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Every day feels like this hand of Spades....

In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.

Also I do not expect the US defeat in a war the US started will change much for MAGA. These people are still slobbering over Bobby Lee 150 years later

Gentrification pisses me off because of the erasure of color in: People, places, & architecture

Inadvertently making the case that ICE has so little of their alleged work to do (and overfunding) that they can be placed where another agency in the same department has gone weeks without pay www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Trump to send ICE agents to help strained TSA at airports

President Donald Trump said he is sending federal immigration agents to assist with the airport security delays impacting spring break travel.

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“Failing up“ got us fucked up right now. There are some of the biggest idiots in the world at the helm of the US, if you’re wondering why things aren’t going well. You should feel intellectually intimated by your leadership, to some degree. Stop putting stupid in charge because you can relate.

It’s amazing how quickly Black women have been targeted by these laws and doubly so how little this factors into the analysis around the sexual and gender politics of this movement.

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 7mo ago

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Insurance companies should never dictate how care is delivered. We need to have healthcare protected as a human right. Free at the point of service. Paid for by the government. We need more healthcare professionals (pay them, train them). More facilities. Greater preventative care.

So many reasons to say hell no to this…

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 7mo ago

‘59% of teenagers told Pew that students use AI to cheat, while 34% said it happens extremely or very often.’ God help this generation. We have allowed Big Tech to convince us that ‘AI is revolutionizing the world’ and we’re sacrificing the development and well being of children to their Mammon.

Bad legal writing is often the product of bad legal REASONING and so you can't separate the "important" stuff from the "boring" stuff the way that the legal AI evangelists assume.

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

Apropos of … this whole country is built on rape and monetized sexual assault. The. Whole. Country.

among all the other reasons why this is obviously evil, it’s a new ghoulish way to shame and police how we are allowed to exist in public will the AI version of a fat or disabled person eliminate those “flaws”? will it erase gray hair and wrinkles or lighten skin to “perfect” your appearance?

one of the really gross aspects of the AI zombie resurrection thing we should (carefully!!!!!) discuss more is the fact that this is not what Val Kilmer looked like when he died. they don’t want the human Val Kilmer. they want a simulacrum of the idealized memory of him you have in your mind

Your Favorite Bad Movie Podcast@favoritebadmovie.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hell is full, so we're making Hell 2.0 right here in the good old U.S. of A.

America has been too dependent on the benevolence of the oligarchs only to be surprised by their immorality

“No defensible claim to “ethics” can sidestep the urgency of legally enforceable restrictions to the deployment of technologies of mass surveillance and systemic violence. Until [then], moral and political deliberation about computing will remain subsidiary to the profit-making imperative”

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 7mo ago

The wholesale failure of the mainstream so-called "AI ethics" project is because it is instead a successful process of creating industry stooges, who walk amongst us, hollowing out future colleagues and posturing provocatively about the inevitability of the future theintercept.com/2019/12/20/m...

A short word to describe useful idiots is comprador, because they are agents not of academia anymore but whoever has bought them out and they make a lot of money with their startups and consulting in the process of hollowing out public universities en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprador

The wholesale failure of the mainstream so-called "AI ethics" project is because it is instead a successful process of creating industry stooges, who walk amongst us, hollowing out future colleagues and posturing provocatively about the inevitability of the future theintercept.com/2019/12/20/m...

How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation

“AI ethics” is a field that barely existed before 2017. It’s become a Silicon Valley-led lobby to avoid legal restrictions of controversial technologies.

theintercept.com

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

IMO, this is one reason (of many) why milquetoast AI literacy lessons are such a failure: they don't engage students with questions like, "Should 'robot dogs' be deployed to protect the sprawling infrastructure of AI?"

IMO, this is one reason (of many) why milquetoast AI literacy lessons are such a failure: they don't engage students with questions like, "Should 'robot dogs' be deployed to protect the sprawling infrastructure of AI?"

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7mo ago

“Robot dog guarding the data center” is the cherry on top of your dystopian sundae.

The USPS is cool as hell and essential. Demolishing it would be devastating for everyone but would really hit rural communities. It's not just about the services they provide, but the community connections too: Mail carriers look out for the people on their routes.

"Your Honor, I ask the court -- does this sound like the kind of man who would force himself on an innocent child?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Trump's full rant on Cuba: "Cuba, in its own way, tourism and everything else, it's a beautiful island, great weather. They're not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change, you know? They won't be asking us for money for hurricanes every week. I do believe I'll have the honor of taking Cuba."

Someone needs to send an ambulance to X

If you were never Kamala, make sure your kids are at the front lines when there’s a draft. Leave mine tf alone.

Lots of Confederate battlefields and plantations (where I was explicitly prewarned not to ask any questions about slavery because it would make the white people running the place uncomfortable)

it's a combination of greed, spite, and determined ignorance.

I think they do this sort of thing because they are absolutely enraged at the idea of spending money on anything that does not directly line their pockets or hurt their enemies...and they don't understand why anything is necessary or might be necessary. 1

Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)@portlandken.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Just a reminder that in January of this year, Trump and Hegseth decommissioned EVERY US mine sweeper. Yep. Every. Last. One. Evidently they could never imagine a scenario in which the US needed minesweepers. In Trump's America, we are governed by idiots.

Seniors on fixed incomes face impossible costs under the SAVE Act. Birth certificates from seventy years ago cost money to replace. Passports cost $165. They built this country. Republicans want to charge them for the right to participate in it. #SaveActIsPayToVote