I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.

So it hasn't improved efficiency, isn't used to create actual content, and is used to "flesh out" PowerPoint presentations and generate placeholder text. ...In other words it's used to placate the CEOs who think everyone neeeeeeds to use AI by throwing it into a few slides? Sounds about right.

It's the way tech works now: Companies are paid to implement some bullshit that no one wants and designs it so it is unavoidable and then uses facetious number of users to justify doing it more/get more money from investors

We should add this to our review of irresponsible AI and big tech's influence in academia arxiv.org/abs/2512.03077

LLMs. They promote suicide and murder, undermine a century of educational practice, drive deskilling, harm the environment, and benefit foreign adversaries spreading disinformation. But the federal government wants to prohibit states from regulating them. You'd think they were guns.

💯 The “#1 domestic terrorist organization in this country” is the executive branch of government — thank you Representative Bennie Thompson for pushing for truth ✊

Feedback loops of stupidity 😮‍💨

ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...

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“America is a gun”

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*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...

Solar/wind power is objectively better on every level—including price, hence even OPEC countries investing in it for their own energy needs—but for reasons best described as "fanaticism," Silicon Valley is hostile to it, even as limited & overpriced electricity drains the blood from their AI dreams.

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Truly horrific 😡

What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.

Keep an eye out! As AI winds down while VC money runs out, they're going to continue following the same failed playbook Web3 used. They'll redirect the focus from big money (companies, entrepreneurs) to marginalized communities. Prepare to see AI re-spun as a tool to empower women/POC/LGBT.

"When the discourse of the powerful is evil on one side and indifference on the other, let your heart be a whistle." New poem: "Discourse." Full text at the link below or the IG version here: instagram.com/p/DSGVKL-Du-9

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🧵 is very concerning re: privacy 😤

This is the world’s first steel made without burning fossil fuels. Steel is a massive emitter so this is hugely important! We have so many solutions to solve the #climatecrisis. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateAction #reneables #renewableenergy

No teeth behind this, but ugh!

"The group rallied amid frigid conditions at the Target store on East Lake Street, alleging it allowed agents to stage raids in the parking lot. 'You cannot celebrate our communities on your commercials while letting ICE stalk them in your parking lot'...” www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

It’s a decidedly nonhuman, anti-human hue. . . It is the color of offending by trying very hard not to offend. It is the color of a corporate apology. It is the color of a machine saying, “I hear you.”

Yes. Joy Boulamwini, for example—

Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏

#GVerse This right here is spot on, everyone needs to watch this! 👇💯 #Repost Spread far & wide!

In this episode of “Movement Memos,” Tamara Nopper and host Kelly Hayes discuss the urgency of political education in our current fascist climate, what people are learning in the streets, and the importance of counter-recruiting for movements against policing and deportations.

At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors. share.google/4LfU58LW6iUR...

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Orwell read about it in Eugene Lyons's book Assignment in Utopia, which he reviewed.

Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️

The language our allies need to defend us out there can actually be this elegant all the time, as long as you know what you're saying 🏳️‍⚧️

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Gaslighting 101 😢

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h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

You have the right to record ICE. You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it. Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.

To be clear, I think "machine learning" is as anthropomorphic as "artificial intelligence". Learning and intelligence perform the same role, they imply uniquely biological or psychological capacities to the machine or artifact through their use in the phrase. See table 1: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

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The extent to which the tech companies are becoming energy companies is one of the biggest stories of the year.

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