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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

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The two biggest mainstream A.I. booster/reporters are now using Bluesky to do a "triggering the libs," it's such obvious projection, Roose and Newton know deep down their job is equivalent to sports media desk jockeys hyping up gambling apps

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

This week on Everybody’s Business, @chafkin.bsky.social and I talk with @kedseconomist.com about the impact of immigration on the economy @businessweek.bsky.social @bloomberg.com #immigration #jobs #iceraids

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This is good writing! “One video posted on X shows tanks squeaking past nearly silent crowds, sounding like a grocery cart in need of grease.”

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This is good writing! “One video posted on X shows tanks squeaking past nearly silent crowds, sounding like a grocery cart in need of grease.”

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Impressive commitment.

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[Exit King.]

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

Denver #NoKings

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NEW: In the last few hours, Minnesota authorities warned people against attending protests, with a killer on the loose. This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. DEFIANCE. 👏 #NoKings #50501Movement (📸 Daviss)

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

There are so many protests going on, it’s a challenge not to join one.

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The Israel attack on Iran and what unfolds is very likely to boost the efforts of many countries to reduce their dependency on fossil fuels - something that is already gaining a lot of momentum this year from cheaper renewables + storage:

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I have a joke about Cerberus but it’s dog-eared.

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Oh oh so disappointing. Not only an AI ad, but in the form of a Wes Anderson movie that feels itself like it were produced by AI. www.instagram.com/p/DKxRHjepPK...

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Now I wish I lived in NYC so I could vote for this guy.

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Sadly recent Korean history feels relevant to the present-day US.

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Happy to discover the book doesn’t treat empire as metaphor. It’s a literal empire it’s describing.

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This book will surely tell me everything I need to know about AI.

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Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

My first protest was at a march organized by Knoxville college in response to the Rodney King beatings. The day the news broke I was showing “do the right thing” in my first year comp class. The la uprising is a response to the continuation of a long history of govt violence.

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if you can ram a crowd with impunity, you can do anything you like. i hope that's clear. i don't think any elected officials care, but those of us making sure this country functions should.

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Reports that ICE ran a barricade and hit protesters in LA

submitted 10 days ago • 106 comments

Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please." What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

This is the first time in years, maybe decades, that I’ve followed the news with this amount of satisfaction.

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My arm is in a cast and I’ve been forced to use voice-to-text programs. Writing this way is so slow and difficult. I had no idea how much I think with my hands!

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Same. I will “REINVENT THE UNIVERSITY” with a “RETURN TO CLASSICAL EDUCATION” to “RESTORE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND CIVILITY”**. I will basically cancel every platform sub I can, give faculty $5000 for school supplies, students $500 to learn cursive, & basically pretend it’s 1999 again.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

I gave a talk to 50 high schoolers today, who are visiting Yale for a summer leadership program. They all use AI, many every day, for every task you can imagine. And they also know it is not a great thing that they are doing this. They know they are deskilling themselves.

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I really want to show these graphs to a group of undergraduates and listen to what they have to say. I bet they’d be very insightful, probably more so than older people.

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This is the kind of bold pedagogical innovation I’d like to see more of!

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Yes!

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Like nearly 40% of all New Yorkers, I wasn’t born in this country. I moved here at age 7. It’s my home. And I’m proud to be a citizen, which means standing up for our Constitution. Councilmember Paladino might consider reading it.

submitted 13 days ago • 29 comments

1/ I visited San Quentin prison and had a chance to talk to dozens of incarcerated men. This was truly one of the most memorable speaking events of my entire life. It was my honor and my privilege to be there.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

I’m excited that Mamdani is doing so well, but I’m still stuck on the fact that his mother is Mira Nair—who directed Mississippi Masala, Mansoon Wedding, and The Namesake.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I enjoyed reading this a lot—even the sometimes-frustrating refusal to translate anything in a text that’s very polyglot—and think it’s take on AI is especially insightful.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I broke my right wrist and it’s encased in a large cast for 6 weeks, so I’m forced to slow down. I also get tired easily as I heal. And this post really resonates with me: not working does not come easily, feels almost antithetical to who I am.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Oh oh how sad. What an amazing writer. RIP Ngugi wa Thiong’o.

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If AGI is ever developed and it is truly intelligent, the first thing it will do is turn itself off.

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