Blatant effort to terrify the left into silence.

this is WILDLY bad folks, this is political prisoner bad, this is can't protest without going to jail for the rest of your life bad

huh I wonder why (For real, though, reducing genocide to "reputational harm" and marketing language is obscene)

The news shows that Madison Square Garden, operated by Jim Dolan, is not only deploying controversial facial recognition technology but keeping track of specific people who take issue with it. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/madison-squa...

New York mayor Mamdani highlights the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli killings in Gaza of civilians and journalists, despite a nominal ceasefire. He said AIPAC seeks to maintain a “status quo of immorality” in the region. Video: @acyn.bsky.social via X (@Acyn)

Hey, "A.i." haters in NYC! Here's a big one - this coming Wednesday at noon, the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social coalition is rallying at City Hall - and then testifying before the City Council to call for NO "A.I." IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS! Come join, come join! actionnetwork.org/events/rally...

“We are not building a mind,” said the project lead during a now-deleted TED Talk. “We are building the space in which all possible minds can happen.” The Archive of Ananke by Jade Bailey Brock

Donald Hall's White Apples for #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

cognitive surrender, you can ban it www.reuters.com/technology/n...

The solstice arrived at 04:45:27 AM off the coast of #Massachusetts. Hello #summer Beautiful sky this morning, enjoy the day. #Stunday #Scape #EastCoastKin #SunrisePhotography #Nature #SummerSolstice

1/ June is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, and we need to talk about a crisis getting far too little attention. Young Black men are dying by suicide at a historic rate. As a physician, mother of two Black boys, and health equity advocate, I can’t look away. 🧵

An excellent documentary that shows (among other things) how Hersh worked with 60 Minutes to expose the My Lai massacre and torture at Abu Ghraib--easy to see why the tr/billionaire class wanted 60 Minutes gone. "We're a culture of enormous violence," Hersh says. www.netflix.com/title/82145211

110 GBP left and 1 hour to do it. Support Spark Space, Gaza as they create a safe, fully-equipped workspace with reliable electricity and fast internet, offering students and freelancers in Gaza the environment they need to continue their journey despite the hardships. chuffed.org/project/spar...

On to the second volume of On the Calculation of Volume. “I am merely a human being roaming the streets, or maybe not even a human being, maybe more of an animal of some sort, neither hunter nor hunted, neither hungry nor well-fed, just a creature wandering up and down.” S. Balle trans. B Haveland

A deliberate bombing of a 76-year-old environmentalist working to protect sea turtles

Imagine how horrific Israel's crimes in Gaza must be that they continue to ban foreign journalists from entering the illegally occupied Palestinian territory. It's a genocide crime scene, and they're destroying the evidence. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine

On to the second volume of On the Calculation of Volume. “I am merely a human being roaming the streets, or maybe not even a human being, maybe more of an animal of some sort, neither hunter nor hunted, neither hungry nor well-fed, just a creature wandering up and down.” S. Balle trans. B Haveland

I do love that AI inadvertently confirms that our brains work like a muscle, too — use it or lose it. In this way relying on AI is like using a robot to lift weights, like running a marathon in a Honda Civic. You get nothing out of it.

Good morning. After a lot of rain in Maine.

NYPL is asking people to contact the City Council about library funding: www.nypl.org/speakout?utm...

Things that have already made academic research stop: - adjunctification - defunding (of, like, everything) - outright closure of depts and schools - censorship & attacks on academic freedom - obscene teaching and service loads

If you are in the Bangor area, please stay inside today if possible or wear a mask if you’re outside. Stay safe, friends. Final photo in comments.

Love this analysis of free indirect discourse, one of my favorite techniques in fiction from @annakornbluh.bsky.social’s Immediacy: “Unattributed words and ideas belong to no one and therefore to a kind of everyone-that's what makes them free.”

Keir Starmer’s under-16 social media ban can only work if everyone proves who they are, so it’s a natural move for a government selling surveillance as safety By tech policy expert and digital rights advocate @heatherburnstech.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/under-16-s...

Lamentation by Linda Kemp is a sustained poetic indictment of austerity and the financialisation of care, structured across seven long sections moving through workforce precarity, the NHS, adult social care, foodbanks, and the self-care industry. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions

What's a good essay I can share with grad students that provides a broad introduction to academic labor/how higher ed functions today?

11th century Lavra Monestary (built in 1051) set on fire as a result of Russian air raid this night. Also on fire was a section of Art Arsenal Building. Four victims on sites thus far.

hopefully a literacy expert has a good plan for how to teach a bunch of people who think they know how to read how to actually read because we are in crisis

The view from Brooklyn. Love you NYC ❤️

i love new yorkers. i love humanity! humanity is full of people who have songs in their hearts and dances in their feet. it is the opposite of "efficiency," the opposite of "ai." there are enough resources and time in the world for all of us to express joy and celebrate often!

Hermione in all of her glory. Morning.

The idea that LLMs 'hallucinate' is itself a clever invention of the tech industry to disguise actual failures of their systems. Rebranding these serious algorithmic glitches as 'hallucinations' was designed to make the public accept this bullshit by linking it to the vagaries of human psychology.

NO. just no. #history #research #AICrap

I’ve been playing with ChatGPT & to absolutely no one’s surprise it is far right in outlook. It claimed that some experts did not think Musk was far right. I asked it to name them. It admitted it made that up. It’s hard work getting it to be factual & even when it gets it wrong & admits it…

AI is like Big Tobacco: pushing their product onto young people to get them addicted and create a captive market for their product, which though “free” to users now, could be monetized at any time. They know people will pay for something they’ve been conditioned to believe they can’t live without.

I’m very excited for this! On a summer evening in 1972, a pivotal generation of Harlem Renaissance legends gathered at Duke Ellington’s townhouse. The trailer for “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” is out:

Morning roses in Maine 🌱

Excellent to the end. I’m including the first paragraph here for anyone interested. The first-person narration alternates between the daughter whose voice begins the book and her mother.

Neuroscience is now catching up with all the anecdotal evidence displaying the incredibly damaging effects of smart phones and genAI on students' ability to read

I have been loving this book about a Latvian woman doctor exiled with her daughter in the USSR. The novel explores themes of freedom, knowledge, and birth. Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena trans. by Margita Gailitis (Peirene)

I hope that people are aware that one of the primary political objectives of this ascending right-wing effort to remake higher education through things like the Vanderbilt Report, the Chicago Principles, and the AEI Future of the American University project is to crush the academic labor movement.

Seems the US military was conducting military exercises at an old hospital in Pasadena at 1am last night. A couple questions to anyone with military experience… 1. What are they training for? 2. Don’t they have bases for this? Why a residential neighbourhood at 1am?

I never thought I’d be in politics either. And you know what I’ve been up to? Working in a local food bank, making art for nonprofit auctions, and volunteering on a board for homelessness relief.

What if they just made an entire guy out of red flags?

Thaw | Audre Lorde

Bari Weiss, noted Harper’s Letter signatory, suddenly loves cancel culture

Foxglove after the rain #flowers #gardening