I've been heartbroken since I heard this morning. One of the few people I loved unconditionally and the best mentor I could ever have asked for.

Josephine Quinn@josephinequinn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Please read this lovely story about Chris Wickham. We all need to be more Chris. Especially now there’s no more Chris.

The civility police coming for how I respond to a non-thinking, non-feeling, machine is absolutely mind-blowing. If you cannot see how this is doing the work of corporations to continue the assault on human dignity by granting them rights that don't belong to them, I don't know what to do.

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

This is really compelling

North Carolina Conference of the AAUP@ncaaup.bsky.social · 3d ago

This op-ed really nails it. Universities going all in on generative AI are pulling us backwards on student mental health. Is that the university mission? Is that what a public good looks like? ncnewsline.com/2026/10/08/w...

The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 3d ago

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

There should be a political party that wants to stop this and punish the people doing this

Patrick deHahn@pdehello.bsky.social · 2d ago

"The victim, Rosa said, was on the ground bleeding and being held down by the agents. A baby, she said, was in the car and was held by ICE agents until someone picked the child up."

"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

Job posting: Professorship in History of the Earlier Middle Ages, University of Zurich. Applications due November 4, 2026 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/profess...

Professorship in History of the Earlier Middle Ages, University of Zurich | Mary Jaharis Center

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Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...

AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit

Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.

courthousenews.com

OK, just checking in to see if *anyone's* NEH grant has actually been reinstated?

Hard to know if this guy or Newsom is working harder to nuke their '28 primary chances.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 6d ago

Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel calls on Democratic lawmakers to set aside plans to impeach President Trump if they win a majority in the House, pushing them instead to pass an ethics reform package.

This playful cat completely made the window cleaner’s day. Original post

If this isn’t blatant viewpoint discrimination, then I don’t know what is. “The Office of the Provost rejected 57 of 77 applications from the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis to retain core curriculum status for the 2027-28 academic year . . . 1/2 thedailytexan.com/2026/09/24/u...

University rejects over 30 courses of a COLA department’s requested core curriculum courses,

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story and headline incorrectly stated the number and percentage of courses of Social and Cultural Analysis that were rejected by the Office of the Provost due...

thedailytexan.com

Texas legislators and universities can’t claim to support viewpoint diversity while endorsing viewpoint discrimination. Genuine intellectual diversity requires allowing competing perspectives—even unpopular ones—to be expressed, examined, and debated.

The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · last wk.

Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

PLEASE ask me for my article! It's always a thrill to know that someone wants to read it, and I hate that knowledge is gatekept like this. Not only do we not get paid if you pay the fee, but we have to pay the journal thousands of dollars for the "privilege" of making it open-access (not paywalled)

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!

"...calling a text extruded from an LLM a ‘history’ is, quite literally, a category error. There are far too many deliberations, choices, and cares in the production of a history for it to be something statistically generated, a mere algorithmic derivative." #NoAIintheclassroom #skystorians

Dr Dave Hitchcock@davehitchcock.bsky.social · 2w ago

'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.

Well, I'll be damned. They finally found a spine.

Scott Nover@scottnover.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

#DamnatioMemoriae2029

Jen Mercieca@jenmercieca.bsky.social · 3w ago

When authoritarian regimes collapse, their leaders experience symbolic deaths, largely through the destruction & removal of monuments that they've built to glorify themselves and affirm their power. Sometimes called "iconoclasm," who gets a statue or monument is always a symbolic struggle for power.

A real problem with concerns about oil prices spiking even more than they already have is that people cannot do anymore to mitigate increased costs. There's already been mass layoffs, SNAP cuts, plus higher energy and food prices. The unnecessary US-Canada trade war. People are exhausted.

God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom

Jay @ the deep dive@thedeepdive.bsky.social · 4w ago

US Energy Secretary says Americans need to drive less to achieve lower gas prices.

Happy Constitution Day, everybody. Hey, remember when this was a joke?

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Mike Johnson on OpenAI and Anthropic: "They can self-police. They can self-regulate."

This is the way. Let these centers power themselves with solar and wind.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4w ago

I get that some Dems might not want to go here during this election, but there's a big opening to harness public anxiety about AI data-centers to make a case for powering the AI future we actually want with sun and wind. I think Dems should connect these dots. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2154...

I just hear @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social's permission structure in this. It's corporate greed, consolidation, & control that is killing us. Here we are wasting f-ing time discussing if the gadget is alive, debating toys instead of the men holding the remote controls while they steal & wreak havoc.

404 Media@404media.co · 4w ago

Is AI going to kill us all in 10 years? Discussions of AI doom or existential risk are complicated because they often serve as marketing or excuses for regulatory capture for the biggest AI companies. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social breaks it down. Watch more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMNB...

the mold whispering into JK Rowling's subconscious: "you should put on your website a list of every mean thing you think anyone's ever said about you just in case someone doesn't know you're in the Epstein files"

Hauntit Quine 🇵🇸 she/her@rummlie.bsky.social · 4w ago

JK Rowling putting up a disclaimer about having mold in her castle in the FAQs section of her website is satisfying. She was so bothered about the mold she learned how to blur her backgrounds, now this. Bullies are such pathetic creatures.

Rank and file Democrats want fighters for candidates. Most of us don't care if they're "establishment" Democrats or if they're DSA. If they will fight for Democratic principles they are getting support and it's paying off for them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Ossoff calls Mike Collins "a crumbling little bigot"