I mean. Big tech cannot even build the data centers in time. How can we trust them to build them in space?

so much in this important NYT piece that tracks: sexual violence, human trafficking and the trumpist right. one common thread: awful ppl using their social media accounts for hateful purposes, then complaining about 'censorship' when they lose their access, w/musk (among others) to the rescue.

tech-bro pest? spray with mist!

It's simple: anyone making under $36,000 a year is allowed to be openly racist, for class reasons. Between $36k and $100k you get to make racist jokes with your friends but you're not allowed to use slurs at work. Anyone making above $100k can only be racist in euphemisms, unless elected president

Who wants to read one of the most racist and antisemitic memos in the history of the FBI?

Good to know that David Frum is always on the wrong side

It's like HAIR (Human–AI Relationality) but for 'scientific' papers. (incidentally, for once their logo doesn't resemble (too much) of a butthole 🕳️)

Billionaires like

One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.

It's also the contrarian troll game. Saying dumb shit gets backlash and traffic, and it's lazy cack.

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

A lot to unpack here about class, gender, and caring work 19thnews.org/2025/12/ice-...

My mother’s film seems sadly relevant these days. A US citizen, she fled Chile in 1973; too many friends were “disappeared” 😔 vimeo.com/20843483

I shared a small piece of this work in an op-ed in February. Amidst growing hype about AI, I wanted to educate a general audience about how to critically evaluate scientific claims that chatbots are superior to humans. 8/

New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

Those of us doing scientific work on something as societally impactful as AI cannot avoid the moral and political implications of our work. Bringing in these dimensions makes our research more rigorous, not less. 9/

VSBG: Very Stable Brained Genius

They use a lot of water versus the added value. And I don’t trust these companies to properly dispose of used water. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.

No doubt. You might appreciate this article I wrote a couple weeks back: popular.info/p/how-trumps...

Valve’s got teams of data scientists diligently working on concocting perfect mass harassment systems with impeccable levels of plausible deniability baked in

Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam This is where we're at now.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Dumbest industry ever

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

Bill is doing "The Palestinian Question" 🫠

The world would be better off if the Palestinians just didn't exist, says former president of the United States

Apple 1992 vs 2025

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

I'm going to float this nuclear take: maybe students are increasingly turning to ShitGPT and other deskilling devices because the structure of the modern university has made it impossible for them to acquire skill in a deep way. Let me paint a picture for you.

Cool false equivalences you put out there bro.

whenever I hear a dog bark my first thought is always, "yeah, you got a point"

Thanks! For anyone interested, here are my notes: padlet.com/verdigris21/...

oooh @cloudquistador.bsky.social live! on a really important topic/critique www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1yr...

@cloudquistador.bsky.social: If someone were to say, we should return to the good hydrocarbon industry and empower petroleum workers to extract more oil, none of us would be confused about how to respond[.] The tech industry enjoys an undeserved ‘halo effect’ that prevents [us] seeing clearly 🔥

Enter Jay-Z... ... Always has been a sell out tho. 🔫

Apple and Google both charge a fee to app developers, so they may be violating Treasury sanctions simply by hosting these apps. Although both claim to comply with U.S. sanctions, the connections to sanctioned entities that TTP surfaced in its review were often obvious.

Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.

« Fire, On The Bayou » (« The Meters ») performed Live by Trombone Shorty & Band. Enjoy, have a nice day everyone! youtube.com/watch?v=6rY6...

My final manuscript in! And now I give you..... COVER REVEAL (US cover, UK is sooooo different but it's not public yet)

Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/

Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. Read our full investigation here 👇

The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.

Yesterday, we released @freepress.bsky.social research analyzing the Trump admin's CHOKEHOLD on free speech. Today, I wrote for our Pressing Issues newsletter in which I get personal about how the project came about & my adamant belief in our collective power: pressingissues.org/the-trump-ad...

it _is_ working