My mom’s Kirsten Gillibrand.

[snortlaugh]

Who would do such a thing? The vandal-in-chief would do such a thing.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Could not stop crying

Well, at least one president knows how to build a reflecting pool

Well now here's something pretty spiffy. New out today from the New York Vocal Collective, a choral arrangement of Paul McCartney's "Blackbird." The first two and a half minutes are fine, but then it becomes…something else entirely. (You know the THX sound effect?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ot...

I really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering.

Three photos. Five days. Fifteen million taxpayer dollars. One swamp.

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

For the first time, the DOJ is seeking to strip someone of their citizenship based solely on a McCarthy-era law. There's no claim that the person did anything wrong before he became a citizen. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/denatur...

NEW: The Trump administration’s deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents to Minnesota led to widespread human rights violations. In a new report, HRW documents how the US government’s “Operation Metro Surge” caused a human rights crisis in Minnesota. Learn more: https://bit.ly/44dMOht

Defense contractor Leonardo is marketing SignalTrace: sensors clipped onto existing license plate cameras, already on poles in all 50 states, that sweep your phone, watch, AirPods, and pet's microchip. No warrant. No opt-out. No federal law against it.

A heartbreaker…but so worth the read.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

I don't care if it hurts I wanna have control I want a perfect body I want a perfect soul I want you to notice When I'm not around You're so fuckin' special I wish I was special But I'm a creep I'm a weirdo What the hell am I doin' here? I don't belong here

Who’s gonna tell @GovBillLee there’s nothing “pro-life” about going after critically ill immigrant children? www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...

Golden grape vine sunset in Minnesota #LandscapePhotography #Nature #Minnesota

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Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now

Julia Roberts: Renee Nicole Goode is not a symbol. She is an American woman, a queer woman who was doing the very best she could do to be good in an unjust world. And I am honored to celebrate her life and her legacy tonight, because the life she gave is our responsibility to carry.

Zohran Mamdani’s been the Mayor of New York for 6 months and the Knicks just became NBA Champions for the first time in 53 years. Congrats, New York!

This guy was released from ICE custody in the middle of Louisiana, where he'd been taken during the case. Volunteers and donors from Minnesota paid for his flight back, picked him up from the airport, and drove him home a state away. I could not be filled with more love for my country Minnesota.

NO. just no. #history #research #AICrap

In case you are wondering why employees hate AI: yesterday I was subjected to a two-hour meeting in which a senior exec fed my work into ChatGPT and changed my research findings and recommendations in real time. I now have to present work I barely recognize to a client - as mine - and defend it.

“Let’s reward J6ers and jail blue state public officials” is a hell of a mission.

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

You'll all be shocked to learn that reorienting the whole economy around cramming AI into everything has not produced any economic benefit outside of the AI companies. www.apollo.com/wealth/the-d...

I’m so frustrated that I have to argue 20th century philosophy about whether machines are people and 18th century science about whether germs are real and fucking 15th century colonial bullshit about whether people are human beings.

Auburn is now under the direct rule of the Alabama GOP. There is no faculty or student participation in governance. In other words, it has ceased to be a university as that term was defined beginning from the 12th century. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

I'm hearing a lot about "agentic shopping" from techies but absolutely no concern over how it would be moderated Just a general sense that someone else will inevitably figure it out

Film the Police: [email protected] For photos & videos of police, federal, & National Guard arrests, checkpoints, or other enforcement. Include date & time, location, if anyone was detained, what agency involved, & other relevant details. More details at FilmThePoliceDC.org 🧵9/9

Great, paywall-free article to share with anyone who wants a quick rundown of what De-ICE Citizens Bank is all about in the run-up to our national coordinated action this weekend. Make a plan to join us: mobilize.us/deicecitizens #deicecitizensbank

This is the best video in the entire world

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

The final solution for AI in academia is a scenario where students are submitting AI-generated homework to be graded by AI-generated faculty using AI agents, all of which is being overseen by highly paid administrators who are extracting money from the students in exchange for a degree. The end.

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

It would be cheaper to give every coal miner $5m every year than it is to keep them employed in coal mining. Not even joking; there are maybe 40k coal workers, but annual economic burden of U.S. coal is $200B-$500B (climate change, public health, water & ecosystem damage, dispatch inefficiency).

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Thinking about this extra hard because aquariums have to oay for their water, and I cant imagine the cost considering most of their exhibits involve water, but data center dont pay shit and pass the cost to consumers Just a wild organization of priorities

Hassett, translated: Now that we have fewer immigrants, we have fewer jobs. When we said that immigrants were taking your jobs, it's because we were lying that there's a fixed pool of jobs. You rubes fell for the lump of labor fallacy.

As long as I live, I will never forget that the WSJ considered these average incomes...

“For the good of society, your son will work in the trades. Oh, my son? My son will be a titan of politics and industry. For the good of society, your daughter will be a tradwife. Oh, my daughter? My daughter will host a lucrative rightwing podcast.”