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David Waldman

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David Waldman@kagrox.bsky.social · 7h ago

Greene’s pre-Congress career included her video harassing and threatening AOC through her locked office door‘s mail slot and stalking teenage David Hogg. Her 1st D opponent withdrew from the campaign & fled the state. Her 2nd had to campaign in a bullet proof vest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)

A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.

nytimes.com

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h ago

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h ago

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people). Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 2d ago

In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.

Rich Burroughs@somewhattolerable.com · 2d ago

Another massive difference is that a calculator isn’t answering your questions in a way that’s specifically designed to get you to continue using the calculator.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · yesterday

BREAKING NYT: The Trump Justice Department is investigating whether the major television networks — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox — violated federal antitrust laws when the group briefly suspended their pooled coverage of Trump, according to six people with knowledge of the department's action.

Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage

Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was looking into whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.

nytimes.com

Grudgie the Wail@grudgie.bsky.social · 2d ago

It should not be possible to elect a President who doesn’t even know what health insurance is. But holy shit it really really really should not be possible to have a guy be President for multiple terms and still not have learned what health insurance is