It's a mathematical probability engine. Not a thinking machine. The fact that everyone just keeps saying it's an thinking machine when it's just a spicy predictive text machine is the biggest marketing win of the century. youtu.be/0vvVo0Um1HY?...
calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...
This sounds interesting -- respond how?
Okay, how can I donate?
We're on Spring Break, but when we come back, we'll be diving into some labor history as they prepare to write workplace autoethnographies
My new book is getting published!
Yes, a benefit of the doubt extended _only_ to the machine.
The rabbi at the only synagogue in town started telling the kids that God had killed the dinosaurs... and praising the "Separation Wall".
I'm so sorry to hear that.
This capitalist and statist world is so intolerable
In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.
Somebody should buy Mamdani a copy of Travis Linnemann's _The Horror of Police_. archive.is/e3g8I
"Your freedom begins where mine begins, and ends where mine ends" -- yes, as opposed to the old liberal cliché that "Your freedom ends where mine begins, and mine begins where yours ends."
Yasher koach...
This doesn’t even have to be about cheating. If you make it about what the tech companies are taking from all of us, you’ll be surprised how many students support no-tech policies.
Okay, I donated. I'm sorry you're suffering like this. I hope it helps.
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They're building the Torment Nexus again
Okay, then I could be misreading your suggestion that anarchists should "chill".
...we know we're outnumbered? Like, have known that for more than a century? (Shrug)
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s latest is a must read. She is one of the reasons I keep my NYT subscription.
Democracy Dies by Database www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
I think this could also be called "leaderful"? And I don't see mention of women's role in the events. But yes, the absence of any single source of leadership and the focus on direct action are absolutely strengths.
A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
I know you all love The Fartlantic today because of that one article but please try to remember that they played an instrumental role in the rise of fascism in the US and you do not, in fact, have to hand it to them.
Norman Solomon had Adams' number long ago.
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same