Like, AI literacy in any form will not protect black and disabled folks from the algorithmic bias, and the violence that emerges from it, of spicy autocomplete. Full stop. No amount of AI literacy can protect us in the deployment of the system because it is tracking the wrong problem.
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.
“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”
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What is it about that sort of output that you're interested in analyzing? I ask in case there are specific methodological possibilities to suggest
It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.
Palantir's UK head Louis Mosley wants us to believe that tech like theirs is neutral until their clients decide how to use it. People who study science, technology and society have long exposed such arguments as fallacious. My latest column for TNW.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.
“These documents — uncovered after months of work by our team — underscore the lawlessness with which Elon Musk was allowed to run around Washington, wreaking havoc and abusing government resources,” says @skyeperryman.bsky.social.
“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”
Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this
Reflections on the Claude Code source code leak from @techtrenches.dev
“The leak isn’t the story.
The code is the story.”
“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”
This is so, so well-articulated.
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Look at this detailed analysis of Anthropic's leaked "100% generated by Claude" code, just pigshit awful absolutely unmaintainable garbage
“you know how you always wanted to be the guy who saves the day when the astronauts call houston with a problem?”
“yeah?”
“and you know how you hate being the guy everyone comes to when outlook is malfunctioning?”
“… yeah?”
“I got some good news and some bad news”
Amazon doesn't want AI agents shopping on humans' behalf.
A judge just said the AI agent companies have to respect that and keep their agents out.
Where are the LMS companies saying, "We don't want AI agents completing learning activities on students' behalf"?
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Absolute gutter racism and nonstop lies. This is a thousand times worse than Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queen” lies. Any other modern president would have had to resign if they said these things on camera.
This is just one more small knife wound in the scheme of things but it really kind of sucks for scholarly communication that links into one of my field’s major journal hubs now default display with a robot lockout instead of title and thumbnail of the article in question. muse.jhu.edu/article/794477
Figure showing 25-75% point declines in the the confidence of federal workers that they can report a violation of law without retaliation _in_one_year_
Breathtaking how much damage Republicans have done to the civil service and the ability of government to function in just a year. Check out these declines in confidence that a federal employee can report a violation of the law without retaliation.
from: www.thebulwark.com
Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵:
These protests are important b/c:
1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.
Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world
This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities
from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.
The new policy, which was accepted in an overwhelming 40 to 2 vote among editors, allows editors to use LLMs to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, which can be incorporated into the article or rewritten after human review if the LLM doesn’t generate entirely new content on its own.
The ancient scrolls tell us that, in the Before Time, a president's admission that his administration had not considered the obvious likelihood of the war widening when they first attacked Iran would lead to immediate congressional hearings.
Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.
Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.
According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)
The fact that military officials can’t give the President of the United States an honest assessment of the war in Iran—and have to placate him by showing him videos of stuff blowing up—should be concerning to everyone.
"The politician's job is to *win the election*." NO. Their job is to *govern*. The voters' job is to select the one who will best govern (for everyone). The election is the means, not the goal. Treating the election as the goal is half the reason we get so many terrible people in office.
🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon suggested that President Donald Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to major U.S. airports as part of a “test run” for using them to meddle in upcoming elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome"
sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted
There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash.
ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to.
The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty.
Budgets are moral documents.
In support of this post, here are some extremely negative things that I expect to happen as a matter of course because of this.