A reckoning has come for Noma. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...

#NBC and #PeacockTV coverage of the Paralympics is shameful. Trying to watch the women’s downhill events and there’s just… no commentary. Clearly a track exists b/c it’s shot for it but they just didn’t bother to check it was attached. Absolute ableist bullshit.

The Paralympics started last night, but if you didn’t have a premium Peacock account NBC didn’t give you Prime Time access. I talk about it in my latest post as well as what we can do about it. #Paralympics #DisabilityRights #NBC #Inclusion #CorporateResponsibility substack.com/@daptimeaj/n...

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

Platner has really wasted a lot of time that could have been used to find a better candidate and that's frustrating

okay so this seems pretty clear. he knows what it is, he did it on purpose, he chose keeping it over his career with the Marines, if we know this then Susan Collins will also know it, it will 100% come up in the general, let's be done talking about this guy as a real candidate

I was wondering this today, and Faine puts it in a much more sophisticated way, but what’s the term for the basic ability to imagine the consequences of actions? Like object permanence, but for blocks falling over.

Your reminder that Joss Whedon wasn’t allowed to be alone with 14 year old Michelle Trachtenberg. Just if you’re getting excited about his career re-launch and don’t care about his revolting behaviour toward Charisma Carpenter.

In Dallas and Williamson counties, voters faced long lines, extended wait times and confusion about voting location

32,000 individual people ignored the idiotic voice that tells them "what I do by myself doesn't matter" and this happened. Stop! Listening! To! That! Voice!

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Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

It’s entirely possible that this was at least partially about ending their association w/black and queer people. Now they will try to rebuild as the “safe” third space, by which they mean a space where white people feel safe. The problem is the usual one. We make shit cool. See also Starbucks.

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

That’s 36.7 Scaramuccis for those keeping score!

If I hadn't spent a decade teaching at a private high school run by an incompetent man who forced us to adopt any shiny new tech he saw b/c he got easily bamboozled by sales reps, I'd be a lot more shocked at how many university admin are falling for AI hype.

One thing about these big camp systems is that they inflict a tremendous amount of harm through sheer momentum. When a system is built to be both negligent and punitive, it tends to cause suffering by default.

It's not that AI is useless. It's that AI is useful like asbestos was useful.

A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations. May this set a precedent. Remote work should be accessible to all who need it. It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

Nice pull and an important reminder that, no, things haven't always been like this.

I have been playing around with this thought for a while and might expand it into a blog post or something: An LLM feels like an adversarial attack on cognition. What I mean by this is a sort of development of the arguments of others: unlike written text, LLM-generated text does not carry meaning.

This is a really good thread.

Timely. bsky.app/profile/hype...

A reminder that evil racist murderous scumbag Greg Abbott and indicted criminal Ken Paxton robbed Rep. Jasmine Crockett of her House seat by making her district nonexistent. Those are the asshole traitors that need to be taken out of power so that Texas can turn blue one day.

This is the same county where they swapped polling places, delaying voters. This is something the VRA prevented before SCOTUS gutted it, btw.

You know what else would’ve helped with your taxes? The IRS Free File that Musk killed for no reason

The jailbreak was done on the company’s public bot, not the one inside the state system, but researchers “were able to make the bot spread vaccine conspiracy theories, triple a patient's prescribed pain medication dosage, and recommend methamphetamine as treatment.”

It’s like he took a bet to see how much he could make Colorado voters hate him.

why are you hiring a postdoc if generative AI can do everything you claim it can?

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I have adapted the poem that you wrote like a hundred years ago and which you were probably thinking was exclusively about plums Forgive me it was low-effort so reusable and arguably funny

they really might have ridden the anti-woke train all the way to bankruptcy court, an all time brand fuckup that should be taught as a cautionary tale in business school for decades

Also: “Still trying to wrap my head around Kash firing a unit that specializes in Iranian counter-intel LAST WEEK -- when they knew war was coming -- because the agents were involved in the Trump classified docs case.” Tim Miller

This isn’t just erasure of African American history, it’s abject lies about white American history

Quoting secessionists about why they seceded? Outrageous!

the state of public history, 2026: with one eye on the Trump administration, NPS staff worries that describing the murder of an abolitionist "might denigrate the murderers"

Keep saying "slop" in reference to AI. At every opportunity. The techbros are listening, and this word makes them so sad on the inside that they'll hoist themselves on their own Streisand Effect petard.

I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

I told the Times that if Trump installs the statue of Rodney at Freedom Plaza then they should rename it the Freedom For Some Plaza but they didn't run that quotation.

What good can you do today? What trouble can you cause? What suffering can you ease? What needs to exist, and can you help build it?

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

NEW: As Black History Month comes to a close, CBP appears to have scrubbed stories about Black people and marginalized groups' contributions to the history of the agency from an official page. Archived versions show the changes happened the first week of February:

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil