Big Tech these days in a nutshell

Eye-opening for me: “Maintaining students at the center of our focus means not only refusing to use AI in teaching. Paradoxically, it also means refusing to devise assignments that deflect AI, and, thus, making AI the main focus again.”

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Fact | You can't write something predicated in the utterly ludicrous assumption that white men are being excluded from publishing unless you are racist.

In this 1976 letter to the editor of the Latrobe (PA) Bulletin, we learn that the "Democrat Party's" nominee, Jimmy Carter, is a globalist, one world government, communist, socialist, UN-loving, gun grabber who is part of an international conspiracy to undermine US sovereignty. That letter writer…

Going to be amazing if birthright citizenship is stripped but the 14th amendment is upheld to make ChatGPT people.

Je récapitule avec plus de détails : je recherche toujours "Cécile" (on l'appelle comme ça depuis hier avec ma famille), jeune femme ≈25 ans, descendue d'un train hier à la gare de Saint-Vallier-sur-Rhône en laissant derrière elle 1 grand sac en papier rempli de cadeaux. Merci de RT et joyeux Noël 🎄

Merry Christmas to me! 😁 Excited to finally be getting to read this masterwork by @philipchristman.bsky.social

It’s increasingly clear that social media is a net social evil which shreds attention spans, and this is why the only appropriate remedy available in this space is spending time observing Morris company wallpaper patterns

Hi, hello! My book _Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England_ is forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press. I think about print all the time but in ways you might not expect. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

There are many people with CPTSD who would be wise to take a beat and consider this advice, as hard as it is. The “relive it” thru triggers compulsion is very strong - but I need to remember I am free to choose to do anything else. I hope y’all do too.

Si on peut discuter de l'opportunité de renseigner ce genre de caractéristiques sociales et personnelles dans une situation de fascisation générale, il reste que leur catégorisation et collecte est nécessaire à la lutte contre les discriminations, d'un double point de vue logique et logistique.

by now you’d assume everyone knew “reasoning” is a misnomer

automated writing is bad for writer’s brains—hey, let’s illustrate this with automated illustration

until morale improves

Spurious historical analogies seem to be the only manner in which apologists for anti-labor industries know how to defend their position.

Eye-opening for me: “Maintaining students at the center of our focus means not only refusing to use AI in teaching. Paradoxically, it also means refusing to devise assignments that deflect AI, and, thus, making AI the main focus again.”

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

This is funny as fuck. www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/artific...

Insanity. The Trump Admin says it’s “combatting antisemitism” - but here again, that’s a lie - since they’re trying to ban an Afghan researcher who literally *studies online antisemitism.*

Algerian parliamentary bill 'lists the “crimes of French colonisation”, which include nuclear tests, extrajudicial killings, “physical and psychological torture” and the “systematic plundering of resources” and declares French colonization (1830-1962) a crime. 🗃 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

This is a real tweet.

Dire qu’il faut s’instruire des personnes concernées sur les questions d’oppression et de racisme rencontre assez vite une limite : cette maxime pratique ne permet pas de trancher lorsque deux personnes concernées ont un avis différent sur un même phénomène.

1/ Reminded of this, written by Yeats in 1928 against a proposed censorship act. He references the burning of English magazines, for a remarkable reason. archive.spectator.co.uk/article/29th...

Et bonnes fêtes, les ami·es ! [Fresque Les Communes ou la mort, rue Pierre-de-Montreuil, #Montreuil, le 25.12]

"Der Stürmer" : l'écrivain Stefan Zweig juge "antisémite" une caricature publiée par le journal nazi.

J'ai publié quelques essais et extraits de HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY aussi: www.surekhadavies.org/essays-and-r...

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and there’s no toys under the Christmas tree this year. But at least now there aren’t any black wise men in my town’s manger display.

me assessing if I should add a stanza to the middle of the poem

heart of dorkness

New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...

Cette nuit, par prétexte ou sincèrement, le monde célèbre la naissance d’un enfant à Bethléem en Palestine, où 2025 ans plus tard on tue quotidiennement des enfants par la colonisation, la faim, le froid, les bombardements ou les exécutions. Cette nuit je pense à Hind Rajab et tous les autres.

concentration camps.

Here it is

Pour avoir publié un livre de recettes de cuisine accompagnées de dessins, un détenu a été puni et transféré à Condé-sur-Sarthe, dans l'une des taules anti-narcos imaginées par Darmanin.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

These visits by ghostes koude have been three emayles.

It’s here!

L'automatisation de la propagande fasciste

possibly the ur-lyre

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

My first paper on disinformation just published. I argue that disinformation should be understood in pragmatic terms (e.g., changing content to influence choice) not epistemic terms (e.g., inducing inaccurate beliefs). You can view with this link. Spoiler in title. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

[Plainte du ministre de l'Intérieur Laurent Nuñez contre Libertalia] On se sait pas si la plainte aboutira. Mais on est prêt au combat. Notre avocat aussi, maître Arié Alimi.

Demain #AuPoste à 7h00 : Spéciale édition indé avec Libertalia (pour le jeu Fachorama) et Editions du bout de la ville (pour causer prison, Sarko & co) www.auposte.fr/convocation/... #AuPoste média 100% Live et libre ! Adonnez-vous !

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.