ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

This is why DeSantis wants CPHE as the new accrediting agency: to create a safe space for his ideological vandalism while guaranteeing that federal funds continue to support his screwing over of the people of Florida. Do we want this for North Carolina? Hell no! @aaup.org #highered

There are no words for how evil this is

Hell yeah

We act as if there's no other choices when there quite obviously are. People whine about scale and adoption, etc without thinking about the lemming effect they are themselves goosing into existence. Choose not to use it! Choose not to engage with AI student outputs. If forced, do the bare minimum.

The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!

Excellent set of reflections on the macro-economic structural problems and drivers shaping (or not) Labour higher education policy policy

“When working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed.”

To a larger extent that people realize, ai-assisted search is partially an answer to the question how do you search the web when nobody links to anyone anymore.

One of the things I learned teaching search literacy is that search sucks because the world wide web doesn't exist anymore. The blogs that held it together with links are paywalled, big publishers paywall and don't link, the platforms users post to don't link. You're left with reddit and Wikipedia.

I am using this cavalcade of stories, both out of the tech & business press, to encourage a pause on any GPU accelerator purchases for our research cluster. If the demand goes POOF 💨, those are some expensive space heaters.

The race is to harvest venture capital profits before the bubble bursts and everyone realizes they’ve been drinking snake oil.

So umm, about that bailout prediction. Its own has got to be worth an endowed chair for you, right? www.wsj.com/video/openai...

Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.

“Large Language Models (LLMs) cannot do anything else but create plausibly sounding text with no concern for truth” Print and hang on your bed and on your desk 🧐

The so-called "aloof wife" has quite a hand with the pen: www.ramaduwaji.com/illustration...

@mattseybold.bsky.social's proposal to (among other things) reestablish faculty and students' control over their data & work here is...brilliant, actually? (Tho it would strip upper admin of their power to decide WHO gets to buy that data...😢) theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.

Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.” This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Earth shaking is confirmed by local media (gift link): www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

Time to repeal Virginia's right to work law. Should be the first bill.

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

GIVE ME MY FUCKING TACO TRUCK!!

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Definitely feeling “The City We Became” energy from these particular election night results. @nkjemisin.bsky.social

So many possibilities!

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

[P] The Swamp of Sadness has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

“I do understand: you want permission... You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it.” anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Remember that when you ask your GenX or Millennial friend today about Dick today, give them proper space to scream.

in case anyone on this website is too young to have had fully formed political rage while Cheney was VP, a concise summary of why we are Like This

i'm a very biased party here but pretty much everything about the Mamdani campaign and the discourse around it thus far is a pretty thorough vindication of Africana Studies

if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

seems bad! www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Because nothing goes wrong with nested collateralized mortgage bonds sold as an unregulated financial instrument. I volunteer @mattseybold.bsky.social as tribute to go get Eliot Spitzer’s opinion. Bring @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social along for shits & giggles.

"sophisticated financial engineering" oh that's not good

AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins." —A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR... www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

The problem is devs want to treat data as a property rights issue when personal data are actually observations of behavior to be used as evidence—primarily for social surveillance and control. It is rendering people in your community into relationships with power outside of their control or consent.

This is definitely one way to incentivize everyone into making sure the very obvious bubble doesn't go pop. 😬🤫

Good morning Bluesky !

I'm a school librarian as well as a historian and archivist, so I see the real world consequences of embedding AI into your work and life every day. If you can resist, even in a small way, do it.

“Without these women, Zohran wouldn't be anywhere near this close to the general election. They built his campaign from nothing. Their work was the difference between polling below 1% just a few months before and winning the primary." www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

New awareness campaign

If you want public services to function better, it seems more productive then to fund them better than fund them less.