It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.

"AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society. Our descendants will be digging it out for generations." "AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job." Oof. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pushing AI into everything right now makes sense because we’re in the thick of an anti-expertise era, and everything it “makes” relies on malicious dilettantes believing that whatever it spits out is good enough for whatever industry or consumer base to which it’s parasitically affixing itself.

Things I had not expected to see today: Deutsche Bank making a numbers based argument that "AI" is a bubble and won't last https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry

'"What is the opportunity for world foundation models? Essentially . . . $100tn if we can make an intelligence that can understand the physical world and operate in the physical world,' he said." lmao

dunno what else to say except we told you letting corporate conglomerates have control over democracy & technology was a bad idea that should be thoroughly undone. "Private equity… like BlackRock & Blackstone are buying local utilities [for AI] data centers, sparking ratepayer & regulator concerns"

Just a head’s up that I’ve continued making updates to this guide: most recently, to remove the caveat on Here WeGo for not having CarPlay, adding Citymapper, and a suggestion to try the DVD/Blu-ray section at your local library as a streaming alternative. More to come!

At this point you cannot convince me that Hakeem Jeffries isn’t either a plant or a willfully clueless goonie bird

In the Network State ideology, social order will be imposed via total surveillance. Curtis Yarvin’s “patchwork” (2008) envisions citizens who must scan into cities and be tracked 24/7. Ellison, along with Yarvin cultists Andreeseen Horowitz, will soon control TikTok. fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...

This is now the second attempted terrorist attack on the LGBTQ community in a week as "revenge" for Charlie Kirk. This follows an attempted mass shooting of a gay bar in Arizona. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

#Septopolis 28. Ignore the old name (and my complete lack of artistic skill), but this is the picture I drew of Toree Teerayu when It was used for gaming. I just wanted to show the scale of the city, its districts, and the multiple harbors.

Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves. A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

No, it really is data brokering. They don’t want to pillage data and then merely have it; they want to use data as the raw material for producing models that calculate everything from determining prison sentences to managing insurance claims.

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is. Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.

Trump posting an AI video of himself promising something that doesn’t exist should get the full failing Biden front page treatment but we know it won’t.

The President releases an AI slop video of himself promoting a scam miracle cure because it makes him look good. This is a way to hyperstition a kind of cargo-cult version of the scam into reality. 1/x

Yeah, I was thinking about that possibility too. This is also interesting:

Indicators of "extremist violence" according to new directive NSPM-7

"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" I said, "Yes, that's right." pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Our military is scoping out their next random boat to blow up.

When this blows it is going to reshape the entire course of history and our job is to be the tide that sweeps away fascism and replaces it with socialism Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Added alt text with full quote. “When I see that, I worry that they might face serious trouble down the line if they don't take it more seriously.”

Literally - and I mean that literally - the Stasi. Literally.

How is one allowed to speak at the UN when that same person has an arrest warrant out for their war crimes, and the UN’s own commission has declared that this person is perpetrating a genocide Does anyone understand how insane it looks that these two things are allowed to happen simultaneously

Been ruminating today on the fact that the markets no longer care if you are making money or setting piles of it on fire, and political parties no longer care if their voters can even stomach them, much less want to vote for them. It tells you something about where we are.

Missed this one over the summer. “When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer…This gap between perception and reality is striking…even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.” lol. lmao even

I think one thing educators can do is to help youth analyze how they’re already being socialized into these systems through student monitoring software, online proctoring, etc and then develop ways for challenging these systems at different scales, from the classroom to school to district.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro gave one of the most chilling speeches in recent history before the United Nations, and it has been totally ignored by US news media.

It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.

Republican state rep calls for Democratic congresswoman's execution.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

I am beyond concerned. I think Newsom is, like many politicians who come into power on the West coast, a conservative masquerading as a liberal, and primarily concerned with "winning" rather than with principles. He is a natural shoo-in for next Democratic President who will kowtow to billionaires.

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Uh oh bsky.app/profile/nouv...

I know we can't just trust the words that come out of this account, but this feels like a dangerous escalation.

"Transform the economy" into what, exactly? Where do the profits come from when no one has jobs? Age old capitalism scam. Fuck ai. No one is coming to save us from tech bro stupidity and greed. Fight to keep these fucking data centers out of your communities.

#Septopolis 27. A wealthy Shen named Karral is bankrolling the ambitions of several fellows, both Shen and Har, to revive old conflicts and restore the Shen to their perceived position of prominence. The Har involved are angry at their new king for limiting their power to exploit the realm.

Hey union voice actors! Remember when I got up to the mic at the strike meeting and said y'all were conceding ground to companies that had lost their prestige ages ago, and that at least 2 of them wouldn't exist when the next round of negotiations took place? Wasn't that funny? What a crazy woman!

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

Criticism about AI in schools mostly focuses on how it allows students to get away with something (by using OpenAI to write their essays). But shouldn't we be talking more about its detrimental effects on teaching and learning than on how it impedes our ability to evaluate students? is.gd/acOSmQ

this! the commercialization of education via the integration of AI in classrooms and big tech infrastructure is the most dangerous and destructive capitalisation of education

This sounds crazy but it’s literally just a plain, accurate description. Again, like all the rest of the lawless authoritarianism, this Article III constitutional crisis is really an Article I constitutional crisis. Congress could end this nonsense at literally any time. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

From a transcript of a faculty meeting discussing this: Faculty are being told to not teach on gender and sexuality at all, regardless of their field, and the Dean isn’t even sure if the faculty *can accept papers from students that discuss these topics*.

Faculty: How do I get a job? Admin: Publish! F: How do I get tenure? A: Publish! F: How do I get promoted? A: Publish! F: How do I land big research money and bring prestige and $ to the university? A: Publish! F: Will you help support presses & peer-reviewed journals? Admin: Oh HELL no!!!

As a shutdown approaches and Dem leadership does its usual schtick, just re-upping that basically every fed employee I've heard from in recent weeks (anecdotal, yes, but still!) is pro-fight, pro-shutdown-if-necessary. As I wrote a couple weeks ago about NIH: www.gravityisgone.com/the-walls-ar...

There’s no product in America that causes psychosis, self-harm and suicide in a fraction of its users, including children, and is still totally unregulated. Except AI chatbots. These are very reasonable regulations that will save lives.