Living in 2026? Like, the future? What a silly idea. Leave me out of such nonsense.

In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.

"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

Boards are where every ounce of the action is my friends. Do you know who's on your board? What "expertise" do they bring to the institution? What conflicts of interest do they and their partner have? What litmus test does the political appointing body use to select new members?

I’ve spent a lot of time in the past 18 months really working to, if you will, kill the neoliberal in my head. as someone with my politics, I’ve been surprised by how much there’s still been to excise. anyway, maybe productivity and efficiency are scams, and redundancy protects human happiness.

John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Lollllll they're doing cult of the operator but for higher ed. These people are so washed. "'We talk about building the Navy SEALs of the mind,' he said. 'The Navy SEALs are not a class of thousands and thousands.'"

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

every political reporter knows that the jay jones text are on the tame end of how politicians talk in private, not to mention tamer than how trump and his associates talk in public

Love walking past a child on the street who is pointing to everyone in sight (myself included) and shouting "morta!" Bodes well.

"Let your rage fuel you!" - Abigail Spanberger, moments after drinking the blood of Mannoroth and ordering the first Horde through the Dark Portal

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

THE MEME IS REAL

This is very good.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Finkelstein has it right here, and @vademocrats.bsky.social are correct in calling for Stimson to step down.

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.

Washington DC’s 700,000+ residents deserve federal representation. DC statehood now.

Eyeopening walkthrough of DC by this creator. If you aren’t in DC, worth a watch all the way to the end—

US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked

NEW: When university president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.” But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.

Bill Kristol: "Most universities seem to be taking “they’ll do it elsewhere” not as a clarion call to stand together against Trump’s predations, but as a reminder to make sure they’re not the nail Trump chooses to hammer next." Ugh.

I've had to read a lot of Thiel for my recent project and this is definitely true. He is undeniably able to paint a vivid and compelling picture that draws a lot of people in by plucking on all the right reactionary strings.

Youngkin likes kicking these people out of their building because he doesn't respect what they do. He's happy to do so. He has disdain for anyone who works to make Virginia a better place.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Virginia Voters: this is pretty much everything you need to know in one place about all the primary candidates as well as some general election information. Tomorrow is Primary Day - be prepared before you go to the polls! cardinalnews.org/virginia-vot...

This ran. The movement to protect UVA is growing.

This guy knows how to hacky sack

Senate Democrats rejected several appointees to Virginia’s governing boards at various colleges on Monday. via @virginiamercury.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/va-l...

Nothing has made the sacrifice of institutional expertise to the DOGE charade more evident to me than reviewing applications for a run-of-the-mill comms job in the DC area. Hundreds of years of unique experience in critical fields scattered to the fucking winds with no means of redirecting it.

the desire to learn ancient, dark magicks that make your parents angry doesn't *always* lead to fascism, you might just fry your mind on a lot of drugs and/or be in a few cults that aren't fascist, just abusive but like, *gestures at the neo-Nazi esotericism pages on Wikipedia*

@jamellebouie.net heard you on the pizza pod party talking about Richmond. What's your go-to (or favorite-tried) place in town?

The library of Congress is so so so fundamental, founded in 1800, it’s the only library of its kind, it belongs to every American, it has every copyrighted book, it is non-partisan. It is for research, anyone can use it. It is our library and we cannot let them trash it.

Keep it up dc

You are now required to have a cellphone to citizen. That should not be allowed. You should not be required to have a cellphone to work. But many employers make a cellphone a de facto requirement. It’s anti-poor. But it’s also anti-democratic.

The economy is already so bad that we’re all addicted to fentanyl and splitting each pill between 5 people.

Sounds like it’s a mistake to leave public goods in the hands of billionaires who can decide at any moment they’re bored and don’t want to support them anymore bsky.app/profile/clar...

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

Pairs well with this piece on New College that includes character assassinations of the vulture-men trying to use its pillaging to sell their trash books (and one failed great books program) www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

They can't say it but this was unequivocally due to the anti-Trump protest. Good job, DMV

NEW: Spoke to 25 small publishers about the kind of impact Google's AI changes to search has had on their businesses. Things don't look good—not for the publishers, and not for the quality of information out on the open web, which ironically Google itself relies on. Gift link: bloom.bg/43Jmzk3

we must all nurture the woke chud within us in times like these

I'm rebooting ed, edd, and eddy in 2025 due to their perfect alignment with the archetypal crypto triptych: sap, nerd, and grifter

Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.