ChatGPT Edu contracts say that the university must prevent end-users (incl. students) from misusing the service and commits the university to indemnify OpenAI for claims related to "(a) use of the Services in violation of this Agreement; (b) Customer Applications, if any; or (c) Customer Content."
The Fed relies on data and objective reality. Kevin Warsh’s refusal to acknowledge the 2020 election shows he’s more interested in politics than facts.
An independent Fed Chair needs a backbone, not a loyalty pledge. — Warsh is compromised. Hard pass.
Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."
Chris Wright insists that collapsing snow pack in Colorado is the result of "the path of the jet stream last year," not climate change
No surprise though 💔
I would have just said when he was trying to be funny, "Is this a joke to you...? Is leading the most influential financial institution in the world just a punch line for you? Are Americans who are struggling in this economy where consumer confidence is at a record low amusing to you?"
WARNOCK: What grade would you give the American economy?
WARSH: Well, if i gave a student anything other than an A, the dean would summon me because I would've hurt his self-image
WARNOCK: Consumer confidence is at a record low. That's Americans' grade on the economy
CHRIS WRIGHT: Energy prices are still well lower than they were in middle of the Biden adminis--
CANTWELL: I want to stop you right there. There is nobody in the Northwest who thinks that. Not when they wake up & airline flights are being canceled because of high fuel costs. No one thinks it's okay
Proud to be a signatory to the @purgepalantir.bsky.social pledge. We must endeavor to excise this tumor on our federal government before it destroys us.
I stopped trying to make people understand what I survived because explanation started feeling like begging for permission to feel my own pain. My trauma does not need a jury. I lived it. That is enough. I do not owe anyone proof that it was bad enough to matter. Zenda-Lee Williams
#HealingHearts
You don't need to explain your trauma or pain, or what you have lived through. I hope you have people in your life who believe you and honor all that you have experienced.
I know that not being believed is painful but you know your truth.
#CSASurvivor
#CPTSD
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
💛💚💜
Two scientists modeled what it would be like if unvaccinated babies grew up. As kids they would be paralyzed by polio.
Babies would be born w/ congenital rubella syndrome.
When was the last time we heard about this in the news?
Diphtheria would arrive to kill.
It would be a different world.
🧪
I was wondering when this subject was going to be addressed, there’s so much chaos and miserable confusion that a catastrophic environmental disaster is back page
And finally we’re beginning to acknowledge the direct environmental impact of the war
Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes hit oil facilities and ships in the region, with experts warning of an impending environmental catastrophe. https://cnn.it/3Ovxzwk
Congresswoman Analilia Mejia goes after #ICE in her first speech!👏🏾👏🏾
Warsh hearing so far has been kind of frustrating. No one has asked the questions that seem most relevant to me:
1) is Trump's criminal investigation into Powell appropriate?
2) what would you do if Trump threatened retribution against you if he didn't like your actions/Fed policy decisions?
ENERGY SECRETARY CHRIS WRIGHT: We were proud to have gasoline prices below $2 a gallon earlier this year
HEINRICH: What are they right now?
WRIGHT: Just over $4
HEINRICH: What is diesel?
WRIGHT: Diesel is over $5
HEINRICH: It's closer to $6 in my state
WRIGHT: It's over $8 in California
Did you pay your taxes? Then you gave $4,049 to war and weapons.
According to the Institute for Policy Studies, taxpayers contributed more to Pentagon contractors ($1,870) than to troops' pay ($770), and more to militarism than programs like school lunches ($124) or the Postal Service ($19).
Jack Schlossberg is running for New York’s 12th Congressional District. He says if elected, he plans to investigate the Department of Health and Human Services ran by his cousin - RFK, Jr.
We’re currently recruiting for a Project Cataloguer on a 1 year fixed-term contract to catalogue parts of our archives relating to our transfer from Hamburg to London in 1933.
35 hours per week
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Apply by 12 May 2026
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KAsh, drunk as a skunk.
“I’ve been drunk, but I’ve never been battering-ram drunk. I have never been so hung over I needed my alarm clock to be the jaws of life.” - Stephen Colbert
BREAKING: The BBC has reported that there appears to be "insider trading consistently happening in the Trump administration before announcements."
Really,Thought Maybe The Light Bulb Wasn't Invented Yet.........🤔
If your commander-in-chief is being excluded from military operations (coz he’s a lunatic) and blocked from accessing the nuclear codes (coz he’s a lunatic), you’re overdue for a new commander-in-chief.
🔥 “I’m so glad people are finally waking up to your cruelty — and to the idiocy of your star disciple Pete Hegseth.”
@wajahatali.bsky.social eviscerates Hegseth’s pastor Doug Wilson (with @timmiller.bsky.social & piers in the front row)
As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
In our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we spoke about AI becoming as divisive as DEI, the prevalence of scholarly slop, and how Bluesky poisons academic discourse. Evan Goldstein: You’ve described the Substack series as “intentionally provocative.” What — or who — were you trying to provoke? Alexander Kustov: I started using Claude Code and other agentic tools, and I was impressed with the possibilities and functionalities. Yet I still hear a lot of negativity about AI from colleagues who haven’t used those tools. The vast majority of folks in academia still think AI is that chatbot interface from a couple of years ago that hallucinates and cannot really do anything. But that’s not what I saw on my computer. I’d written short items about AI, so I thought to try to see whether Claude could assemble that and create a coherent, substantive post. It did a pretty good job. I just posted it. Then I realized it was a big thing.
Kustov: If we look at the best agentic models right now, they can do most quantitative social-science research tasks better than most professors globally. All of the kind of caveats here are important. What made a lot of people upset about this statement is that they interpret it in a very America-centric way. People were thinking about their colleagues at Oxford and R1 research universities. But I was born in Soviet Russia and went to undergrad in Europe. I have seen a lot of human slop. It should not be a controversial statement to say that agentic tools can do better. The value of qualitative research is going up because that’s something that AI cannot do well — ethnography and actually interviewing people in person, especially in hard-to-reach places. If you are gathering new data that is not yet publicly available, that’s the highest value that you can have as a professor and as a researcher. But I just came from an International Studies Association conference. I saw so much poor research that, if anything, I’m more convinced that my original point is correct. Too many people with Ph.D.s, with tenure, are producing work that is not contributing to human knowledge.
Meanwhile, the Chronicle has decided to interview Dr Kustov, who repeats his claim that AI agents do "qualitative social science research better than most professors globally"
Imagine having tenure and stability, and choosing to shit on his colleagues in a time of great instability for academia.
New Movie Coming In The FALL,
With 2nd Feature Movie,Dumb And
Dumber To Follow........
France doesn’t riot because the police are weaker. it riots because the people are less ideologically pacified. in France, they’ll burn down a police station because Macron raised the retirement age by 2 years. in the US, you’re lucky if your coworkers won’t snitch on you for organizing a union.
