why does the “you can’t fight it” rhetoric around AI feel so familiar?? 🤔

After Trump succeeds in silencing every comedian on network TV, shifting the algorithm and AI moderation to silence every critic on the Internet will be nothing, an afterthought. Remember, every social media billionaire was at the inauguration.

"You’ve read a million pearl-clutching op-eds about woke professors and cancel culture, but for my money, the real crisis facing American higher education is that colleges & universities are increasingly run by people who are hostile to students & professors, &...the idea of the university itself."

Let me reiterate that: YOU ARE BETTER THAN "A.I." Whatever comics you make from your own mind and heart with your own skills will be better than any "slick" piece of garbage that generative "A.i." excretes into your lap. You are a unique human being, with unique human experiences. Build on that.

Capitalism builds you a life that you’ll need a permanent vacation from. And when you realize that, tearing down whats built around you to confine you so you can build yourself and others who will also need that vacation a better tomorrow doesn’t just feel nice… It feels like the right thing to do.

Every Western article about this is like "is it too unwoke to make a pun on a day of remembrance?" but that's not what this is, this is a billionaire announcing to the entire country "We should not be a democracy, and I'm glad for every person who died trying to make it one. Suck it."

The slogan for the Starbucks campaign is "Slam it on your desk!" Random, eh? On 5/18 a young man was tortured to death in police custody. The cop said "I just slammed my hand on the desk and he died." Imagine being so rich you'll sacrifice your 2100 Starbucks just to stick it to the libs.

Did a dumb American exec misunderstand what Tank meant? Nope! Starbucks Korea is owned by a Korean billionaire who supports the old regime. Every new tumbler is 503 ml. Random size, eh? A right wing talking point is that "activists" are exaggerating and "only 503 people" were killed on 5/18.

Starbucks done EFFED up in Korea. Bad. May 18th just passed, Democratic Movement Day, when rose up after the military dictatorship sent tanks to mass-murder citizens. Some inappropriately call it "Tank Day." Starbucks commemorated Tank Day with a sale on tank tumblers. It gets much worse...

This is incredible. Science is amazing. It felt like a miracle when diabetes became a treatable chronic condition and this is even moreso

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

NY can actually have universal healthcare if we just lock in and harass these representatives to vote yes on the New York Health Act.

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

The first time I’be heard him tell some semblance of the truth……

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

i can think of no better example than these basic arithmetic cases to demonstrate the gulf between what people are led to believe LLMs do and what they actually do

Allowing third parties to curb trans people's rights to participate in society opens up everyone's manner, clothing, physical appearance to intrusive scrutiny and potential challenge. History also shows allowing erasure of rights for one group soon sees others targeted. This is not a 'them' issue.

This passed the house today, so now is the time to call our senators (and yell at our house reps if they voted for it) This bullshit bill is an assault on trans people and on every kid’s right to read and see the world as it exists. Reps.fyi

You've probably seen the word #Landback somewhere and instantly had some feelings. It sounds blunt, which is part of why a lot of people tend to have an instant reaction or jump to some very problematic misconceptions about what it means. So, let's talk Landback, from my POV and work.

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

Keep booing them

I mean Modi just destroyed all of India’s government data infrastructure, built up over nearly a century, to hide how bad the economy is. And this would have been an actually defensible change to UK’s immigration accounting.

I was yesterday years old when I was told that UK immigration numbers includes students (which is WILD) and Starmer had the political opportunity to cut off all the anti-immigration viciousness by a simple accounting change and he…didn’t.

38 million deaths since 1971. “When you consider the scale of the violence and damages, it becomes clear that this system is not something we can continue to accept.”

I’ve finally given in and tried generic crocs. Why did I take so long to buy these for my house shoes?

Cannot stress enough that WE did not make this a problem. Trans people just want to mind our own business. REPUBLICANS made it a problem and liberals went along with it. You didn’t have to do this.

Just a reminder that every time you engage with Harry Potter anything, you’re helping to fund this sort of thing.

remember when Google offered unlimited digital storage to colleges and universities and then when adoption reached the right levels rescinded that promise, capped everything, and started pricing those services without the subsidies? idk man just something I think about a lot

In a nutshell:

It's 2026, and I just chose to receive a paper check for something, because it was that or PayPal. I understand that this is because banking in the US is so far behind the rest of the world. But my gods, I didn't realize how backwards the US is until I moved to Portugal.

Please. For the love of god. Never use the phrase “left leaning billionaire.” That isn’t a thing. It doesn’t exist. For a billionaire to be even remotely leftist they would be a class traitor and wouldn’t engage in anything even remotely related to the system that made them a billionaire.

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 AI boom is unsustainable because the entire thing is predicated on cannibalizing the future. Is this a better way to search? Maybe! Will there be anything new for the AI to search if no one gets web traffic from Google Search anymore? There will not.

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

#Free event on the 9th June 10-11am (UK time) Elizabeth Cardoso Fernandes will be discussing the needs and effects of masking and #disability disclosure at two Canadian #university #libraries www.eventbrite.com/e/i-the-mask... #librarian #libraryWorker #workplace #neurodivergent #neurodiversity

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.

The Trump $1.776 billion slush fund is not mere corruption. Trump is giving his brownshirts money for recruiting, logistics, AR-15's and tactical gear. Nobody in the national media seems to be talking about this, or about how the Paycheck Protection Program played a central role in funding Jan 6

Union hotel housekeepers in New York City will soon make over $100,000 a year. A new contract the union and the owners of nearly 250 hotels would raise wages by more than 50%. If workers ratify the deal it'll mean life-changing money for 27,000 union members and their families.

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

I've seen some posts scoffing at this idea that follow = endorsement, that there are plenty of other reasons someone might follow someone. Individual intent <<< structural impact For public figures like NG, that follower count matters to the people bankrolling his projects. Don't contribute.

Heads up. He is/was in a lot of starter packs, too, so check yours if you've made one so you're no longer recommending a rapist.

You’re probably asking in this 250th anniversary of 1776: “how did Americans in the Revolutionary era handle people who tried to leave quarantine early?” Well, in 1774, sailors in Mass. threatened to kill patients who broke quarantine rules and later burned the hospital that allowed early exits.

The whole AI-to-make-graduation- efficient is bizarre. The most efficient way to award diplomas is by mail; there’s no logical need for ceremonies. The whole reason they exist is for the human touch & so people can celebrate each other. AI for “efficiency” here is nonsensical (& doesn’t even work🫠)

The man who bankrupted a casino has now also managed to produce the first football world cup nobody wants to attend, there has never been anyone else who ever possessed this level of ability at failing

Worker power is sometimes in showing a world without their labor.

Are you a neurodivergent library leader? I ❤️ that there's growing support available for ND library workers, but being in leadership adds complexity to navigating all of that. Annie Bélanger & I are hosting monthly community spaces to fill that gap. nd-library-leaders.beehiiv.com/p/neurodiver...

I would tag individuals, but I apparently have 88(!) mutuals currently following him, and that’s a bit much to be telling people one by one. If you were a fan before you found out he was a rapist, go check if you’re still listed as a follower. Even if you’ve blocked him. Unblock, unfollow, reblock.

Just a note in case you weren't able to unfollow & block before he deactivated. I might just go on an unfollowing spree in a week or so, after y'all have time to see he's back. I don't want to follow anyone who chooses to continue following him.