Main takeaway from the NYT Iowa focus group is that none of these voters really know what’s going on and they barely know anything about the candidates running in either statewide election lmao
Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene
@dmgreene.bsky.social
Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. https://dmgreene.net
Great weekend for Michael Carrick to lose his job and be replaced by [spins wheel] Roy Hodgson
Carrying a surveillance device in one’s pocket at all times: I sleep A city-owned camera takes a picture of your license plate and sends you a ticket if you run a rear light: “This is a hecking jorjorwell 1984”
This is kinda like how that raw milk seller felt totally comfortable talking about the various infections and contaminations in public because he knew RFK had his back
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h agoJason Clinton is the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Anthropic.
Thank goodness their names are on here because every Airbnb landlord needs to be on a list
Caroline Haskins@carolinehaskins.bsky.social · yesterdayAirbnb is banning its hosts from making guests do things like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.” The hosts....are not taking it well: www.wired.com/story/airbnb...
Any good writeups of AI use in BigLaw? I know the banks are leaning on the law firms to lower fees because the labor replacement / speed-up is rampant but I haven't seen anything good on what that actually looks like in practice. Assuming mostly paralegal research but who knows!
Pretty nearly the whole actual point of getting white college students to go to Mississsippi for Freedom Summer was to draw national media attention
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 16h ago"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets." Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.
I probably shouldn't be shocked but Brianna wu has a shockingly racist post up comparing Abdul El-Sayed and Muslims generally to ants who are taking over our colony and forcing us to eat each other or something
The biggest danger to this administration is being a non-white person who is funnier and better at posting than them. That's why they're arresting this woman's family members for running a weed store two weeks before an election. She has the juice and that's dangerous.
I'm gonna run back my 400-level tech/culture/society class in spring for the first time since 2020. Interested in your more recent syllabi, post-Trump, post-covid. And the other direction too, usually just as if not more valuable: new historical work.
The queen has spoken. Let it be so.
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸@rweingarten.bsky.social · yesterdayLeadership requires more than carefully worded statements. It requires action, accountability, & willingness to stand with the people who make an institution what it is. As labor leaders & Cornell alumni, @nysut.bsky.social President Melinda Person & I call on Cornell President Kotlikoff to resign.
Any good writeups of AI use in BigLaw? I know the banks are leaning on the law firms to lower fees because the labor replacement / speed-up is rampant but I haven't seen anything good on what that actually looks like in practice. Assuming mostly paralegal research but who knows!
Banner write-up of UMD athletics sending a cop after student journalists. The officer then acts like he's doing them a favor, saying this isn't a good time to be there, etc etc. Not your call bud!
Student journalists were talking to UMD athletes. Then police showed up.
Two student journalists at the University of Maryland said staff called campus police on them after they attempted to speak with football players about the departure of coach Michael Locksley.
thebanner.com
I'm the speaker, and this morning I went to the disciplinary hearing. Still waiting for the outcome. Unlikely (but not impossible) that they will try to fire me. The repression is real. But (!) when i arrived i was met by like 35 students who walked me to the meeting singing bella chao 🥹✊🏽🇵🇸💕
Mikkel Flohr@mflohr.bsky.social · 21h agoJust hours before the meeting, university management called one of the speakers in for a formal reprimande over the contents of an op-ed, describing the culture of fear, silence, and repression at Roskilde University; a university once known for its critical research and democratic organization.
At MIT, an alliance between property service workers and graduate students shows the power of wall-to-wall organizing for living wages and workers’ rights against a shared, well-resourced management. Read more: tinyurl.com/MITWorkersUn... @32bjseiu.bsky.social
Taiwan's first-ever chip workers strike begins at Micron plant https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors/taiwan-s-first-ever-chip-workers-strike-begins-at-micron-plant
Taiwan's first-ever chip workers strike begins at Micron plant
Dispute is over pay and bonuses not reflecting AI memory profits
asia.nikkei.com
“The C.D.C. has lost about 30% of its staff since last year, including many members of the rabies team, which no longer has the capacity to advise state officials after hours, according to an official with knowledge of the situation. The agency also temporarily suspended rabies testing this spring”
Is Rabies Making a Comeback?
As several states report surges in animal cases, federal officials are warning about an apparent increase in human exposures.
nytimes.com
try this handy mnemonic, it’s so simple
I can’t imagine being this kind of loser, on purpose and in full view of others.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · yesterdayJD Vance greeting Bengals players and most are ignoring him lol
approximately all investment in the AI space has been based on the idea that smarter fundamentally cannot be cheaper, and I suspect we're on the verge of what happens as people start to discover there's no reason for that to be true
conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · yesterdayturns out they all go backwards like that, which probably implies something interesting about ARC-AGI-3 arcprize.org/leaderboard
I have $20 that says he played ball--or the local wasp cultural equivalent-- with one of the editors' kids
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · yesterdayMichael Fusella supported President Trump for nearly a decade. But as the Iran war drags on and the cost of living continues to climb, the 21-year-old Republican said he feels betrayed by a president who said he’d end overseas conflicts and lower prices.
Look I also love the videos of Carolyn Marvin's one-woman war on the delivery robots but you gotta agree it's uhhhhhhh emblematic of our approach to collective action
Love this. One struggle for bodily autonomy, many fronts.
Mz. October DEATHules ⚧@aprildaniels.bsky.social · 2d agoHRT on demand, no exceptions. That's the line we should be pushing now. We tried compromise, and the right wing of the cis decided to start building the bureaucratic structure for a genocide. No more compromise. We must be fanatical. HRT on demand for everyone who wants it, no exceptions.
Maryland not only fired the football coach, they apparently fired all the athletic staffers who understand that they work at a public university. Crazily wrong behavior to call the cops on student journalists standing in public.
