Ah, I don’t know why I didn’t think about posting my earlier 17-post thread as a screenshot of my tweet at the other place. Thanks, @rj-palmer.com!

the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable

welp unfortunately it looks like the world actually is a complicated place that requires us to put smart people in charge, hate to say it but sometimes shit matters and its not all a troll

Let's annotate. 1. Begins with a CLEAR statement laying out WHO the culprit is and what he is doing. 2. Specifically says what he thinks needs to happen next. 3. Calls out his own institution. THIS IS THE BASEMENT in terms of a response & his colleagues are underground. bsky.app/profile/fros...

This is the NSF program that funds all of linguistics (and which funded my graduate study). Because of course knowing about how language works is woke nonsense that couldn't possible be in anyone's national interest 🫠

There’s no such thing as speaking “without an accent”.

Trump ran on energy independence now we’re sending ground troops to take over an oil theocracy.

I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me

Lieu: "I want the White House to send Kevin Hassett to every single TV channel and to every single swing House district where he can tell the voters of America that hurting consumers is 'the last of our concerns.'"

marc andreesen saying that basically people are bugs should be a big clue as to what these guys plans are for mass unemployment

So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:

The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal. Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.

They’re now literally declaring that their ultimate hope, their actual goal, is to build a God in their own image.

A beautiful moment in the socialist republic of New York

One of my least favorite things around AI in video games is when these LLM idiots try to say that "AI has been in video games for decades," as if the routines that tell ghosts to chase Pac-Man are exactly the same as the chat bot claiming there are nine Rs in strawberry.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

An interesting side note to this story: According to this, this incident went viral because the kid who got punched was wearing Meta smart glasses at school, for which he (1) also got suspended and (2) made himself rather awkwardly famous.

Truly the public is not furious enough.

I sign off on this except I wanna clarify one thing: this is not "human nature," this is specifically how authoritarians feel. like, in the Bob Altemeyer, "high right-wing authoritarian score" sense: the desire to be "the norm" is an authoritarian impulse not everyone feels equally.

It's pretty fucking embarrassing -- damning, even -- that a U.S. scandal driven by U.S. elites is visiting consequences upon people in other countries while those most responsible for it continue to hold positions of the absolute highest power in America. Trash country.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

it's not the worst thing AI is doing but: i love cat videos so much and it's so annoying that people are posting ai cat videos now

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

English isn't native to the Americas. I don't remember Republicans wanting to investigate opera singers, K-Pop groups, or Celine Dion.

Look, all you need to know about the situation is that Green Day sang "American Idiot" at the opening and explicitly told ICE to quit their jobs at their show on Saturday and Bad Bunny said a bunch of stuff in Spanish and alllll the headlines and angry posts are about Bad Bunny. You know why.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

Thinking about this again with the gutting of WaPo.

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

if you're not willing to engage in serious political and institutional reform, you're not willing to engage in reform.

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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.

seems like the kind of piece that should contain an acknowledgement that other people saw what this guy missed but no that isn't how establishment media types roll so it's just open contempt for people who saw clearly when he did not. welcome to the party, you don't have to be a dick about it.

unlike all the strident leftists who were correct too early, i am correct at exactly the right time

The second amendment was never something they believed in. Just a talking point to keep power and control and now they don’t want anyone else to have that. FUCK ICE. Deport ICE to prison cells NOW! Thank you and love to all protesters and people reporting the truth!

The White House posted a digitally altered image showing a demonstrator involved in interrupting a church service in Minnesota last weekend crying as she was arrested on Thursday. A previous version of the image, also posted by an official government account, showed her looking forward calmly.

Yeah this is a great analogy if you want your product to be viewed as a cumbersome novelty filled with features barely anyone uses.

RFK Jr is doing a modern-day Tuskegee study, where by he uses taxpayer money to intentionality infect African children with Hepatitis B and deny them treatment. You know, just to see what happens newrepublic.com/post/205330/...

I’m sorry the decorum argument was dead ten fucking years ago when the entire republican party hitched themselves to mister “grab them by the pussy” come on

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

One of the reasons I was on board with Mamdani from very early on was that he seemed to me, more than any other candidate, to be prepared to offer a roadmap for popular and institutional resistance to Trumpism on the municipal level. Today is validating my optimism.

Honored that our article, "The Myth of AGI", was one of Tech Policy Press's Top 30 read pieces of the year. In some great company here, especially with @eryk.bsky.social's "Anatomy of an AI Coup". www.techpolicy.press/top-30-most-... (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

It never ceases to amaze me how many people who (correctly) ardently support universal healthcare then turn around and oppose universal right to free counsel. IT'S LITERALLY THE SAME PRINCIPLE.

Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.

Meanwhile Disney is *paying* OpenAI $1B to use their data. This must be late- (end?) stage capitalism, right??

I mean, it’s 100% possible that they used her voice as a model and then AI’d it.

OpenAI has generously given Disney the opportunity to lose a billion dollars while selling out every artist that's ever lived