REGIONAL WAR HAS STARTED -US-Israel strategic attacks on Iranian leadership -US Navy attacking Iranian Navy. USAF attacking ballistic missile facilities Iran has retaliated with successful ballistic missile attacks against Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views. https://bit.ly/4styRX5 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

I have tested claude and chat gpt and I can assure you they are not doing good lit reviews. They are making confident generalizations, and missing a lot. As of now, nothing can replace actually thinking i'm afraid

This too, is a form of social Darwinism; one that always accompanies fantasies about leaving the weak "behind." I encountered this eugenicist futurism in early primatology, when ppl speculated whether primates could be used to circumvent child labor and anti-slavery laws. bsky.app/profile/x2y....

After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.

Quit, cancel, never sign up.

Leslie Wexner, former CEO of Victoria's Secret, was the other man named by Ava Cordero as her rapist and abuser alongside Jeffrey Epstein in 2007, only to be mocked and degraded and dismissed as crazy because she's trans.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

how dare you use karaoke for evil

Who is tracking the ratio of Super Bowl ads that are complete scams vs just regular capitalism?

Congress can begin viewing FULL Epstein files tomorrow at 9am in secure room at Justice Dept in DC Yes… there will likely be some who show up when doors open

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Would love to read a book on what this convergence represents. It’s funny how the description is always an inversion of what it is - as if the more it isn’t true the harder it has to be pressed home.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

i wrote about mothership.blog for @theguardian.com today by the way. thanks so much to @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell more people about mothership and what we are doing with the site <3 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

I'm surprised people didn't know this at this point. These are surveillance machines. "large language models (LLMs) behind them can infer things about you based on minor context clues you provide" futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

first taste is always free

Canadian firm to boycott: Vancouver's Hootsuite. Social media firm wants to work w/ ICE to analyze social media sentiment. There's no way to "build trust" w/ ICE. ICE is a fascist organization terrorizing & abducting people. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Just did some conference paper reviews and I’m pretty sure one was substantially AI written. Very clean and smooth but made no sense in parts. Cited real court cases but got them so wrong it’s hard to imagine a human who read the cases (or knew anything about them) writing those lines.

I’m looking for scholarship that connects Judith Butler’s work on performativity with propaganda. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Looks like live is (finally) coming to Bluesky!

'The truth is Musk and the tech sector simply do not prioritise safety or dignity in the products they create' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The news is a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about what happened. www.wired.com/story/thinki...

"A WIRED review of hundreds of Telegram channels run by Proud Boy chapters across the country, as well as other far-right extremist and militia groups, reveals that there are no public calls for members to mobilize and defend ICE from the protesters." @davidgilbert.bsky.social reports:

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

The announcement comes weeks after Grok drew backlash for generating sexualized images of women and children, although the Department of Defense has not released official documentation confirming Hegseth’s timeline.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Syllabus help: Looking for an article about eugenics history that can help introduce students (especially upper level undergrads) to the history of eugenics in the 19th-20th c in the US. It’s for a class where students’ main competencies are mostly not humanities/social sciences. Suggestions?

somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply

--Think Différant-- Since mainstream analytic philosophy is clearly struggling to wrap its head around the writing of #LLM #AI, a better approach might be to consult the one philosopher who took WRITING seriously as a philosophical problem: Jacques Derrida. doi.org/10.1007/s001...

Any media outlet whose diagnosis of what's wrong with corporate media is *this* is about to deliver dogshit coverage the likes of which we've never seen Corporate media lost its way due to cowardice, profit motive, anti-intellectualism, and confusing neutrality with objectivity

"For too long those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." - Mayor Mamdani.

“The form factors may differ, but the thesis is the same: audio is the interface of the future. Every space — your home, your car, even your face — is becoming a control surface.”

Happy to share this new publication: “Learning on the live feed: A social constructivist approach to discourse and dialogue on social media platforms,” now in Communication Teacher.   www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Earlier this year, @hoornazkeshava.bsky.social and I published “Make Iran great again”: Apolitical influencers and the revival of a romantic patriarchal nationalism. If you haven't had a chance to read it yet, you're in luck - the article is now open access: academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...

all i'm saying is that there were better options

NEW PUB: Twitch’s Digital News Standard: Breaking Journalistic Boundaries in Platform Streaming Environments in Digital Journalism www.tandfonline.com/eprint/62NS2...

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Let’s interview Sam Altman’s nannies about whether they’re using ChatGPT

Frank Gehry, who designed some of most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96. https://to.pbs.org/3Y9b15s

New misinformation vector just dropped.

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...

While the administration has said it is cutting “woke programs” that “poison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine. “They brought everything to a stop,” said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.’s National Cancer Institute