Mark Rice

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles “The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”

pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

just saw a 1-star google maps review of a community college that said "i only go to this joke of a college because it's cheap and the professors are good." what ... what else do you want out of a college my guy

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

This is very important:

Many institutions like universities & corporations bending the knee to Trump aren't just otherwise independent organizations forced to comply.

Rather, Trump's actions offer their management & owners an *opportunity* to do the Trumpist things they already wanted to do.

a man wearing a white shirt with the letter v on it is standing next to a red truck . ALT: a man wearing a white shirt with the letter v on it is standing next to a red truck .

Three days of lefties crying about Kamala and genocide. Let’s be real—if she came out strong for Palestine, y’all would still tank her chances.Same energy you gave Hillary. Until you learn politics is policy, not your fave character, you’ll keep sabotaging the progress you claim to fight for. #Pinks

David Heath (@david.heath.writer) on Threads “Life in the United States is profoundly changing, is profoundly different than it was even six months ago, because we do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge,” says Rachel...

www.threads.com/@david.heath...

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

This is a very good article on a terrible engineering and bureaucratic negligence. But a plane crashing into a poorly-engineered wall during an emergency landing caused by a bid strike is a pretty freak accident.

As opposed to, uh aircraft colliding with each other midair in the US...

Am I the only one who is a bit puzzled by US media's obsession with (albeit a very fatal) singular engineering mistake in South Korea?

The much larger story is that, at this point South Korea's overall transport infrastructure makes the US look like the Flintstones universe.

From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

Overlooked in this tariff and crypto mess is the fact that this administration is royally screwing up the US tourism economy.

NBD - by lots of estimates tourism is the 3rd to 4th largest sector of the US GDP...

Seems worth pointing out—

“Crypto Now Accounts For Most Of Donald Trump’s Net Worth”

@danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
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Wildfire smoke is like smoking 'half a pack a day.' Here's how to protect yourself As Canadian wildfires spread smoke across the U.S. the air pollution is dangerous to health. But there are ways to protect yourself. Here's what to know.

As Canadian wildfires spread smoke across the U.S. the air pollution is dangerous to health. But there are ways to protect yourself. Here's what to know. By @alejandrabee.bsky.social and @juliaradio.bsky.social

Column | Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement. Our tech columnist drafted 65 community notes, Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods. It failed to make a dent.

Meta fired its fact-checkers, citing concerns of liberal bias, and replaced them with a version of X's "Community Notes." How's that going?

Well, my coworker @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social proposed 65 fact-checks debunking false posts... and only 3 got approved. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

VOA director Michael Abramowitz, who is leading the legal effort to protect the agency from Trump cuts, says he's been terminated from his role.

Like Heidi points out, Trump's policies are rapidly shrinking the immigrant population, but the observed data may understate the decline

The actual Jan-July immigrant population drop could be 2.6 million (5.1%)

This is because survey benchmarks were set before Trump’s actions kicked into high gear

Opposition Party Decides to Oppose Today on TAP: Democrats are fighting in Washington and Austin, denying quick victories to authoritarians.

-Schumer wouldn't advance Trump noms without an end to illegal withholding of federal funds,so Senate Rs left town
-Trump couldn't do recess appointments because House Dems would force an Epstein vote if Rs returned to adjourn
-Texas Dems fled the state to deny Rs a quorum
Is our Democrats learning?

The whole US economy is currently a bunch of financial institutions in paragliders riding the updrafts from the massive bonfire of the last stack of VC cash

Fleeing Texas was the only way Democrats could block Trump’s plan to rig the midterms “The Republican members have outsourced our democracy to Mar-a-Lago”

Re-gerrymandering a state to rig an election & then threatening to arrest and expel the members protesting that election rigging is pure authoritarianism

Texas Dems who fled state are fighting for very survival of American democracy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This 2018 article is a useful reminder that what Trump is doing to government data collection is both a real break from past US precedent, but also totally in line with what we've seen in many other authoritarian countries around the world. The US never was immune to this.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

I got a copy of the letter attorneys with fed experience are being sent, offering $20k signing bonus if they join ICE. "By joining ICE, you are providing an honorable, indispensable service to our nation."

"Just before the election this woman came out with phenomenal numbers on Biden's economy and right after the election, they announced those numbers were wrong."

This is a lie! The pre-election job numbers were bad! BLS revisions were bad for Biden/Harris!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-shoo...

According to a new survey from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Trump’s poll numbers have fallen through the floor.

More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

New Trump Administration Memo Tells Colleges Which DEI Efforts It Might Consider Illegal No “facilities or resources” designated based on race, the document says. No requirements that hiring committees consider underrepresented minority candidates. No “cultural competence.”

They're declaring illegal practices that are not against the law, in the (sadly, correct) calculation that many institutions will engage in anticipatory compliance. @aaup.org
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This is another way of saying the only working part of Trump's economy is hype-based services and even then, AI is only "booming" because investors are lighting billions of dollars on fire hoping to be the last standing; there's no positive revenue anywhere in it. An economy of the 1% for the 1%.

US government now adopting Trump’s trick of not paying its employees. While paying others billions to do nothing until their resignation kicks in.