When an "AI" provider announces a new result, remember they have a product to sell. Watch for the careful and systematic ways human labour is elided at every step and claims about the model and the 'discovery' process are shielded from direct inspection Today's specimen: openai.com/index/model-...

This is the best news this month. Proud of these Dems. Polis is a fucking clown and deserves to be treated like one. There should be no room in this party for fascist enablers. Take them all out. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

I support the Colorado Democratic Party's censure of Polis. But that's not enough. The General Assembly should reconvene to investigate and hold him accountable. And if he commuted Tina Peters' sentence at the behest of Trump, surrendering Colorado's sovereign authority, he should be impeached.

Yes, I'm suing Matt Taibbi.

Three people are dead and more than a dozen first responders had to be quarantined and assessed Wednesday for possible exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a suspected drug overdose at a rural New Mexico home, authorities said. https://to.pbs.org/4wHBPtM

People used to make fun of Hampshire College and UC Santa Cruz for their “weird” narrative assessment grading but if we had reasonable teaching loads and actually cared about student learning, their (now historic) approach can’t be beat.

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved. Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk. Tell publishers: don’t block the #WaybackMachine Sign the petition ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

See also @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social's Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another 🌍; Julie Davis's Survival Schools: The 🇺🇸 Indian Mvmt + Community Education in the Twin Cities; Danica Savonick's Open Admissions: The Poetics + Pedagogy of ToniCBambara, JuneJordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich...

"...if we continue to let our most experimental and interesting institutions fail in favor of administrative scale, we will find ourselves with a higher education system that is larger, more efficient and entirely devoid of the vibrancy that so many other countries are struggling to emulate."

"These colleges... pushed the bounds of what education is, who it is for + how it should be taught. These institutions have been the [R&D] labs for the Ivy League + beyond. They helped develop + legitimize interdisciplinary fields, such as environmental science, Indigenous studies + media studies."

UPDATE: The Colorado Democratic Party's central committee is now considering a measure to censure or otherwise punish Gov Jared Polis (D) for giving clemency to Tina Peters. I'll thread details here.

Today’s hilarious story from the grading archives involves our old friend AI. So the phenomena that my students focus on as they learn evolution and natural selection is horses. Specifically we track how horses changed throughout the Cenozoic Era. 🧪🧬🍎⚒️

“Students don’t oppose AI from ignorance but EXPERIENCE. This was quite shocking to me: Gallup found that Gen Z high usage has not decreased despite anger having increased. They know what they’re protesting against BECAUSE they know what AI is doing to them.”

Stop slandering college students. And professors. And curricula. And campus life. Get out & touch grass. No, not just Harvard. Not just Deep Springs, student population 26. You sound ridiculous. And petty. And we're very tired while the authoritarians are trying to destroy us & you're helping.

the weirdos who are always talking about overpopulation are also very concerned about birth rates. it's like they think they've cracked a socially acceptable way to be racist in public. but because they are stupid racists they don't understand that it's not socially acceptable and we hate them.

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

I think Bezos is going senile at a younger age than Trump.

Like I can at least kind of understand why non-independently wealthy House backbenchers act like this but what's the point of having $300 billion and still being this kind of fawning lickspittle saying things you know aren't true and knows everybody knows aren't true

Oh yea, another Dem governor vetoed collective bargaining rights legislation—AND gave up the fight to redistrict in the face of aggressive GOP gerrymandering. Great. Everything is terrible.

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

Oh my god I almost fell out of my chair when a senior colleague told me he was using ChatGPT to evaluate a tenure file as an external reviewer because he wanted to help the candidate but didn’t have the time to read all the work.

OMG

Let’s gooooooooo

My husband is crisis because my son is wearing Adidas track pants with Nike sneakers. He tried to talk him out of it but I just got him these sneakers so he really wants to wear them lmao

I was getting the run around from a previous doctor. So I dressed in a business suit, brought my laptop & briefcase and worked in the waiting room until they would see me. Amazingly, i did not have to wait long & they renewed my meds. And I found a new dr soon after.

"Waste heat from data centers can [raise] air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4[°F] researchers at Arizona State University report in a new study conducted in the Phoenix metro area, the hottest in the US." …Y'all what they fuck are we even doing? techxplore.com/news/2026-05...

One of my students told the rest of us in class earlier this semester that he hates AI because it has made his friends "brain dead". He has a friend he can no longer talk to because this person now mediates life through chatgpt. "what should I eat tonight?" "what movie should I watch?"

The framing here - “graduates booed b/c worried about job prospects” - is reductionistic. No, I think the boos also reflect students’ ethical sensibilities about what “AI” and its aggressive rollout represent: corporate greed, environmental destruction, & dehumanizing exploitation, to name a few.

a reminder that segregation among other things is a form of theft

these reactionaries are happy to take the taxes that black families pay to maintain these colleges and universities. they just don't want those institutions to have black students.

conservatives are being pretty clear that they see anything more than a token black presence as tantamount to "anti-white discrimination," and even then, they view that as suspect

it's striking that, in our effort to make sense of AI, we turn far more readily to the fiction of Frank Herbert -- who imagined a future in which human beings had fought a war to destroy thinking machines in order to preserve their humanity -- than to Isaac Asimov -- who left a substantial body 1/

a funny thing about the US coal industry is that O'Reilly Auto Parts, a company that is *never* mentioned in national political discourse, employs more people than the ENTIRE US coal industry

Jeff's not just simping for simping's sake, Trump stole a bunch of taxpayer money that was supposed to go to rural fiber networks and gave it to him for doing nothing, so he's grateful

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.

The movie cost Amazon $75 million and it made $16.3 million at the box office, plummeting 67% in its second weekend after all the MAGA fans already made their pilgrimage to see it. Meanwhile, in this same interview, Bezos insists that the Washington Post must be profitable.

This slush fund to reward insurrectionists is a continuation of the assault on our democracy started by donald on January 6th. Its wrong and puts us in continued danger. See you in court

The general consensus among people who study governance is that Trump was more constrained in his first term, and his second term is marked by recklessness. His second term is also more friendly to tech giants, so maybe that is what Bezos wants to give Trump credit for.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

This is the key, I think (re grad’s booing AI boosters). The very rich are leading a completely insular life cut off from not just non-rich opinions, but a distorted sense of what “work” is.

The union representing Reuters editorial staff says the company retaliated against a contractor journalist for joining internal chats questioning Reuters' ties to the Department of Homeland Security and ICE www.poynter.org/business-wor...

i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights

Good grief

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this reminds me about how the scam email trainings I have to do like every month at this job always highlight "scammers add in a message of urgency to get you to click the link without thinking about it" as a key element.

academics trying to normalize acceptance of AI hallucinated citations in their field: do you seriously expect me to show my work and check my work me, baffled, a naïf, a fool: yes that’s why it’s called *your* *work*

it is so wild to admit in stories like these that you had $80 million dollars in podcast revenue and were laying people off left and right.

Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, the first congressman to come out as gay and co-sponsor of the Dodd-Frank Act, has died in hospice care at the age of 86. https://www.wcvb.com/article/former-massachusetts-congressman-barney-frank-dies/71322284