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my wholly vibes-based impression is that US institutions have been uniquely quick and willing to collaborate with the demise of democracy in comparison to those in, say, India or Turkey, which is, obviously, profoundly concerning.

1/4 RE Kimmel, what makes this possible is broadcast TV/radio specifically are subject to FCC regulation in ways other media aren't. With limited broadcast spectrum, idea is built on notion the public owns the airwaves. It gives the FCC authority to regulate in the vaguely defined "public interest."

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times. (1/3)

Boycott Business Insider

This is such an amazing piece: "I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

This is stating the obvious, but there's no good reason - besides systematic murder - for Israel to be bombing Gaza like this. Hamas is nowhere near being a 'bomb a city to dust' level threat. Even the US didn't behave like this in Fallujah, where the opposing force was much stronger.

Hot take, but I think most large (US?) media cant usefully be thought of as journalism anymore tho. It is just a profession making money of spinning culture into drama.

Mary Oliver, Red Bird, 2008 #poetry #poem #MaryOliver

every birthday message to epstein is like "dear jeff, you're so rich and so handsome but probably the thing about you i love most is that you're a prolific child predator. never change <3"

It’s been a month since I wrote this and I want to reiterate that as bad as things look now, Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

This video has aged exactly as well as we all feared it would

Consistently, student journalists do the best work holding their institutions accountable.

The good folks at TWAIL Review maintain a helpful list of readings on #internationallaw and #Palestine, which includes writings by—*checks notes*—actual Palestinian scholars twailr.com/internationa...

I arrived almost a week ago exactly in South Africa for what will be a year-long fellowship (thank you British Academy) based at the South African Institute of International Relations at Wits.

Absolutely fucking awful. I stayed maybe a block from this building when I was in Sumy, and just out of frame was this mural. Russia can do its worst. It will never subdue Ukraine.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

An outstanding edition of @thecontinent.org with an incredibly moving piece on #Gaza, reportage from # Sudan on the landslide that buried a thousand people (did you hear about it?) and your weekly does of hope on how WHO is quietly eradicating river blindness An essential part of your media diet.

A train journey in England is a magical experience in which almost anything can happen except for the journey unfolding as advertised

Rough guide to freedom of expression. If you’re speaking up to challenge those with power or privilege please go ahead. If you’re using your position of power or privilege to (further) demonise already oppressed or disadvantaged people, we need to have words.

Reading Garvey warning about MAGA, basically.

Something so very dark and dehumanizing about the way AI pushers like this describe the ‘costs’ of human beings (‘feeding, educating’), not accidental that it reminds me of eugenics discourse from the early 20th century

Counterpoint: We are doing a terrible job at treating people with respect.

There's been a small but clear presence of AI articles coming into @mwcjournal.bsky.social I really would like there to be a fieldwide blacklist of authors caught submitting them.

If your research centrally involves the 19th-c. British press, you should for sure consider applying for a Curran Fellowship. Anybody can apply, and the process is blessedly straightforward. My late friend Eileen Curran would be proud to see all the fine projects that her generosity has assisted in.

New study: ”Philosophy majors scored higher than students in all other majors on standardized tests of verbal and logical reasoning, as well as on self-reports of good habits of mind, even after accounting for freshman-year differences.” theconversation.com/studying-phi...

"Al Jazeera told me that he was sent a warning by Israeli intelligence and told to stop reporting." Chapter and verse from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social‬ on Israel's campaign of murder of Palestinian journalists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Military history people, I have a question that I'd love recommendations on. I am trying to understand the history of the plate carrier/body armour in journalism and as part of this am interested in the history of this technology more generally. Does anyone have any good recommendations on this?

"I used to know time as a schedule, a plan, a goal. Now, time is only something to endure." jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...

Ursula Le Guin: “The shift from denial of injustice to recognition of injustice can’t be unmade.... Once you see the injustice, you can never again in good faith deny the oppression and defend the oppressor. What was loyalty is now betrayal. From now on, if you don’t resist, you collude.”

Ai Weiwei was invited to contribute short reflections on “What I would have liked to know about Germany earlier" for an upcoming issue of Zeit Magazin. His submission was first shortened and edited, then immediately cancelled after a review by the Executive Editor. Ai shared his reflections anyway:

Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in this war.

"Most moral army"

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

I run a small charity, Action on Armed Violence, with ‘Google News’ status, so our articles get good visibility. If you’re a postgrad researcher in conflict, human rights in war, or related fields, and you have work that only two people have read but deserves more, I’d love to see it....

this is excellent work on the current moment of our elite's fash hysteria and only incidentally compares GPT to V2 rockets

It continues to amaze me how much airport security is little more than a cargo cult.

Reading some of Marcus Garvey's speeches and he would have loved Wakanda.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

I'm so tired of talking about AI but also my entire job hinges on conversations about AI and I'm so demoralized and feel so gaslit and I am just deeply not okay.

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

At my institution we all talk in circles around each other because the AI boosters and the AI critics aren't even speaking the same language and don't have the same worldviews. And none of the conversations matter because admin has already decided that the AI critics are cranks

Starvation is also being used as a weapon of war in Sudan. Famine and death is on the rise and largely absent from the media. news.un.org/en/story/202...

University admins literally run institutions full of experts in every subject and not only do they never consult them, they go out of their way to insult that expertise while following the world's most deliberately stupid consultants. Every time. It's a death cult.

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal. If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you. Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

Genocide scholars raise alarm about the genocide in Gaza. We don’t preserve the memory of past genocide victims by ignoring this genocide.