Within academia alone, AI is deskilling our youth under the guise of 'free tools' (aka unpaid labour for AI training), forging dependence, stealing scholars' work, putting us out of jobs, and profiting from all of it. We are losing so much more than could ever be gained.
Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
My own kid did that to Robin DG Kelley.
Roadside posters, which say over the faces of tech execs: “We Will Not Be Divided. OPEN Al CAN AMERICA TRUST YOU? GOOGLE: CAN AMERICA TRUST YOU? GOOGLE EMPLOYEES: WILL YOU SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS? OPEN AI EMPLOYEES: WILL YOU SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS? OPEN AI: WILL YOU STAND UP FOR AMERICANS? OPEN AI EMPLOYEES: WILL YOU SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS? OPEN AI: CAN AMERICA TRUST YOU?”
San Francisco (for Spring Break)
At SURJ, our task remains the same as ever: to stay in committed, strategic action, and to bring more and more white people with us into the multiracial, antiracist, anti-war movement we need.
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Depending on where you are (mostly: Central/Eastern Asia, Oceania, most of North/Central America), you may be able to see a TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE ("blood moon") overnight!
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Sen Jack Reed, the top Dem on Senate Armed Services: “Against the clear wishes of the American people, President Trump has thrust our nation into a major war with Iran — one he never made a case for, never sought congressional authority for, and for which he has no endgame.”
I can't stop watching this
it’s still fuck Claude and fuck Anthropic in this house, even when they win their case against Hegseth
This is a frame that people really like about a certain kind of conservative woman (always white)
- she is nice
- she is a problem solver
- she has a conscience (but always follows The Rules)
- she softens and sells cruelty as safety
- she talks "tough" using household language
Literally was just thinking of this - if you’re part of the “why do I care about trans people getting their license taken away” crowd - you really think they’ll stop there? Are you a woman who likes wearing pants, having a job or a credit card or driving? All of those things had to be fought for…
Bezos’ layoffs at the Washington Post are a warning: the extremely wealthy buy essential institutions and reshape them to extract more from all of us. Taxing billionaires is about breaking that power.
Read more from @igorvolsky.bsky.social in this week's #FiresideStacks🔥 : https://bit.ly/4rCLlLE
Lobbying & Think-Tanks deserve more time in social studies / civics curricula, here in the USA at least.
+ I’ll show the trailer of Merchants of Doubt in class, when the time comes. (Just the trailer bc class isn’t about tobacco or climate change.)
Yup! Professors can be swayed by $$$$ (cf. Epstein files.) I recently read Ultra_Processed_People & like the repeated notes about tainted industry-funded research.
I would be remiss if I didn't point out that academic fields LITERALLY DID THAT. Like this ain't even hyperbole; they did that. And in that scenario, the papers in question were--shocker--ultimately in bed with the Tobacco industry.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchan...
we dont have the money for universal health care but we have tons of money for concentration camps and a surveillance society
Don’t know it was among the “happens as you age” delights, but yeah, team Flonase over here. I appreciate your (non advice!) sharing.
Cartoon dog (?) in a meadow at sunset. Text says: “When society wants you to get exploited through wage labour, but you’re lowkey just a chill guy whos not tryna get exploited.”
IKR?! I feel like we already know what's in there.
Talking Heads!
What's my prize?
Thanks @progressivemass.bsky.social for making it easy...
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter to my State Rep: Stop Scapegoating Mass Save. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
What folks need to understand is that the Democratic party is through and through a fundraising organ, largely as a consequence of our broken election finance system.
Electeds get into office through skill at raising money, not skill at leadership.
They are wholly unequipped for this moment
I'm seeing some more "didn't expect the leopards to eat MY face" content. This essay, IMO, explains well why people would vote for that shit in the first place. (I'm not saying we need to be sympathetic, just to understand.) inquest.org/this-is-how-...
TY @yamilb12.bsky.social for reposting this! I appreciated the talk enough to trace how I found out about it. Have watched the views crank up to 1000 while working this morning.
+ now following @freefreeforum.bsky.social here.
I feel like this kid should have paid attention in Horses 101.
3D art on wall: bare breasts over protruding belly. Roughly life-size, maybe metal, no neck/head/arms/legs.
Is it me or is this a weird thing to have behind you on a zoom?
--> Actual question. <--
Does it matter what the zoom meeting is, and does it matter whose home (blue shoulder person)?
