I love the people in this city. Check out how quickly this sign was vandalized. Also, this article title sounds like it’s an Onion headline, but isn’t.

I would like to issue a formal apology to cartoons for lampooning your villains' level of pointless evil all these years

Important reporting here. We can’t trust emissions numbers offered by tech companies (let alone back of napkin calculations on some dude’s substack), so looking at their infrastructure build-out is one of the few ways we have of estimating the effects of AI on emissions.

The NYT coverage of Mamdani is breathtaking in its complete lack of shame. “But many New Yorkers worried the new moves against the rich could upend livelihoods. Agents working in real estate, a major driver of the city’s economy, were eager to hear more details about plans for a second-home tax.”

This is the way we should talk about immigration.

Roberts has a lot to answer for. If I were him, I would hope there is no hell.

This is great. h/t @neuroyogacara.bsky.social

The Times’ attacks on Mamdani are as absurd as they are shameless. “Muslim socialist Mamdani murders jobs with his hammer and scimitar”

I'm opposed to the President of the United States threatening to commit genocide. Also to him committing genocide, and to all the other crimes against humanity he has already committed. I'm going to take part in the May 1st demonstrations. I hope you will, too. And any that come up before then.

This weekend we had another great edition of the Penn-Georgetown Digital Ethics Workshop. We had eight excellent talks, along with comments from eight great commentators. I really enjoyed the conversations. This year, we were hosted again by Penn.

The NYT page today is really a bizarre thing to see. Trump threatening genocide, accompanied by an article about his wife’s “unexpected Easter look”.

This is a killer comp, with a lot of amazing artists. It lives mostly in noisy, often dub-forward, industrial spaces. It also includes the first song from a new project of mine, which is also noisy, sort of dub-forward, and kind of industrialish… philipkdiscs.bandcamp.com/album/this-b...

Don’t these foolish progressives know that the only way to build real political power is to toady up to wealthy donors while projecting an air of smug superiority?

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In a short span of time, we transformed the way we thought about health,” Cal Newport writes. “I’ve come to believe that a similarly rapid revolution is possible in how we respond to our diminishing ability to think.”

"Sora is dead. May the memory of its four-month existence as a copyright infringement machine that was also used to make videos of men strangling women and ICE arresting undocumented immigrants be a blessing. " www.404media.co/disneys-open...

Can't wait for this! Incredible line-up.

A few things on the end of Horizon Worlds, the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg believed in so much that he renamed his company: 1) It’s very sad that many of the people who worked on it have been unceremoniously laid off because their leaders appear to have no idea what they’re doing 2) lol

Philpeople needs a dislike button.

On the topic of current events.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

"We’ve already won. The reward is right now, this moment. The reward is watching your city organize in hyperlocal networks of compassion because tens of thousands of people simultaneously and instinctively felt the urge to help their neighbors get by" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Not the most pressing issue in the world, but I appreciated this clever and well written skewering of University admin priorities. www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

Don’t look into it, but it’s all just normal, non-fascism stuff going on around here.

Announcing Georgetown University’s Initiative on Artificial Intelligence & Democratic Citizenship (AIDC)! 🎉🎊 Funded by @nehgov.bsky.social, our network of humanists explore the impact of AI and democratic life. Read more at www.aidc.georgetown.edu. Fellowship opportunities coming later this week!

This would be metal af. Sign me up.

We are afloat in a sea of bullshit.

ICE and associated agencies are a despicable, lawless, fascist secret police. They are murderers and must all face trial.

"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior." latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...

…the second time as farce. But still, also, very much as tragedy.

SANDWICH GUY NOT GUILTY.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

But one chat request uses less energy than a 50 mile commute, so it’s fine. Such low energy usage. Don’t even worry about it. It’s like voting, it’s not like one chat ever made a difference.

“The other issue I’m having is that my stronger students are very, very bored. I asked AI how to further engage them with AI prompting. Now, those advanced students are working on prompting AI to come up with ways to refreeze the glaciers their AI prompting has melted.” Gold.

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

A compelling argument for the value of shame by my colleague @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

The Springer Nature Proof Editor is unbelievably terrible. I’m seriously considering just pulling the article, despite having gone through 2 rounds of revision to get it accepted.

Trump admin: [flagrantly violates constitution] NYT analysis: The Trump admin *may* have crossed a constitutional line by [flagrantly violating the constitution]. Who are we to come down one way or the other?

One point Montesquieu makes that I find pretty insightful is that despotism er fuckin sucks and we definitely should not do that. I feel we have a lot to learn from this.

"Humanity is now obsolete. To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: 'Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.'"

This slayed me.