The other way to say it is that AI, and the forced-down-workers’-throats way that it’s been pushed out, is leading to a massive de-skilling of the workforce that will prove immensely costly going forward. www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Today everyone — EVERYONE — should take a moment and read Ray Bradbury's four-page short story from 1950.

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 23h ago

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

Brilliant ad

The Department of Education has now officially submitted proposals to eliminate International Education and Fulbright Hays programs, which have funded thousands of students and scholars to study languages and conduct research abroad. I encourage you to make public comments and contact your reps.

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Official Publications from the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

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Very disappointed that no headline writers are taking advantage of the fact that the building in Manhattan currently, umm, finding it difficult to stay erect is the former HQ of PFIZER (maker of the little blue pill)!!

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4w ago

A high-rise Manhattan office building being converted to apartments showed signs of collapsing on Tuesday, prompting evacuations, street closings and an emergency response that disrupted the morning rush around Grand Central Terminal. Here’s what to know.

The less the Brits try to make Mexican food, the better the world will be. #sisepuede

Fourfoot@fourfoot.bsky.social · last mo.

England is insane.

Rep. French Hill (R-AK) wants NATO partners to do more to squeeze Russia and those buying its oil. Hill also voted against the War Powers Resolution to tame Trump’s actions in Iran and says nothing about Trump exempting countries buying Russian oil from sanctions bc of rising prices. Sure, French.

Accurate.

Darin Self@darinself.com · 2mo ago

The richest man in the world dismantled USAID which has led to an Ebola outbreak and developed a technology that identified a girls school to bomb.

Cc: @jcbradbury.com. Need some op-eds in Raleigh and Charlotte newspapers!

Colin Campbell@raleighreporter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Asked if the budget will include support for a stadium for a potential Major League Baseball franchise, Berger said, I don't know.'" www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol #ncga

How about we fund public education rather than subsidizing private, for-profit companies? How about it @joshsteinnc.bsky.social?

Colin Campbell@raleighreporter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Asked if the budget will include support for a stadium for a potential Major League Baseball franchise, Berger said, I don't know.'" www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol #ncga

The level of money laundering is gonna go thru the roof.

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 2mo ago

Artificial intelligence is accelerating productivity at Deutsche Bank , enabling tasks that once took years to be completed within months, a senior executive said on Thursday.

eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time

Wonderful.

Kurbs@kkurbs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please Use AI

What’s more impressive is that she’s been “very concerned” for about 75% of them.

It’s remarkable how much Brian Finlay accomplished at such a young age. I met him the first time I presented at the UN and he was gracious, supportive, funny, and whip smart. Was also willing to share a punch bowl of some strong cocktail in Manhattan afterwards. RIP. www.stimson.org/2026/stimson...

Stimson Remembers the Life and Legacy of President and CEO Brian Finlay • Stimson Center

The Stimson Center mourns the loss of our President and CEO Brian Finlay, who passed away on June 3 from a fierce fight with gallbladder cancer. Brian was 53 years old.

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Awful news. It’s hard to imagine how much better academia as a whole would be—smarter, more effective, kinder—if more of us were as giving, committed, and curious as Raúl was. Damn. Descanse en paz.

harmodio@harmodio.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Buen camino, profe Raúl Pacheco Vega. Fuiste y serás siempre el investigador más chido.

“People say gas prices are hurting them.” “We talk to the CEOs of oil companies all the time and they’re doing just fine.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

BREAM: The Journal says percentage of delinquent credit card balances is 13%, the highest in 15 years. People are using them for necessities. Your message to them? HASSETT: We talk to CEOs of the credit card companies all the time, and there's not any threat to them. People are taking a bit longer.

It’s a huge problem for US democracy that members of one of the two parties thinks obscure sports trivia is qualifying for public office.

Aaron Schatz@aaronschatz.com · 2mo ago

If any Republicans want to have an obscure wide receiver-off I will wipe the floor with them.

Psst. Proportional representation in multi-member districts is the only real answer to the ills of gerrymandering. Pass it on.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Good explainer from @leedrutman.bsky.social on why "ban gerrymandering" within the context of single-member districts is deceptively oversimplified. There is no such thing as any one objectively right measure of non-gerrymandered fairness, and they all have predictable partisan biases.

Cc: Pope Leo.

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Anthropic is the clean coal of AI. And clean coal doesn't exist" - Karen Hao speaking at Hay yesterday.

Can I block any skeet that has the word Bluesky? I find all of the navel gazing—ensconcing! Liberating!—really boring and self-serving. I grew up where dudes stood around and talked about their cars. That was boring & self-serving. Self-analyzing our use of a platform feels the same to me. Blah.

The fact that Nyong’o’s beauty is causing a war between two rival cultures in America right now is proof enough that she is the perfect Helen of Troy.

This is an important effort and one that more academics need to recreate for our own fields. Especially if it includes peer review, a kind of Wikipedia of violations across many sectors would be useful for the media, activists. Immigration, finance, environment, development, human rights, etc.

Steve Saideman@smsaideman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#civmilsky: I had an RA come up with a list of the Trump Admin's violations of American norms of civil-military relations. I'd like to get feedback on it and have it serve as a public good. Especially handy when folks say this is not so bad docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 1/

The right-wing Board of Trustees at UNC Chapel Hill continues to undermine one of the country’s pre-eminent institutions of higher education. Shameful and terribly short-sighted. www.wunc.org/education/20...

Q&A: Professor denied tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill speaks out

Dr. Kiran Asher is a professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts.

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“Dear Reader, someone with experience at the FBI surely can find employment elsewhere. That’s your best option.”

Another day, another “Oops, I AI’d” story. I suppose I’m naive, but isn’t the answer to most of this to actually read the stuff you’re referencing? Worried about accidentally AI’ing? Then read.

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

Man who refuses to wear a suit insists that we need a ballroom.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Sen. John Fetterman: "I've seen a picture. Assuming it's not AI, so far the reflecting pool looks good. If that's $13 million, really, that's small. We do need a ballroom."

Oof.

Robert Fields@robertfields39.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nick Anderson @andertoon.bsky.social

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Cuba has run out of diesel and fuel oil, energy minister says, as US blockade pushes island to brink

Minister Vicente de la O Levy says ‘Cuba is open to anyone that wants to sell us fuel’ as rolling power blackouts increase

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Yep.

Dennis Lytton@dennislytton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Winner-take-all, single-member district elections can never be fair, competitive, & representative. The Gerrymandering Wars of 2025-26 lay bare its bankruptcy Multiparty proportional representation can be enacted by law. It'd transform our calcified politics overnight by me @liberalcurrents.com