The book made a lot of bold assumptions without empirical backing. Much of the book veers into sci fi and is mostly conjuncture. I was bored through most of it. However, if you want to know where a lot of the tech bros are getting their ideas from, this book's a good place to start.

First time I made dinner for mother and me in awhile.

A most pitiful creature!

they tell you as much, on social media. They envision a world where "AI" will do everything human beings do, so they personally will a) become trillionaires, b) have no need to ever deal with other human beings ever again. Their misanthropy is everywhere in their philosophy, if you can call it that

Serena got a pup cup!

Here's more details on the service from my earlier report: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/doug-wilso... And here's who has preached at all the monthly Pentagon services (10 so far): publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/government...

Scholars should be a resource for journalists. And journalists should make every effort to publicly acknowledge that help. Link to their work, mention them, quote them. All the above. Scholars learn & warn each other about the journalists who use them as unpaid & uncredited research assistants.

A self-proclaimed Christian nationalist preaching at the Pentagon. Honestly, that was not on my bingo card. Great writing from @wordandway.bsky.social!

Yeah! Happy to share!! Thanks for putting up the podcast. I was behind with Kara’s podcast and would not have found it for a while! 📡https://youtu.be/E6y3BdPIb1E

Jane Fonda is literally EVERYTHING! 💛

“Optimism is everything's going to be fine and you don't do anything about it. Hope is a muscle. Hope is when you fight. Hope can be rage-filled, breaking down the door with a battering ram.” - Jane Fonda Great job on this interview, @karaswisher.bsky.social!

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Warns Its Unprecedented 'Archive of Human Candor' Is Dangerous

Fly Elon to the moon? @karaswisher.bsky.social says: Yes, please!

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

Can’t believe we are on the same team but I guess good for him being self consistent 🤷🏽‍♀️

Remember last week how Dr. Oz called AI the best solution for rural healthcare shortages? Well, a new study finds that when patients turn to chatbots for health advice, they end up taking the wrong steps and getting the wrong diagnosis more than half the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

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GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Pretty bad when your go-to move for distracting the country from how evil a person you are is to show them you’re evil in another way.

Can’t understand white Christian nationalism fully until you understand their fascination with competitive fertility. It’s not enough to have kids cuz they’re great. You gotta have more of the right kind, and more than your enemies. Kids are God’s arrows, after all. HT: @cnarchive.bsky.social

I cackled. youtu.be/-wQhY5CMMl4

Confused? Let me help make sense of this. The American right’s claims about any constitutional rights only apply to them. There. Now you perfectly understand their claims on gun rights, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.

The thing is I think the steepness of the decline is causing people to wake up.

MONSTERS INC. hits a little different in 2026.

The best tool we have to push CEOs to take on the president and prevent further erosion of the American brand is in our pockets — an economic strike that builds on calls for Apple boycotts that are already starting to emerge.

Targeting big tech will have bigger impact with less consumer disruption, says Leia.

AMERICAN CAESAR is available for pre-order. "Onishi traces the strange alliance between spiritual warfare and Silicon Valley libertarianism. At the center of it all is the desire for an unbound executive—one man, beyond checks, beyond balance, beyond democracy." us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

If I ever have kids, none of them are playing football.

I had to explain what church planting was today. Interesting talking to people that didn’t grow up evangelical.

Interesting insight from @scaramucci.bsky.social!

Great report from @404media.co.

New CBS contributors announced: Grand Moff Tarkin, Lex Luthor, Norman Osborn, Cruella De Ville, Javert, Titus Andronicus, Killmonger, and the Beastfly from Silksong.

And where Texas and Florida go, so too will Oklahoma and the rest. I was on an H1B at the university of Oklahoma. The thing that gets me is the relative silence of the Democrats on this. Its not on any kind of list of policy priorities either, for them, to redress the damage being done to higher ed

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Thanks First Lady Obama for the shout-out. Good reminder that to unlock human capital,,, get off your phone.

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #placebo Thinking about how your participants experience your experiment is a good thing.

I checked this book out form interlibrary loan. In ‘A Brief History of AI,’ computer scientist Michael Wooldridge gives a fascinating and approachable technological history of how AI was developed. Seeing the AI was developed after a long string of failures demystified the technology for me.

The universe is too fucking fabulous for capitalism and Nazis y’all www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst...

"These court victories tell us that … we have a right to say that Charlie Kirk said some disgusting things, and just because we’re faculty members doesn’t mean we don’t have the right to say those things.” – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*

Incredible headline.

Interesting analysis of current events! Great job, @profgalloway.com and @karaswisher.bsky.social!