The Useful Idiots of AI Doomsaying Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.

The new book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” aims to explain why superintelligent AI would eliminate humanity. But along the way, the authors “fail to make an evidence-based scientific case for their claims,” Adam Becker argues:

The accelerationists and the doomsayers are two sides to the same coin and neither should be heeded

College Students Have Already Changed Forever Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work.

A majority of undergraduate students use AI for classwork, several studies show. Ian Bogost spoke with college students to explore their motivations behind using the tool—and the painful revelation professors may face this in classrooms this fall.

Searching for the Children of the Disappeared A new book examines the extraordinary decades-long campaign by Argentinean women to find their grandchildren.

For decades, a group of Argentinian women led an extraordinary campaign to find their stolen grandchildren.

AI chatbots lean slightly leftwards - despite what Grok has been doing lately. My latest for @economist.com Espresso

Late Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials are retiring under worse conditions than Early Baby Boomers. Later generations will likely face even worse retirement conditions due to pending and proposed policy changes
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The sad, sad state of the New York Times | Press Watch Trolling the libs is par for the course

The New York Times' "coverage of anything remotely political is poisoned by its obsession to prove its neutrality by taking cheap shots at the left, no matter the cost to its obligation to accuracy and fairness."

@froomkin.bsky.social hits the 🎯 as usual weighing on NYT's recent hitjob on Mamdani.

There were 28 nationwide injunctions against Biden, and the Supreme Court didn't have an issue with any of them.

I wonder what changed.

If you're interested in seeing what the conversation on X looked like on Saturday morning, as the information warriors there went to work framing the shootings of Democratic lawmakers for political gain, I made an interactive graph: faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot...

What's the Future of Media under Trump 2.0? | LIVE with Tara McGowan & Susan Demas Here's a hint: The mainstream national media won’t save us.

What's the Future of Media under Trump 2.0? | LIVE with Tara McGowan of @couriernewsroom.bsky.social & Lincoln Square Executive Editor @sjdemas.bsky.social www.lincolnsquare.media/p/whats-the-...

It happened to Ras Baraka, Newark mayor and to my representative LaMonica McGiver. What were you expecting?🤷🏻‍♀️

🧵 I’ve talked a lot about disordered discourse, conspiracies, polarisation, denialism. But maybe the better question is: why does this keep happening? Why does our shared reality keep fracturing? What are the drivers I talk about as a dimension of disordered discourse?

So much for the Murrow effect after last night’s broadcast.

George Grosz: The Stick Men - The Heckscher Museum of Art George Grosz (1893–1959) created the “Stick Men” series in Huntington, New York, where he lived from 1947 until shortly before his death. Featuring hollow figures in an apocalyptic landscape, this…

I know there are lots of serious & important things going on in the world right now but I just learned I completely missed this show on Long Island last year of George Grosz's 1940s "Stick Men" series & as someone who loves Grosz's late work I'm just totally gutted😞 www.heckscher.org/exhibitions/...

Here is the official Harvard University website!
www.harvard.edu
Here is their # if you'd like to speak to someone there!!
+1 617-495-1000

The link to the Free Government courses is ...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

Very glad to see this out:

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Special Issue
Misinformation: Current Directions and New Insights

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The GOP now seems to be made up of people who’d have survived the Milgram experiment without much stress. I can’t get over their ability to justify ever-more-horrifying shocks Trump is giving to human beings, the system—and they’re coming up with more ever-more-horrifying versions of their own.

Save Medicaid Please call your Representative right now and leave a voicemail, or first thing on Monday morning before the mark up session begins.

🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨

TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts.

MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here.

Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid

“They disagreed about Canada’s sovereignty” 🤦🏻‍♀️

Dear @nytimes.com There can be NO DISAGREEMENT on Canadian sovereignty. The correct answer on a test would be that Canada is a sovereign country. The unwillingness to recognize that fact merits a failing grade for the student questioning that fact. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

It’s a development project for him. That’s all. Perhaps it’s time for legos.

NotebookLM was already one of the best AI apps for academic work.
Now it supports 50+ languages.

• Summarize papers
• Generate audio overviews of papers
• Ask question about papers
• Prepare study guides

All this in your own language and that too for free.

👍🏼

And he is a teacher!

Feeling your pain as someone who laughed at Trump antics in NYC way before he even thought of politics.

Will make Bezos happy.

Cory Booker's epic Senate speech puts Democrats back in the spotlight Democratic voters grown impatient with leaders who won't counter Trump more aggressively.

Sen. Cory Booker's marathon speech on the Senate floor won the floundering Democratic Party something it has desperately needed in the Trump era: attention and the applause of its base.

Thank you. Proud of my NJ Senator!

How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement AOC, solidarity, and people power.

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

Exactly. And reporters should hold him accountable by asking which cars Americans can buy so that they won’t have to pay for tariffs. Of course, there can be no such list!