This was every computer I ever used from 1994-1998! 😭😭😭

We are doing in-class exams in locked browsers. I hate how much of my energy goes to cheating prevention now.

This is the way. Going to be like organic farming, where people think it’s new and niche, but it’s how it was always done until a short while ago.

Just took my Irish driving license theory test. You have to study over 800 questions - the test is 40 questions. They ask you to lock up all your electronics & check for smart glasses etc before you go in. It was all very chatty & Irish but they laughingly said yeah, people try & cheat

"Students, this is a mechanical clock, and this here is an electronics jammer." Enjoy your 180 minutes of serenity."

It’s such a bummer. Online/asynchronous/virtual teaching can be incredibly valuable and with a little extra structure can be an amazing and scalable resource but now AI has rendered the whole enterprise impossible.

Devastating read on the way that OpenAI’s Stargate data center — which will have a plant big enough to power 1 million homes — was started in secret and more or less without air quality permits and is now too big to stop www.wired.com/story/data-c...

Right now we have the chance to let the government know that LNG is not the way forward. It doesn’t matter who you voted for, it matters that you don’t give up your voice when they turn towards pollution.

When your "political theory" is just: "Liberals are against rape, which is why I hate them."

Consider for a moment how much the 2020-2025 period differs from the 2000-2005 period. Consider how small the temperature difference was that unleashed this level of chaos we are experiencing. Now consider how chaotic 2030-2035 will be considering it will be the same number of degrees warmer…

12/ EU AC debate feels partly like a op..Reminder Fossil capital fed climate denial narratives @katemac.bsky.social Stage 1: Deny the Problem Exists 2: Deny We're the Cause 3: Deny It's a Problem 4: Deny We can Solve It 5: It's too Late, and it’s all your fault phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

I wrote a very short piece on models & modelling in part because we need to protect our scientific praxis damage caused by AI in terms of addictive frictionless thinking, esp since it harms society broadly too. "Models" doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Thanks @carvalhais.org for inviting me to write this.

Please consider not saying that some AI models or some statistical models are good, useful, beneficial, whatever else positive, in science if it's not your research area. It's ok not to know things. It's ok not to both side things. It's ok to ask colleagues who are experts.

If you were lucky enough to finish most of your cognitive development before widespread GPS adoption ? Try to use a paper map now as often as you can so that you keep that ability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Horrendous misconduct. Every merger above a certain threshold during this presidential term should be rolled back the minute there's a changeover in power. www.ms.now/news/trump-a...

Conventional wisdom says rooftop solar meets **exisiting** electricity demand. What if rooftop solar actually **increases** electricity demand, improving living standards and driving economic growth? This is exactly what our new analysis of Pakistan's solar boom shows. Let's dig in.. 🧵

"It turns out that firing all your employees, replacing them with extremely expensive software your deluded CEO thinks is magically sentient, and then layering it all on top of very broken and long-neglected [design & manufacturing] systems results in fairly universally bad outcomes. Fancy that."

Oregon raises electricity rates by 29.7% for data centers and cuts residential electricity rates by 1.3%. www.opb.org/article/2026... #energysky

AOC: “We should never take impeachment off the table — where we see law breaking, we should never take accountability off the table”

Lots of useful links here. karlbode.com/the-ai-hype-...

This doesn’t so much “raise questions,” but rather answers them. He’s totally transparent about this!

There's only one kind of affirmative action program that conservatives love, and it's their own crusade to prop up their unpopular ideas and force them on college students. Massive funding, entire programs devoted to the cause, even mandated courses now. And it's still not working.

1) Interesting "Dems Not in Disarray" front-page framing. 2) Point Dems need to keep making: -Virtually every Dem leader has now come out publicly against Platner. -Virtually every GOP party leader still all-in for Ken Paxton. (And, of course, for Trump) This is not a "both sides" situation.

Yes. The valid reasons for getting rid of RCP8.5 were that it became implausible as a fuel consumption scenario, not because it was ever implausible as a climate impact scenario. Those who celebrated its demise on the latter basis were never doing so in good faith

"Perhaps the victory lap for getting rid of RCP8.5 was premature" 😭 www.theclimatebrink.com/p/deadly-hea...

There's a revolution happening in urban transportation across the world. It's not EVs, not even autonomous EVs. It's got nothing to do with AI. No tech mogul is getting rich off it. Instead, the revolution is centered on an older, simpler technology: bicycles.

Was literally telling my 13yo son this the other day. I said to practice saying "Hey, that's not cool" to his friends how when they make jokes about other people, so it's easier to do it later when the stakes are higher. He takes it pretty seriously.

This is the way.

Nope. Reverse this bullshit, because AC is literally 3 to 5 times MORE efficient than heating. So it should be “In an ever-warming world, winter heating has become a stark measure of inequality. The Wealthy nations of the world squander energy for months of the year, creating and worsening crises”

University administrators promoting AI as "inevitable" need to reckon with the damage that it is doing to the culture of teaching and learning, whatever promise it may have in some fields. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

these arent watchdogs of democracy, they are handmaidens of fascism. the mainstream media.

Yet another frustrating article on air con in the UK (below) that fails to mention that A/C that "uses lots of electricity" is also the type of heat pump that will save you the most energy and money for heating in winter. The same air con tech described here: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-hea...

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

Stop. The two parties are not the same. You know how I know they’re not the same? Graham Platner isn’t the incumbent two-term president of the United States of America. (Not even counting that Trump is also a traitor, an adjudicated criminal, and credibly implicated in a pedophile conspiracy.)

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

More evidence, if any was needed that we have to return to in person exams in higher education as the default

Former Google exec Verity Harding says the "AI arms race with China" narrative needs to be jettisoned. "Talking about AI as an arms race accrues power to [the AI companies]." Yep, and it has convinced many to accept that "speed to power" for data centers is a national priority, never mind the harm.

Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is asking Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell to provide an update on his health. McConnell, 84, was hospitalized on June 14 for a reason not disclosed by his staffers. @kentuckylantern.com

The single most impactful change we could do for Democrats is get them to drop the idea that the "media is our friend" No one has swallowed the lie of " the liberal media" more than Democrats... Who are so so so happy to take Republican advice as if it's in their favor

got a longish post up about who ended Platner's campaign and why it's important to say so. the people who ended Platner's campaign were survivors of his abuse and journalists. and we should be grateful to them for that. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/survivors-...

And this is why I’ve returned to using in person Blue Book essay exams since Fall 2025.

i dont think most liberals realize this at all tbh. too many liberals think the media is secretly pro democracy and they just need to be encouraged to do the right thing. the press is in open collaboration with fascism.

Some blame has to go to the people of Maine who voted for him.

Mamdani never endorsed Platner.

I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...

The idea that inserting a profit-motive into the health care system will make it better, is only something a huge fucking dumbass would argue.

Environmental justice activists are suing the California Air Resources Board over changes to the state’s carbon market: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social

inspired by @russpoldrack.org's AI policy for his lab, last night I drafted up this AI policy and came up with an initial set of use case suggestions for my lab

Yesterday, the International Astronomical Union announced that #asteroid 21008 will now be named #Ottewell in honor of the beloved British astronomer Guy Ottewell! Congratulations, Guy! Read about Guy's work: buff.ly/36Wyagf 📸 Guy Ottewell.