This MIT report on AI and teaching is rightfully getting lots of praise: aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/. There's a ton to like, but it exemplifies a trend I see on Bluesky around AI + pedagogy conversations: they tend to leave out online learning entirely.

Guy is bored with his life, decides to quit his job and work at a fast food restaurant, then gets killed.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 23h ago

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Berlin mailman discovers book is dedicated to him

This is a great podcast in that it shows how analysis of politics that is grounded in data and empiricism (Bouie) has an uphill battle in DC/NY against ideology and pure uncut reactionary ignorance (Cottle) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...

Opinion | The Right Is Rethinking MAGA. The Left Is Rethinking ‘Woke.’

As primary results trickle in, both parties are wrestling with what they stand for — and where they’re headed.

nytimes.com

It’s not lost on me that Google and Apple Maps both say “Gulf of America” but they have not changed the name of Lake Ontario.

On self-diagnosis: "Grasping at the diagnostic category du jour may be misguided, but the desperation driving it is authentic. You can no more reproach someone for it than you can blame a starving person for eyeing a menu; they are both looking for sustenance, however illusory it may prove."

Jesus Christ: UC Berkeley international students will no longer be allowed to complete internships or co-ops for course credit unless they form an “integral part of an established curriculum,” following repeated threats from ICE. This is going to send shockwaves across SF and Silicon Valley

Lynda Lopez@lyndab08.bsky.social · 3d ago

“The Berkeley International Office announced Wednesday that it will pause international students’ applications for Course Credit Curricular Practical Training “for the foreseeable future.”

When the administration posts these videos of Black & Hispanic folks being arrested and deported, they’re eroding the mental health of adolescents of color. Scholars call these videos “race-related traumatic events online” (TEO). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d ago

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

It's mostly not about the technology, itself. They are angry about A.I. because they are anxious about how to be successful. No one in charge will tell them the new path to upward mobility. No seems to want to even figure one out. All anyone will talk to them about is A.I.

My student Aadi Mishra and I have a new paper out looking at the mental health effects of mass shootings in the United States. Using the Household Pulse Survey and a database of public mass shootings from Northwestern University, we show widespread increases in anxiety & depression.

Frontiers | Silent echoes: understanding and predicting the widespread mental health impact of mass shootings

Half of the 20 deadliest US. mass shootings have occurred in the past decade. We propose and find that the mental health consequences of such shootings are n...

frontiersin.org

So excited about this book!

Sherry Turkle@sturkle.bsky.social · 3d ago

The relationship between technology and our crisis of loneliness has become increasingly urgent. Vivek Murthy was one of the first to explore this connection, and now he has turned his attention from social media to the relational costs of generative AI.

"Harboring adverse implications for treatment, policy, and prevention, health-data disparities are less transparent than health disparities."

Race/ethnicity and potential suicide misclassification: window on a minority suicide paradox? - BMC Psychiatry

Background Suicide officially kills approximately 30,000 annually in the United States. Analysis of this leading public health problem is complicated by undercounting. Despite persisting socioeconomic...

link.springer.com

Heartbreaking reporting on how cuts to USAID have threatened maternal and child health in Afghanistan. Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the Republicans who stood idly by will burn in hell for this. youtu.be/21-WyoiUOo8

A look at the devastating impact of USAID cuts in rural Afghanistan

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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“AI is going to be a massive issue for the presidential election in a way that technology has never been … Nobody wants to lose their job and they’re already feeling squeezed while these very, very rich people who are richer than anything we have ever seen in the history of Earth are making more.“

Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment

Some industry leaders fear voter backlash is turning into a lasting political crisis.

politico.com

“For people with money, the existence of one of their economic peers who calls for, say, higher taxes on the rich … is an implicit insult to all of the rich people who did not do that, because it goes to show that they could have done something more selfless if they wanted to.”

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 6d ago

All rich kids should be socialists. It is good actually. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/never-apol...

Every time a right winger points and laughs at a socialist who was born rich, it should be understood as a desperate attempt to justify their own moral failure to themselves. If you grew up rich and are now a leftist and someone points that out, the proper response is: “Yes I am. Why aren’t you?”

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 6d ago

All rich kids should be socialists. It is good actually. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/never-apol...

(Source: Paul Krugman; Center for American Progress)

I learned today about something called the Gartner Hype Cycle. This idea seems especially useful in thinking about inflated expectations for AI, as the graph below shows.

post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009).

It feels like industry is waiting for universities to come up with ideas about how they can use Ai and all I can think is: it is not my job to make your business more profitable.

"As many young people ... suggest, having such boundless horizons unrolled before them is a burden, not a blessing. The talk of self-fulfillment & entrepreneurial success establishes high expectations and extensive responsibility without providing any clear guide on how to meet them." —Joseph Davis

The NSF has announced its new funding priorities for "Foundational Research." There are 12 areas and not a single one has to do with the social sciences. I can’t say I’m surprised, but it’s still pretty bleak. www.nsf.gov/news/foundat...

Health data have been more heavily targeted by the Trump administration than any other kind of data, likely because we ask about things like gender identity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Texas Tech is no longer a university and should not be referred to as such. What is happening there is an absolute travesty and tragedy.

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can't say gay and bisexual people were killed in the Holocaust in the core curriculum *at an American university* www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...

Can I interest you in a really cool bug in these trying times? This is the Picasso moth (Baorisa hieroglyphica), native to India & Southeast Asia.

"...findings that 3 [insts] violated civil rights law by tolerating antisemitism were predetermined by political priorities that blew past the evidence and cast aside standard investigative procedures..." Reading the whistleblower statement and taking rage breaks www.ms.now/news/frame-u...

Whistleblower says probes into antisemitism at colleges were ploys to harass and strip millions

A former Justice Department lawyer says the Trump investigations squeezed Ivy League universities for millions before they were even concluded. A top Democrat is demanding answers.

ms.now

Phenomenal reporting by @mashagessen.bsky.social that draws a connection between being “undocumented” as an immigrant and as a trans person.

Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)

Is Kansas just the beginning?

nytimes.com

These are people who legally entered this country and now, because of ancestry and a conspiracy theory pushed by an aspiring politician, are being pursued by the government and fitted with special monitoring devices. This should remind of the darkest events in history.

Ohio Capital Journal@ohiocapitaljournal.com · 2w ago

Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...