Perhaps today is the day we should all learn the term “agnotology” and think about the many mechanisms of ignorance and what/whom it serves.

It really is funny watching AI people talk about AI as intelligence. Like Jim Henson telling everyone on Sesame Street how scared he is of "the thing that lives in the can."

"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice. At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..." time.com/7338205/rage...

Martinez spoke in DC last week: “On Friday, I was teaching the young children at the Montessori School, and we were singing and dancing...On Saturday, my own government was calling me a domestic terrorist, and I was in federal detention centers with the bullet holes all over my body.”

DOJ trying to indict opposition lawmakers for accurately stating the law is an authoritarian weaponization of the justice system. Grand jurors returning a no bill is patriotism in action.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

My number 1 question re: a lot of things, including healthcare & education, is, “is this the treatment you’re giving to rich people?” If the rich people get human doctors and human teachers and tutors, there is no reason for anyone to believe that a machine replacement is right for them/their kids.

This is because a statistical model of word frequency is not a useful tool for modeling the complex interactions of the human body

CONFIRMED BY SCIENCE: anyone more online than me is a loser phone addict and everyone less online than me are basic underdeveloped normies

This is the opposite of what Republicans claimed would happen after mass deportations

This is like if I, an accountant, said it was no big deal if debits do not equal credits. It’s disqualifying.

This audio is the track "Upbeat Rock" by Tigran Papazyan, a composer/recording artist from Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan. "All-American!"

THE HATERS SAID THE PATRIOTS COULDN'T DO IT. AND THEY WERE CORRECT. HONESTLY GREAT CALL FROM THE HATERS

If you bet on yellow Gatorade for the dump, congratulations, you need to call 1-800-GAMBLER immediately

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

I talked with the BBC World Service this morning about why AI data centers are a silly idea promoted by deeply unserious people. They're not going to happen, no matter what ignorant fascists like Elon Musk say. You can hear me starting at 39:15 here: www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

tfw you leave Plato’s cave awfulannouncing.com/nfl/pat-mcaf...

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

Apparently there was a serious issue with rabies vaccines this month, where possibly tens of thousands of vaccine shots were actually just purified water. We just got our dog re-vaccinated, why isn't this on the news anywhere?

Chicago government is a place where hypocrisy about executive pay is at its highest. Look at the ridiculous pay packages at CTA and CHA!

License plate readers were originally supposed to be an automated way to check license plates with lists of plates from vehicles known to be connected to crimes (often but not always stolen cars). But what's happening now goes waaaay beyond that.

Vouchers undermine civil rights & harm public schools. Students using publicly funded federal vouchers for private school tuition will not be protected from discrimination on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, religion, language needs, or disability—as they are protected in public schools.

Clapping my flippers together and honking like a harbor seal when a Super Bowl ad for a condiment or gambling app featuring two celebrities unexpectedly reveals a third celebrity as its punchline. Bouncing a ball around on my snout. My wife has to throw me a herring to get me to calm down.

Obviously the way police treat people is the most problematic but if the dog-loving American public actually knew how many dogs cops kill I think you’d see ACAB become the modal belief

The more this wockaflocka realizes he'll be remembered as garbage, the more he runs around frantically tryin' to put his name on shit.

FINNEAS defends sister Billie Eilish amid online backlash over her anti-ICE comments at GRAMMYs: “Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech. We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”

Somewhat ironically, this is a problem that both some leftist and populist-rightist movements share: their ideology *requires* them to believe that they are the authentic voice of The People and so they are ideologically constrained from recognizing that their ideas are not, in fact, popular.

A stealth referendum question about federal school vouchers may be on your March 17th ballot! We urge all voters to vote NO. Here’s more info, including if your county (or, in a few cases, your township) will have the ballot question: www.ilfps.org/votenovouchers 🧵

1/2 The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity & the GUMPTION of these architects to go this hard for Art Deco on some random high school. Absolutely breathtaking work. Bloom High School Chicago Heights, IL Architects: Royer, Danley & Smith, 1934 Addition: Schmidt, Garden & Erikson, 1956

Once again: if these LLMs could actually do all the things their owners claim, they wouldn’t be selling access. They would be building and selling all the things they claim their software can do.

Training is not going to help, they're tear gassing us because they want to

There she blows! there! there! there! she blows! she blows!

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

We only want the good immigrants who study hard and don't commit crimes, unless they try to take little Brayleigh's (28 ACT, 1350 SAT) God-given slot at an Ivy away by being smarter, in which case Korematsu didn't go far enough

Prof. Wurman decried my pointed posts to 100,000 of my followers here as a breach of professional decorum. I responded on Twitter with the thread aggregated below, explaining why his approach to history repeats the same errors of Naomi Wolf. His claim to expertise in British history is a sham.

When did it become a right wing virtue to whine about literally everything

Tonight's late night card from my collection. Time: 12:16 a.m. #cardsky

Pro Publica got Ochoa’s ex-wife on the phone!!! ☠️☠️☠️ @propublica.org take all my money

On top of this, running across the country brings new voices and perspectives into the Democratic Party. Right now the party is in a rut because everyone comes from the same deep blue cities and wealthy suburbs and watch the same movies and TV shows, etc.

This is the risk of extreme gerrymanders

They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney

If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss

This is what CPD says about pretty much any internal affairs doc they don’t want to turn over.

So I found out this is one of the ICE agents involved in this incident.

i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine

Our latest deep dive with Hunterbrook Media (@truth.bsky.social) is about one of the five richest owners in sports: Robert Pera, of the Grizzlies and Ubiquiti. An NBA owner said, "No one knows where their sales come from." The answer involves Russia's drone war in Ukraine: youtu.be/s6i4uffZvhc?...

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

NEW: The firm behind the Mobile Fortify app, which ICE and CBP use for running facial recognition scans on the public, was revealed today to be NEC, according to DHS docs reviewed by @wired.com. NEC makes its of face rec platform called Reveal. @regret.bsky.social & @dell.bsky.social with the scoop:

Socialist Byron is going to outperform any Republican who tries to run in this district. That's a really bad look for Republicans if they're coming in third in Latino congressional districts.