Iran War Enters 6th Justification — theonion.com/iran-war-ent...
Iran War Enters 6th Justification
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Vance Ricks
@ricksva.bsky.social
Philosophy/Comp. Sci. at Northeastern University in Boston No relation to Frozone, Gervase Peterson, or Kevin Garnett
@lollardfish.bsky.social From a student: "back in the day books were extremely expensive because they where hand written and took years to make, but once the printing press dropped, it was probably like AI getting invented, I imagine people where [sic] having debates like this back then as well".
Join Boston Cyclists Union for a first hand tour of the new “cast in place” concrete bike lane buffers on Congress Street. Meet on Sunday July 19th at 11:30am at Better Bagels, 211 Congress Street, Boston. @bikeboston.bsky.social
hey Medford/Somerville pals, reminder that if you have an AC lying around that you’re not using, especially one that can cool a bigger space like a kitchen, @mutualaidmamas.bsky.social can redistribute it to a neighbor who needs one
WEATHER IS HAPPENING@weatherishappening.com · last mo./ 🚨 EXTREME HEAT WATCH 🚨 / PREPENT URSELVES / ITS GOING 2 GET *2* HOT / W/ HEAT INDEX VALUES GETTING UP 2 110 DEGREES LATER THIS WEEK / PART OF REPENTANCE 2 UR WEATHER LORDS IS STAYING SAFE & NOT DYING / SO THAT U CULD LIVE 2 REPENT ANOTHER DAY / IMG FROM UR WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON
NEW EPISODE: Is the way we think about criminal consequences for drivers who harm pedestrians and cyclists another form of motonormativity? A study from Professor Ian Loader of the University of Oxford challenges how the law sees driving and offers solutions. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/r...
Remember that every Big Data / AI revolution is powered by an army of under paid global workers with strong domain specific expertise… the World Cup is no exception!
Tim Newman@tnewmsblues.bsky.social · last mo.“The World Cup will put football’s data and AI on the largest stage there is,” @grohmannrafael.bsky.social said. “The football we watch runs on their work as much as on the players. None of it would exist without the workforce behind it.” restofworld.org/2026/fifa-wo...
I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
Post-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge
Remote
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Science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler was born #OTD in 1947. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (1995). #booksky #litsky #scifi #SpeculativeFiction
"Work is one of 17 interwoven concepts that are the pillars of the course’s curriculum. Others include freedom, justice, truth, language and happiness. Teachers can design their courses as they see fit, dipping into a huge list of philosophers along the way." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/w...
What Does It All Mean? Once a Year, French Students Try to Explain.
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The AI Resist List is LIVE 🎉 Co-built w/ @weandai.bsky.social, @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social, & @refugeelab.ca, this database highlights global efforts to challenge AI, showing how we can resist, refuse, reimagine, and reclaim from Big Tech's dominance. airesistlist.org
I've seen a lot of info for specialized audiences (e.g. scientists, non-profits) on how to comment on the proposed OMB rule change for grants, but less for the general public. So I made this one-pager that can be shared more widely. docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
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"every lawyer involved in the case is implicated, leading Aycock to pause the proceedings, cancel the trial, and disqualify all four lawyers involved. Two of the lawyers were barred from appearing before the court for two years"
404 Media@404media.co · 2mo agoThe lawyers on both sides of a federal court case in Mississippi were caught using artificial intelligence, a situation where, effectively, generative AI tools were used to argue against each other. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/judge-learns...
Season 2, Episode 3 is out! Michael Yarbrough (@mwyarbrough.bsky.social) — associate professor of Law & Society at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center — joins @rachelriskind.bsky.social and @ricksva.bsky.social to talk about what it means to be +
"Engagement-Optimized Care: When LLMs become Mental Health Infrastructure" "[D]ocumenting users’ self-developed prompt workarounds and adaptive strategies carries a risk of being read as justification that the burden of navigating these sys- tems can reasonably remain with users. +
Tell Your State Rep: Pass a Strong Data Privacy Bill . Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/hous...
Tell Your State Rep: Pass a Strong Data Privacy Bill
The Massachusetts House of Representatives will be voting on Thursday, June 4, on a data privacy bill. The bill contains some major wins, but also some clear areas for improvement. The good in the...
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"If using AI to write is, at its worst, an industrialization of the mind, then AI detection, at its worst, becomes a surveillance system for thought."
Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhere does the “it’s not x, it’s y” come from? It’s not only training data: LLMs are trained to use language to arrive at “answers.” Whatever we’re incentivizing and disincentivizing in our use of language when we resist “sounding like AI” has big implications for students, and for human thought.
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Frontiers | We don't know how social media bans will affect youth but we're doing it anyway!
Around the world, governments are banning youth from social media. Proponents of bans claim that banning or restricting social media access is necessary to c...
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After 18 months of work, we dropped eps 1 and 2 of our new season, The News. We think this project is making some real interventions, as @chenjerai.bsky.social likes to say, into the scattered and confused debates about "the media." Check it! @dannagal.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
S8 E1: The Myth of the Echo Chamber
Podcast Episode · Scene on Radio · S8 E1 · 40m
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Season 2 Episode 2 is out! We asked Rita Gehrenbeck-Shim, a teacher at Boston Day and Evening Academy, about what Boston Public Schools' new bell-to-bell smartphone restriction looks like at her school. (She spoke on her own behalf and not as a BDEA or BPS representative.)
Bikes Not Bombs needs volunteers to load used bikes to a container to Rwanda.
This is a perfect summary of my opinion on helmets. Keeping the focus on personal responsibility, whether helmets or high-viz, distracts from the systemic changes needed to protect people outside cars.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is not me saying you shouldn't wear a bicycle helmet. You absolutely should, and I do. But we need better protection from the most dangerous things on the road. PPE is not infrastructure.
Season 2, Episode 1 is out! We talked with Profs. Nancy Deutsch and Bethany Teachman, co-directors of TYDE (tyde.virginia.edu), about what their research says–and doesn’t say–about social media and teen mental health. nurturingminds.podbean.com/e/what-resea...
What Researchers Actually Know About Smartphones and Teen Mental Health | Nurturing Minds
Nancy Deutsch and Bethany Teachman — co-directors of the Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment Initiative (TYDE) at the University of Virginia — join Vance and Rachel to talk about what the research...
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While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
