OpenAI's rapid rush into education has been achieved by habituating users through training programs, institutional lock-ins, strategic marketing partnerships, and third party integrations that together are helping it become infrastructural to teaching and learning. It's going to be hard to get out.

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

The UK’s failure to hold this war criminal accountable means that he gets to continue plaguing this world. Trump wants to give Tony Blair “supreme political and legal authority” over Gaza for five years. “Supreme authority” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

It's amazing how this thing is geared towards just grabbing ppls attention, pure refined nostalgia bait and thirst traps and cute animals walking in your direction, staring in yr eyes and so on, nothing to say, no story to tell, really a kind of automatized mass sedation device

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” Assata Shakur

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

Aucune réponse concrète aux attentes du monde du travail : l’intersyndicale appelle à une mobilisation massive le 2 octobre ! solidaires.org/sinformer-et...

"Er redete rassistische Scheiße, aber er redete, was die richtige Art von Politik ist. Im Gegensatz zu der von Transgender-Personen, die besser die Klappe gehalten hätten." Eine Expertin

« Personne n’y comprend rien » : notre film et ses bonus sur l’affaire libyenne Par La rédaction de Mediapart

Dans l'affaire libyenne, révélée en 2011 par Mediapart, l'ancien président de la République française Nicolas Sarkozy est déclaré coupable pour association de malfaiteurs. De la nécessité d'une presse libre et d'une justice indépendante. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Update: Global Sumud Flotilla was attacked starting around midnight as it sailed south of Crete early Wednesday morning, with initial reports of 15 drones above Alma. At least 8 attacks and 6 explosions have been reported. An unidentified chemical device was poured onto Yulara via a capsule that...

this exists it is called thinking

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

There is a lot of demand for digital privacy and security advice out there right now and lots of people are giving advice and writing guides. I beg them to do a few things: 1. Be explicit about the threat model your advice is meant for.

Whoever said this country was three plantations in a long trench coat wasn’t wrong

Exklusiv: Meine Investigativrecherche zur Durchfuhr von Ersatzteilen für die israelische Luftwaffe am Flughafen Köln/Bonn sowie über die Verantwortung von deutschen Behörden und internationalen Unternehmen wie FedEx für einen laufenden Genozid.

Eight months in, and Trump/Vought have already accomplished implementing 47% of Project 2025, per this tracker: www.project2025.observer/en

Schon Sartre, Beauvoir, Fanon und Merleau-Ponty haben den Begriff "Situation" eingesetzt, um den Horizont der Möglichkeiten des erfahrenden Ichs zu beschreiben. Thomas Bedorf entwickelt in seinem Buch ein neues Verständnis von Situiertheit, eine politische Phänomenologie. Out!

Eine Woche nach der Aufforderung an die verbliebene Bevölkerung, Gaza-Stadt zu verlassen, hat die israelische Armee ihre Bodenoffensive begonnen. Hunderttausende sind ihr ausgesetzt.

Am 16. & 17. September 1982 -während der israelischen Besatzung des #Libanon- ermöglichte die Regierung Begin das brutale Massaker in den palästinensischen Flüchtlingslagern #Sabra und #Shatila, verübt von libanesischen christlichen Milizen, unter #israel ischer Kontrolle. #Beirut #Palestine

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

A horrific bombing and shelling, and now tanks reported in the centre of Gaza. The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started. Thousands fleeing for their lives

Obviously we all know Bluesky is a retirement home for elder millennials but, if you happen to know any 18-30 people who might like to take a shot at this, do pass it on!

CBP got their raid sweeps down to less than 7 minutes here in LA. By the time reporters receive tips, the raids are done and the feds are gone and with them, people. Trying to document and find patterns for these raids as a reporter has been extremely frustrating and demoralizing. It really sucks

⛵️JUST IN | “The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) has begun the final leg of its historic journey to help break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza. Yesterday, 18 boats set sail from Catania, Italy.

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

It was either fascism or higher taxes for rich people, so the answer was clear

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

BBC website leads with live coverage of the Kirk murder and 4 articles. Former President of one of the biggest democracies in the world, Brazil, being sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup? One piece placed after Kirk. Simply embarrassing prioritisation for a major news organisation.

Daniel Raab grew up in Naperville. Attended Naperville Central High. Enjoys privilege as a white American. Attends UIUC. Went to Israel. Joined the IDF. Became a sniper. Shot Palestinians for fun. Shot a man who ran to save his murdered brother. Shot the man who ran to get his sons' bodies.

Pro chasse Propos anti-LGBT Dine avec Marine Lepen et Bardella Aucun intérêt pour le changement climatique et la biodiversité Visé par une enquête du parquet national financier pour "favoritisme" Il n'y a rien à attendre du nouveau premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu. Absolument rien.

Lecornu? « Un choix du cœur » pour Macron, selon un familier de l’Élysée. Il a les faveur de Brigitte, il s’entend avec Marine Le Pen et Zemmour, il a été contre le mariage pour tous, c’est l’ami de Darmanin et il est visé par une enquête du PNF pour favoritisme. Il coche toutes les cases! #Off

If you’re an academic (especially if you work within a relevant field or are very outspoken about the genocide), it’s worth checking to see if someone has put your name on this list - seems to be the case for a few people.

Save the Date! So excited to announce our first conference of @digitalculturesandarts.ch, in collaboration with Kino Xenix, Fotomuseum Winterthur & @zkk-zurich.bsky.social - join us in Zurich in October!

Let's fix the headline, shall we? "Israel launches an attack against a sovereign nation"

The Global Sumud Flotilla says its main ship was hit by a suspected drone in Tunisia, but all on board are safe as it heads to Gaza to challenge Israel’s blockade and deliver humanitarian aid. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/mo7rmb

«I cried because the sky was now inside without permission. Because sunlight fell on broken tiles instead of on the living room floor. Because one strike could erase years of living.»

📍 Zócalo Square, Mexico City A massive crowd of 200,000 roars ‘Free Palestine!’ 🔥🇲🇽🇵🇸 "From Latin America to the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and beyond — the world is rising against the American-funded, American-backed Israeli holocaust." - @sarahabdallah.bsky.social

need people to understand that the idea that “regular people” can’t understand trans people is inherently transphobic framing. #1: we are regular people. demographically, we are less wealthy than cis people on the whole because of employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and the wage gap

Another facet of academic life collapsing under the weight of its own internal contradictions (labor shortage + the relentless pressure to publish for the job market) as well as the destructive impact of AI. It was time to rethink all of this ten years ago; second best time is now.

Neat tool from @forensicarchi.bsky.social for live tracking the #Gaza #flotilla. 22 ships currently sailing flotilla-orpin.vercel.app

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

"Blockieren wir alles" - 3 Seiten Regierung stürzen und sozialer Antifaschismus in Frankreich😍 Mit Texten von Volkmar Wölk, Bernd Riexinger, Stephan Kaufmann und den Genossinnen Rosa und Ester von der Bewegung Soulèvements de la Terre.

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

The board and membership of the Helsinki University Association of Researchers and Teachers (HUART) has successfully voted for the academic boycott of Israel! This is the first Finnish academic union to commit to the BDS campaign.

“How holy their concern now sounds, rising over a land emptied of the living.” “These newfound experts […] now speak with such authority about our suffering” “They can mourn our corpses without confronting the systems that created them.”