Women's objection to using AI is also seen as regressive & technophobic. There's no winning!!!

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

This has been the most spiritually bankrupt celebration of anything I've ever seen and that's it, that's our 250th. We don't get to go back and redo it, this one's in the books: Temu Arch, cheesy architecture, horrible displays, AI everywhere. Far right propaganda. Jokes at our expense

At our Africa Research Day, we got together to share research, rethink how Africa is taught, and explore careers in Africa-focused work. A key takeaway? The power of contemporary African fiction in the classroom. Here is a list of 20+ books. What would you add? folukeafrica.com/20-contempor...

violence against women (and any gender nonconformity) is so baked into American culture that the whole political sphere is able to pretend that, for all intents and purposes, it doesn’t exist — from Epstein, to the WH, Supreme Court and probably a majority of Congress, to community organizing

The Coast Guard just removed the Clearwater from the tall ship parade in NYC for having "Save the Clean Water Act" and "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions” banners. They were escorted out by the Coast Guard, US Navy, and NYPD. www.instagram.com/p/DaYOP8OlIq...

Here's the world's richest man, who runs the platform that most US officials & institutions continue to post on & support, endorsing a post that opposes universal suffrage & endorses dividing the population into "makers & takers," denying voting rights to the latter. Happy Independence Day.

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

Trump spent this July 4 morning pardoning a major donor and violators of the Clean Air Act so he can own the libs: wapo.st/4wuTHHA

ICYMI: More than 250 Broadway cleaners have voted to authorise a strike amid negotiations over a new contract, after its previous agreement with theatre owners expired. Read more in The Stage 👇

Still shocks me that this is the man who leads the US federal health system: an anti-vaxxer who has experienced UFOs & aliens🤯, doesn’t believe in germ theory, is an AIDS denialist (he says it’s due to “the gay lifestyle”), & wants to remove Black kids from their families to “reparent” them in camps

"From Musk, we have seen a language of encouragement and legitimisation. People who were in organisations that otherwise might have had a fringe status have suddenly acquired a status and legitimacy that makes it harder to discount their relevancy" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham…” —Frederick Douglass, 1852

I like that this frames patriotism as participation rather than performance. A republic doesn’t stay healthy because people stop criticizing it. It stays healthy because they care enough to keep improving it.

A grim reminder this 4th of July: The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration. Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”

Good morning from DC—where you’ve got to look twice to see if the masked paramilitaries on the street are ICE or Patriot Front.

"chatbots are good at… → chatbots are good for…" "ChatGPT assisted students → the students used ChatGPT" Love this framing. It feels like a subtle difference but is much more accurate.

For more on how to talk about tech sold as "AI" in more precise terms: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

"Chatbots are here to stay!", "Chatbots will revolutionize research!", "We have to train students in the best ways to use chatbots", etc.

But I think there are at least some cases where people get in too deep and resist defining what they're talking about because otherwise what they're saying would sound plainly ridiculous. >>

Then there are the incentives to sell what you're doing as somehow related to "AI" --- make the University look like it's leading on AI, juice the stock priece, etc., etc. >>

Fugitive slaves were literally not accused of a crime, this was a rather important point in the 1850s.

Getting the boys together for this Austria-Spain matchup

It’s a good thing it’s inexpensive to repair the effects of natural disasters or Mark Carney would have to rethink his statements about how expensive Trudeau’s climate policy was. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Trump discloses 327 unreported stock trades made a day before his first tariff pause www.nbcnews.com/business/mar...

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

Did a single ford exec lose their job for costing the company billions?

Students who silently protested a former Republican official allowing ICE on campus were disciplined, and told to record videos explaining they were wrong. No campus speech except coerced speech.

Here’s more context on how the DR Congo team had to overcome several hurdles due to the devastating Ebola outbreak, including cancelling training, having other countries cancel practice matches, and not being allowed in the US until they had quarantined in Belgium for 21 days.

this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit

🚨 WARNING: As of Monday, wearing a mask at a protest is a criminal offence in England & Wales. This is now the law. 🧵 on what this means for Clinically Vulnerable people... 1/ #ProtectVulnerableProtesters

Workers at nuclear power plants could be exposed to higher levels of radiation under a proposal by the federal nuclear regulator to loosen safety limits, in line with an executive order from President Trump to speed up approval of new nuclear facilities.

the ala had to spell out that librarians deserve a workplace free from punishment and discrimination for protecting books, seriously how did it get this bad?

NEW: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.

New in PN: A vote away from undoing the civil war "The only role for a functional SCOTUS would have been to deny a cert request by saying, 'Did the lower court stutter?' Instead, we came within one vote of letting the worst people in the country run roughshod over one of America's sacred compacts."

Also working-class autodidacts didn't just read alone - they read in groups, set up libraries and reading rooms, and battled for Mechanics' Institutes (many long ago merged into unis) to teach music, history, and politics. They built the public adult education infrastructure that's being destroyed

and of course his government always makes time to punch down at refugees, even when it no longer has any mandate and he's already resigned...

Exactly one week ago Starmer's spokesperson promised "no new major policy or spending commitments" before he leaves office. He seems not to have got his own memo on this. Or he's actually *addicted* to u-turns and just couldn't resist squeezing a few more in before he leaves, just for the thrill?

Great way to disincentivise refugees from working and integrating. Also, we refuse to let them support themselves, force them to live in taxpayer funded accommodation for years and then force them to pay back some of the cost? Morally indefensible. How is this different from the far right?

To handicap them and any family they have here with crippling debts, artificially prolong their temporary status and prevent them becoming citizens, as this Labour government is doing, is morally unforgivable and, ultimately, absolutely terrible social and economic policy as well.

In contrast, the current government initiated no new safe routes and actually, unbelievably, closed refugee family reunion. That was an unprecedented step and there can, in my view, be no moral justification for it. It's about family of refugees already here who cannot return to their home country.

I participated in a meeting at work. I was active, spoke, took notes ,etc.. I read the AI summary of the call, and it had completely misrepresented what I said and also incorrectly assigned me an action item. So yeah. I guess they only need trillions more dollars and decades more time..

I read the summary of a meeting where I was presenting and the recap attributed it all to the only other male colleague in the room. Summaries of my own emails are wrong and misleading, I honestly feel for less experienced people who keep being told they need to use these tools.

“Slight inaccuracies can be very damaging in academic work, but can usually only be detected by a close reading of the text and/or an expert. However, needing to read the full text closely to verify the AI output defeats the whole purpose of generating a summary.”

Clear points about why AI-generated summaries are problematic despite claims by some that they're supposedly less problematic than other genAI use. Can I summarize this long text for you? NOPE, NOPE, NOPE

Don't imagine for one moment that the UK is immune to such forces. That was the fantasy of every former "democracy" that succumbed to illiberal forces. Surely our own lords and masters would never do such a thing? They're all good chaps, play a straight bat, respect checks and balances ... aargh!