to say out loud)

Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.

Isn't AI good at pattern recognition?

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

They want to send the message that they will murder anyone who tries to hold them accountable and who isn’t 100% compliant with their illegal demands.

Find me a piece of ed tech from the past thirty years that's genuinely more about student learning than it is about extracting more labor from fewer teachers. Can't be done!

Read this

The legacy media narrative has been unified in claiming that Jeffrey Epstein abused minors. But how can anyone report that without interviewing Jeffrey Epstein? I asked Alan Dershowitz. —Bari Weiss, today in the New York Times

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Don’t worry, guys. Special envoy to the president Ric Grenell wants you to know that the CBS thing is totally on the up and up, and not to please the admin. He’s proving that by demanding CBS fires people.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

this exchange has reminded me of an old tumblr meme that makes me laugh (probably too much)

GLASHEEN: Look, it's a lot of work to fabricate an entire terrorist network from scratch. Give us time.

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

Good thing student evals are a proven way of fairly and equitably assessing an instructor's pedagogy and that they provide just oodles of useful feedback; otherwise one would almost have to argue they are at best a waste of resources and at worst (and more likely) destructive and harmful.

Damn right.

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

Co-sign

Taney:Scott::Roberts:???

Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.

There are basically two premises I'm working from right now: I'll n'ya pas de hors-texte Never argue with someone John Brown would have shot

Every time there's a shooting the GOP screams about how it's a mental health issue, not the guns. The response now is to take away mental healthcare and attack trans people. But, sure, this is a group of people that have our best interests at heart.

It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.

A country is real estate. A nation is a brand. Governance is deal-making. Diplomacy is franchising. Services yield profit. Everything is zero-sum. All relations are transactional. This admin is what happens when everyone majors in business or econ… or runs a car dealership.

There are a lots of folx clanging alarm bells about communism b/c major corps are turning over $ to the federal government. But I hate to tell you - that's croney capitalism. This is not the result of a state run market. It's the result of oligarchs. This is still about profit for the capital class.

If I were a public memory scholar I would be holed up in my bedroom right now, under the covers, crying. I still might.

"Never trust anyone over 30." J. Weinberg

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

What if instead of fighting fascism and racism and the patriarchy we play with puppies? Sigh. I guess you're right. Can we at least do both?

it's so deranged how rich business owners have demanded for decades that they be called "job creators" despite the fact that every single person i know has experienced a rich guy buying out an existing business and firing everyone and usually completely bankrupting it before cashing out and leaving

I am re-doing my Freedom of Expression syllabus to be less work and more relevant. I am less and less interested in being a cop and more interested in doing what I can to enrich the students who give a damn as I get older.

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

The destruction of the Rose Garden is such an apt metaphor. Also, if this doesn't remind you just a tad of Mussolini then I guess you didn't have to do a paper on fascist art in grad school.

I love that the NY Post is literally running stories on an impending alien attack and the admin is attacking Beyonce and we are supposed to say to ourselves, nope, definitely, not a diversion. I am very smart and not gullible at all and this all seems totally legit...