Leftmost candidate for PM in Israel:
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 4h agoMost honest Yair Golan statement ever
Caroline Wilkinson
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Writer, Poet, Critic (she/her) Words in DIAGRAM, Witness, Fourteen Hills, NOVEL www.carolinewilkinson.com
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 4h ago
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 5d ago6/ Weeks later, Kao tells his team Collins committed to getting the company $32M in naval contracts.
My kid asked me what‘s something I teach my students and I said “That if you write what you have to say on paper then—unlike devices—no one has access to it except you and whoever else physically interacts with the paper” and you guys, it made an immediate impression
AI is the largest theft of labor in history, but the case doesn't go far enough -- AI steals not only from journalists and researchers but from authors throughout history, from policymakers and legal writers, from photographers and artists in every medium.
Elisabeth R. Anker@libankerdc.bsky.social · last wk.AI training is the largest theft of labor in history
Novelists Kathryn Davis and Ann Joslin Williams are reading at UMaine Farmington on Thurs, Sept 24, 7:30 PM at The Landing. The reading's free and open to the public. We're reading Davis's brilliant The Silk Road and Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir in my classes now. #Booksky #WritingCommunity #Maine
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
SAT, SEPT 19, 1–3:30PM: Praise Day for David Henderson, a “Community Gathering, Reading, Celebration & Memorial” at St. Mark’s Church, 131 E 10th St. His children, Najuma Henderson and Imetai Henderson, will be present. Free and open to all. centerforthehumanities.org/event/praise... #poetry #NYC
Gina Murrell@ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 4mo agoR.I.P. to David Henderson (1942–2026), writer, poet, and "co-founder of Umbra Poets Workshop, a Lower East Side-based Black poets collective founded in 1962." Henderson was central to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and '70s, esp in #NYC. www.instagram.com/p/DYX9vXjE4E2/ #poetry #BlackHistory
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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If you are willing to drop $47 million on AI services but unwilling to invest in research support & infrastructure for humanities faculty & students, you show that austerity is a choice. It’s not “too expensive” to give people the resources they need; you just don’t want to. bsky.app/profile/ashe...
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2w agoAccording to a meeting I was in, UMass estimates that if the capacity of these tools were maxed out by student, faculty, staff users, the total cost to the university would be $130,000/day, or about $47 million / year.
Started a writing workshop with @alecniedenthal.bsky.social called Nightwork, and registration for our online classes is open now :)
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This is the way!!!
Daniel José Older@djolder.bsky.social · 2w ago"The University of Chicago’s undergrad social-sciences division will go “analog” this fall, implementing a blanket policy banning technology in class and AI assistance on coursework across the division’s core courses." www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...
Occasional reminder that the right-wing attack on higher ed, including the push for "viewpoint diversity" and "civic education," is largely a racist backlash against an increasingly non-white college-going demographic.
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2w agoHi. I’d like to report a racist who is running for statewide office in Texas.
2. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/
What’s missing: 1/ Any framing about what higher is or has been that misses the big public investment post-WW2 and then massive disinvestment starting in the 1980s which spirals into rising costs and student debt is disingenuous at best. 5/
My dog heading toward the library in Farmington, Maine.
Stand with postal workers. Tell Postal Service leadership to do their job and protect the people's Post Office.
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2y agoApple is aiming to release a foldable iPhone in 2026 📱 (via WSJ)
I feel so confident saying the native intelligence of this generation is not the problem. The looting & wholesale sabotage of their educational infrastructure is.
On the one hand, the press hound a black scholar to death, on the other hand, on this one, where the academic fraud is front and centre and the dude is an Epstein pal... crickets... www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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“There’s so much fear right now around making a living...How do you channel the fear into something productive? I don’t have an answer for you, but I think there are a lot of people who could find common cause who wouldn’t have in the past.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A tech prophet finally gets her second coming
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
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I stopped buying the whole "omg we hate Trump but we just *have* to do what he says!" shtick a long time ago.
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4w ago“Everyone considers it fucking nuts.” Inside Apple, I'm told "not a soul" supports Donald Trump's Lake Ontario rebrand to "Lake America," but the company is also resigned to making such concessions to avoid the White House's rage. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/apple-maps...
I’ve had this convo privately enough times in the last week to go public: I don’t think there is any valuable way to use AI in a history classroom.