Imagine using $1.7 billion to address hunger, housing, education, and medical care. Imagine using $1.7 billion to address the wage gap and the lack of resources for survivors of violence and abuse. We should never look at these ideas as too radical or impossible again.

My very unpopular opinion is that this framing won’t play well in the South. And it might still matter. But what do I know?

A self-satisfied thief and wrecker of society in action.

I do see that people in multi-author fields think humanities folks are being unfair on this issue. Indeed, I can't imagine the trust it takes to publish that way. I think my initial reaction is that maybe we shouldn't introduce a technology that makes up citations into that fragile network of trust.

The magazine that's so persnickety it insists on an umlaut in "coöperation" has somehow left this post about the great writer Author Name up for a day now.

ChatGPT effectively provided intel that OpenAI used to plan what scams to run next. Financially under-literate and manipulable people (incl. elderly people) who use slop machines are being targeted. I wonder to whom the system will tell them to send money?

There's something deeply Louis XVI about the cluelessness of those two speakers. They had no idea what room they were in. Probably the first time in a long time that they were in a room with people who weren't sycophants.

Two commencement speakers loudly & persistently booed for praising this current paradigm of "AI," most recently being Eric damn Schmidt, & he also looked fully stunned; which, y'know what? Good. Seems the only way these people are gonna learn is by facing a very large crowd clearly telling them "No"

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What AI bullsh*t is revealing is which academics were OK with stealing, plagiarizing, and pretending they read stuff they hadn't, and who would have actively participated in the slave trade and its ancillary activities, for they don't care about Global Majority data workers abused along the way.

In this month's local elections, the Lib Dems and Greens together received 8% more votes than REFUK. Where is the media attention to the strength of the liberal centre and left? Why do the 26% of voters with the most antisocial views get the sympathy?

"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

The Church of Scotland hasn’t just apologised, it also set up a Masters scholarship at Edinburgh. In England reparative justice is being resisted by a well-connected political lobby: alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg... Church of Scotland apologises for role in slavery www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i love that these “A.i.” pushers are getting booed by commencement crowds in ARIZONA and FLORIDA. they can’t shrug this off as ivy league elitism. this is everyone!

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A self-satisfied thief and wrecker of society in action.

These pro natalist guys really aren’t beating the allegations

Few things buttress my faith in humanity like this loathing. The fact that the AI overlords have so miscalculated what we would think and whether it would matter is fun too. A bit like the Trump Administration's miscalculation of how Minneapolis would respond to invasion by a thug army.

I added some new opinion writing workshop dates, including more $100 audit only options: www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/

#TimelineCleanse!

ChatGPT Can Now Connect to Your Bank Account and See All Your Transactions https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-can-now-connect-to-your-bank-account-and-see-all-your-transactions-2000759306

Gender is innate and immutable but also so fragile that it can be destroyed by drinking out of a straw 🤔

TOMORROW: @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I will be recording another episode of BEST MEDICINE for Radio 4! It's a panel show of comedians, experts, and randoms like us. We record it in front of a live studio audience in London. Do come along. Tickets are FREE: www.sroaudiences.com/application....

"Food spoils because of a lack of refrigeration, and people can’t use air conditioning or fans as temperatures rise to the high 80s. Basic goods are hard to find because fuel shortages affect production and distribution." Gift link.

I had 30 pages of citations for my master's thesis. That I did by hand, not using a citation generator. I double-checked every single one. I never even considered including a citation I hadn't confirmed.

So is the "easily installed substitute" to garbage, ecocidal, brain-impairing edtech.... human teachers?!?! Yes, obviously. If your administrators don't recognize that, know that they are nothing more than harm-enablers. 5/5 buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Open platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon matter precisely because they resist that concentration, however imperfectly, and believe me when I say this place frustrates me at times – however the establishment find that intolerable, and that suits me. I'll stay and fight ✊ /fin

The environmental damage should be enough for prohibiting its use, it should be treated like those toxic chemicals scholars do research on or which are used in controlled medical settings but one cannot simply buy it in a pharmacy and then flush it down the toilet.

"when a resource is no longer available or affordable for too long, people can and do change patterns of usage and turn to other resources." Solnit's essay is about oil, but I'd love for education to return to focusing on writing, reading, and numbers rather than tech bullsh*ttery. 2/

Last night I went through all the released photographs from Artemis II and pulled out those I thought would be useful for my research. This is a lovely one. (Image credit: NASA)

For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

Turns out the quickest way to change consumer behavior when it comes to fossil fuels and meat consumption is the same.

It’s shockingly careless to say “I can’t do this [lockdown] again” when 80 people have already fucking died, and frankly You’re not going into lockdown. It probably will never reach you. It is devastating people where it already is expressly because our racist governments pulled back.

Something to share with the careless people in your life using AI for *absolutely no good reason.* Creator here. Most months I spend more on magazine subs and books than I have money coming in. But I'd sooner eat glass than use genAI. Educators: model the change the world needs: climate care.

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

*** DEAR GOD THE WORST TYPO!!! I meant "If you use" of course (must have edited down from "If you're using"). Editing posts down to the maximum length is the ultimate typo-generating activity.

Something to share with the careless people in your life using AI for *absolutely no good reason.* Creator here. Most months I spend more on magazine subs and books than I have money coming in. But I'd sooner eat glass than use genAI. Educators: model the change the world needs: climate care.

I am not a classicist, nor have I read the Odyssey, & I have little interest in watching Nolan's adaptation of it. However, the rightwing outrage over artistic choices induces me to make a couple of points about how asinine the outrage is. (1/n)

I need say no more than “new @tananarivedue.bsky.social”

ChatGPT effectively provided intel that OpenAI used to plan what scams to run next. Financially under-literate and manipulable people (we're all a day older every day, folks) who use slop machines are clearly going to be targeted. I wonder to whom the system will tell them to send money? 1/

The V&A's latest big show: Indigenous and First Nations art. Eddy Frankel suggests in the Guardian that the great art here is curated and displayed poorly. #art www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Last year at @auworks.bsky.social we launched a project called Monster Lab where we geek out about monsters/antagonists/creeps, as a way of talking about creative process & the world. It's been a slow burn but I'm thrilled to unveil our first interview, with the great @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social

get off of this fucking racist’s social media site for fucking racists

The people behind this are openly neo-Nazi. Reminder that the Conservatives argued this march was fine as it did not directly target any particular groups, beyond “criticism of religion”.

This book is terrific! Still have a section left to read - read some other parts slowly, repeatedly and ran off to execute things - but if you're a historian type who wants to make the world a better place, this is a book you NEED. 💙📚🗃 #AcademicSky

Our first #MonsterLab interview with the brilliant @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social is now up. Surekha introduces #monsters as "category breakers". Of course, these categories are boundaries that humans invent out of our own fears & ambitions. youtu.be/jZuOqOmwCB8?... #horrorsky #filmsky #historysky

The V&A's latest big show: Indigenous and First Nations art. Eddy Frankel suggests in the Guardian that the great art here is curated and displayed poorly. #art www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Starting with garbage you promise yourself you’ll check for lies and nonsense should be a firing offense in every profession.

You have been warned! #earlymodern fishies and #seamonsters are the best (fight me!)

For a small moment of wonder, treat yourself to Sir David Attenborough narrating Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" to vignette's of nature's grandeur: www.themarginalian.org/2011/12/15/d...