Great piece to which I’d only add the tech delusion that monarchs (or empires) operated with immediacy and direct oversight and intervention traduces the reality of courtly protocol and nested sovereignty.

Bernie and AOC are pushing a much-needed federal data center moratorium. But their AI policies couldn’t be more different. Bernie’s AI policy responds to exaggerated industry narratives, while AOC is taking on the harms we’re seeing from their products. We need policy based on reality, not on hype.

Dr. Velislava Hillman and Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger argue that as AI erodes job markets, it exposes the reality that the crisis facing young people "was never primarily technological, but political." Time to rethink what education is for, they say.

Gender-affirming care for America's empire maintenance.

In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.

The Antikythera Mechanism, recovered from a Greek shipwreck dated to ~60 BCE, is the world’s oldest known analog computer. Built around 100 BCE with 30+ bronze gears, it accurately predicted eclipses and tracked the Sun, Moon, and planets over 2,000 years ago. ⚙️🌍

Actually Existing MAHA

“If you don’t use the tech that kills Black people you’ll be left behind”

Every day is a good day to teach the histories and political economies of ed-tech, but today’s bid from Anthropic to capture K-12 teachers and news of a failed crypto/sex robot company selling a robot to a high school serving a large population of Indigenous youth really emphasizes the urgency.

OMFG

I love it when companies offer free shovels to dig your own grave.

A model that seems possible for public higher education institutions as well. It will take some investment, but the payoffs could be massive and enduring.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

TLDR: Because we don't want to get prosecuted www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

BREAKING: a Maine state representative is reporting ICE has killed another person.

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SignalTrace “bridges license plate recognition data [ex. Flock] with sensor-captured device identifiers—such as those from mobile phones, Bluetooth wearables, and vehicle systems—to create a unique, trackable ‘electronic fingerprint’ for investigative use,” apple.news/AMcXcHhVMSrm...

Gonna reference @lukestark.bsky.social like I always do. Facial recognition is the “plutonium of ai.” There’s no “benign” use, particularly where Facebook is involved.

This is a story we are seeing repeated everywhere: whether it’s pro-labor, pro-student, pro-disability mvmts grounded in human association, in providing human scaffolding to make conditions better for people, tech corporations have lobbed AI like a grenade at us to dismantle these gains. 3/n

Incredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Who among us hasn’t rolled a giant horse full of enemy troops through the city gates.

🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

misogyny undergirds all other forms of oppression and those who commit violence against women shouldn’t be in positions of power. any claims they make towards rooting out other forms of oppression are lies, as evidenced by their commitment to enacting patriarchal violence.

Bro we will not be calling.

Anthropic is accusing other companies of--get this--unfairly copying their work. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/t...

"The lengthy and rather miserable history of almost all human existence will be briefly explored" reads like Jack Handy meets Hobbes. But "The reason why capitalism generally makes humans better people and why capitalism is more fun will be explored" is chefs kiss. No notes.

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

fwiw, a lot of the founders thought having two senators per state no matter the size was a horrible idea and tried to block it, but small states wouldn't join the union without it so they eventually gave up.

The next Cambridge Disinformation Summit will be held 23 through 25 March 2027 at the University of Cambridge. Next year's Summit will focus on incentives and power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence and disinformation campaigns. www.jbs.cam.ac.uk\disinfo-2027

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. Happy 250, America!

#TurnOffTheDataCenters #GreenSky 🧪

The Left(s) should get onboard with a massive expansion of public libraries across the country over the next 25 years. This is an affirmative project.

It’s HOT! Don’t forget to unplug your local Data center to stay cool.

today in destroying higher ed is economic sabotage: “Economists project a 1/3drop in international STEM students will strip $240-481B from GDP research institutions employ enormous numbers of people directly, purchase locally, anchor economies” johnaubreydouglass.substack.com/p/trump-poli...

As ever,

Stanford fought the lawsuit, which I’m grateful for. Our legal team was incredible. But the university still shut Stanford Internet Observatory down bc they didn’t want to deal w/political pressure. It costs real time &💵 to fight vexatious bs for 3 yrs. But you have to fight—or else the liars win.

“The urgent takeaway for government officials and police departments is that they should be extremely hesitant to believe anything Flock’s tells them about its company, its products, or its commitment to safety and privacy.”

gamehistory.org/87percent/ 87 percent of all classic video games are lost media, only existing in physical media long since forgotten and stashed away in storage or literally no longer extant, yet to be or possibly never archived.

🚨 We analyzed the Supreme Court’s decisions over the past 20 years and found that for the first time, the court issued more consequential rulings on its “shadow docket” (unsigned orders often decided without arguments) than the traditional merits docket. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

It's really hard to convey just how massive the scale of legislation has been to target trans people. From a few dozen pieces of legislation in 2015 to over a thousand in 2025. It started with sports bans in 2020 and now we're here. it was never about sports.

It’s really important to install an entire federal discrimination system so somebody’s cis daughter can finish 14th at her swim meet.

PLEASE STOP DESCRIBING BIRTHRIGHT AS 6-3, I AM GOING TO GO INSANE

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

I assume this comes with @edzitron.com on a candle.

Scoop: Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects like suicide, sex, and eating disorders, WIRED found.