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Explore real-time data on academic abuse in higher education. Our dashboard aggregates news stories on bullying, harassment, retaliation, and more to support students, faculty, and advocates in…

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I don't know, part of me feels like Palestinians had to show their bodies mutilated, endure inhuman conditions, die in the most horrific ways - so that people elsewhere could find their humanity. To get to feel self righteous and indignant. The price of the public waking up was a genocide.

I've been trying to keep up with the growing number of reports of AI acting beyond instructions and limits, so I built this project to track what devs and researchers have disclosed. 73 cases so far, summarised and linked to their source: benjaminstrick.com/ai-overreach...

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

Latest work by Arundathi Roy is a delight to read and also terrifying at the same time. Please read @abeba.blacksky.app's thread if you cannot read 4K works written by an absolute rock star.

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵

Synthesized 17 studies for full inclusion to the literature review. Now time to finally write. #PhDLife

New online: Monica Jeong asks, why is South Korea's refugee policy so out of line with its humanitarian engagement diplomacy and its "middle power" status? Jeong finds the answer in a discourse analysis of identity construction. ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky

Nope.

Mark Zaid, Esq@markzaidesq.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are witnessing MAGA equivalent of destruction of Democratic Party through election of progressive Socialists. If you think this ends well for country, I believe you're sadly mistaken. Extremism on one side simply fuels opposite growth on other side. We need moderates.

🔴 Iranian medical authorities say 20 hospitals & emergency medical service stations have been hit since the start of the attacks, w/ parts of Gandhi Hospital in Tehran, including its emergency department, angiography unit, & infertility ward, completely destroyed. Officials added that more than...

Reporter: Did the United States bomb a girls elementary school in southern Iran on the first day of the war and kill 175 people? Trump: We think it was done by Iran. They're very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever. It was done by Iran.

has destroyed*

Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It sucks the president is a pedophile who is trying to destroy the constitution, but it’s honestly funny his supporters think that’ll Make America Great Again.

The House & the Senate will hold separate votes on a War Powers Res. on Thu., sponsored by Reps Ro Khanna & Thomas Massie & Sens Tim Kaine & Rand Paul respectively. The War Powers Res. seeks to halt Pres. Trump's war of aggression on Iran through the constitutional authority vested in Congress...

We're plundering Venezuela

Scoop: Trump officials broker massive U.S.-Venezuela gold deal

The arrangement shows the tightening commercial bounds between Venezuela and the U.S.

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Reports indicate at least 100 children have already been killed in strikes on schools. That is unconscionable. Three U.S. service members are dead as a result of this entirely preventable war of choice. The blood of these service members, these children, and every civilian rests in Trump’s hands.

US military says three of its troops killed in first Iran operation casualties

Three U.S. service members have been killed and another five have been seriously wounded, in the first casualties of the unfolding U.S. operations against Iran, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

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Tax billionaires out of existence.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

"Are we saying that there are no conspiracies? Of course there are conspiracies!" @naomiaklein.bsky.social & I are back with 'Unshocked' - & this week's episode is a deep dive by us into conspiracy theories, Epstein files, Trump, Bannon, Thiel, Chomsky, & more. Full show: zeteo.com/p/naomi-klei...

Presidents*

Christine Blackburn@storyworthy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We apologize to China and Canada for our mentality ill president

An Irish immigrant with a valid US work permit has been held in ICE detention in Texas for nearly 5 months despite having no criminal record, the Irish Times reports. Seamus Culleton, who has lived in the US for over 20 years, is married to a US citizen & was in the final stages of a green card...

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 9mo ago

‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September

The Democrats idea of fighting fascism.

We just passed $3 million raised, powered by 57,000+ grassroots donors with an average gift of $31. This campaign is built by people, not the ultra rich or special interests like AIPAC. You decide who Congress answers to.

BREAKING: Supreme Court allows California to use new congressional map

These documents are unbearable to read. What sick disgusting people. The QAnon people were onto something about pedophiles running this world.

The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. https://to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU

Family of Alex Pretti retains lawyers who helped prosecute the George Floyd case

The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota’s attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck of murder.

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Abolish DHS

The Ministry of Defence says there are around 12,300 US military and civilian defence personnel in Britain. #DCUKparliament

Google has agreed to pay $68M to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged the technology giant's voice assistant had illegally recorded users (even if they didn’t activate it with “Hey Google”) and then shared their private conversations with advertisers.

#AcademicSky I find this so disheartening. Feels like we're racing to the bottom. (and we know it, but will do it anyway, as is often the case with races to the bottom).

Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Scientists who use AI published 3X more papers, received 5X times more citations, and reached leadership roles faster than their AI-free peers. But science as a whole is paying the price. AI-driven work circles the same crowded problems, are leads to a less interconnected scientific literature