The only advice I can give to @akoustov.bsky.social is go find another job then. If Claude is doing as quality of work as some professors at @notredame.bsky.social, those departments need to clear out that deadwood #slop makers and do better in their future hiring efforts.

A *Modest Proposal* If you believe your academic job can be done by AI, either retire or your department should recommend for you to be let go and that position given to someone else who will do the work. We don't need to be paying someone to run chatbots on their laptop.

Just worth pointing out that Dr Kustov appears to be posting his AI-generated blogpost on how AI can already do social science better than most professors with PHDs, to concern troll/cross post on Twitter.

Sharing before I get blocked to flag that he is in fact showing his whole ass here.

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

These people will take everything from you, even your own voice, before and after death, and consent is irrelevant. Without meaningful guardrails AI companies lobby to prevent, everything about you will be stolen and co-opted for profit or political agendas the real you would never support.

we are not doing the fucking Sokal Hoax/Science Wars Again But With LLMs This Time. i fucking refuse.

When your fundamental argument amounts to a senior figure telling junior figures “you need to get on board or else you’ll be left behind,” you aren’t dealing with reason. You are dealing with, at best, a fad, and at worse a pyramid scheme. The rhetorical similarities with NFTs are not accidental.

Someone should do a study on the correlation between the belief that we don’t need to replace or train up junior workers and the subconscious or conscious belief in one kind of end of the world or another.

This reminds me of a conversation I had with a young person soon after the 2024 election. He told me his concern was not for himself, but for others, since he’d be safe as a white guy. He clearly wanted to express solidarity, but he was actually foreclosing an affirmation of shared interest.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

"llms can write social science articles better than professors now" BITCH I DONT CARE. i literally do not care because the point of people having fucking thoughts and doing research is PEOPLE HAVING THOUGHTS AND DOING RESEARCH. the point of the work is DOING THE FUCKING WORK.

The liberal justices call out the *rank* hypocrisy of their Republican colleagues on the Court

You'll never guess which schools lobbied against the free community college provision in Sanders-Jayapal

We literally did "Bachelor Chow" last millenium as a joke. Can people stop trying to create components of the #TormentNexus?!?! theinfosphere.org/Bachelor_Chow

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

one way to tell something is not very important to Jamie Dimon is that he's asking the government to do it

i must not discourse. discourse is the mind-killer. discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will permit it to pass over me and through me because i have shit to do. when the discourse has gone there will be nothing. only all the shit i have to do will remain.

You dear @ucu.org.uk reader can rightly ask, WTF was the point of all this. Basically the uni took a write-off on overvalued assets and is flogging a 9.9% annual deficit while if one excludes the write-off it's 1.2%. Not great but also not "the end is nigh". Shit is bad, but be wary. 🫡 #solidarity

Preemptive apologies for the pedantry folks and also to those at Nottingham, whom I expect can give you a far better summary than I. @ucu.org.uk @uonucu.bsky.social Let's look at the financial data and see why this & others are in such a hole. 👀 www.nottingham.ac.uk/FABS/Finance...

Polymarkets seem bad but also the ultimate version of rampant encouragement to arbitrage everything. Find something neat on someone's stoop or at a thrift store? You should resell it online for more! Score tickets to a hot show? Resell them online! Figured out how to do something? Sell a course!

If the history of Iran has taught us anything, it’s that the US can kill or depose any public official in the Middle East of its choosing with no downside risk whatsoever

A computer can never be held accountable, therefore we gave it a gun.

A really difficult aspect of leftist organizing in the US is that we rarely have the funds to institutionalize our movements, and as a consequence our wisdom is rarely institutionalized and preserved. It's hard watching this happen over and over again when it comes to talking about war.

Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on the official Copilot discord, then locks the server lol www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/m...

Highly recommend @kylesaunders.bsky.social on why AI is so unsettling to higher ed - one of the best pieces I have read on this issue: "[U]niversities don’t merely teach. Universities certify, sort, and signal. And AI interferes with all three at once." kylesaunders.substack.com/p/why-higher...

Also: Bleeding to death higher among those who spurn applying pressure, tourniquets.

Republican Jesus told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. His final, only, and most essential command was BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD.

"Estonians refer to AI as "kratt," a mythical creature made of hay or household implements and animated by blood ... kratt was notable for doing everything the master ordered it to and was mostly used for stealing."

Hooo boy. There we go. It was about domestic surveillance after all.

over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people. ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.

Too many “middle ground” AI arguments—“I have concerns, too, but we have to adapt”—proceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of “inevitability” which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.

me: "AI" as a public or public-facing technology is primarily oriented toward the performance of plausibility and the post hoc rationalization/justification of a priori assumptions on the part of the user or audience. cs people: nuh uh!!!

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Wait do people not know that candidate Reagan pulled a candidate Nixon and back channel killed the negotiations between hostile state and an incumbent Democratic president?

I talked to college students and a big chunk of this conversation centered on how white people are uncomfortable being uncomfortable but I don't know what to tell you. POC live in fucking discomfort and like in my early 30s I made a pledge to spread that discomfort around.

People ask what it is exactly we expect of Dems in this situation, and for me it's this. Make these assholes fucking scared. Make it clear that they are on borrowed time, that consequences WILL arrive, and that they will be harsh.

Harris’s loss imo had precious little to do with Gaza (though it didn’t help) and everything to do with a a cargo cult belief among a certain set of key swing voters that it was possible to return to 2019 prices without losing nominal 2024 wages burgerslop too expensive

It was really nice to live in the 20th century for a while before it rolled over into the cyberpunk nineteenth.

I'm late Gen X and all I'm saying is Millennials got fucked harder than anyone else. They were raised on post 9/11 American media and government and it's just been an endless stream of shit. And I'm not even talking about the 09 collapse. The wars, watching guns shred schools, social media insanity

The destruction of schools and universities is an attempt to destroy the possibility of imagining a future. Judith Butler, Barnard College, Feb. 28, 2026 (paraphrased)

There has never been a better time to accept and vocalize that Jews and the Israeli government are not the same thing. Yes, the Israeli government has worked hard for decades to make us believe opposing its actions is inherently antisemitic. But it isn’t true. It never was.

I'd be happy to talk to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social's staff at the Dept for Education alongside some of my former @ucu.org.uk colleagues to walk them through this bin-fire. It isn't the current government's fault but it is at best NOT making things better. It doesn't have to be this way. 🙏🏻 Please!

And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12." Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.

You dear @ucu.org.uk reader can rightly ask, WTF was the point of all this. Basically the uni took a write-off on overvalued assets and is flogging a 9.9% annual deficit while if one excludes the write-off it's 1.2%. Not great but also not "the end is nigh". Shit is bad, but be wary. 🫡 #solidarity

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.