This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.

Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

In a brewing First Amendment fight, California’s Attorney General threatens journalists for possessing a public records document Reporters obtained a list of police convictions through a public records request. California’s Attorney General, claiming its mere possession is a misdemeanor crime, is threatening them with legal act...

As a Californian watching the governor’s race play out, I really don’t love this. In 2019, then AG, now Gov candidate Xavier Becerra threatened journalists for possessing a list of criminal cops.

Given that the LAPD is actively coordinating with ICE, we need a Gov willing to hold them accountable

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

could making a serial rapist the figurehead of the modern right have pushed women left?

no, it's the hysterical broads who went crazy

Kenyan firm sacks more than 1,000 workers after losing Meta contract Meta paused work with Sama last month after allegations about staff viewing private scenes filmed by smart glasses

I’m sure this is unrelated to the fact that last month data workers revealed they were asked by Meta to review video from Meta Ray Bans of user’s intimate moments like having sex or using the bathroom.

trumps appointees being alcoholic incompetents and trumps jan 6th supporters being pedophiles seems like something historians are going to be studying tbh

Today’s #SmallGoodThing: met @fraction.bsky.social at Dog Beach in Del Mar at low tide with our dog Gracie. This was our regular Friday ritual and it’s one of my favorite things! It’s also the 4th anniversary of Dan’s epic bike crash in the desert, so today feels like a celebration!

I was so annoyed about wrong information on the internet that I decided to make a video about how non-trinary neutrinos move and what quantum tunneling is. Andy Weir may be more bestselling than me but I'm more expert lol 🧪⚛️

Buy my book to learn more! 💙📚
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If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.

The scruffy black and tan Gracie-dog is snuggled beneath a cream-colored blanket. She looks up at the photographer and looks about as cold as she could possibly be.

Gracie is protesting the (checks notes) positively *frigid* 67 degrees that it is in the house right now. Sorry, little dog. It will warm up as the day goes on.

Oh yeah, that’s some bad planning right there.

Good morning to the curious little black-headed grosbeak that keeps pecking at my window. Cheeky little weirdo!

So lovely!

Tonight’s #SmallGoodThing: it’s been a very busy week for me at work, but this also means I have worked with a lot of grad students. I am humbled by the research they’re doing and how smart they are.

AND SO IT BEGINS

Not sure I would count it as an accomplishment, but it is nice to have a different flow and perspective in that room.

Evanston learned Flock was sharing data with other communities that then shared data with ICE, so mayor/Congressman-elect Daniel Biss canceled the contract for violating the terms, & had city workers cover up the cameras until Flock retrieved them.

Today’s #SmallGoodThing: I rearranged my bedroom today and it feels so much better! The added bonus is that I can now see out the back slider to the bird feeder and bath. It will be perfect in the morning for watching birds while having my morning coffee with the dogs.

All Dems should embrace this.

More higher ed discourse like this please

Incredible job Mr. Jeffrey Bezos cutting off the NBA Playoff game with 20 seconds left in overtime. Thank you for your incredible hard work on Amazon Prime Video: The Service That Always Works.

Watching reports of typhoon Sinlaku from California and am so sad for the folks in Tinian and Saipan. It looks absolutely brutal.

"Did you use Copilot to summarize my email to you? Because you have missed my intent."
**sigh**

THE WORST! I noticed it resetting itself yesterday but haven't seen it yet this morning...so maybe mine is starting to behave? So incredibly frustrating! At least I know that this is a problem. Now, if I get a response from a student that doesn't make sense, my first question is...

Turned it off THREE times yesterday. What a useless piece of 💩!

Families across the U.S. are getting college acceptance letters — and tuition bills NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with economist Judith Scott-Clayton about the cost of college in the U.S. They discuss the difference between sticker and net price and the opaqueness of tuition costs.

I just listened to an extended NPR interview w an education economist about 40 yrs of rising college tuition & student debt, and not a single mention that 40 yrs ago was about the time all states cut higher education budgets, privatized tuition, in order to pay for tax cuts and prisons