Apple will have a product guy as CEO again John Ternus has worked on big hits like Macs with Apple Silicon.

Apple will have a product guy as CEO again

Who's gonna tell them?

My new office used to be the university ombuds (since defunct). There's a panic button installed under the desk.

More 🇺🇸 ICE contracts for mass surveillance systems surfacing 👇

Ashley Paulson Shatters the 100-Mile Treadmill World Record—by Nearly 90 Minutes The 44-year-old started running at 3:46 a.m.—and averaged 7:40 pace for almost 13 hours in front of spectators at the Boston Marathon Expo.

And meanwhile, humans.....
www.runnersworld.com/news/a710615...

And if we're really supposed to be amazed at some technological feat, wouldn't it be more than just 6 minutes?

Can't watch those guys with the stretcher run out without the Benny Hill soundtrack.....

We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.

Another Fed paper finds Americans paid almost all Trump's 2025 tariffs ("pass-through of realized tariffs into import prices was close to one hundred percent"), AND that local labor market effects were "economically negligible."

All pain, no gain. www.richmondfed.org/publications...

Kinda fun that the new office number for the Marquette Center for Data Ethics is 404.
@mudataethics.bsky.social

important to read this alongside the anti-higher ed stories. if you can paint college professors as the elite enemies, then you direct attention away from the people hoarding all the wealth.

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

Stop and listen to this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

A New Hungary Is a Huge Opportunity for Europe Once the problem area, Central Europe could become the engine of reform the continent needs.

The Bulwark has done some of the best work translating for an American audience the significance of Hungary and what lessons can be drawn and used in our own political context.

www.thebulwark.com/p/a-new-hung...

This. And build up a culture where specialized conferences are just as respected as the big goliath.

Oh, and of course, stop with the expectations that everyone spends $2K and flies 2K miles every. single. year.

“Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what AI tells them without question…Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80% of the time—a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

NEW: A large swath of civil society is warning Meta against rolling out a face recognition service that will predictably be used by sexual predators.

Hard to overstate what a disaster this would be for public interest journalism

I recognize the privilege of having grants/awards to provide some summer salary (most of us in academia are on 9-month contracts). But it shouldn’t be this hard to align budgets, accounts, and transfers so you actually get paid. Plus, always crossing-fingers that it actually happens.

'The theory behind augmentation has a major flaw: Evolution capped how much information can flow from the brain to the body, associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison Kip Ludwig told The Verge. “In reality, we’re limited by our own physiology...Evolution did a great job.”'

Congress is not a serious constitutional body.

Fight me

America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela.

It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps

Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe

But it never goes to help Americans

holy shit that url actually exists.

Indulgences.ai

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Recognizes Section 230 Is No Bar to Social Media Design Claims Updates

In an opinion published today in Massachusetts v. Meta, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled against Meta’s overbroad Section 230 arguments, allowing the Commonwealth’s claim—that Meta designed its platform to be addictive and then publicly denied doing so—to proceed.

Since folks are sharing their disgust with the apparent gutting of the U.S. Forest Service, I just want to remind everyone that its mascot is Smokey Bear, not Smokey the Bear. #Pedantic

we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling

The public sphere has failed you.