Brian W. Lynch is co-director of a national task force to implement NSPM-7. He marched on the Capitol on January 6, I confirmed today talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

This is the kind of insight that could turn you into a more humble public servant or a nihilist, and I think we know which option Graham chose.

Witnesses and questioners alike, and both supporters and opponents of Chinese exclusion, universally agreed that exclusion was meant to benefit the White race and White laborers. White supremacist "race science" tracts were submitted as "evidence" for the hearings.

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It is a wonder how these things have gotten more complicated, not less. At the same time technology should make this easier, universities have become more bureaucratic. Universities ask faculty a precise allocation of their time on different projects, but also treat that time as having zero value.

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People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

I bought most of Scalzi's books last summer, or I would be jumping all over this.

well that was quick

That photo from the metro is the work of freelance photographer Cheney Orr.

Patriot Front is marching through my neighborhood, and the entire range of my emotional reactions would merit an account ban.

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future.

I guess it's official

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All that needs to be said about LLM-based content generation is said here:

when somebody says "of course even I can admit that ai is good for X" X is often something *outside their area of expertise* they've heard it's good at. like, for example, protein folding. spoiler: it turns out that actually there are serious problems with using it for protein folding

The White House is posting fake QAnon posts (to promote executive orders on quantum computing).

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What the fuck is it good for? Im asking sincerely. Medical people say its shit for diagnosing, its utter garbage for creative fields, it cannot teach and hallucinates false answers, programmers have to fix its code half the time, businesses find it doesn't help productivity and it causes psychosis.

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

There needs to be an "I was denied tenure and I'm still mad about it" disclaimer on every article that proposes ending academia

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Same, but for me it was transcribing hours of Alex Jones and similar as a PhD student

And the media is a big part of that pantomime. Operating outside the "presumption of regularity" (see this excellent article ⬇️) is not just a challenge for the law. Govt statements used to be considered de facto newsworthy. That's no longer a reasonable position. bsky.app/profile/qjur...

The fuck I am, Google.

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Should be a really fun event! Tix and information 👇

Won’t define ‘antifa.’ Can’t define ‘antifa.’ Trying to throw people in jail for being ‘antifa.’

This thread has me rethinking how I frame my “please don’t use genAI for anything in my class” policy. Next semester, I’m gonna make it less about how using AI is doing themselves a disfavor and more “I’m making this a space where you can safely resist the pressure.”

One of the things I research is the cooperation of cultural institutions like museums in pitching tech products--specifically AI--to the public. This is advertising for the capacity of AI to educate and thus to reshape education itself as a project better left to private tech companies. 1/n

Regulatory capture!

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

I truly could not ask for a clearer example of what Republicans mean when they talk about “Judeo-Christian values.”

I keep thinking about the photo and caption at the top of this story.

zuck managed to be at the right place at the right time for the social media explosion, stapled an ad money spigot to it, and has proceeded to completely fuck up every single decision he's made since it would be impressive if it wasn't so destructive

"Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave — for the first time in his life — at a Republican convention with the tagline, 'Unity drives victory'...members were willing to lose the support of Muslim conservatives." That was certainly a read

This sounds amazing! Wish I was in NYC…

I know I know, there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism. But it seems like it’s getting more difficult each day.

I have been working on societal impacts of language technology since late 2016, and my nightmare example since pretty early on has been using automatic transcription in emergency services systems. And today I learn it's happening *in my own city* www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Short 🧵>>