In 1983, Ruth Schwartz Cowan published a book called More Work for Mother where she argued that modern household tech (washing machines/vacuums) didn't reduce women's housework time, it just raised standards of domesticity. Household work is never shortened by tech & you can extrapolate that out.

I asked Claude how it "feels" about being used to bomb a school full of children

A message from the United Upright Cats International and 3rd Socialist Congress. "Many Furs - One Working Class!" (Based on the 1937 poster, Greetings to the Fighters Against Fascism). #digitalart #cats

Ahhhhhhhhhhh

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

I feel like this applies eternally in computers

feels like we're soon going to be seeing a lot more people who have gone all-in on AI grappling with "you're almost certainly going to end up liable for massive fuck-ups based on your work that incorporated GenAI, not the company who made the GenAI software that you used."

This is an excellent thread which gives the lie to one of the great branding successes of our times, namely the idea that reactionary rightwingers are by default subtle, deep, intellectually coherent & responsible thinkers, rather than the petulant child-men they usually tend to be.

Yessss. And we also need to do better at teaching this. I’ve encountered too many student who think “critical thinking” just means to criticize.

I have taught at university level long enough to have encountered a few students who embrace this idea that being a contrarian is somehow a mark of deep intellect. They will typically question very basic facts while relying on truisms & long-debunked ideas which they leave unquestioned.

Come on all of you, big strong men Uncle Sam needs your help again He's got himself in a terrible jam Way down yonder in Vietnam So put down your books, pick up a gun Gonna have a whole lot of fun And it's 1, 2, 3 What are we fighting for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn Next stop is Vietnam

The mission of … war crimes ?

Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran - chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact - the rain is corrosive + could damage structures - heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems

“There is no inherent constitutional authority for the President or any intelligence agency to violate the law.” 50 years later, The Church Committee Report on what an out of control executive branch is capable when Congress has no ability or interest to hold the accountable, is available now.

God almighty. They killed the kids as bait.

10 years negotiating the criminalization of ecocide, endless academic discussions about its definition and requirements, meanwhile the most powerful army in the world doesn’t care that intentionally hitting oil refineries can poison a city of 9 million people and the environment. It’s infuriating.

We should reject the premise of this piece advocating U.S. boots on the ground. Iran having a residual nuclear weapons capability is not “a very urgent problem,” certainly not for the United States and not even for for our poorly chosen client state, Israel www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/o...

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

I'm out of words here

The discourse about not being ‘surprised’ is entirely unhelpful. These are depraved acts and we should act with shock and horror every time they are perpetrated lest they become normalized. This doesn’t mean we are ignorant.

In Iran, the Trump Administration has targeted a range of "dual use objects"--objects that have both civilian and military uses. Here, we explain how such targeting blurs the line between civilian and military--eroding critical protections for civilians. yalelawjournal.org/pdf/134.8.Ha...

Lebanese health minister in presser says death toll now 394, inc. 83 children & 42 women. Said “numbers talk, these are families,” says 4 hospitals ceased operating. switched to English to add “medical teams & ambulances are under direct attacks. This is unacceptable” #lebanon #beirut

What if AI just makes us work harder? Employees have reported increased momentum, but also a feeling of having more to do: ft.trib.al/D8Oyp7h

As civilian infrastructure becomes increasingly subject to targeting during this war, remember it is the United States, along with Israel, that has put "dual use" objects, like electricity grids, oil infrastructure, water plants etc, at the center of war.

The White House is blocking the FBI and top US intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about new terror threats to the homeland tied to the war with Iran. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Gig workers in Africa helped train AI systems for a company that performed work for a secretive U.S. military unit. Many were never told their work could be used for military purposes https://restofworld.org/2026/gig-workers-us-military-appen/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

right as many americans are figuring out what they owe in taxes for last year. feels like an effective opposition party could do something with that!

The State Department is declaring an emergency with the war in Iran to bypass Congressional approval and sell more than 20,000 bombs to Israel that are valued at nearly $660 million TAT: [Undermining democracy]

BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me

You won't be able to fix it all. You will be able to love. - Helms Jarrell

the LLMs can be defeated by POETRY, its only fair the ai can be defeated by ART

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?” www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

turns out blowback has been disproven in the sense that nobody in power gives a shit and if comes for you that’s your fucking problem loser

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Please stop the world I want to get off.

I also have no doubt that when the pushback and blowback happen we'll have zero compunctions about calling those who do it terrorists, threats to international law, etc. and hypocrisy is a meaningless analytic. I am just trying to clock pace of change and degree of blatancy

newrepublic.com/article/2071... “There is a concept in ethics called “moral distance.” It refers to the psychological and cognitive space that separates a person who causes harm from the harm itself. Autonomous weapons systems are, among other things, moral distance machines.”

The entire controversy that ended last Friday at 5 pm EST– hours before the US launched a war against Iran —between Hegseth and the head of Anthropic — was about ethical limits on the use of AI to kill people

Amazing site here via @timnitgebru.bsky.social - a map of big tech influence on media and media companies. imo this goes a decent way to explaining why coverage of AI specifically has been so shockingly bad recently. Very useful resource!! nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...

There were THREE strikes on the girls school in Minab in southern Iran. THREE. And the "military" compound it was located on - it had closed fifteen years ago. The school was there all on its own. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/k...

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

The Home Secretary here is not 'BSing'. She is deliberately publishing a racist lie about how 'easy' our system is. And the fucking Guardian is letting her do it.

Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.

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JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group. “Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For my sins, I was listening today to the recording of a 2002 @lrb.co.uk event which they appended as a bonus to their excellent series on the war on terror, featuring several thoughtful speakers and also Christopher Hitchens defending US interventions as the savior of liberal secular democracy.

The legal arguments and architecture for what's happening in Iran now, and were deployed in relation to Gaza, really did not come out of nowhere. The pre-emption and targetted assassination arguments might appear spectacular, but they were the workaday archiecture of the war on terror.

Religious extremists think they are fighting a holy war, and I dont mean Iran