Tim Bowman-Jecmen

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

My neighborhood today.

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

“.. I fear it will turn the military from being an apolitical institution to being a political one.”

@politico.com
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Really good stuff here.

One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.

Taylor Flint is here to stay 🤩

We’re excited to announce that the star midfielder has signed a new contract with #RacingLou through 2028!

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Paul Noth. in the New Yorker.

Rural southwest Nebraska clinic closes, blaming expected Medicaid cuts McCook-based Community Hospital said it is shutting down its clinic in Curtis, a town of about 900 people.

Rural southwest Nebraska clinic closes, blaming expected Medicaid cuts www.klkntv.com/rural-southw...

In May, KY Rep. Brett Guthrie defended OBBB by citing Kentucky Hospital Association saying it "preserves" Medicaid.

With Senate changes, KHA now says it would "devastate" KY, causing hospitals to close & 20K job losses. Guthrie just said it "protects health care for the most vulnerable Americans"

KY Gov. Beshear on TV this morning: "200K of my people are going to lose their health care coverage. 20K health care workers are going to lose their job. This is the GOP majority firing Americans that right now have a good job & 35 rural hospitals may close, which will impact every single community"

I grew up in rural South Carolina with a single mom who worked multiple jobs. At times, we relied on Medicaid and SNAP—like so many others. My heart breaks for those now wondering if that help will still be there.

Imagine having all that power and choosing to make people’s lives worse.

Shameful.

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

This ain't right, and we're going to keep raising our voice and standing up for our Kentucky families, who deserve better. 2/2

With the passage of the "big, ugly bill,” the U.S. Senate said it was okay to fire 20,000 Kentucky health-care workers, close 35 rural hospitals in our state and throw over 200,000 of our people off insurance. 1/2

"The minutiae of the Medicaid policy" - 16-17 million people will lose health insurance in a country where health care costs are ruinous. Many of these are exactly the people Vance claims to represent. But erecting a police state to deport foreigners is more important, I guess.

This isn’t over yet. Spread the word.

Republicans' Big, Beautiful Bill would:

— Kick 16 million off their health care
— Close 1 out of 4 nursing homes
— Hike your energy bills
— Add at least $4 trillion to the national debt

It’s a gift to the rich and a disaster for families.

See that giant bar all the way to the left? That's how much rural Kentucky stands to lose under the proposed federal Medicaid cuts.

We wouldn't just lose more than any other state, we'd lose around twice as much as any other state.
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Supreme Court eases rapid deportations to countries where immigrants have no ties The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its ruling.

They didn't offer an explanation because they don't have one. The majority of the Supreme Court has no guiding jurisprudence but raw partisan preference, and we should stop pretending otherwise.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

OK, here is your one-minute primer on the whole concept of "trickle down economics," from the obituary of Fred Smith, the founder of Fedex.

I mean, if you still can't see it, I have no hope for you.

NYT: “.. The president was closely monitoring Fox News, which was airing wall-to-wall praise of Israel’s military operation .. Several Trump advisers lamented the fact that .. Mr. Trump was not hearing much of the other side of the debate.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Spotify is a horrible platform in so many ways. People should consider if they're ok using it. We use Tidal in the shop for streaming and are really happy with it. Some of the staff use Qobuz at home. Spotify sounds terrible and their ethics are disgusting.

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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

When your MAGA uncle claims that climate change is some hippie fantasy, it helps to point out that the massive corporations employing truckloads of risk analysts are all placing multi-billion dollar bets of their own money that it’s real.