You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

i write code manually cause it’s fun and i don’t want AI to take that skill away from me

A cruise skeptic goes on a cruise: Alaska trip report My partner's mom celebrated a milestone birthday this year. To honor said milestone, we took a family trip on an Alaskan cruise in June -- my first trip to Alaska, and my first cruise. Confession: I have never had any desire to go on a…

A cruise skeptic goes on a cruise: Alaska trip report

My partner's mom celebrated a milestone birthday this year. To honor said milestone, we took a family trip on an Alaskan cruise in June -- my first trip to Alaska, and my first cruise. Confession: I have never had any desire to go on a traditional cruise. The Venn diagram of things I like to do on vacation and things I believed happen on cruises is 2 circles about 10 miles apart. The excesses, the environmental footprint, the exploitation of local economies, being trapped in one place with a lot of other people...no thank you.

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The thing they don't tell you about getting older is that staying up really really late one night can ruin your entire month

I miss when technology was exciting. Google was cool, search worked, information felt wildly, wonderfully accessible. Amazon was a wonderland of book discovery. The Kindle is a marvel! And now it's all the rancid sadism of dull men.

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

blair@blairaf.com · 2mo ago

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

it took me just a few minutes to submit a response (link to the form is in Emily's thread below)

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is the weirdest request for input that I've seen in a while. It's almost like the ACM is sitting at the table with the "change my mind" sign. So, let's do it. Short thread with the input I gave them:

The most anti-legal immigrant administration ever just made it illegal for international students to transfer schools or change majors or shift any "educational objective" in their 1st year and for graduate students **at any point** ever, at all. There is no legal basis for this

One of my top 5 favorite songs of all time

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago

Living Colour releases “Cult of Personality” today in 1988. “.. It was musings on the amoral nature of leadership,” said songwriter and guitarist Vernon Reid. “Whether these people are good or bad, why are we drawn to larger-than-life personalities?” 🎸

@BerkeleyLaw is hiring a tenured professor in AI, Law and Society, as part of an interdisciplinary campus-wide cluster. Please spread the word, and consider applying! Deadline is September 4. Happy to field questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05397

Professor - Artificial Intelligence, Inequality, and Society - School of Law

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I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

Profoundly sad (and angry) about today's SCOTUS ruling against transgender athletes. The bigotry and racism of several recent rulings are hard to absorb. My heart goes out to transgender people and their families, especially the parents of transgender kids (I know many). I feel your sadness today.

It's really hard to convey just how massive the scale of legislation has been to target trans people. From a few dozen pieces of legislation in 2015 to over a thousand in 2025. It started with sports bans in 2020 and now we're here. it was never about sports.

Add this to the long list of Tech Absolutely No One Asked For. My god.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

I've now reached the "stress-eating sour patch kids" portion of final project grading

Well, this is all fucking horrifying. I hate linking to Substack but i'm making an exception here

I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House

There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.

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NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

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It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

In which the universe reads my last blog post and laughs and laughs and laughs If this academic term has (re)taught me anything, it's that bodies don't adhere to (and frankly don't care about) the academic calendar. In the span of less than a week, I went from "I'm so excited to catch up on and…

In which the universe reads my last blog post and laughs and laughs and laughs

If this academic term has (re)taught me anything, it's that bodies don't adhere to (and frankly don't care about) the academic calendar. In the span of less than a week, I went from "I'm so excited to catch up on and make progress on a bunch of things this month!" to...spending Mother's Day morning in the ER. While it's still not clear what happened, the working theory of the doctors I saw over that span of a few days (2 trips to urgent care, an ER visit, and a telehealth visit) goes something like this: I never fully recovered from the flu at the end of March.

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Counterpoint: No I will not

Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search

The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.

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On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Don't write your manuscript reviews using AI. DEFINITELY do not feed someone else's manuscript into AI and have it write the review for you.

Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something): techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... A short thread 🧵>>

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t...

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Imagine using $1.7 billion to address hunger, housing, education, and medical care. Imagine using $1.7 billion to address the wage gap and the lack of resources for survivors of violence and abuse. We should never look at these ideas as too radical or impossible again.

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them