Hard to fine a clearer demonstration of elite capture of media for transparently partisan purposes.

Bezos' $10 billion climate charity has a new mission: promoting AI The Bezos Earth Fund is focused on selling artificial intelligence — the technology driving Amazon's rising carbon emissions — as the solution to the climate crisis

oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/bezos-10-b...

Just, like, buy electric school buses man. Loan Harbinger the capital to tool up and give them an advance purchase commitment. Sell to schools at a price that undercuts diesel.

The whole federal electric school bus program is only $5B.

Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."

There’s a reason Republicans don’t constantly shit on their own voters and that’s because it is an abysmal strategy for winning elections

Can Seattle mayor's approach to homelessness gain traction where past efforts failed? | Editorial Seattle's mayor is staking her political future on making progress on homelessness. Questions remain in the policy details and residents deserve answers.

Seattle Times is still talking about "mandating treatment" as a necessary condition of having a place to sleep out of the rain. You can't get furious about the persistence of tents and also say people in active addiction don't deserve shelter.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

insomuch as the industrial revolution has lead to the decline of many of their natural predators and the production of large, park-like suburban landscapes filled with their preferred food sources—yes, geese are an industry plant

Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

modern business practices seem designed in a lab to make American workers constantly nervous and jumpy, yes.

i like to think they're up to Ocean's Twenty Five in the alternate universe where bernie mac is still going strong. timmy chalamet just joined the crew as a cajun airboat pilot to rob a riverboat casino

There are some similarities between Edward Scissorhand and the E.T. films. Could be interesting to see a showdown between the two characters. Would revitalize Johnny depps career

imagine arguing with your devout catholic grandma and shouting "the pope is WEAK on crime"

How much money has the DoD lost this year on missiles

Gunna force all my students to produce embroidery site plans

“How an N.B.A. Star Upgraded His Team With Slippers, Tape and a Ballroom Floor”

“A Stylish Kitchen Where a Custom Fridge Sets the Tone In Matilda Goad's Victorian terrace house, the kitchen is the first room you see. She designed it to make a good impression.”

“Mamdani Acknowledges "Troubling' Job Losses in 100 Days Interview Mayor Zohran Mamdani is focused on economic justice. Some budget watchdogs and business leaders want him to concentrate on economic development.”

“THE OPINIONS Did Wokeness Leave Us Worse Off?”

Checked the NYTimes front page to read about the Trump admin threatening the Papacy and while I didn’t find that I did find this equally newsworthy stuff

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

The best way to explain AI in humanities classrooms is as kudzu. Much as kudzu was introduced in the 19th century and later touted for its ability to stop erosion in the 1930s, AI is invasive, takes constant culling, and instead of stopping erosion is in actuality consuming our individuality.

"Silicon sampling." LOL. They gave data fabrication a cute name.

Pretending that CVS is an immersive experience about extending carceral logics to toothpaste

The Great AI Deskilling has begun AI is boosting output while quietly chipping away at the skills behind it.

This article marshals evidence and expert opinion to show something that educators already know: AI makes people think they can do things that they can't in fact do. AI is billionaires trying to profit off a society-wide Dunning Kruger effect.

Re: Means Testing. When City College of New York was wondering about charging tuition to cover costs in the 70s they found it would cost more in admin and red tape then not charging but were told to do it anyway to teach students a lesson about responsibility

The professor reportedly wrote in a March 18 newsletter, which he sent via the center’s listserv, that “Israeli actions tell us that they seek the destruction of the state, not just its ruling class.” The email, titled “More notes on the Iran war,” reportedly added that it “was always BS” that the Islamic Republic was pursuing nuclear weapons.

The U. of Washington stripped its Director of Middle East Studies of his position for writing an email that said “Israeli actions tell us that they seek the destruction of the state, not just its ruling class” and that Iran had not been pursuing nuclear weapons.

In other words, for stating facts.

Post on r/udub (University of Washington subreddit) This entire CS school is depressingly obsessed with Al. ldk if this is just a me problem, but here's my little rant... I came to UW CS because I love programming and computers and creating fun nerdy stuff... but everybody in this department feels absolutely crosseyed obsessed with generative Al. I have professors straight up encouraging Al coding (what happened to learning?), ML-based projects shoehorned into classes that should have nothing to do with it whatsoever, and it feels impossible to find research that's not based on generative Al (which is a bummer, since CS is such a wide and diverse field). If you don't care for this thing which, forgive the harsh language, plagiarizes everything and produces uninspired shit products, it feels like you're hard outta luck here. I get everyone vibe codes in industry, fine, but I'm here to learn, not to get shaped into a dull corporate vibe coder machine. Theory courses are the only ones which feel moderately safe from this stuff. I honestly feel like switching majors, but I get that it'd be a stupid thing to do at this point. Does anybody feel this way or am I an old person yelling at a cloud?

Okay here’s a fresh AI angle: current CS student just wants to learn to code

i cannot stop thinking about the last episode of neighbors

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

One of the stupidest and most subtly disastrous culture war battles we lost to the right was that caring about nature is pussy shit and the only respectable way to engage with the earth is to extract from it