Is there really no way to opt out of AI note taking during Zoom meetings?

Tech sovereignty in action: The Dutch government has blocked a US takeover of the company operating its digital identity programme. nltimes.nl/2026/05/26/n...

Add to this the massive loss of food stamps across Arizona + de-investment in solar + proposed 14% APS rate hikes + gas prices way higher than other US states. GOP is actively pushing independents left.

It feels inhumane that you can’t opt out of commercials for addictive products. People should be able to one-click their way out of ever seeing ads for stuff like alcohol, drugs, and sports betting on apps and streaming services. This shouldn’t be controversial at all and should be very easy to do.

No irony of attributing a Persian quote to Charlie Kirk right after instructing cadets to go ahead and sink the Iranian Navy

If universities can't get the AI to correctly read a set of pre-populated names, why are they asking us to use it to teach!

Operation Epic Fury, which led to the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, is now over. Next war will be to open the Strait of Hormuz! Trump Inc still running its original grift - make a problem, profit from problem while driving others into debt, rinse and repeat.

Gita Gopinath writes “A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.”

Listening to today's NPR piece on China and all the "Communist Party is dangerous & anti-democratic" rhetoric, it's hard not to draw parallels with the modern GOP - loyalty, party corruption, and super wealthy elites driving policy resulting in economic inequality & human rights violations

He talks as if hosting a World Cup is an impossibly difficult endeavor for the US (along w/2 other countries) - meanwhile every 4 years much smaller, poorer countries successfully host these games (e.g. South Africa, Germany, S Korea, Japan, Brazil). These jokers running the US like Trump Corp

One of the first pieces of advice my PhD advisor gave to me, that I pass on to all trainees that I work with: “NEVER trust the university”

How will our AI overlords create innovative, learning content while Canvas is down?

These dudes already control everything, but it’s not enough till they dismantle and destroy everything else - including things that aren’t a threat to them & especially anything that offers a small amount of hope, joy, or dignity to those who already have so little.

“For decades, federal agencies have gathered data on everything from climate risk to the rising cost of childcare. It is information funded by taxes, and that belongs to the American people. But over the past year, the Trump administration has been altering and removing decades’ worth of datasets”

In 1.5 years, Trump accomplishes what AOM leadership failed to do after over a decade of effort. The Academy of Management Annual Conference is leaving the US! Next up, Vienna, Toronto, Frankfurt, London

Foster pup life in Phoenix, Arizona. Saved from the streets as a young pregnant pup, this now child-free mama needs a home of her own. @ Almost There Rescue.

In all honesty, I much prefer this vision of leadership to the current one

Imagine being entrusted to run a cabinet level agency of the US government, an agency with a mission to promote educational excellence & global competitiveness for a population of 300+million and this is what you choose to spend your time on! They are obsessed with controlling women's bodies.

Rooster. Junior prof decides she wants to be on the tenure track. Head of faculty says “yes, let’s put you on a 5yr tenure track”. Then her mom talks to the president and she’ll be getting tenure in 1 year. Is this why my siblings think being a university professor isn’t a serious job?

The Trump administration + Congress further shifting the #NSF mission to corporatize what's left of funding for STEM education & research

Most undergraduates I talked to this semester 1) don't use it or 2) don't want requirements to use it. A few told me they don't use the free ASU AI programs b/c they don't want their stuff accessible by admin. Many are terrified of being accused of cheating with it.

AI rots your brain. Writing with ChatGPT is worse than writing shitfaced after a pub crawl.

School IDs as automatic library cards + EDUROAM at all public buildings (not just universities) - this is what free, public access to information looks like!

Human in the loop

8 years later the 99 item list of higher ed problems is still relevant, including the New York Times Op-Ed columnists

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved public transit, not only did it TRANSFORM the city’s public life and economic success, but the car traffic got better. The car traffic got BETTER.

Trump’s border wall construction has now damaged a 200-foot-long Indigenous etching in Arizona believed to be at least 1,000 years old.

Ghouls. Rule change means people with disabilities from wealthier families will continue to receive Supplemental Security Income, but those most in need (or with family members in need) will be cut off

ASU's new AI tool cannibalizes nuanced, thoughtful faculty lectures into sound bites and chatbot junk text: www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

🚨BREAKING: ICE issued a stop work order on the Surprise, Ariz., warehouse two days before AG @krismayes.bsky.social’s lawsuit for NEPA, INA, and APA violations. It is not clear why work was stopped. The verbiage matches a similar order issued in Md. AFTER a judge granted a TRO in that case.

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

Federal funds apportioned to local police for immigration enforcement have grown 564% since October 2025 — from $158M to over $1 billion, with $363M added in April alone. That's just a fraction of the $14 billion authorized under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Data source: openomb.org

These universities make way bigger problems for themselves by banning / restricting this stuff instead of just letting students protest in the quad, make speeches, or whatever.

who could have ever predicted Polymarket would result in this sort of thing? If only we had a publicly visible platform where we could all bet on the probability of super corrupt shit happening when betting markets collide with military intelligence (or lack of intelligence in this guy's case)

More one the rapid decline of publicly funded research and competitiveness of American science and higher education. What an absolute disgrace

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Once again Trump's "art of the deal" centers on taxpayers paying for his bad decisions & rescuing companies his war on Iran has pushed into bankruptcy

used > utilized

“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.” OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.) NSF at -42%!

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I dream of a Prop 65-style requirement that every site with likely contaminated soil or groundwater to post a plain-language description of what likely caused it, and when. "There was a gas station here for 7 years 80 years ago and now you can't touch the dirt" would radicalize people.

It's bad here, but that's OK bc it's good for oil barons and worse in other places...

What traffic in the Strait of Hormuz looks like:

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly. Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time. Fucking say it!

Will Iran be charging a hefty toll on US & Israel owned ships and cargo passing through the Strait?

Is America's first car-free city a walkable utopia or a government-controlled prison? Grace visits Culdesac, AZ, to find out