I'm starting to think that a lot of our society's problems are downstream from the fact that theories of the user have displaced theories of the political subject in much of political life. And our mainline theories of the computer user are truly, truly awful.

that's right boulderreportinglab.org/2026/03/29/c...

thank you so much for having us! super enjoyed it and terrified as usual to watch it back, but also excited to remember what great things we all said 🥰

These military “courts” have conviction rates above 99% btw

The Knesset passed a bill today mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror - but not for Jews. There is a word for a legal system where different legal standards apply to different categories of people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

NYT: young people at CPAC are "J-pilled," defined as slang for "skepticism of Israeli influence" Then a few grafs later they quote a groyper who says "at least 60 percent of the young people here" are fans of Nick Fuentes, who wants to deport all Jews from America www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/s...

strong lineup here

@commonnotions.bsky.social presents: Raging Against the Machine: A Popular School Against AI! Thanks to @danmcquillan.bsky.social, @zeerak.bsky.social, @ali-alkhatib.com, @melhogan.bsky.social, @tamigraph.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, and @notnaughtknot.bsky.social!

It's no accident that fossil fascism is intensifying precisely when it becomes obvious that the obstacles to addressing climate change are entirely political, not technical

I really think our cover designer, Josh MacPhee, did an amazing job for the book

Was a real pleasure talking with you, @olivia.science and @hagenblix.bsky.social !! Hope many people get to enjoy our conversation! I will be watching/listening to the other episodes as well.

This absolutely sounds like technologies that universities would want to adopt as fast as possible? Nooooooooo!

It's no accident that fossil fascism is intensifying precisely when it becomes obvious that the obstacles to addressing climate change are entirely political, not technical

Sorry, Google, you're trying to automate what?

Basically this, evey day.

this was such a fun chat! not least of which because I finally got to meet the super talented Profs. van Rooij and Guest 😎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLuk...

Lol the Department of WAAARRRR featured Smedley Butler on its blog today. You’ll never guess which big parts of his story they leave out! www.war.gov/News/Feature...

@commonnotions.bsky.social presents: Raging Against the Machine: A Popular School Against AI! Thanks to @danmcquillan.bsky.social, @zeerak.bsky.social, @ali-alkhatib.com, @melhogan.bsky.social, @tamigraph.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, and @notnaughtknot.bsky.social!

One of the unexpected things I've heard many times now: "This is the first leftist book that I gave to my parents". So, if you want a book that's sometimes funny, sometimes scary, but always accessibly anticapitalist... we've got you covered. Give it to your parents! 😂

Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about that here: tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshi... #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy

"Also on March 11, Barbara Fried published a Substack post comparing Judge Kaplan to Irving Kaufman — the judge who sentenced the Rosenbergs to death in the 1950s — and wrote that Kaplan 'seems to take pleasure in his cruelty.'" What the actual fuck.

One of the unexpected things I've heard many times now: "This is the first leftist book that I gave to my parents". So, if you want a book that's sometimes funny, sometimes scary, but always accessibly anticapitalist... we've got you covered. Give it to your parents! 😂

If education is a human right, then this is a crime against humanity

AI sure makes it obvious that universities could use a lot more democratic self-government by workers' and students' councils.

Utterly vile law.

We're living in a capitalist nihilism machine, and AI is its amplifier

Tapping the sign: The point of fascist propaganda is to make it seem ludicrous to believe in anything

If education is a human right, then this is a crime against humanity

strapped to the gills like they can’t wait to rise up against tyranny, meanwhile they’re rolling out the red carpet for the masked up creeps terrorizing anyone who makes them uncomfy

AI sure makes it obvious that universities could use a lot more democratic self-government by workers' and students' councils.

Administrators spend $17 million of CSU money on ChatGPT while shuttering departments essential to the job of a university in developing, archiving, and teaching all kinds of knowledge

Reminds me of the time the NYT wanted a statement from the Linguistic Society of America on a letter condemning Steven Pinker, and ran with whatever a student intern had told them as the LSA's official statement. They also stood by that

the NYT's miserable conduct re. trans people is often hopelessly buried in the comments-section slough that is social media these days. I expect most of the liberals I know who read it will continue to rationalize, that it isn't *that* bad. unfortunately, it is that bad.

Down thread it says jobs for senior programmers are going up but not junior programmers. So what happens when you massacre the pipeline, who’ll manage the tech then? If your answer is the tech will manage itself I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

ai is a rhetorical technology. when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

The production and management of anxiety (usually mediated by consumption) has been a major business model of some of the largest companies that exist today, little surprise that AI goes there, too

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

The AI bureau of censorship Farcical as ever

WWFAI is 1 year old! Certainly, the many topics we raise in the book have only become more acutely important over the last 12 months. Automated bureaucracies in the service of state violence (from war through borders to policing), attacks on skills and knowledge work, and other AI nightmares abound

"AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers' Issue" Couldn't be more clear than this headline. @tisjune.bsky.social, @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social, and @nathanckim.bsky.social share their reflections on Organizing Against the Machine 👇

Looks like @kevinbaker.bsky.social's excellent essay is now published in the guardian!

"AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers' Issue" Couldn't be more clear than this headline. @tisjune.bsky.social, @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social, and @nathanckim.bsky.social share their reflections on Organizing Against the Machine 👇

"This exercise teaches us nothing about either animal and exposes a core peril of connectome-body models: behavioral fidelity is achievable without biological fidelity, making such models easy to overinterpret." Amazing abstract, 10/10

Had an excellent discussion of AI, and its impacts on science and society at Princeton yesterday! Thanks to @bayesianboy.bsky.social and Anya Tsvetkov for hosting, and thanks to my fellow panelists, @adinawilliams.bsky.social, Peter Melchior, and @jfisac.bsky.social!

Looks like Amazon is no longer stocking our book - I guess it was too dangerous

Looks like Amazon is no longer stocking our book - I guess it was too dangerous

Sounds about right

Absolutely crucial essay from @kevinbaker.bsky.social

Absolutely crucial essay from @kevinbaker.bsky.social

Lately, I tend to think the only way is spelling out the whole argument along the lines of "Pseudoscience supported by much of the scientific establishment"