On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

This has been true in higher ed as long as I've been in it: claims that programs need to be close or reduced due to "budgets" but the details show that the programs in question actually bring in money, meaning the actual reason is ideological.

Excellent article: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

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...

There are well upwards of a BILLION dollars (of OUR money) this year funneled to projects designed specifically to make Trump feel Good about himself: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Trumps private and public furious response to the onrush of media coverage about his mind, health, age, sleep…

I am tired of so many mean, selfish people getting away with saying and doing horrible things. Every line in the sand has been crossed and recrossed over and over. When will we regain and demand sanity, our democratic principles, respect and empathy for others, honesty, and honor? Let’s start now!

WATCH: @climatechoirs.bsky.social flashmob at lighting of Norwegian Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field. #StopRosebank

I ended up drafting an email that didn't really lean on research specific to grade school education, but expressed my concerns in the most basic terms. I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful: bit.ly/TeacherEmail...

#Oops: The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted. ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings…"

Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt: ‘The media’s continued attempts to fabricate conflicts of interest are irresponsible & reinforce the public’s distrust in what they read. Neither the President nor his family have ever engaged, or will ever engage, in conflicts of interest.’”(Hiltzik, LAT)Really?

Squirrel of the Day for November 30, 2025 is a fine, fluffy boi #sqrlpix

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

This is really, really good. “Against the UncritiCal Adoption of ‘AI’ Technologies in Academia” by Olivia Guest, Marcela Suarez, and many others. philarchive.org/archive/GUEATU

Will this be in my newspaper tomorrow morning?

I miss walking through Paris from 9 am - 4pm while my daughter was at school. What a beautiful place. The architecture. The murals. The parks. Thanks for these.

This is why a con man shouldn’t have been allowed to become President! This 👇

Open Letter on AI from the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice!

Just a reminder in case you disapprove of the way Thanksgiving Holiday has been turned into Black Friday and a consumerist frenzy: don’t buy stuff this weekend. Hang out with friends and family and come up with ways to show how much you care about each other without a middleman.

Defining “they” would be helpful here, but I do this you are on to something. And teachers should protect our students from the gutting of our education. Humans must be able to think and write and calculate without electricity.

I don’t think that this question is quite answered in here, but the article highlights why UC faculty and unions sued and rightly won. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.

"Despite the difficulties getting everyone to agree on how to tackle climate change, real-world solutions are being implemented at speed almost everywhere." Love this #COP30 takeaway from @georginarannard.bsky.social. Just because countries aren't acting at scale doesn't mean the rest of us can't!

COVID+'AI' connection @eryk.bsky.social: "In many ways the collective attention & fear, has shifted from a conversation about the embodied concerns of a contagious, murderous disease to a collective fascination & horror w/ the unembodied abstraction of 'artificial intelligence'" tinyurl.com/3xs4mu8c

Countries meeting in Brazil for two weeks could manage ONLY a VOLUNTARY agreement to BEGIN discussions on a roadmap to an EVENTUAL phase-out of fossil fuels, and they achieved this INCREMENTAL progress only in the teeth of IMPLACABLE OPPOSITION from OIL-PRODUCING countries. #ScienceUnderSiege

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?

I was mad when my daughter’s 3rd grade teacher said she was insubordinate b/c she offered helpful information and asked good questions. www.latimes.com/california/s...

when i say ai is part of the authoritarian project, plain and simple, this is what i mean

These are valuable professions, too! Ones that glue our society together in healthy ways.

IF AMERICANS DON’T STOP TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS… Trump will sell every piece of America to Saudi Arabia, as he jails Americans and immigrants. Trump will raid the Treasury for himself & family, and leave America bankrupt, just like his casino. #Resist #ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited 👇🏼

Where’s Dickens when you need him? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Language models are models of a corpus, not cognition

I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States

“When education becomes a business, it is no longer an education. It is the propaganda of its sponsors, and the indoctrination of its students into citizens that learn to bow down, just like their teachers” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

This economic system takes living organisms, strips them of their rights, turns them into products, and replaces their sovereignty with an expiration date. Humans are not exempt from this treatment.

To state the obvious, doctors lawyers and priests are not products offered by a company that generates statistically likely text

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

If Musk meets all the benchmarks of his new $1 trillion pay package from Tesla he will be paid $274 MILLION EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS This is his part-time job

Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day to all who celebrate. I hope you make a Four Seasons Total Landscake.

We must start cancelling corporate charters right and left!

If they hadn’t purchased most of it already, OpenAI would be dragged before Congress for this.

A million seconds is 11.6 days A billion seconds is nearly 32 years A trillion seconds is nearly 32,000 years

We may have installed eyes, ears, cameras and satellites all over Earth’s surface, but we remain blind to the greed that is choking life to extinction

The complete annihilation of entire ecosystems was not a side effect of civilisation. It was a deliberate crime perpetrated by the greatest minds, leaders and technologies humanity produced

“The creation of corporations was one of the biggest self-annihilation moves of civilisation.These entities exploit humans and the Earth and are governed not by humans or ethics, but by profit. Humanity is now owned by something abstract and inhuman, and this should be of grave concern to all of us”

See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...

And now read this! Because AI can run the economy right?

Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy