Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Haley has support from a lot of respected Dems in Michigan. And she has raised doubts about El-Sayed's electability in the general election. But the outside money is not so much for her as against El-Sayed. It will disappear if she wins, and switch to the Republican side if she loses the primary.

Two additional points. One: This was at AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference, in Rio de Janeiro. And: "A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included ⁠in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools."

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

Turned this rant into a blog post. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...

The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.

I have a

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Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...

Yet another example of a polling agency actively participating in spreading an actual, serious and consequential lie to the public. Fossil fuels are more expensive. Clean energy is cheaper. @yougov.co.uk is very literally lying in this poll, and there should be actual consequences for this

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2mo ago

65% of Britons agree with Tony Blair's call for the government to stop prioritising "clean energy over cheaper energy" Prioritise preventing increases in energy bills: 65% (no change from Oct 2025) Prioritise removing fossil fuels from energy supply: 24% (+1) yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

Argentina, you say? Interesting choice. Has anybody done that before?

Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · 2mo ago

OMG it's fucking real. Guys, Peter fucking Thiel is fleeing the country in advance. That's how fucked this regime is.

Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company

The response to this from every educator must be "No. Fuck you. Kill me." There is no compromise less than that. The safety of the students is non-negotiable.

ACLU@aclu.org · 3mo ago

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

DHS posts a new propaganda video that uses the White Stripes song "Icky Thump." DHS didn't include a line from the song, "why don't you kick yourself out, you're an immigrant too?" Jack White is famously anti-Trump so it'll be interesting to see what he says about this one.

The bill wouldn't have passed without 8 Democrats voting for it.

Congressional Equality Caucus@equality.house.gov · 3mo ago

Republicans just passed a Don't Say Trans bill that would also require schools to out trans students in certain situations, even if doing so would put them in physical danger. Every student deserves to feel safe in school & see themselves reflected in school curricula.

I thought the last word in this tweet was gonna be “rescued” but boy did I laugh when it was not

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

may have to update my banner

Why we need the humanities more than ever, exhibit 3756.

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD@greenleejw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

I'm looking forward to this conference! Not looking forward to the Kafkaesque nightmare of getting a visa for travel to the UK, but it'll be worth it to hang out with my gender & language folx, some of the most interesting and welcoming scholars you'll find – so join @igala.bsky.social!

IGALA 14@igala14.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The theme of IGALA14 will be 'Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality in Times of Political Challenge'. Please head to igala14.com for all conference details, a reminder of our fantastic keynote speakers, and abstract submission/registration info! @igala.bsky.social @lsjysj.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce the first Call for Proposals for the 14th conference of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), to be held at York St John Univeristy (York, United Kingdom) between Wednesday 21st and Friday 23rd July 2027. @igala.bsky.social @lsjysj.bsky.social

Will 100s of UK profs that signed statements supporting Stock due to the falsely claimed suppression of her speech by Sussex express outrage over being lied to in order to (1) further the career of Stock and (2) force unis to remove statements protecting trans faculty/students from harassment?

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The OfS v Sussex ruling took OfS three years to gather evidence. Yet, from the ruling, OfS would only speak with Sussex under the condition they admitted fault (so they didn’t), and the only evidence presented was an outdated statement on its website and testimony from Stock, which was porky pies

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Jesus Christ, this is more dystopic than anything Philip K Dick ever wrote but it’s what the Russo Brothers want for your AI Slop future

Usually, when I get interviewed for a piece on something like "AI consciousness" I am relegated to the skeptics box --- some short paragraph near the end. So it is a nice change to see this piece by @hollybaxter.bsky.social Short 🧵>> www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-news...

The people building AI think it might be conscious. That’s not the most alarming part

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amadei says he can’t rule out that its chatbot, Claude, is conscious. A Google engineer is sure he once built a sentient being. Holly Baxter speaks to the experts about whether o...

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Ja fine except the number of South Africans who have to explain that they don’t mean Brooklyn, Pretoria is not negligible 🤔

Genie Lauren@moreandagain.me · 3mo ago

The clue is this — actual NYC-ers (at least those of us who are native to NYC) will NEVER say "I live in New York" We say our borough or our hood (depending on how well we think you know NYC, we'll get more specific) If someone says, they "live in New York," they are NOT from the 5 boroughs of NYC

Anybody who still wants a Cybertruck after watching this review… really deserves to own a Cybertruck

kingbradentucky.bsky.social@kingbradentucky.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Regular Car Guy reviews got a hold of a Cybertruck. "The Cybertruck is a truck that hates the human inside." youtu.be/L3oO510dyVI?...

Sheesh this is absolutely terrible: deepening dystopia, Target edition

I hope this is good news for queer Hungarians but from an outsider it feels like, at best, a "we won't actively persecute you" type of politics. further right than Joe Biden.

Gabriela Greilinger@gabrielagreilinger.com · 4mo ago

94% of votes counted, with a clear 2/3 majority for Magyar's Tisza projected. And not to spoil the mood, but the new parliament will be composed solely of right- to far-right parties. Next to the right-wing Tisza and far-right Fidesz, extreme-right Mi Hazánk also seems to have won 7 seats. #Hungary

Not to be a killjoy but is nobody concerned that Magyar only left Fidesz two years ago?

Reading this you might think post doctoral men never have children but of course that’s not true. We simply don’t demand men juggle these things. It’s 2026 and we still treat women— with whole ass PhDs— like that’s what they’re for.

Dirk Gütlin@gutlin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ten simple rules for postdoctoral mums to stay competitive in academia journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

An interesting and insightful piece on Ai in journalism and in general from @marisakabas.bsky.social "If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled—AI is already here, the end is already here—then we will create that for them." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Refusing to accept an AI-poisoned future of journalism

Humans, however flawed, are

thehandbasket.co

A professor friend of mine taught in Missouri earlier on in her career; when she referred in passing to the US having lost the Vietnam war, her students challenged her and then refused to believe her when she explained it to them real slow

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

McCormick: "We were horrible in Vietnam until we did Rolling Thunder Two, then we won. As soon as we do half-measures, we lose. The faster we get this over the better. If we seize Kharg island, it could be done almost flawlessly. If we have enough firepower, it would be very easy to defend."

Just Zohran making basic infrastructure cool and sexy, that’s all

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4mo ago

New York, we’ve got your back: we’re upgrading 6,700+ catch basins, storm drains, and slotted manhole covers so that when it rains, no one can catch you slipping.  This is a $108M investment in more reliable infrastructure, flood prevention, dry streets, and dry socks for New Yorkers.