Imagine a toy that can respond in natural language to a young child who will not understand that this voice does not mean the toy can think.
Now imagine that you don’t know what that toy will say to your child.
WHY WOULD YOU LET YOUR CHILD HAVE THAT TOY?
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Marblehead, Massachusetts could lose its public library amid $7 million budget deficit
On my way to NOLA. Come see me in conversation with Imani Perry, tomorrow at 1 as part of the NOLA Book Festival.
This is the first volume in the Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century series in collaboration with @global19c.bsky.social! Congratulations to Lahoucine Aammari on the publication of British Travel Writers in Morocco, 1856-1937.
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"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."
Just saying it right out loud now.
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… would that Bowie and certain others were still around instead of Putin and the members of the current criminal administration …
I was interviewed for this Boston Globe piece on the changing infrastructural landscape of NPR and PBS after the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
“A law passed in November 2011 mandates that all of Fukushima’s radioactive soil, roughly 15 million cubic meters, will be removed from the prefecture by 2045. With no place having volunteered to take any of the soil, the government has decided to spread it across Japan.”
Silicon Valley has taken a hard pivot from college-for-all (and coding-for-all) to manual-labor-for-all-except-us-billionaires-and-our-kids.
Ok let's do it: "Can this be a solution?" A thread.
A map of the Middle East with casualties. It is done by country, and as a result doesn't show how many of the victims in Gulf States are guest workers.
Al Jazeera has a very good tracker of the deaths and injuries in the Iran war. It would be striking, however, if they ran a separate tally for guest workers, bc by far the most frequent victims in the Gulf states are guest workers, often from S Asia.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center
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What a world
California has had about the average amount of rain expected for this time of year, but snowpack is half of normal and melting fast.
This is absolutely evidence of #climatechange.
Color photo of Vannevar Bush, in a gray suit with red tie, reclining in a leather office chair next to a mahogany desk in his office.
Vannevar Bush, an electrical engineer who built one of the first analog computers, was born #OTD in 1890. He headed the Office of Scientific Research and Development during WWII, proposed what became the National Science Foundation, and devised an early hypertext system. 🧪 ⚛️
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
Lots of folks asking how to join the class. My lawyers' emails and contact-form here. As well as the complaint if you want to take a look.
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Plese repost & share! *THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholar-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
Is there a way to find out if you're one of the writers they're exploiting, the way there was with Anthropic? Thanks -- and thanks for suing.
A 1943 ad for a Southside Chicago movie theater announces a Batman serial, featuring “Robert the Boy Wonder"
Batman and…Robert, the Boy Wonder?! Hmm...
#comics
"The U.S. Treasury’s borrowing showed no signs of slowing as the U.S. headed deeper into fiscal year 2026, with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reporting that another $1 trillion was added to the federal deficit in the first five months of the year."
NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran.
It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades.
Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties.
175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.
Is there a way to tell if Grammarly tried to AI-Frankenstein you as one of its editors
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
That’s 125% of the National Science Foundation’s annual budget, for anyone keeping track.
BREAKING: Grammarly is pulling down its explosively controversial feature that impersonates writers without their consent
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"In the same way that legitimate businesses are integrating automation, so are organized crime,” says D&S Director of Research @alicetiara.bsky.social, discussing the growing prevalence and mounting toll of AI-enabled scams. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Let's take a moment to reflect on the fact that this sentence comes from a company whose product claims to improve your writing.
Worth forever reiterating that most of the "long" novels of the 19th century were not received as long at the time, but generally as subdivided shorter works, sometimes something we would consider more like a comic book than a terrifying doorstop.
I hope so, but given the way things have been going for me in this 21st century from hell, I’m not sure I am going to make it through this week.
