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Antifascist prof. Political theory, postcolony, anathema, the end of days, demon sperm. Views entirely my own. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

El-Sayed: "Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can make himself feel a little more manly by making an AI video ... he's a guy who went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to bet for his endorsement."

NYU Law@nyulaw.bsky.social · 3h ago

Together with her co-authors Leah Litman of the University of Michigan School of Law and Katherine Shaw of Penn Carey School of Law, @profmmurray.bsky.social won the 2026 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law for the academic paper, “Unsettling the Presidency.”

Faculty Honors Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, won the American Constitution Society's 2026 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law.
Mike Spangenberg@mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 3h ago

I’m presdisposed to Doctorow’s position here, but this really resonates: “It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Mike Spangenberg@mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 3h ago

‼️ “The world is full of people who insist that ’AI is changing everything’ but who – when pressed – have to admit that what they mean is that they're pretty sure that AI will change everything. Eventually. After we allow it to consume all the planet's energy, carbon, water and financial resources.“

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 2h ago

This part finally connected the usefulness I feel when I dabble with AI and the dread I feel when confronting it writ large

From Doctorow’s piece: The other question Suresh implicitly raises is: "How can you reconcile the failure of Al in the enterprise with the individual claims of skilled technologists who insist that Al is helping them do great work?" The answer is that these Al users are "centaurs" - experienced workers who are assisted by automation on terms that they set for themselves. Thanks to their skill and experience, these workers possess discernment, the ability to tell good code from bad, and (more importantly) good uses of code-generation tools from bad. They demonstrate the adage that worker-driven automation improves quality, while capital-driven automation improves throughput. An automation technique that requires close supervision by skilled and experienced workers isn't going to be a raw productivity powerhouse. You don't "100x" your code this way, at least, not in the sense of firing 99 of your coders and having the remaining programmer pick up all their work. Rather, an automation tool that requires the continuous and conscientious exercise of discernment will let individual practitioners improve their work in extremely satisfying and useful ways. It's a way to spend more on operations in order to produce better outputs. It's not a way to cut your workforce, realise a gigantic saving, and still produce comparable goods and services at a far lower cost. That is why some individual coders report such delight with their Al tools. They engage with those tools on their own terms, to improve their work in the ways that they, in their expert judgment, consider beneficial. No one ranks them on a "token-maximisation" scoreboard. No one tells them they can't do a project if it isn't "sufficiently AI". When they set out to do a project, no one makes them prove that it couldn't be "done by AI"
Mike Spangenberg@mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 3h ago

I’m presdisposed to Doctorow’s position here, but this really resonates: “It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 2h ago

Police using Flock to warrantless follow people across state lines is an act incompatible with our legal system--especially in a country where many things are legal in some states in criminalized in the other. First we saw it with abortion care, now we will see it with marijuana.

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

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Steve Held@peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 2h ago

“Douglas Lee, 54, is accused of drugging a woman while she was out with friends, taking her to a hotel and sexually assaulting her before leaving her in her car overnight.”

Illinois state trooper accused of drugging, sexually assaulting bartender in Tinley Park

Douglas Lee, 54, was stripped of his police powers and was being held in Cook County Jail after he was charged Saturday with an attack that allegedly happened last year.

chicago.suntimes.com

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas@ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 2h ago

I want the statement "Black Americans are conservative" to absolutely die in a fire. It's a lie from the pits of hell. Black America's record demonstrates that, as a whole, we are the MOST progressive racial/ethnic demographic in the United States and it's not even close.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2h ago

Good and important messaging, but it is striking how Muslim candidates are repeatedly defamed as “terrorists” and then have to turn around and issue such statements when there is no similar expectation that Christian or Jewish candidates need to do the same for their Muslim-American constituents.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3h ago

Prepare for an insane explosion of Islamophobia between now and November, from the same people on the right (and center!) who pretend to be exercised by the rise in anti-Jewish bigotry. The hate will be off the charts and make the anti-Zohran campaign look tame. Mark my words.

Human Rights Watch@hrw.org · 4h ago

Palestine Action, the direct-action protest group, was granted permission on July 30 to appeal its terrorist designation at the United Kingdom Supreme Court. Since the group was designated as terrorist, more than 3,000 peaceful protesters have been arrested for showing support for it.

New UK Prime Minister Should End the Assault on Protest Rights

Palestine Action, the direct-action protest group, was granted permission on July 30 to appeal its terrorist designation at the United Kingdom Supreme Court.

hrw.org

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 19h ago

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC

Our Team

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Politico@politico.com · 19h ago

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

Carceral Abolition@carceralabolition.bsky.social · 4h ago

Trump’s contentious AG pick Todd Blanche promises faith leaders he’s working to roll back abortion access ‘in every state’ ‘We don’t have complete victory yet, but we will have victory, and victory will be soon, and it will be permanent,’ Blanche said www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Todd Blanche promises he’s working to roll back abortion access ‘in every state’

‘We don’t have complete victory yet, but we will have victory, and victory will be soon, and it will be permanent,’ Blanche said during a conference call

the-independent.com