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Hey, universities, maybe you could try inviting graduation speakers who *aren't* actively hostile to your fundamental mission and basic purpose? Or at the very least, people from industries your faculty isn't suing for intellectual property theft?

Immigrants are dying in ICE detention. A key watchdog office is now gone.

AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

What's frustrating: Taking a collaborative outlook to journalism is so rewarding! Right before I saw this, I'd just come off such a lovely conversation with an editor at @wisconsinwatch.org: a reminder of how wonderful it can be to uplift each other.

Since Bolts began, there've been several instances of articles elsewhere building on us with no credit. The only place I can think of where this has happened repeatedly is the NYT. What is happening over there?! Please remember to support small independent media like Bolts.

You may remember this great story my colleague Pascal wrote on Black voters in Fayette Co., their legal win, and how they're bracing for the VRA's impact. boltsmag.org/voting-right... The NYT 3 days ago: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u... Of course it makes sense to cover Fayette now! Just credit!

If you deny sexual violence, if you lean into that denial because of some grand political agenda, I am done with you. Not going to march alongside you, not going to speak on a panel with you, not going to write stuff for your publication. There's a line.

We now have denialists of Israeli sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners shouting at denialists of Oct 7 Palestinian sexual violence against Israelis. And all of them hate the NYT and screaming "hoax". Despicable people. All of you

Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Super interesting thread. It's a damn shame that AI is being developed by such terrible companies.

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

This is how Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship got written over 16 years: via a pile of physical notebooks that I took notes in with page point bookmarks to flag passages I wanted to cite + Zotero to keep track of secondary sources. Unglamorous, low tech, effective. Read my book. 😉

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

No one needs this crap. Invest in public transportation and good jobs. That’s the futures we need. Not this dystopia!

This from Taylor and Levin is by far the best political theory of data center opposition I've seen. You pick from the fights available, and choose the one that has an accessible target, some clear demands, and the broadest possible constituency. Where else are we supposed to fight Silicon Valley?

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

The idea that you can standardise and make subjective calls suddenly become objective by VAR and then the referee re-watching them dozens of times is laughable

My latest @nytimes.com oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran. By my calculations—and I show my work—this war will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

it's a violation of the NYT's own AI policy, and it's also not disclosed that AI was used to report the article. how many other articles at the @nytimes.com contain AI-generated misinformation that's gone unchecked? www.nytco.com/press/princi...

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

It's almost like we shouldn't have put every single university course in America on a single ed-tech platform with the security sophistication of a rusty door latch.

🚨 U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump’s blockade for months. My latest with Warren Strobel and Ellen Nakashima wapo.st/4u52grO

U.S. intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers & about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles, per a U.S. official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities & repair damaged missiles

SCOOP: A confidential new CIA analysis delivered to policymakers this week concludes that Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least 3 to 4 months before facing more severe economic hardship, a finding that contradicts those hailing an imminent collapse 🧵

we heard you hate AI, so at LFP we've been making resources for turning off AI features across the web. but we also don't think AI problems can be solved at an individual level, so we included some of our fav tools for community resistance as well. more to download free at libraryfreedom.org

President Donald Trump has responded to ticket prices for the USMNT’s World Cup opener against Paraguay in June by saying he “wouldn’t pay it either”. Full story from @dansheldon.bsky.social ⬇️ bit.ly/4ethzFD

People find politicians' speech alienating but it's not because it's overly caveated, precise, and syntactically complex; it's because it's vague, platitudinous pablum that fails to condemn injustice, fails to chart a path towards a brighter future, and is unaccompanied by concrete action.

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

Champions League to NBC please!!!! CBS Paramount coverage is awful!

In this day and age, it takes a lot of courage for people--especially young adults--to stand up to the powers that are oppressing them. We'd like to point your attention to what these students were standing up for. In their own words... www.instagram.com/p/DX7g3sMjyW6/

"I understand people want to do STEM. But if you don't know where you've come from, that's history,... and you can't communicate, you're really not going to be a very good engineer or scientist" bit.ly/4w6hONa

"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars."

This story was broken by The Cornell Sun, which @nytimes.com nowhere cites. As a former editor-in-chief of The Sun — and in the name of brave, amazing college newspapers everywhere — do not treat student journalists as truffle pigs, taking what they've sniffed out without credit or compensation.

Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

🎧 The World Cup & War The Athletic FC special pod ep. Analysis/interviews on complexities of US/Iran conflict & wider regional crisis on WC, FIFA stance + ranging issues of other war impacted participants Haiti & DR Congo @theathleticfc.bsky.social Listen free now ⬇️ podfollow.com/athletic-fc-...

It remains very weird to me that in a world of actually useful technology -- photovoltaic power generation, mRNA vaccines, maglev trains, smart phones, etc -- the tech sector has gone so all-in on bullshit generators and plagiarism machines.

Want to do something? Scholars: get organized. Join @aaup.org. Everyone: call your congresspeople. Tell them to defend science. Tell them to regulate the AI industry. Support @standupforscience.net I’m not giving up and neither should you. /end

At a time like this we need leaders with the courage to name what we all can see happening. The social sciences give us a language to bear witness and light with which to see more clearly. We will not be extinguished so easily. >>

Entering the grand halls of the NAS I felt a potent mixture of awe and fury. Science is so amazing. Not just for its material discoveries, but also for what it reveals about human values and our ability to know the world *together*. Shame on everyone who is complicit in this crisis. >>

I wish Ilya had shown up. I wanted to ask him if he still cares about science as a public institution, and why he and his fellow captains of industry aren’t speaking up as the government is dismantling US science. Why do they think they don’t need us? >>

There is so much that happens between people that is not easily reducible to code. And so we risk all of science if we rush to build “AI Scientists”, before we understand the value of human science. >>

But science is a social practice, one that depends on cooperation and trust. I've studied cooperation and trust for 25 years, often with computational models, including AI. The longer I've done this work, the more I've seen the limitations of these tools. >>

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

The real answer isn’t that students decided to shut up. It’s that universities, and a hostile federal government, have expended massive resources trying to ensure they do.