"AI is going to transform the world. We can’t let a handful of billionaires decide the future for us." Bernie Sanders www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpP_...

For those like me who find healthcare and technology interesting, the GNU health convention starts tomorrow. www.gnuhealth.org/ghcon/2025/p...

Thursday is a good day to contact all the trans people you know and see how they're doing. Let them know you'll help them if you can and if they need it. Wait for an answer you may save a life thanks and please repost

Become ungovernable

That makes seven straight months of manufacturing job losses - a sector in deep recession along with residential construction and transportation.

We’ve seen this all before, the war on drugs was an absolute failure and only did more harm than good. Any money and effort should go towards treatment programs and healthcare, not the prison system. www.denverpost.com/2025/12/15/i...

The author of enshittifcation will be here in Denver 👀 www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-docto...

Like I,Robot but real life interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...

Apple iOS 26.2—1 Billion iPhone Users Must Install New Update

Nightmare for doctors and patients alike. Having your PA denied because a computer did some black box math and then said so. stateline.org/2025/12/04/m...

An earlier delayed data release indicated consumer prices continued to rise in the month.

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

See what's going on in our December Newsletter through the link: 📰 clas.ucdenver.edu/sociology/ne...

The threats from AI are real | Sen. Bernie Sanders www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3qS...

The fall term is almost over — and we earned this celebration! 💛 Grateful to our amazing grad students and faculty who came together to celebrate a semester full of growth, learning, and community. Thank you for everything!

I don’t understand how something like this blows up to the point the governor is involved. A student didn’t submit an assignment following the guidelines and received a failing grade. I don’t see any discrimination against religion here. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...

Today is world’s AIDS day and we should remember all the lives lost. Governments around the world ignoring AIDS/HIV because it was only seen as a homosexual disease even though anyone can be impacted. We must continue research and health advancements to save lives. www.forbes.com/sites/davewe...

What does it mean to be a socialist? What is historical materialism? We’ll work through these questions together in our collective reading of part 3 of the Marxist classic “Socialism: Utopian & Scientific” by Fredrick Engels. No prior reading is required to attend!

It’s unfortunate how these corporate giants think pouring more and more money into something hoping it will magically overcome its core limitations. General AI may come in our lifetimes, who knows, but it won’t be from the models we have now. futurism.com/artificial-i...

“The officer reportedly submitted the output from ChatGPT as the report, despite the fact that it was provided with extremely limited information and likely filled in the rest with assumptions.” gizmodo.com/judge-says-i...

futurism.com/artificial-i... Not that surprising tbh. Narcissism seems to go well with most LLMs.

Large language models often seem to act as a sycophant even though there is nothing to gain. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.

#SUSE brought #UBoot to the #RaspberryPi 5; it’s not just #dev work, it’s #community-powered. From #debugging to giving away Pi kits at #openALT, we're enabling more people to explore #openSUSE on #ARM. Watch for USB boot + PCIe support. news.opensuse.org/2025/11/04/r...

Something something first amendment. open.substack.com/pub/friendly...

There are far better choices for email than Gmail. You can’t trust Google with much. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

DSA is a driving force electing socialists across the US, from Zohran Mamdani in NYC to Kelsea Bond in Atlanta. People around the country are inspired by our movement wins and ready to join a fighting organization. act.dsausa.org/s/3004.5rIry9

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. 🏳️‍⚧️

Tech companies scraped copyrighted material without consent to train AI models. Yet universities penalize students for using those same models in papers. A sociologist argues the ethical blame shouldn't fall on students alone:

‘I knew I was starting to have a seizure’: women describe lasting effects of being ‘choked’ during sex

"McDonald's impact summit 2025" Reminds me of that movie idiocracy.

Sisyphus 55 has some banger videos and this is another. Philosophy and mental health often go hand in hand. youtu.be/Ezfb58BxCWc?...

Looks like you can already see the golden parachutes from wall street. www.investing.com/news/stock-m...

Agama 18 is out! The next-gen #Linux installer now comes with a cleaner, more intuitive storage UI. It has enhanced support for #DASD devices on S/390 and #JSON profile validation without running #Agama. More powerful installs for #openSUSE. agama-project.github.io/blog/2025/11...

Maybe we shouldn’t put generative AI models in everything. futurism.com/artificial-i...