Low-key liberal accomplishments coupled with high-profile policy concessions to the right and aggressive conservative virtue signalling — this is exactly the strategy moderates have recommended for Democrats here, of course. Didn't work too well. Maybe some lessons there.

Wild how photosynthesis is literally antifa

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I feel like "C3PO made of ham" is a pretty accurate desctiption of many past and present PMs

Not sure if I have this right, but as an outsider looking in, it seems that in Keir Starmer, England's richest and most misshapen op-ed writers basically got their custom designed policy portfolio and it's been an unmitigated disaster. Surely they are taking some time to meaningfully reflect on this

it's kinda the same thing with cults/high pressure groups. somewhere out there there's a pitch that would work on you in the wrong time of your life. if you think of your loneliest, weakest hour, when you felt completely adrift and despairing, and the right person offered you belonging...

We've got a fantastic #AMA today that won't brick your computer, but will leave #Skystorians fired up for more! We're joined by Will Quam, author of Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

how loudly can the subaltern speak? tone policing, violence, and the (un)knowing of working class lifeways - JD Vance, Gender Studies Quarterly, 2026

The whole thread is wild

New preprint of interest: "Faster Completion, Less Learning" "These results are among the first large-scale behavioral and outcome evidence that generative AI has altered how students study and the knowledge they build — the population-level indicator of cognitive surrender” ht: Justin Reich

Generative AI is a tool designed to break labor, but to break some laboring groups harder than others

Only manly men work, apparently

Help, please, blueks! I'm looking for an accessible reference for Elon Musk and toxic masculinity. Any ideas?

Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing

Sorry many posts but this is an amazing genre, just found potato propaganda

I think this kind of shit is lowkey vital in explaining a lot of people's disaffection with environmentalism. So often, we get this obvious nonsense: recycling drink containers (but only with the right barcode and not any glass) is somehow going to create our ecotopia future #envhist #ecology

Don't miss this fantastic #AMA #Skystorians!

Extraordinary to hear the Minister for Nature, Christopher O'Sullivan, essentially say on the national news this morning that the EU have got it all wrong, and that Ireland's bogs are in fact being protected. The picture is mixed, but overall *not* good.

Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening www.newscientist.com/article/2529...

'London Town, No. 72', Eltham Road, Blackheath (c.1950s) by Robert Ellis (Private collection)

'The Concerto', Queen's Hall, Langham Place (c.1935) by Cyril Power

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live Arctic Monkeys Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling (counting them as one because of vibes) Feist Metric Sultans of Ping NOFX Lagwagon Good Riddance Save Ferris Mealticket Never got to see two of my all time favorites, Amy Winehouse and Operation Ivy

You can't tell the world you use AI for *just this small thing* without contributing to the legitimacy for the whole AI industry. You also can't use AI for *just this small thing* and think that you won't become the next *just this small thing*.

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

I keep attending talks on AI policy, environmental impact, implementation, etc., and it's hard to find what I think is needed: a clear recognition of how generative AI is a direct assault on a range of social and material relatiomships that most would regard as Good Things, and what to do about it

Cafe playing AI remixes of 2000s indie hits, music specifically designed to enrage me

What the actual fuck

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.

The Canvas breakdown this week has once more shown how dependent universities are on "Big Edtech" firms. Lots to unpack on edtech platforms, data, and infrastructures from this case alone so this international multi-authored piece may help explain a few things... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Is Muskism set to define the 21st century, in much the same way as Fordism did through the 20th century? This week @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com join @parismarx.com to discuss the system Elon Musk has built and the threats it poses for society. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/327_...

Seems pretty bad!

“AI Literacy” and “Ethical AI” are marketing slogans serving as Trojan horses for the colonization and ultimate ransacking of the education sector.

In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”

Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...

Woodcut from La Petit Histoire Bretonne ‘On the Open Sea’ Rene Quillivic, 1921

What’s so brazen is that the subhead literally spells out the travesty. It says that tech industry lobbyists have convinced congress to pay for their products to be made a compulsory part of public education so that when the industry wreaks havoc on American workers it can be blamed on educators.

Barry Lyndon: boring as hell, Barry himself looks he's about to fall asleep at any moment

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you were middle class, cishet, suburban and came from a middle to upper class family, the 1990s were probably great. If you grew poor or working class, if you weren't straight and cis, if you lived in a city riven with War on Drugs bullshit, or a dying rural or industrial town, then... nah.

Gonna forward this to the college IT guy I heard gushing about the wonderful "throughput" students can achieve with AI

Study finds that students using chatGPT learned and remembered less than students who did not use it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...