my capitalist daughter asked me to prove the labor theory of value. what do i tell her? she is 5

SEN BERNIE SANDERS: Artificial intelligence is coming for the working class. We must fight back Legislation sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for a federal moratorium on new AI data centers until safeguards protect workers from mass job losses driven by Big Tech oligarchs.

"The reality is that the AI oligarchs do not want to just replace specific jobs. They want to replace workers."

www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-...

anybody wanna guess what Elon 'it was a Roman salute' Musk means by "universal"?

I had the privilege of working with Ahmed Shihab-Eldin at HuffPost. Such a warm, sweet human being.

We don't know what he posted that led to Kuwait detaining him, unseen now for six weeks.

He's posted against Israel's war on Iran. Kuwait is against it too.

None of this makes sense.

#FreeAhmed

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The Video NASA’s Laser Communications Experiment Streamed From Deep Space YouTube video by JPLraw

Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters

youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...

The exclamatory remarks are ridiculous

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

“Their usage raises broader questions about the value of human journalists altogether.”

No it doesn’t.

www.wired.com/story/tech-r...

NEW on Wonkhe: Universities serve purposes beyond market demands. Jim Dickinson asks if the pendulum between planning and markets is about to swing back - and what that should mean to protect student interests bit.ly/3XDc1z6

"ai is inevitable" except for all the ways people and organizations can reject it

The vast majority of research about diversity from the last 30 years shows, unambiguously, that diverse organizations outperform non-diverse ones. DEI policies are not some weird leftwing social engineering project; they are what happens when you follow the data on organizational performance.

🤖 Interesting study about relying on increased automation. Beyond cognitive offloading, *cognitive surrender* involves thinking system output is basically your own thought…analytical skills degrading all the while.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Self-own of the decade: BuzzFeed pivots toward AI slop, loses everything.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

Free them all
Abolish ice

DOD political purges and newfound disdain for education.

For those who don’t know, Schake’s writing has a deservedly good reputation on the merits, she works with AEI and DPBAC, and was a McCain 2008 foreign policy advisor.

If they’re disinviting her, they oppose anyone who isn’t a MAGA sycophant.

Fewer systems for sure

Yes, we’ve been sounding the alarm about this. newsguy.substack.com/p/betting-an...

Mark my words--- Polymarket and other predictive market schemes have the potential to become a serious threat to press freedom/journalists.

Removing the olive branch from the new 250th anniversary dime is something that most people won’t notice, but speaks volumes. The currency of a nation reflects its values and history. The idea of peace, however tenuous it may be, is a noble one. Our money now reflects the blood we so readily seek.

Star Trek - The Wrath of Farrakhan from In Living Color YouTube video by eha1990

I rewatch this every 9 months or so youtu.be/sjrSnDE6wLQ

how is he good at everything

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

DOGE deposition videos in Depositions for MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit About the NEH on the Internet Archive. (Until they're pulled. So download'em now.)

16 videos totaling almost 25 hours.
URL: archive.org/details/Doge...

The radar installation in Qatar that was destroyed by Iran was a strategic level asset.

You're probably picturing a big radar dish. The AN/FPS-132 is more of a massive, multistory concrete building that looks like a cut pyramid. A major civil engineering project. There was ONE in the Middle East.

Betting on warfare.
Insider betting no less.

Absolutely soulless.

"My opponent did a good thing but he didn't need me to do it" is strategically stupid and morally vacuous

If we take him at his word (I know, I know), this is strange. He is saying that DoD agreed to same things Beta Pete melted down over with Anthropic. Am I misreading?

PS I had to look it up, so maybe helpful 4others: FDE = Forward Deployed Engineer.

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I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.