I'm pretty much only here to remind people that fascism & AI are inexorably intertwined. Thinking for ourselves is good: it's one of the best things a human can do. There's nothing I enjoy more than not being here & doing my research, but if we don't push back, the things we enjoy are under threat.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3mo ago

It feels many only know my work pushing back against AI, which is very fair — but I have a broader research interest, which also forms a protective belt against such forces, as well as being what I have been thinking about since discovering "cognitive science" in ~2006: 🍃 metatheory.space 1/

LLM delusion hits Sam?

Adam Becker@adambecker.bsky.social · last wk.

lol, no, that's not a thing

Subsidy for capitalists with White House call "for a radical shift in the way that the federal government pays for science, with a massive move of $200 bill away from funding research and basic science...toward individuals and more directly applied AI projects, including...private tech companies."

AAUP@aaup.org · last wk.

“This plan raises profound concerns about the future of publicly funded science. It does nothing to make anyone healthier or safer, and it isn’t what Americans want.” — Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten @proftwolf.bsky.social @rweingarten.bsky.social #academicsky

@utaustin.bsky.social, where merit and peer review don't matter. "Academic freedom is not under duress—it’s being dismantled" Ivan Chaar Lopez on being denied tenure despite strong department and referee support www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... Academic Freedom letter to sign 👇

Prof Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being Dismantled

Border-surveillance researcher Iván Chaar López received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters. Still, he was denied tenure without explanation.

insidehighered.com

35 civilians in Iran killed in latest attacks, Al Jazeera reports, and CNN does not have a story on their headlines. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Iran condemns ‘barbaric’ US bombing near hospital as cancer patients flee

Tehran vows to respond to any US attacks on its infrastructure with reciprocal strikes on Middle East sites.

aljazeera.com

This is footage of ICE handcuffing a 26 year old father after murdering him in broad daylight. We cannot look away. Abolish ICE. Abolish qualified immunity. Hold these murderous thugs accountable.

Even if they claimed he tried to ram them with his car, we’d have clear reason to doubt them, since we’ve seen that lie before. But the fact that THEY DON’T EVEN SAY THAT, and only offer a vague “but public safety” to justify their own lethal threat to the public… This was an execution.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w ago

“fearing for public safety” Fuck you.

lorde gets it

All Robots Are Bastards includes VAR

How long do you have to wait to know that they won't overturn it because computer perception VAR?

strawberry garfield@bbburgerrr.bsky.social · 4w ago

GOOOOOOOOOLLLLLL!!!!!

This affects all federal grants, not just for science! Local government folks where you at?

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · last mo.

Hello we are back from a holiday weekend and the Office of Management and Budget is still trying to make sure federal grants can be withdrawn at any time, for any reason. There's still time to stop it. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

Ford, Commonwealth Bank, and IBM all start rehiring people after realizing AI can't replace them on quality: www.cnbc.com/2026/07/01/e... “If we don’t continue to invest in entry-level hires, what happens in three-five years?..There’s no pipeline; the well simply dries up" IBM HR chief

Employers who laid off workers citing AI are already starting to regret it

Companies are realizing artificial intelligence can't do everything after all, prompting them to rehire employees to grow their businesses

cnbc.com

A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!

As someone who is tall and had all kinds of people trying to gender correct me growing up, these oopsies are not because of "normalizing trans." These people were always gender policing and now they are doing it with doxxing, law, and invasive surveillance. Trans rights free all of us.

Rob Ricci@ricci.io · last mo.

Yep, here in Utah a member of the state school board went after some poor random cis girl, individually and by name, using these kinds of laws: abcnews.com/US/utah-scho...

New Guns of Brixton lyrics just dropped.

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

daaaamn london

Is POTUS and the right gonna come for defunding law schools next so they don't have to contend with another group of experts they have not totally bent?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

White House spox Abigail Jackson: "The administration feels that the Supreme Court has fundamentally misinterpreted the intent of the 14th Amendment"

Can we just have gender agnostic sports maybe using height or weight classes if essential to fairness somehow? This is all a huge waste of time and pain.

Nancy Armour@nrarmour.bsky.social · last mo.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

Nuanced and deep piece on the contest between different understandings of Jewish identity, ethics, and communal life at stake in the Lander Goldman election. More than just AIPAC.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last mo.

I published this piece about Brad Lander and antisemitism last week, so this morning I received emails accusing me both of being a genocidal Zionist AND of being an anti-Zionist self-hating Kapo. Somehow both at once! forward.com/opinion/8341...

Post-racial apartheid through citizenship and nation "The ban on civil marriage inside Israel’s borders is not usually cited, even by critics, as an example of its apartheid system of rule. But the ban persists because it is the ideal way to conceal segregation under the veneer of equal treatment."

Jonathan Cook@jonathan-cook.bsky.social · last mo.

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani is being accused of antisemitism for rejecting Israel as a "Jewish state" rather than a state with equal rights. I explain precisely what a Jewish state entails in my latest article: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-07...

"Under the Oct ceasefire Israel agreed to allow up to 600 aid trucks into Gaza each day, but officials say restrictions are still in place & only about a third of those promised deliveries have been allowed in" Lina Abu Akleh on Israel still restricting the flow of aid into Gaza

Supreme Court in Chatrie rules that your Google (or app) location data counts as personal effects, even if you entrust it to a third party for keeping, so the government needs to get a warrant! Geofence warrants are no longer legal. Gorsuch goes off: reason.com/2026/06/29/i...

Here’s EFF’s more in-depth analysis of today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Chatrie location data case.

Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People’s Location Data

You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment, ...

eff.org

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · last mo.

We applaud SCOTUS' decision in Chatrie v. United States. The Court reaffirmed that you have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and that even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment. (1/3)

1/2

Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · last mo.

1994–Tiny org goes to N Idaho to help to fight a statewide anti gay ballot referendum. Grassroots organizing. Threw parties. Gave out Hershey's Kisses at the County Fair + a card "You've been kissed by a lesbian." Mega canvassing. Our 3 counties made the difference. We won! Talking w/folks works!

<sigh> Lilly, our grassroots group, canvassed in 1994 N. Idaho, nazi country, fighting anti gay ballot initiative. On same side–a campaign forcing "volunteers" to sign a pledge not to say "gay." istg! We listened and talked! W/pedestrian words. Zero ads. In our 3 counties–best margins. We won!

Tax the rich They should not be making decisions

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.

The next time one of these guys has a new idea will be the first time.

The only America 250 thing I will accept is my local ice creamery making a red, white, and blue swirl ice cream with only natural dyes and it turning out like this

The pose he struck in this image was in protest of violence in the Congo & his overall tribute is a protest against imperialism. His very presence opens minds & raises important questions so I’m disappointed but not surprised that he is not welcome in the current imperial core. No doubt targeted.

Bradford Pearson@bradfordpearson.bsky.social · last mo.

dog shit country, truly

Automatic recording (surveillance) technology means those who have bureaucratic power now can selectively catch you wrongdoing that you cannot even perceive.

I go by Rob@papashot.bsky.social · last mo.

I’ve said it a zillion times. In the VAR era they have to amend the offsides rule. That’s not fucking offsides I do not care where his heel is.

Iran was offsides by this much. Would've sent them to the Round of 32. (And then they hit the crossbar a few minutes later)