This is hard to explain but the 13yo has been impersonating me on FB except pretending to be extremely senile and now she’s got people INTERACTING with her POSTS and someone is grounded

I’ve given this some thought and concluded, yes, this is a bit, HOWEVER I am of the opinion they’ve picked up some true believers, possibly inadvertently

“California College of the Arts gambled on a major campus expansion. Here’s what went wrong” archive.ph/KnydJ

stuff like this is why i have trouble with the incrementalism and slow-walking from dems. this is happening *right now*

Another funny/telling quote about the necessity of ERPs. With the proliferation of personal computers, each worker could have "their own version of the truth." Unacceptable, obviously. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FWRABZ...

This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?

One of my neighbors (who writes like nobody I’ve ever met) is on a crusade against kids drawing on the sidewalk with chalk

I understand that the article is condemning this whole sordid world, but the headline made me laugh because it read to me like HIRE 👏 MORE 👏 WOMEN 👏 PEDOPHILES 👏

The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...

Tech deployed at the border “includes everything from hyper-visible tethered aerostats — massive blimp-like detection platforms hovering thousands of feet over the desert — to stealthy devices like unattended ground sensors to detect footsteps, and license plate scanners disguised as traffic cones.”

Shoulda fought harder to not be disappointing.

Raman watched Mamdani and was like, “You know what…”

There’s a “superstar” layer at every R1 institution I’ve been at that isn’t composed of academics in any sense I recognize. They’re there so the institution can claim them, but they use the university as a launchpad to contracts and speaking engagements. They’re not teaching the intro classes.

“We’ve fought so hard to protect our community, but they want to experiment on us. We are guinea pigs. When you are autistic, like me, and a mother to autistic children, I see this as a way to end us. That's what it is.” autism activist Fiona O'Leary www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

Well, here we go: a fresh new printing of Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents? and a new follow up booklet from Public Collectors: What You Agents Are Doing In Your Hotels. Both are now available ($6.00 each): halfletterpress.com/what-you-age... halfletterpress.com/who-shares-w...

"The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo." www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

"Casey Wasserman must resign, and Los Angeles deserves a mayor who isn't afraid to call for it." Mayoral candidate Rae Huang joining the call for the LA28 chair to step down on Bluesky, Twitter, and those little status messages you can put on your avatar on Instagram

Letting Epstein play journalist like he’s climbing up into the fire engine and wearing that hat.

LOL

This is so weak. SO weak. Can’t even express my disgust.

One local who was arrested while protesting at the site of Alex Pretti’s killing talked to The Verge about his harrowing experience in custody at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building and how the community is fighting back. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/87365...

Funny (telling) quote about ERPs from 1998: "“We plan to use SAP as a battering ram to make our culture less autonomous.” hbr.org/1998/07/putt...

I’m reminded of the reason Bezos started with books on Amazon: he liked that they were commodities, each identical to any other with the same ISBN.

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

Copy editor asked me to double-check “data base” in a quotation and I got so excited to tell her about the etymology (she extremely does not care)

Amazing signs

i feel like we've had a good enough sample size for like two decades on whether or not body cameras on cops do anything whatsoever to stop them from killing people. the guy that murdered renee good was filming it on his phone for fun!

I learned from the copy editor that 1) I use way too many commas, 2) don't use "indicates," 3) don't use "based on" abverbially (I don't know what that means so I just won't use it)

SCOOP: Palantir's AI has been deployed at HHS since last March to audit grants, grant applications, & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology" The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders: www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...

I have this sort of crackpot theory that part of our problem is that popular imagination of robots continues to adhere to an expert systems model when in fact the paradigm shifted to ML some time ago. Think of Data from Star Trek. Data could reason beautifully but he struggled +

🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader. One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...

This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Have you ever introduced students to relational databases using some kind of physical example (index cards, yarn, etc.)? I'm not satisfied with the way I've been doing it on slides.

Nice~ Attorney General Bonta Sues Rady Children’s Health for Illegally Ending Gender-Affirming Care oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

I was thinking, a really good question to ask students to see if they understand how LLMs work would be to ask them how the “emergent consciousness” of Moltbook is possible. Because it’s utterly explicable, even predictable, if you understand what the technology does.

1/30: A large crowd gathered earlier today at the Amazon Web Services Headquarters in Santa Monica. Protestors say they want to hold Amazon accountable for providing web services to ICE.

Gross

Read the user manual for an ICE-Palantir app www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

How Businesses Are Manipulating ChatGPT Results You’ve long heard about search engine optimization. Companies are now spending big on generative engine optimization. my latest for @wsj.com 🎁🔗 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...

NEW: An average worker at the foreign factories that make Nike’s goods earns 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the company says. None of the workers @oregonian.com spoke with in Nike’s second-largest production hub said they earned that much.

“The way every key was constructed was by first molding the letter from plastic of one color, and then grabbing a different plastic and molding the key around the letter. A Gorton letter was as physical as the key itself.” aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

“For every human being that has been hunted based on their skin color, their form of labor, their language and their existence, we claim belonging to the land that we call the U.S.” Kudos to the organizers who pulled off yesterday's UCLA rally and march, a demonstration of students' potential power

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

House Republican chairman released texts between Michael Sacks and former NW President Michael Schill where Sacks criticized Daniel Biss and Jan Schakowski and said: “As for the professors out there like the guy from Medill my ask is that we just not hire assholes anymore.”

good morning. (quilt by Melissa Laranjeira, via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...)

NorCal mutual aid groups- DM me if you want supplies to build @distributeaid.org's HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits. We got production going in LA after their hospitals did this, and would love to help you too. The kits contain everything but the meds. See details and donate to support here:

Getting roasted for accidentally making Extra Space Storage my phone’s emergency contact and struggling to figure out how to not do that.

The ADL found that Grok was the most anti-semitic chatbot in its testing -- and did its best to minimize that finding, because everyone is afraid of Elon. @miasato.bsky.social runs it down www.theverge.com/news/868925/...