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Laura Jedeed
3 days ago
Is AI better at coding than a junior engineer? Maybe! Will we ever have senior engineers if we replace all junior engineers with AI? We will not Is AI better at writing then a 6th grader? Maybe! Will anyone learn to write of all 6th graders use AI? They will not
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I taught research skills to college freshmen, and am now expected to help develop a bot so people donât have to use a search bar. BLEAK.
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In my pockets of the world, AI adoption rates seem to mirror how secure people feel their job to be. Expendable folk canât afford AIâs mistakes; executive leaders can sell fictions without risking their access to healthcare.
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josh boerman
6 days ago
âerm you canât just criticize me for using AI; itâs a toolâ buddy fucking watch me. you have no idea how broad i can get. the sheer array of sweeping judgment at my disposal is staggering. i can, and will, generalize about you in terms that will make your head spin
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âWomen are facing an economic apocalypse. Democrats have no plan for them. Republicans have a plan, and itâs a one-way ticket back to housewifery. The girl bosses who once promised us we could have it all are now selling the same uncritical A.I. takes as the men.â
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Scott Horton
8 days ago
Texas GOP limits eligibility for Medicaid to families living below 15 percent of the poverty level, meaning that a family of three earning more thanâget thisâ$4,098 annually is not eligible for any benefits.
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Obamacare Subsidies: Are Republicans More Stupid Than They Are Cruel?
Many predicted last fall that if the Obamacare subsidies ended, millions would forgo health coverage. Gee, guess whatâs happened?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
8 days ago
Perfectly said. Absolutely true.
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Felix Leditzky đłď¸âđđłď¸ââ§ď¸
14 days ago
Some history about this commemoration:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Mig...
"The enslaved Africans brought by the settlers [to San Miguel de Gualdape in 1526] became the first documented black slaves in what would become the continental United States and carried out the first slave rebellion there."
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Amanda Marcotte
18 days ago
Both mainstream media and especially MAGA media are hyping claims that there's been a big resurgence in religiosity among young American men. But a deeper look at the data shows they don't go to church more than young women. I have answers.
www.salon.com/2026/05/04/y...
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Young men's religious revival is a myth
New polling suggests the recent âconvertsâ care more about gender than Jesus
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/04/young-mens-religious-revival-is-a-myth/
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Sonja Drimmer
20 days ago
In 2020
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and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need!
hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...
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alix e. harrow
24 days ago
when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters
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In deeply hilarious news, I definitely read Richard Dawson first and letâs all agree, for better or worse, he would never.
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Katie Bergh
22 days ago
ICYMI: The House Appropriations Committee voted 35-25 yesterday to advance a bill that would underfund WIC and cut fruit and vegetable benefits for almost 5.4 million toddlers, preschoolers, new moms & pregnant women in low-income families.
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Per Engzell
25 days ago
Up to 23 percent of papers published in conference proceedings with a leading publisher had coauthorships for sale at some point
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Call it data, call it vibes, but regardless why people feel this way, weâre about to hit âfrontier justiceâ levels of social contract.
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Lupita Nihongo
26 days ago
Imagine if you did a Big Boy Crime and the media said you got radicalized by Malcolm Gladwell
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Louise Seamster
27 days ago
with the major added benefit to the university of reusing our âdead labor,â to quote Marx, to produce infinite microcredits, a popular revenue-generation scheme, while the student gets to avoid the friction of actual learningâsurely they already know what they need to know, can learn it alone, etc.
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Petter TĂśrnberg
29 days ago
We are no longer commenting or even liking. Just watching. Likes, shares, comments â "active" signals â are being displaced by watch time, dwell time, scroll hesitation. Preference is inferred from micro-reactions. The 'prod-user' has become the user-spectator.
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The language we use is a direct indicator of what is important to us.
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Too Big to Fail
about 1 month ago
There's actually a fun story behind this: the guy who was NYC superintendent of school buildings from 1891 to 1923 was an architect who believed in holistic learning, and wanted to inspire kids to rise out of poverty by giving them a sense of the possibility of granduer through construction.
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Adam Serwer
30 days ago
Republicans loved gerrymandering as long as their opponents were committed to fair maps. Now that Dems are responding in kind, conservatives arenât having as much fun. But the only thing worse than constitutional hardball is unilateral constitutional hardball. (đ)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Virginia Gerrymander Disenfranchises Republicans
Republicans seem to have expected that Democrats would continue to follow rules they had long since enthusiastically abandoned.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/virginia-congress-midterms-trump/686895/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8DNfDkO_wM3hiZEF2s76eMs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Andromeda
about 1 month ago
I Never Saw a Wild a Thing Sorry for Itself ~ L.E. Bowman
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Benjamin Tausig
about 1 month ago
And as we build new institutions in the coming years, as we must, we can prioritize blurring the distinction that academia built up like a plaque between learning and the world. And then you wonât be outside at all.
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AL
about 1 month ago
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
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Alex Brown đľđ¸ (they/them)
about 1 month ago
If you're thinking "how does this help the unhoused," the answer is it doesn't. It isn't designed to. It's designed to punish those who do not have housing and declare them morally unfit, and to praise those who are morally fit (have a home) by providing them with state-sponsored economic support.
