I think it's probably fine to put the chatbot that not even Walmart trusts inside the largest nuclear armed military on earth to the tune of about $200M, after all we all have universal single payer healthcare, free higher education, and a robust UBI

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead at the WHO, has herself said we're still in a pandemic. Globally millions are disabled with long COVID...but go on

One of the nice reminders of traveling abroad is that authoritarianism is nothing new, and it always fails. It feels like the end of our world, but Portugal has lost and regained democracy in just the last century. Our failed state is not special, historically speaking.

Yes! Brain is right there in the word. It’s not Aistorm for a reason.

Yes. All of that has a purpose. And we're teaching students they don't but also that their own brains don't need to develop those skills.

Turn it all off. We didn't need it 5 years ago, we don't need it now.

Agreed. Also this needs her prompt attention. bsky.app/profile/inqu...

They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

This man is a Richard Kind character

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

In your article, you say "That’s why the AFT created the National Academy for AI Instruction last year. It’s a training hub designed by educators, grounded in safety and people-first technology." I disagree. When I last visited that website, I mainly saw articles pushing teachers to use "A.i."

A thread of my critiques of your "safety" guidelines from four months ago: bsky.app/profile/greg...

I genuinely appreciate that you are finally starting to worry about the terrible harms of "A.i." companies, @rweingarten.bsky.social. But calling for future regulation is not enough. You and the @aft.org must COMPLETELY CANCEL your partnership with OpenAI. www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article...

Excellent reporting here on the Trump administration’s successful assault on the food stamp program, undertaken as the ranks of hungry Americans desperate for assistance include more and more “working families who cannot keep up with the cost of living and inflation.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/u...

This is why the “people are shoplifting for fun/revenge against corporations” angle is bad all around. Actual things are happening to actual people, which is driving actual behavior, and it all gets subsumed into an internet culture war that contributes to the justifications for these policies.

At any time school admin could listen to humanities scholars who have been saying for years that these things replicate and amplify existing biases.

“The AI models addressed female students more affectionately and used more first-person pronouns. (“I love your confidence in expressing your opinion!”)” 🤮 Human biases are getting built into machine systems…

This Is The Way: How Mando and Grogu Became NDN Country’s Favorite Duo From the Great Purge to the Boarding School Era, Mando and Grogu's world has always reflected ours redpopnews.com/this-is-the-... #starwars #themandalorianandgrogu #themandalorian

Were they tipped off by the fact that trans athletes weren't a problem for all of human history until conservatives started purchasing every major media institution in 2013 or so

Since Trump is out here denying he is a rapist, a reminder that a judge said he absolutely was one

generating strings of words based on probabilistic calculations will show you nothing about meaning or significance, even if you limit the dataset to “words produced by humans within this date range”

genAI is the biggest threat currently destroying scientific research

“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

A man with guns got caught running through a metal detector on a different floor than both you and the president, Bari, you aren't Ernie Pyle.

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

It’s exhausting watching people attack accommodations in education. If you think there are too many people seeking relief from your style of education, do you think perhaps it’s not the relief-seekers who are the problem?

And this industry is seriously trying to push Congress into making it entirely illegal to regulate them so they can push this stuff out as fast as possible and make it as hard as possible to remove from our lives. It's like they KNOW it's radioactive asbestos, and want to get ahead of the cleanup.

I have no doubt that this technology is very useful in important ways. I also have no doubt that many of the proposed applications right now are entirely, hilariously, horrifyingly inappropriate. This happened with asbestos, too. My grandpa brought some home for his kids to play with, like clay.

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

as far as I could find, she hasn't said one thing about the 255+ press people murdered by israel in the past 2.5 years

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

I’m not crossing the virtual picket line by reskeeting Pro Publica posts during the strike and you shouldn’t either. Valuing good reporting means valuing the reporters & staff, who deserve good working conditions.

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

using your second Reichstag Fire-style opportunity to justify a ballroom is a wild move

I’ve been finding a lot of clarity in the theory that we’re experiencing an epidemic of unsupported and unrecognized trauma in the population at large

“let us not allow this shooting to distract us from the true issue of national importance: how hot I look in this dress” sums up the whole event pretty well, honestly

It turns out they do know how to make a plane turn around and bring people back when they want to.

Yes, yes, the Democrats are useless But *the world* needs to be preparing, actively, for another coup attempt The time for 🤞 is way behind us

emily oster is one of the main conduits mainstreaming rfk jr.’s fake science. she’s laundering it for wealthy white liberals. unfortunately a lot of them like it, including the times, which has a contract with her 😬

I loved the 2006 Mitchell & Webb TV sketch show, but I never imagined “are we the baddies?” would graduate from funny catchphrase to the defining philosophical aphorism for our age

This Is The Way: How Mando and Grogu Became NDN Country’s Favorite Duo From the Great Purge to the Boarding School Era, Mando and Grogu's world has always reflected ours redpopnews.com/this-is-the-...

No, really? Say it ain't so. Cheatgpt is this so? No I mean this article, not the naked cucumber planting story. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

UPDATE: No audience questions were taken for Jay's talk.

Yes, this is aimed at the picture of Trump slumped over in his chair. The actual footage is bad enough. You don't have to make something fake out of it. <ThisIsTheToolOfOurEnemy.jpg>

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

I graduated from Texas Tech. While there, I wrote papers on Robert Mapplethorpe, and queerness in the Evangelical church. I created World AIDS day programming for the campus radio station. Like the hockey coach says on LETTERKENNY: fucking embarrassing. www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

this headline is such a great example of “racecraft.” musk isn’t passively posting about “race,” he is actively writing psychotically racist agitprop www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Every time I see an article like this, Im reminded of all the people who pushed to re-open schools without any protections, who swore that children would not be impacted at all, and who also were happy risking the health and lives of teachers and school staff.