Resisting dehumanization in the age of AI - Emily Bender YouTube video by CogSci: Interdisciplinary Study of the Mind

On how it's dehumanizing:
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Or if you prefer video:
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If I was the Housing Secretary I’d probably google something like “is making cement energy intensive?”

South Africa reports 16% drop in rhino poaching for 2025 | Africanews South Africa has announced a significant 16% national decline in rhino poaching for 2025, crediting intensified anti-trafficking efforts and integrated strategies, even as certain regions faced…

South Africa recorded a 16% national decline in rhino poaching in 2025, with 352 rhinos killed compared to 420 in 2024, reflecting continued reductions in illegal hunting driven by enforcement and anti-trafficking efforts. Africa News buff.ly/d0i7iet
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Professor Jiang:

Every empire in history was conquered by the most marginalized, most isolated, most resource-poor people in the region.
Because resources create comfort. Comfort creates arrogance. Arrogance creates blindness.
And blindness gets you conquered by people you never took seriously.

Separate point, the American federal system is biased towards car dependent sprawl and states that never developed big cities.

Montana has fewer people than two cities in California. It's fundamentally unfair for people in Montana to get two senators and to set their own vehicle regulations.

The world’s salt lakes are drying up, but solutions are hard to come by An eclectic book asks how humans have shaped these ‘queer’ landscapes and how they can be restored.

An eclectic book asks how humans have shaped these ‘queer’ landscapes and how they can be restored.

go.nature.com/4aZAG85

Tribes Condemn Trump for Backing Out of Columbia River Deal for Salmon Recovery Tribal leaders and environmental advocates warn that the region's wild salmon will go extinct without remediation efforts.

Tribal leaders and environmental advocates remain committed to remediating dwindling wild salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest after Trump backed out of the historic Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement last June. Read my coverage and learn how you can get involved.

Calling all ocean champions!

The 2026 #EarthChamps nomination is now open until 15 April.

This year’s award will spotlight those helping to protect and restore ocean health.

Submit your nomination: https://www.unep.org/championsofearth/how-we-find-our-champions

I can’t say that I am surprised nor that I am sorry. What’s wrong with beans anyway?

All of us today.

“Whereas the books of Hessler & van Duzer are solid pieces of academic history Broome’s book is a collection of unfounded speculations, conjectures and straightforward false statements, which contains not one single piece of factual evidence that America was named after Richard Ap Meric.” 🔥 👇

⏰ Last call: We’re launching 𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 & 𝐄𝐍𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓, a webinar series on how research and civil society evidence leads to DSA enforcement.

🎥 DSA: Unfolding the European Commission’s first decision against X
🗓️ 10 March | 14:30 CET
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It’s even worse than that, because the administration’s policies have radically contracted admissions to PhD programs.

Not only have they gotten rid of PhDs, they’ve bombed the pipeline of folks who might one day replace them. It’s scientific infrastructure terrorism.

A car accident is somebody forgetting their exit on the highway.

Causing a crash with fatal injuries is killing people. If that's an accident the first time then figure out how to avoid repetition.

Today's frog is the galaxy frog.

They will not stop unless the law makes them.

I love being a little older and knowing who I am. My cat wandered across the camera during an interview and instead of feeling weird I just said "and honestly, if you think this is unprofessional, we're not going to be a good match" and when I look up dude is holding up HIS cat to the camera.

I’m not a framer deifier, but one thing they get credit for is being intentional about how to design the institutions of a representative republic, with lessons from both ancient and then-recent history. One conclusion that they drew is that the citizenry must uphold civic virtue for it to work.

THIS good lord this

AI fakes spread disinformation. Is the distrust they create even worse? Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.

A few weeks ago, I saw a group of people in a Facebook comments section trying to figure out if a picture of Ilhan Omar was real. (It was not.) I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I wrote about what I'm calling "strategic memes against public participation." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Gullible, Cynical America The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Checking an LLM's work is a systemic, not an individual, problem. Only a culture of design critique can prevent sloppy AI-generated problem definitions.

People tell me that AI code is fine, because you can run automatic tests. But tests can only tell you if code is doing the thing you want it to do.

To know what it SHOULD do, we used to have requirements. But now requirements are themselves vibe-coded slopotypes.

The result: waste and risk.

“Do Your Own Research” — How the Rabbit Hole Actually Works If you spend any time in American politics right now, you’ve heard the phrase:

Do your own research?

My latest on Substack.

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Most Cops Get Crisis Intervention Training. Some Calls Still End in Tragedy. Eight times since 2019, NYPD officers shot or tased someone while responding to a 911 mental health call — despite completing the department's crisis intervention program, a review by THE CITY found.

Mental health crisis training for police doesn't work. We need a civilian alternative. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/09/c...

China leads the world in solar deployment. Even parking lots and rooftops are being turned into solar power plants — generating electricity while using space that’s already paved.

China also exceeded its 2030 wind + solar capacity target (1.2 TW) in 2024 — about six years early. #Bettrification

Making it cool to be rich, jaded and loud has gone spectacularly badly.

Lets make it cool to be humble, earnest and quiet and see how that goes.

Four researchers on the deck of a ship prepare to collect a sample from the ocean. Image credit: Dr. Steven Wilhelm.

Viruses in the #ocean outnumber cells and shape ecosystems, yet their dynamics remain poorly understood. @sullivan-lab.bsky.social used high-resolution sampling of blue-ocean waters to reveal extensive depth- and diel-driven population dynamics beneath the surface.🧪 #MicroSky
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My hot writing take about tense and POV is stop blaming YA for why some adult romance readers are demanding first person POV. Deal with your own readers. Stop using YA as a cudgel for everything you think is wrong with adult books.