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Love the idea of Derek as Outfit Caesar, pointing rad or bad.
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about 1 month ago
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I HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS ARGUMENT FOR YEARS. Give us the thigh meat or get out!
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about 1 month ago
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Natacha
about 1 month ago
The section that the Guardian censored⌠By Prof Judith Butler
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The Pitch
about 1 month ago
"You want to give these billionaire clowns $600 million. Where's our bailout? Where's the working class bailout? Where's the urgency? It's a damn shame."
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A Royals stadium ordinance just steamrolled through city government. The public has a few small critiques.
The Missouri Workers Center brings an anti-stadium protest to the city council meeting // Photo by Kylie Volavongsa At the beginning of Kansas Cityâs April 26 city council meeting, Pastor David McDani...
https://www.thepitchkc.com/a-royals-stadium-ordinance-just-steamrolled-through-city-government-the-public-has-a-few-small-critiques/
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derek guy
about 1 month ago
Here is an easy solution: Food stains are humiliating, as they suggest you're a little baby who can't feed themselves. Oil stains, such as those you'd get from working on your car, suggest you're tough, independent, and skilled. Thus, simply cover your food stains with used motor oil.
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Melissa Jo Peltier
about 1 month ago
Remember this, though: Amazon has calculated that poisoning water & making restitution payouts for sickness & even death is CHEAPER than whatever they plan to make on the Data Center. Theyâre STILL gambling with human lives with impunity.
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Rafe Meager (they/them)
about 1 month ago
personally, I am increasingly unsympathetic to the outreach/communication/hearts and minds thing. people don't want to know, then they want to be coddled and protected and praised for their innocence, b-b-b-but nobody educated meeeeeeeee
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
"Orange man bad" was true & sufficient from the very beginning. Here we are, over 10 years into this shit, and the supposed adults in charge of US elite politics & media just keep ... discovering it. Again & again. Exclaiming. "Gosh, y'know, he really does seem bad!" No shit you f'ing lumps.
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Define a girly job. DO IT.
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Fergi Jo Lisa đłď¸âđ
about 1 month ago
I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! đđđđđ Best with volume up.
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Dr. Jens Foell
about 1 month ago
I want diplomats recalled from the US. I want renegotiations about US bases in Europe. I want an official boycott of the World Cup by all participating nations. I want new articles of impeachment filed every single day. Play time is over. Act like adults or make way for those who do.
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A decade ago I had to de-escalate my classrooms after a student posted a post-vote celebratory âgrab them all by the pussies!â targeting campus. This year Iâm supposed to be grateful that we decided not to eliminate a country (yet, this time).
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
about 2 months ago
I think this is SUCH an important discussion, and she was so great. Reupping so people know this is out there. I raved to my husband about it all eveningâ she was fantastic.
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henry âˇ
about 2 months ago
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 2 months ago
Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility and I'll take the opportunity to once again say that trans people matter, their lives have meaning, and what's being done to them by so many politicians and people in this country is wrong.
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hannah gais
about 2 months ago
This is a very good article that should be completely uncontroversial to anyone whose profession consists primarily of writing, at least ostensibly.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...
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Opinion | Thereâs a Good Reason You Canât Concentrate
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/technology-mental-fitness-cognitive.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WlA.6ZKN.Zf47rdbx8Sqm&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Stephen NuĂąez
about 2 months ago
They were supposed to play the drums and fife to announce their presence and then march in order over the battle field where they line up and that turns firing and loading their muskets. This is very ungentlemanly of them.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
about 2 months ago
This is so vital. AI â like the internet â benefits when we refuse to consider its materiality.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
about 2 months ago
Princeton has shared the full talk I had with
@katemanne.bsky.social
mediacentral.princeton.edu/category/2_C...
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Princeton University Media Central
https://mediacentral.princeton.edu/category/2_Campus+Life%3EPrinceton+University+Public+Lectures/401928122?fbclid=PAZnRzaAQxRSpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAae6CaVKdaBZIWWrumDW_OYob8kO7kktMpQEnFd5bLruH5mHBIW-qO1PJum8yw_aem_B8tJdAnAYdwNP31xaDBisw
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The Onion
about 2 months ago
Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People
https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/
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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder
about 2 months ago
not sure if other people (much less The Youths) feel this way, but i feel that sending someone AI-generated content is fundamentally disrespectful. âi did not even care enough to personally create this slop i am expecting you to engage with; my time is more valuable than yoursâ
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âWhy would the union folks be so upset at bringing in all the violent scabs? What could be wrong?â
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Jamie
2 months ago
Every initiative like this operates under the premise that ai is inherently good and we silly humans are obligated to learn to use it âcorrectlyâ because the only problems stem from misuse or misunderstanding. But the problems are literally the entire thing.
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Matt Seybold
2 months ago
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
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âI wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliffâ: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/10/ai-impact-professors-students-learning
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The Vertlartnic
2 months ago
Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?
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