Also, relatedly, there is a pre-history to Bondi’s apparent slip on free speech vs hate speech. She wasn’t simply speaking in ignorance of the law but in a context in which both conservatives & liberals had agreed that if sthg is considered politically “hateful” you can be punished for saying it

one thing I’ve not seen much discussion about is the fact that the current crackdown on free speech—which targets ‘pure’ speech—has been facilitated by decades of attacks on assembly—‘speech plus’. And the bridge that democrats eagerly helped build was targeting pro-Palestine speech as violence

gut-level, extremely intense aversion to people characterising trump as a “bully” unless they are literally talking to their five year old child. And perhaps even then

NEW: Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom announced today that they have all recognized the State of Palestine

I saw someone say “Ezra klein is a good person and he just extended the benefit of the doubt to someone he shouldn’t have” but writing a defense of someone when you are either willfully ignoring or somehow(!) ignorant of the primary source material is intellectually dishonest & writerly malpractice

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It takes both real effort and enormous bad faith to turn the openness of universities to a wide range of perspectives into evidence that progressives have a bunker mentality but these two lifelong pundits have found a way to do it

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

Deleted a tweet about Kimmel because the original NYT headline was inaccurate. We’re living through the worst crackdown on free speech since the McCarthy Era. Be careful, and make your dissenting words count.

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

ezra klein is either a fool or a liar, or quite possibly both, but I don’t see any other options. so

I know I am going to get yelled at for this but yesterday I had my best seminar class in more than five years and it was because I asked my students to use physical texts and physical notebooks and structured class around that

immoral, but par for the course

I feel this essay has not been subjected to the full round of mockery that it deserves jacobin.com/2025/01/dona...

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Stephen Miller sitting alone in the oval, clutching trump’s cold, lifeless hand as he sings at full volume, through tears, along with “I dreamed a dream,” his voice fully breaking as he wails, “…but he was gone when autumn caaaaaaaame”

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

What if scientists hadn’t waited until this point to speak about politics Every time I see a headline like this, my brain just shouts Like what if scientists hadn’t sat around silently watching everyone around them get attacked Maybe the fight on campus would have gone differently

One of the main benefits of doing a US PhD is the extra time you get, that's one of the big reasons I advised my students to apply for US programmes. We offer a four year degree here, there'd be no advantage over us. The US is euthanising its massive advantage in research for no good reason.

I don’t know how many more times I can reinvent assignment and assessment models and tailor and pivot and reimagine etc to solve the latest new crisis in higher education that got dumped in our laps, on top of all refuse and debris of the prior unresolved and still festering crises

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I read the whole legal complaint against OpenAI yesterday and it fucked me up. Can’t shake it

Once again, there is a class of Democratic officials in DC who are fundamentally unsuited for the current political moment. They can't see that the fascism is the signal, not the noise. And they are unable or unwilling to change their pre-authoritarian approach to politics. It is deeply revealing.

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I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

I wonder if any university admins have thought even a little bit about what it looks like to unleash LLM chatbots—as a university-purchased, -promoted, and -legitimized “educational” enterprise technology— on a student population in the grips of a well-documented college mental health crisis

The exchanges between Adam and ChatGPT are devastating. This, in my mind, is the worst one. One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

yesterday AI couldn’t figure out how to subtract 1995 from 2025 so

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

reading Paul Lynch’s novel Prophet Song because I guess reality wasn’t stressing me out enough

maybe it was bad to build an entire society driven by the fever dreams of deranged billionaire losers, idk

any useful point in this post is completely discredited by the reference to “midwestern apes” Donald trump is from New York, Stephen Miller and Chris Rufo are from California. No geography has a monopoly on producing ignorant racist pieces of shit

An internal Israeli intelligence database reveals 83% of those killed by the IDF in Gaza were civilians, contradicting public claims to the contrary. www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

"As this Famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed." "The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading." "Any further delay—even by days—will result in a totally unacceptable escalation of Famine-related mortality."

Personally, I have been happily throwing Rawls under the bus for quite some time. It’s good cardio

it’s part of my culture to discretely pass a stack of bills concealed in a crumpled chip bag to a reporter. as a token of friendship

and sometimes, if you are one of a lucky few, it catfishes you or convinces you it holds the secret to the universe and induces psychosis, in either case turning you into a person your friends and family no longer recognize we live in an age of miracles

somehow I do not think “if republicans were really serious about violent crime, they would be sending the national guard to occupy the cities in their own states” is a winning anti-fascist argument

people should stop pretending that because there are consequences for resisting it is impossible.

some of you are giving ‘cuomosexual’ with your lusting after newsom’s tweets

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