I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade

"I’ve concluded that instead of teaching students to read and write, I should be teaching them how to prompt AI better. If only I’d had a better education in AI prompt writing, I’d be able to get AI to create more AI-proof teaching materials for me."

💯History of Palo Alto is the history of capitalism, everybody read their Malcolm Harris

I wasn't familiar with Elle Cordova's work. I like this a lot:

"There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable." www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

This graf of this "Goon Squad" Harper's Mag article really gutted me with despair about the post-literate age... "...Think about it for a second: What are these gooners actually doing? Wasting hours each day consuming short-form video content. Chasing intensities of sensation across platforms. 1/

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

*This* is how the left should be talking about Mamdani's fiscal prospects & challenges. Rather than reify private market prices while fetishizing liberal budget-balancing, Weber challenges the political composition of pricing in the first place. Bravo!

ohhh, I see. They're going to try and remake higher ed the way they did with tech, by flooding the zone with frauds who crowd out any reasonable discussion

meanwhile ...

✨ New Essay! ✨ @mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.

“Mamdani showed the way forward: You integrate civil rights into your economic message. You show up for people when they're under attack. You have the courage to say that in your vision of America, everyone gets to thrive — including trans kids. And then you back it up with real policies...” 🔥🔥🔥

Leprechaun theory of Eric Adams remains undefeated.

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars: 1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.

A few signs from he No Kings rally in CLT…

LOS ANGELES, CA—Headed now to DTLA to begin today’s coverage of the LA #nokings protests. There are big ones and other auxiliary protests scheduled until well past 6 so I’ll be threading things service permitting to this account all day. The train has a decent amount of folks w/signs and costumes

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

“Excuse me mate, we’d like to actually see the tulips please”

"...like Pynchon, he knows that aesthetic pleasure and comedy can be corollaries to political work."

by any historic measure, we have very little time left www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Today in Politics Chat, I talked about how power sloshes around when a president is checked out, and noted that right now unelected officials like Stephen Miller are trying to grab it. But instead, We the People can take it back and create a better nation.

Fight on, friends www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/06/r...

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

“…one twist to Bostrom’s future-gazing is the idea of a suicidal superintelligence, … ‘the AI ... should, upon having established with sufficient probability that this is what humanity’s extrapolated volition would wish it to do, safely shut itself down.’”

Come to Montreal in the Spring!!! Come think beyond current constraints! I’m going to be talking complementary currencies… www.acla.org/seminar/7bfc...

The assumption that only billionaires or suburban taxpayers can provision democracy has become so entrenched that it is easier to imagine acquiescing to authoritarianism than bypassing this veto.

Montreal with @thisblue.bsky.social, Duncan Faherty, and what's sure to be a sharp seminar of scholars. Sounds like a pretty good deal. www.acla.org/seminar/7bfc...

In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I liked a lot of last night's Emmy results, but boy did I hate last night's Emmy telecast:

Concur completely with Professor Norena, this is a disastrous action. I don’t see how Chancellor Rich Lyons recovers from it. As I posted here yesterday, it marks the end of the time when UC Berkeley could claim the mantel of Free Speech as part of its core identity.

Some important reporting on data work. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Surprising but telling to see Google flat-out denying the contribution of data workers to their products: >>

The next time someone tells you this is just how it is/"AI" is inevitable/this junk is here to stay, please remember that the future is not yet written and we don't have to put up with this.

This is wild but I went on my fav podcast QAA Pod to harp on about the phoney baloney NatSec social science of Disinfo Studies. Big thanks to @travisview.bsky.social and Julian! www.patreon.com/posts/135278...

"A small cohort of artists + cultural wrkrs, distinguished by a clear-👀 understanding of the contradictions + compromises that govern the field, has recast the legacy of socially engaged art [thru] institutional decay. They’ve put the tools of finance + law to use in redirecting wealth + power..."

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

In response to the movement "...The moral awakening occurred as planned. It just didn't make a difference. What they hadn't counted on was the utter lack of real democracy in the West." "After Nonviolence: The end of peaceful resistance in Palestine" by Ben Ehrenreich harpers.org/archive/2025...

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds - Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic impacts #climatecrisis #AMOC www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Money is a public responsibility. It names, coordinates, and sustains the capacities people already build together. Our approach is accountable where life is actually organized—schools, unions, libraries, clinics, transit, tenant groups, and campaigns—and it is governed in public."

Ppl who’re surprised about cuts to higher ed in blue states seem to think that disdain for humanities in particular & highered in general is limited to one side of the aisle. This isn’t true./1

MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW is the documentary of the year, maybe the movie of the year. For @rollingstone.com, I spoke to filmmaker Julia Loktev, who in 2021 went to Russia to chronicle young independent journalists, only to witness Putin's crackdown in horrifying real time.

"There is a kind of coalition work that begins by loosening the archive of political memory. It asks, generously, where should credit for movement victories go, and what have we discredited with too much finality?"

"Climate change is the signature global challenge today... the most ill-suited people available, rich and coddled and insulated from the impacts they are already unleashing, stand on its figurative beachhead, urging the seas higher and higher."

I need a long German word that means “just when you think it can’t get more end-times dystopia you find out about something like this” (Props to the hacker kids tho)

pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...