Me too. I want every member of the Epstein class to be unable to stop thinking about experiencing Epstein's fate themselves.

"Why aren't you tolerating my assholery. Aren't you the tolerant left?"

Notes from a presentation on faculty & student views in an interdisciplinary 1st-year science program. One, benefits of interdisc teaching are tied to instructors feeling affirmed in and valued for disciplinarity of their perspective, incl choices to teach differently than others in the program. 1/

Every SINGLE post about him should use the exact expression “anti trans activist Benjamin Ryan” if he gets to call you a trans activist you sure as fuck get to point out his life’s work is being a dick to trans people professionally.

(I really, really hate the word "distraction" when used in politics. Most often, stuff COMPOUNDS. Power accumulates. Oppression spreads wider. Almost nothing is a distraction.)

As the parent of a trans kid, this makes me incredibly sad. My kid has *always* been the person they are now. There was not some other version that ceased to exist. I didn't lose the child I gave birth to, I gained deeper knowledge when that child decided to trust me with their reality.

This moment brought to you by the incredible bravery of Virginia Giuffre, who did not live to see it. A reminder that victims of sexual violence are all around you, most of their perpetrators never faced consequences, and it’s a good day to walk gently in a world so full of horrors.

Great take on "AI literacy" as it is currently being promoted as a catch-all solution to AI, and in many cases captured as an opportunity. "It is hard to imagine that any of the more critical or ethical questions associated with literacy would be included in an AI curriculum created by Google."

Ben Ryan is a sick fuck Also he's the guy that ran that dumb hit piece on Mamdani for the NYT

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My child just asked me to explain, briefly, how corn oil is made, I look it up and, excuse me, I have two questions. 1) Is there such a thing as a degree in plant oil engineering, and 2) who is the plant oil engineer who wrote this?!?!

Voice of America and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, they had to go but The Federal 8Chan Mirror, now that’s essential.

"Meta is preparing to spend $65 M this year to boost state politicians who are friendly to the AI industry...To do that, Meta is quietly starting two new super PACs... The new PACs join two others already started by Meta, one of which is focused on California" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...

All the college and university "leaders" who chose to surrender in advance on this, take a bow And then get in the fuckin sea

A whole genre.

This is really a niche interest, but I have the afternoon off, and after my shitty men of architecture thread, I'd like to do a Black women of architecture, because there is more to women in architecture than Zaha Hadid, the darling of autocrats and billionaires, but also it is Black History Month.

I don't think many cis people realize how much... 1) Blatant transphobia and harassment by the "you have to support Newsom" crowd. 2) UK tearing apart trans rights under a centrist/liberal gov. 3) Blue state govs refusing to enforce trans protections. Is reshaping how we see liberals and Dems.

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

It’s important to NOT go into or come away from this story thinking that Dan Kagan-Kans is indeed some kind of lefty, or writing for lefties, knowledgeable about leftist politics. bsky.app/profile/alex...

I need an Instagram reel of Bob the Drag queen reciting Poor Richard’s maxims “Men & Melons are hard to know” “He that cannot obey, cannot command” “Thirst after Desert, not Reward” “No wood without Bark” Etc.

Definitely we have many examples of non-commercial ML applications, mostly for research. They are precise and limited.

"so much for the 'tolerant' left!" i will gouge your eyeballs out with a rusty spoon

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

I must repeat, because I'm a little flabbergasted: "consumer is another word for ordinary person and not tycoon." Nowhere does this fact enter the picture. Masterful concern trolling, no? Have anti-capitalist AI critics considered that, unlike tycoons, ordinary people *want* to eat factory bread?

Zotero. Tracker blockers. Translators. Reader viewers.

Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.

That time Jesse Jackson, at the height of his political importance, visited Kahnawake to give his support to the Mohawk warriors there, during the Oka Crisis.

Good.

I wrote my undergraduate thesis using the morgue of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and copies of underground newspapers, both parts of the collection at the Temple University library. Newspaper morgues are such important primary sources. I hope the library obtains the rights to the collection...

Ocean-sized confidence by 8 computer scientists & engineers who, having designed an AI writing tool, recruited 6 of their grad students & postdocs to test it, and now advertise the results in their non-peer-reviewed preprint as: this will reshape how humans write! #writingstudies #genai+writing

My hot take: It means nothing, literally nothing, when a boy with this profile says he can't name a single female philosopher. Look at him, he pays for his X premium subscription.

❗️BREAKING: Scotiabank’s 1832 Asset Management has sold its last shares in Israeli arms-maker Elbit Systems after months of pressure and cultural boycotts of the Giller Prize and Scotiabank Photography Award. Artists were clear: no reputational laundering, no neutrality, no blood money for the arts.

Could well be the paper runs a local LLM, getting text outputs from a sealed-off chatbot so as to safeguard source confidentiality. Could be. But then, if I were a news editor trying to convince readership—and recently graduated job applicants—that I know how to use AI well, I'd loudly clarify that.

My issue with takes like the ones in this piece is that it assumes engagement to mean using AI. Analysis of its effects *is* engagement. What they really want is for us to stop complaining about AI and just start using it already.

I also found this such a strange take on semiotics: "This idea, that large-language models merely produce statistically plausible word sequences based on training data, without having any idea about what the words refer to, has become the baseline across much of the left-intellectual landscape."

As somebody who appreciates the impact that Jairo has had on the field, I can say with certainty that this denial could not have possibly been based on scholarly impact. This was clearly a political decision. What an injustice to Jairo, his students and academic freedom

Ocean-sized confidence by 8 computer scientists & engineers who, having designed an AI writing tool, recruited 6 of their grad students & postdocs to test it, and now advertise the results in their non-peer-reviewed preprint as: this will reshape how humans write! #writingstudies #genai+writing

We're often told that we should "run the university more like a business." As always, I ask which Fortune 500 corporation allows its 4th-largest shareholder to have ~100% control over decision-making, investments, & everything else. You'd be laughed out of the fancy board room for expecting this.

If you are following Mary Rambaran-Olm and her Axel-Folio-named account on here, now might be a good time to unfollow and/or block.

I've been dealing with successive flareups of a back problem for the past two years. It's gotten better this past month (not sure whether it will stay that way). Today I went for an amateurish run. Not long; interval style. First time in two years. It went surprisingly well. You are allowed to clap.

Seriously, we need to ask this question more often. If someone takes a medication “for the rest of their lives,” why should that be the concern of anyone else?

The fucked up thing is this is *far* from the worst thing I've seen said about trans kids by so-called "gender-critcal" people. When Brianna Ghey died a lot of them set about trying portray her, a child murder victim, as a pervert.

„I‘m not going to debate you.“

Hey Benjamin, you're getting some suff wrong here, starting with framing me and my colleagues as "AI skeptics". It's true that we call BS on claims of AI, AGI, LLMs understanding etc. But "AI skeptic" is a term that resides within the AI booster's frame of view, not ours. >>

This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.

Angus is still looking for participants -- Please share widely if you might know someone who is trans (in the broadest sense of the term) and has or is considering studying abroad! 💜

New article in TSN in which I look at European Social Survey data which shows that “observational coding” of gender can create substantial errors in survey results. The implication is that this practice is unreliable and should be abandoned, contrary to the Sullivan Review’s recommendations.

Chris Quinn: “Claude, I can’t believe that student turned us down. Write me an editor’s column on how the job market will eat them alive and, please, emphasize how their university degree sucks.”