No matter how you feel about Harvard their successful pushback is major and much needed.

"“OpenAI pays for its chips. It pays for its computers. It pays its programmers. But it steals the raw material for its [AI] products." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/b...

I’m not sure why AI is so prominent in this article since a historian did the lion’s share of the archival digging and AI simply verified what experts already confirmed. At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...

Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this. Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’

Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.

As NU capitulates, meanwhile ...

This will kill people and is no less murder than the boat bombings.

A Dishonorable Strike Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...

Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments. 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

🎥: In part two of @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and @aloner.bsky.social’s chat with Cory Doctorow, he applies his “ensh*ttification” thesis to AI: “in many ways, an ensh*ttificatory phenomenon”.

Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have likened the process to paying out protection money to a crime boss.

How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear? "Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

My favourite Baldwin video:

Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.

Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.

“There’s something to this. I feel a lot better. I’m a lot healthier. That’s something people should know more about.” #MobilityIsEquity #HumanSpeed www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...

This thread is spot on and this part raises one of the most devastating aspects of this new AI focused environment: “They can’t see themselves in relation to others”.

‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more

I mean really. Each and everyone of the Trump appointees is a joke. No reputable scientist or clinician would spread such drivel.

This is fascism

⚖️ @davidallengreen.bsky.social on Trump going after the six Democrats who correctly stated military officers “can refuse illegal orders”: “this is nasty political intimidation on a grand scale”.

these guys love a lab leak theory because they hate science

A reminder: those making, selling, promoting AI for all aspects of human life are NOT experts in human affairs or social dynamics. They are technicians or business people with little knowledge of or care for political and social dynamics.

Mizzou (Columbia, Mo) is up there, too. And was very quick to cave. Sigh.

Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.

It cost me a lot, but I will never regret standing w our student protesters, who risked their very safety & entire careers not just to stand with Palestine far away, but for the right to free press, free speech and the freedom of assembly at home for everyone. And ofc NU & the US betrayed them.

The @medillschool.bsky.social was silent as 200+ journalists were murdered in Gaza, was silent as their own students were threatened w beating by police, then suspended me and denied me tenure for standing w the students. It is not a journalism school, it is a school for teaching cowardice & fascism

This is not diplomacy. It’s a corporate M&A deal making ploy to ravage and plunder a war torn Ukraine. “…Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia, including jointly mining rare earths in the Arctic.” www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Haven't seen anyone make this point, so: stock images don't use a ridiculous amount of precious resources for something so apparently low-value.

Then why use gAI images? If stock images exist, what even is the point of AI generated images? Models, photographers and artists are at least paid (even if it’s not much) for stock images. This is not the case with AI generated images.

While Makary spreads bullshit about the origin of HIV. (To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).

OMFG, we have conspiracy theorists and anti-vaccine activists and Great Barrington Declaration kooks running the US public health system and causing sickness, pain, distress, and death and we're going to need a massive community-based, bottom-up mobilization effort to try and stop them

We are missing an opportunity by not talking about what is going on at the business schools at places like Columbia and Northwestern. There is a whole field of critical management scholarship that was wiped out as it was beginning in the US less than 15 years ago. It needs to be nourished.

The Profa Republican Party is an international crime syndicate

Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case Surreal: “The judge in his case had called Mr. Hernández “a two-faced politician hungry for power” who masqueraded as an antidrug crusader while partnering with traffickers.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m

the covid vaccine prevents many more cases of myocarditis than it potentially causes in kids and adults. this is a conclusive fact from dozens of massive rigorous studies. vinay prasad is an expert in using statistics to lie, and he is credentialed — that makes this even more dangerous.

US Marine Staff Sergeant’s wife was grabbed by ICE at her green card interview The same thing happened to the wife of a Navy vet They served their country, brought their spouses over legally and were going through the process Instead they watched the loves of their life be taken away in handcuffs

trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!” also trump:

"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"

„If this country has a future, it’s in the streets, the courts, the movements and the continued exercise of free speech and freedom of assembly against this administration.“ Das Abgleiten der USA in autoritäre Verhältnisse lässt sich auch erzählen als eine Geschichte des wachsenden Widerstands.

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

This. A recent info session for staff talked first about how we need new tools to prove our graduates did their own work, and also about how we all need to integrate AI into our teaching. WTAF.

A group of GenXers is called a “whatever”.

maybe the two things have nothing to do with each other, I guess. but...like, there really seems like a deep rot in academic administration. it's possible students recognize that and are alienated by it.

it's a little disorienting to see discussions of how university students are worse than they've ever been alongside discussions of leading educational institutions officially declaring that they are now devoted to fascism, not education. 1

I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that

calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for

It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him

It may not happen soon, but Mitch Bradley should remember that he can be recalled to duty someday and court martialed for ordering murder.