This war against Iran is costing US taxpayers approximately $11,500 per second.
According to iran-cost-ticker.com the total cost has already reached $5.5 billion.
The US murdered >60 little girls in their elementary school in Iran overnight. Our strikes will not be precise. They will only liberate Iranians from their lives and Americans from their tax dollars to benefit a cadre of elites. America cannot build nations anymore, only hatred.
Well would you look at that! 🥰📚 Hot Connections is real! It was a blast to research & write with @jenmadelene.bsky.social & @susannapaasonen.bsky.social ❤️❤️ blurbs by @alexmonea.bsky.social Tarleton Gillespie & @katha.bsky.social Big thanks to @noahspringer.com & everyone at @mitpress.bsky.social
Please report your findings. Maybe even behind a paywall.
Starbucks has scrapped a $250,000 limit on its CEO's use of the company jet for personal travel.
CEO Brian Niccol uses the jet to commute from his house California to corporate HQ in Seattle.
The company is lifting the cap while refusing thousands of baristas a union contract.
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the cover of academic journal Creator & Influencer Studies. It's a purple gradient and the journal name appears in white font.
some exciting news:
announcing CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES, the first open-access peer reviewed journal dedicated to creator and influencer culture research. I'm honoured to be named as one of the journal's inaugural associate editors.
submissions open Feb 12.
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
Reddit rises up
If you have seen your favorite sex subreddit become abolish ICE overnight please DM me so I can write about it for The Verge dot com ✨
LLMs are not sentient, are not human. Grok cannot “apologize” or explain how or why any of this is happening. But of course major outlets such as Bari Weiss’s CBS News wrote that Grok “acknowledged ‘lapses in safeguards'." @jasonkoebler.bsky.social with more:
Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9l...
Yes, it should be illegal. Sora does similar things. AFT should sever its partnership with OpenAI.
www.wired.com/story/people...
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
cool milestone alert: half the country is under restrictive age verification law www.404media.co/missouri-age...
Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE1 The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) exists to build a world where people can live and love without sexual abuse and exploitation. With roots going back more than 60 years, NCOSE is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian non-profit that is leading the fight against all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation, including sex trafficking, child sexual abuse, and the distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).2 Tackling these issues from every angle, NCOSE’s efforts encompass a grassroots network, research institute, training team, global coalition, and embedded litigation center—the NCOSE Law Center. The Law Center promotes and participates in key, precedent-setting cases and advocates in state and federal legislatures to advance policies to prevent sexual harm and aid those who have experienced it. Technological advances have made NCOSE’s work ever more urgent. The modern internet has resulted in an explosion in the amount and brutality of child Footnote 1 No counsel for any party authored this brief in whole or in part. Other than amicus curiae or its counsel, the Recording Industry Association of America made a monetary contribution intended to fund the brief’s preparation and submission.
Excuse me what? The RIAA is now funding NCOSE to file bullshit amicus briefs before the Supreme Court?!?
That is way more fucked up than even usual RIAA nonsense.
Let me explain...
AI porn generator and ERP chatbot Secret Desires left millions of images and videos exposed in unsecured cloud storage. I took a look and found folders called "faceswap," where people had uploaded tons of stolen content and random photos of women www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
In fairness, the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees regularly “hallucinate” bogus facts without using AI. The praying coach ruling shows that Gorsuch doesn’t need a sloppy robot to make shit up that’s directly refuted by the record!
NEW: Our latest in @teenvogue.com on the key ways top Democrats like @durbin.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @blumenthal.senate.gov are continuing to enable Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ tech agenda.
www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...
And here’s a startup offering influencing/propaganda services. Called it ;) www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
The ‘Womanosphere’ Is Reshaping the Conservative Dating Landscape
www.wired.com/story/the-wo...
Here’s the final part of our four part Better Offline case against generative AI. I walk you through how there’s not enough money in the world to pay for OpenAI’s $1 trillion 4-year burn, and how retail investors are at risk as a result.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Be aware that when the Missouri AG says protect children from "online pornography," the law actually reads "material harmful to minors" — the same legal term used to pressure Target to discontinue Pride merchandise.
hoodline.com/2025/09/miss...
If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
What other horror stories of people's experiences with AI startups are we underestimating the prevalence of? What's going to be uncovered in court discovery documents a decade from now?
It took 8 years for the claims of victims of sexual assault to get this documentation of the systemic nature of Uber's negligence.
"From 2017 to 2022, a total of 400,181 Uber trips resulted in reports of sexual assault and sexual misconduct in the United States, court documents show. Uber has not released data for the years since then, though the court records indicate reports of incidents have increased."
