This story is so absurd that I think it didn’t get enough attention. Chicago police is violating the law to the tune of hundreds of thousands of secret traffic stops that it’s not reporting as the law requires. When Pascal discovered this, they said they’d fix it… but secrecy has only increased!

Pascal Sabino@pascalsabino.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chicago Police officials said they would address the 200,000+ secretive traffic stops I had uncovered two years ago that were hidden from oversight. But now as CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling retires, the issue is worse— *half* of all stops in the last year were not properly documented

"This uncertainty about the human provenance of text is an incalculable loss"

Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 3w ago

This is a very good essay that advances a broadly humanist position on AI. Liberals, conservatives, socialists, and others should all agree that we must not sacrifice our moral agency in search of a mere facsimile of human understanding. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

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Bridges are one thing, but *water plants*!?

Signal boosting this at an hour I am not usually awake! I used almost every good brain hour I had for two months to put together this ask for help. I need to be able to focus on my medical care and recovery again for a while. Can you chip in, or you can simply repost and help get the word out? 💜

Kate Violette@kateviolette.com · last mo.

Hello friends near and far 💜 I've reached the end of my savings, frustratingly, just as we've solved the root mystery of my illness (it's Lyme) and are seeing continued success with treatment. I'm asking for your help in bridging the gap between now and when I can hopefully work full-time again.

Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries

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Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon

Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country

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To No Ones Surprise, Researchers Find That That The Key Principles Of Self-Determination Theory Find That It Applies To Language-Learners’ Motivation, Too larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/06/20/t...

To No Ones Surprise, Researchers Find That That The Key Principles Of Self-Determination Theory Find That It Applies To Language-Learners’ Motivation, Too

I’ve written constantly about how the tenets of Self-Determination Theory (autonomy, relatedness, competence, relevance) are key to creating the conditions where student intrinsic moti…

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RAS is druggable, my gods. ras is fucking druggable **in human people** it fucking worked. science.

well, here's a nice metaphor as we work on dreaming the next chapter after this one:

For folks who *don't* like immigration, maybe consider helping make the places people are wanting to leave nicer places to live? Seems like basic demand side economics.

Same.

Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 2mo ago

I have donated to Wikipedia. I will do so no longer, unless they actually fix this. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

*His new Roy Cohn. He had the original too.

Barb McQuade@barbmcquade.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trump has found his Roy Cohn.

This is something I've been wondering a lot lately—how much of AI critique (I have plenty myself) is a critique of the larger system, of which AI is only one constitutive element?

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I was just talking about this. AI in a robust social safety net is very different than AI in a scam economy without one.

I was just talking about this. AI in a robust social safety net is very different than AI in a scam economy without one.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A key reason people in China are more receptive to AI than in America is that the courts there have ruled that you can't just lay people off because Claude can now do research and write code. You need a better reason than that. In America, CEOs can't wait to get rid of "low value human capital".

What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary. Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks. 🧵 experimentology.io

"When work is organized so that judgment and skill are appropriated by a managerial layer and the worker is left with execution alone, the worker is being treated as a component." ~Wren

Mass murderers, holocaust-scale mass murderers, except it was a handful of almost teenage tech bros impersonally crossing out budget items.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Holy mackerel I haven't read an academic paper I expect to be *this influential* (to my narrow field) in quite a long time. It's a pre-print, and I've been asked not to share, so I'll hold off on saying more. But *damn*.

I wonder if a direction Colorado could go after this SCOTUS finding is requiring children's affirmative, ongoing, age-appropriately informed assent, with assessment to confirm the absence of undue influence (parental or otherwise), prior to any form conversation therapy.

Odds on whether, if he attends, our president falls asleep during SCOTUS oral arguments?

Maybe propose an amendment making all forms of valid ID free to the citizen and fast to obtain. Passports too, while we’re at it. If a law is a pretextual de facto poll tax, amend it and put the matter to the test.

KellyK🌺@azkellyk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Listen to Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández—Republicans wrote the SAVE America Act to block citizens from registering & purge voters for before midterms. MAGA cannot win with more people voting, so they need to rig the system by making it harder to vote. ☎️ 202-224-3121 NOW #NoPayToVoteSaveAct

Cybertruck expert here, when they start having twins it, counterintuitivly, means their population is under stress.

The snow shoveler expansion exemplifies to a different orientation to governance, because the admin began with a standard—sidewalk accessibility—and then adjusted the scale of labor to meet it, with accessibility functioning as the organizing principle rather than a secondary consideration. 6/

A pressing practical question for Higher Ed: if universities are administering GenAI platforms for student use, are the associated records/logs made available (and how/with what limitations) for, say, FOIA requests, academic misconduct investigations, or HR proceedings?

A thing I often wonder: when might today’s conservative folks say wealth concentration would be too high. I bet we’d find vanishingly few who believe the .00001% should have 99% of all wealth rather than 2% (which I expect many to endorse). Working backward, where do they start to draw the line?

Gabriel Zucman@gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

At the International Conference on SDT, the final session has long been a Q&A with Ryan & Deci. The 8th was the first without Deci (he was in the audience). When Ryan acknowledged their lifelong research partnership, we gave Deci a standing ovation and he cried tears of joy. His work is enduring.

Nick Covington@covingtonedu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Center for Self Determination Theory has announced the passing of Edward Deci:

This is precisely what polling places were like for part of the 19th century. People often traveled long distances by horse to vote. It was a big deal when folks got together this way.

Robert Fessler@professler.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There are far more voters than ICE agents. People should plan to stay at their polling place all day. Make it a party. Meet your neighbors. Talk politics. Gather food trucks. Make it a safe place for voters who are nervous. ICE agents always back off when they are outnumbered.