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Today in Science and science: Ice age hunters’ penchant for female mammoths, a detailed vagal map, and more

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Last week I presented a keynote at #SIGIR2026 titled "Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices". Slides: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emanci... I went in nervously excited but several people appreciated talking openly about this topic. A quick thread. 🧵 1/

"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it." AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

From my wife: Deadwood (2026) an eco-vigilante raccoon investigates the effects of a new AI Datacenter starring Jimothy Olyphant.

"Across democracies, the central dynamic is not two poles drifting apart but the transformation of the political right into authoritarianism, norm breaking, and openness to political violence." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough." https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/

"Useful" is not sufficient

So Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issueswith that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. […]

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Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

Tech people who are making the move out of tech, what fields or roles are you going into?

This gorgeous essay from the social-media-less Lily Hu is everything: on what it means to "do" philosophy amidst pressure to automate it (with lessons that travel much more broadly). Rhymes with brilliant insights from @biblioracle.bsky.social @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Ted Chiang & others

Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy

Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...

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Digital Third Spaces are important for teens! Taking them away does not help anyone!

Candice Odgers@candiceodgers.bsky.social · last mo.

Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers

We're hiring a new support specialist to join @propublica.org's enterprise technology team. ProPublica investigates abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust; you'd help to support an incredible mission with some unique technical challenges. It's a meaningful place to make a difference.

Support Specialist, Enterprise Technology

New York City, United States

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"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

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Looking to connect with people with post-polio syndrome who are connected with politics. For a story I'm going to write but not yet. Email is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Appreciate this being shared with folks IRL if you know those impacted.

Why does EFF care about farm equipment? Why is printer ink the most expensive liquid on the planet? Join us on July 23rd for a live conversation and Q&A with Adam Savage and iFixit CEO Kyle Weins. We're covering all things right to repair 🔧 www.eff.org/livestream-r2r

This game is insane!! Vamos Mexico!!

Omg we get it, you're going to waste a ton of taxpayer money to have fast planes make loud boom. These rehearsals over Arlington suck!!!

Hi, friends. The last 6 years have been a blast, but I just don't like being on The Internet anymore. I'm leaving DevRel, and I wrote a little bit about why. Look after yourselves, and each other. Love, Salma

Goodbye, forever, probably.

I’m leaving developer relations and developer education. Rather than disappear completely unannounced, I wanted to tell you why.

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Mexicooooo!!!!!!! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

I haven’t seen the Dutch flop so hard surrounded by Mexicans since Arjen Robben at the 2014 World Cup. NO ERA PENAL

I keep hearing people say we need to re-design our website for AI. I keep pushing back saying we need to design for people, not machines and we need to center on accessibility. It's bringing up a question I thought I understood: what is the purpose of a company website?

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Battlestar Galactica: The Lords of COBOL

Ernest Post@monkchips.com · 2mo ago

A dumb joke where a TV show or movie or maybe a book meets a technology. I will go first - Docker Who.

Talk?? You know Benito had the Pope shaking His Holy Haunches!

Becky Hammer@beckyhammer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What did they talk about? Wrong answers only

we need to grow our firm. probably looking for an associate but open to paralegals, great admins, etc. you know what we do: employment, suing cops, prisoners rights, some other fun stuff. for lawyers, Virginia bar preferred or the ability to waive in. no formal listing yet. starting with this.

Does anyone have a list of updates or announcements from Microsoft Build that excludes AI stuff?

Years ago I wrote "Designing with Ketchup." Now I'm back with the sequel: Designing with Mustard. This article talks about what design is, the purpose of prototyping, "use AI or else" rhetoric, and refusing to output slop. annaecook.com/writing/2026...

Designing with mustard — Anna E. Cook

Designing with mustard is the future of design. I used to think it was ketchup, but I was wrong. If you're not currently designing with mustard, you should get out of design and tech. The future of de...

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Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

@nobugsnous.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and I are super excited to announce the Refusal Summer Reading Club! 🌈 All who are interested in reading together with us are welcome to join. Sign up by Tues, June 9 📚🤓