“As some universities and journals adopt AI-text detectors, they risk creating a feedback loop that constrains how authors express themselves. I have seen colleagues intentionally simplify their grammar or break down complex rhetorical structures to avoid arousing algorithmic suspicion.”

Coming soon to a “university” near you when the far right authoritarian power gains control of your state

Yes, the thing about the law & constitution is that they make certain things illegal & unconstitutional

“False herring” is stupid, but the most dishonest & manipulative word here is “now.” As if this is some novelty. But warrants for entering homes, like cops who show their faces & badges, is how we’ve done things for 250 years. The radical novelty is suggesting we STOP doing these things.

Also relevant is Washington's warning against the rise of a despotic leader constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

“Many of the students involved in the claim will also have suffered further disruption during strikes by staff in long-running disputes over pensions, pay or working conditions.” sorry this is relevant how

I tuned into this because it's fun to watch Republicans cry

The NYTimes often doesn't quote Trump at all, instead reframing his words with a summary falsely suggesting coherent thought, in contrast to the gibberish he actually said. They also don't mention how he routinely mumbles and slurs even prepared remarks, like here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zsd...

Sarah Matthews: "We all want citizens to be the only one voting in our elections — but that is what is happening…In Utah, they did an audit of their registered voters, over 2 million voters, and they found one illegal immigrant registered and the person had never even voted."

I talked with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Nick Fuentes' recent rant about putting women in gulags. How seriously should we take Fuentes, culturally and politically? And what does rhetoric like this reveal about the broader trajectory of the movement he’s trying to shape? We get into it.

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines

Dilley is a pediatric concentration camp. Every day we allow it to exist in this country is another stain on our collective soul. SHUT. IT. DOWN.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

Via PBS News Hour, Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, today endorsed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. "Your sucess is our sucess," Rubio said. Orbán, of course, has been the model for controlling the news media as a way to stay in power. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

NEW: One of the most progressive institutions in the U.S., The New School, has begun destroying its humanities departments. They have cancelled one of their most popular classes, "Global Soccer and World Politics." We are going to teach it anyway. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...

Reading commentary and news pieces that focused on the tone and temperature of Rubio's recent speech in Munich led me to write this response open.substack.com/pub/jamesdem...

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

A Trump administration official said Moderna might have more luck with its vaccine application if it resubmitted with a little “humility” Does that sound like the “gold-standard science” RFK Jr. promised? Or a mob boss threat? www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...

Bonus seal cuteness, featuring my previous bestie.

(11/11) In this new normal, costs are individually adjusted to a consumer’s maximum threshold and wages to a worker’s minimum floor. The next time you see a price, know that it may not reflect what the item is worth—but what the algorithm believes *you* are worth.

(6/11) Uber tracks battery life. Former exec Keith Chen noted in 2016 that users with low battery are statistically more likely to accept surge pricing. Uber says it doesn’t use that data to set prices, but the correlation remains a point of regulatory scrutiny. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

(5/11) Walmart, Whole Foods, and Kohls are switching to electronic shelf labels that can display dynamic prices. Kroger deployed them with Microsoft AI—a setup a 2024 Senate inquiry warned could enable “surge pricing” via facial recognition. (Kroger claims it will only lower prices.)

4/11) In 2025, Delta tested “Fetcherr,” reportedly an AI designed to find the highest price before a consumer abandons a purchase. Delta has called that characterisation inaccurate, but on investor calls, execs hyped the tech as a “super analyst” that would end static prices.

(3/11) A December 2025 Consumer Reports investigation found that Instacart prices for identical items varied by as much as 23% between different users. Instacart characterizes these discrepancies as routine ‘A/B testing’. www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...

(2/11) You know dynamic pricing—think Uber rides, flights, or concert tickets that surge based on supply and demand. “Surveillance Pricing” takes this to the next level: using your data to set a “price for you” based on your predicted breaking point. This is, increasingly, everywhere.

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk

Using the cases of early Hebrew, Sam'alian, and archaic Greek, this paper will show how the linear alphabet's early Iron Age life as a form of craft led it to share distinctive features with the artisanal networks that transmitted it..

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

Art History will continue to be seen as an elitist discipline if the public apparatuses for communicating it refuse to acknowledge the scholarship that has drawn attention to art's role in serving and subverting power. Read the righteous review by Sherry Lindqiust here. hnanews.org/hnar/reviews...

Elon's racist little post made me mad enough to write about it at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.

Feel like this is a good lesson to keep generative AI far from your editorial process as a matter of policy. Ars is a great website. If it can happen there it can happen to anyone that allows these tools in

A couple was arguing on the train earlier. At one point she said: “Go ahead and roll your eyes, maybe you’ll find your brain that way.” I tried not to laugh, but I couldn’t.

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

When my grandparents came from Sicily and Southern Italy in the 1910s, they sure weren't looking for whatever Musk is going on about. Half century later, I grew up in neighborhoods and networks in New York City, that were still almost entirely Catholic and Jewish. I hardly knew anyone who wasn't.

Homan might want to read our story. A few months ago, we counted at least 170 Americans detained. They were *almost all Latino.* www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Greedy corporations are using your personal data to charge you more or pay you less — and they’re doing it behind your back. It’s called “surveillance pricing,” and I introduced the first federal legislation to stop it. Read more about our bill here:

Some very powerful people want us to believe human labor is obsolete & way too many people are buying it. Don’t let them make you think that you are disposable. Time to revive the idea of a job guarantee. They just created a bunch of fascist ICE jobs overnight. Imagine that for work that matters.

#SartorialTheology @arturoviaggia.bsky.social

A lot of people talk about wanting Dems with the courage and anger to meet this moment, but Rep. @ramirez.house.gov is actually doing it. Read this 🔥 interview I did with her Friday:

If you've seen the Sunday Times today you'll know Labour Together were secretly hiring people to investigate journalists. Sadly you won't know that The National broke this story six months ago, since our work is not credited at all. Here's the original 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2550403...

“In addition to rising prices, the public has grown weary of monthly charges, the increasing number of features becoming paywalled, and privacy concerns surrounding collected data.”

Last July, I wrote a follow up to "Fascism and the English Language" specifically covering immigrant rights language. Concentration camps was correct then & is now. So too is not using "immigration" as qualifier for acts that are crimes. contrarian.substack.com/p/fascism-an...

At every turn, regime not administration, abduction not deportation, concentration camp not Alligator Alcatraz, MAGA Murder Bill not Big Ugly Bill/Big Beautiful Betrayal, we've tested & shown - we must be honest & call things by their outcomes not benign wash evil.

Bullshit.

John Singer Sargent A Balustrade, 1906 (The steps of the church of SS Domenico & Sisto, Rome) oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford #StairsOnSunday 🎨 #Sargent

Seven children from this MN school district have been detained by ICE. 2 of them are still in ICE custody in TX. The district has lost track of how many parents have been taken. At just one elementary 26 parents have been detained by ICE www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...