Jen Schneider
@jendschneider.bsky.social
Erstwhile rhetorician and cultural critic. Personal account. There are not enough Tums in the world right now
And absolutely impossible for most government organizations, and that includes most state universities, who haven’t figured out how to do this for LLMs yet
ventybones@ventybones.bsky.social · 3d agoMost large companies' data environments are several years of very boring, arduous work away from being receptive to agentic AI and nobody above the SVP level wants to hear this
This is 💯 the truth, for every project I’ve ever worked or consulted on, and I did some research that found the first question is rarely asked!
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d agoi swear to god, asking: “what is the problem you are trying to solve? followed by: “what information or data do you need to solve this problem?” are like, some of the single most important questions you need to ask a stakeholder on all kinds of projects, and so many people skip it
The Narrative™️, though. It cannot fail. It can only be failed.
Dan Silverman@dmsilverman.bsky.social · 2w agoNew study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching
This is the first article I’ve read that addresses the industry’s significant AI agent translation and adoption problem. It’s hard to articulate a use case for agents to most people, much less to train on how to set them up. www.wired.com/story/why-no...
Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents
The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.
wired.com
Listened to a podcast recently about the concept of “moral injury,” and while not a perfect fit, I wonder if it explains some of the despair a lot of us are feeling about this right now.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3w agolooking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy
NUCLEAR CASH President Trump, his family and his circle of advisers have monetized crypto, the predictions markets, the data center boom & rare-earths mining. Now they are seeing there's money to be made in a new vector: The nuclear industry. The NYT takes a look www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
Trump Is Pushing Nuclear Energy, Including Saudi Deal. His Family and Supporters Could Benefit. (Gift Article)
In some cases, no direct line can be drawn from the president’s domestic nuclear agenda to his family or close allies. But they have overlapping business ties that could position them for gains.
nytimes.com
Millions of people do good in their communities every single hour and if we uplifted each example, we would drown out those who spend their time doing evil. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n... - RIP to both of these men.
Jayson Conner and Jeffrey Newman, Who Gave Backpacks to Those in Need, Die Days Apart (Gift Article)
The couple, who died within a few days of each other, provided needed supplies, like socks and wet wipes, to people living on New York City’s streets.
nytimes.com
I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...
Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People
An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...
thedissident.news
I marvel at this. Teaching energy and climate policy at the height of the fracking boom at the Colorado School of Mines, I had students storm out of rooms, alumni jeer, faculty colleagues roll their eyes at the nearest suggestion that such a thing was possible.
Nicolas Fulghum@nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 2mo agoSolar just produced more electricity than coal in the US for the first month ever and it won't be the last... Over the last two decades, the role of coal and solar in the US mix has changed drastically May 2006: 🪨 48%, ☀️ 0% May 2016: 🪨 26%, ☀️ 2% May 2026: 🪨 12%, ☀️ 13%
If this is how your institution is teaching Digital/AI Literacy, they’re doing it very, very wrong.
Dr Holly Nielsen@hollynielsen.bsky.social · 5mo agoIsn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”
Okay so here’s my actual Bluesky-is-dying hypothesis: The entire web is dying. Users aren’t going from BlueSky to another site (x/insta/threada/tiktok). Users are going to chatbots. I know traffic to news sites has cratered (like 90%). My hunch is traffic to all the social platforms is down too.
about to touch down in dc so i wanna tell a brief story about how a trip to idaho changed me forever
FRANCE: we're fancy WORLD: ok FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch WORLD: FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife
"You gotta mike the box." the engineer Bill Halverson on the making of "Ain't No Sunshine," 1971 (from a Mix interview in 2012)
![“When Bill Withers showed up,” Halverson says, “he comes walking in with his guitar and a straight-back chair, like a dining room chair, and asks, ‘Where do I set up?’ I showed him right in the middle of the room, and then he left and he came back in with this platform, a kind of wooden box that didn’t have a bottom. It was about four inches tall, and was maybe 3 foot by 4 foot; it was a fairly large platform, and he set it down in the middle of the room. Then he put his chair on it and got his guitar out, and he’s sitting on top of this box. So I miked him and I miked his guitar, and then I was doing other things—getting sounds together.
“But then he calls me over and he points down to the box and says, ‘You gotta mike the box.’ Well, the way I was trained, you serve the artist, whatever the artist needs. So I got a couple other mics and I miked the box, the place down near the floor, next to this platform.
“And now, when you listen to ‘Ain’t No Sunshine,’ you know that all that tapping that goes on [while Withers sings] ‘I know I know I know’ all through it, actually, that’s him tapping his feet on the box, which is actually more intricate than the guitar on that track. He had evidently rehearsed that in his living room, maybe for years.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtqkh4q3vlh7rltd4tnaweh2/bafkreig3codqyfxdi2er2sqqri34kumkg2izjo4k7gtxp6pfipsxyx3yxe)
TikTok is a very underrated source of accidental Dudes Rock content.
If people just understood the science the way you understand the science they would agree with your policy preference
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe NY Times saves its harshest skepticism for progressives. Instead of being impressed by 3,000+ coordinated protests, NYT dismisses the value of “hitting a number” and asks if No Kings will be “a primal scream that fades into a whimper.” F off, NY Times. We'll defeat fascism w/o you. (Gift link)
This is really common, and every indication is that people hate what “AI” represents in culture, hate the Big AI companies, and… are using it a lot. Just as happened with social media. Which is why we need to talk about accountable, public alternatives, not just regulating the bad actors.
🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽@rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 5mo agoI don’t even know how to reconcile this with what I see and the millions of teachers through professors I know that see completely opposite of this. Kids completely and totally embrace AI fully unapologetically with their entire chest.
“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”
The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵
