if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything

I'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history"

It is propaganda, pure and simple.

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...

That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"

Shout out to the colleagues who ask why I bother studying a settled issue like women’s suffrage.

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

harpersmagazine ••• [HARPER'S INDEX] Chance that a recently graduated U.S. computer-engineering major is unemployed : 1 in 13 That an economics major is : 1 in 20 That an art-history major is : 1 in 33 Source: Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York

So please shut your mouth about humanities majors.

Hey folks,

Below is a place to submit your photos of Park signs.

Supposedly they’ll be whitewashed by September 17.

So now is a good time to start taking photos.

👇🎯 Utter madness. The ROI on this stuff is massive, both at the individual and national level. And it costs effectively nothing, in the grand scheme of the federal budget, to fund area and language studies through NRC, FLAS, etc.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The simplest and strongest argument against GenAI is to look at the actual GenAI outputs.

This wouldn’t have got a good grade back when I was in school in Lundis

Sri Lanka

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

L is getting his in a few months! It really helped me feel better!

My son is joining the Peace Corps and gets one on arrival in his country and my anxiety level reduced by 80%!

Al Overview Willem Dafoe is not in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but he has appeared in other Star Wars films, including The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).

I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary

Bruce and I binged that one!

Exactly what I was going to say!! My college students don't know so much information I could assume a decade ago they'd know. They now don't know enough info to fact check anything!

We're so back, baby.

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

What’s Inside the Tiny Miracle Food Pouches That Can Save the Lives of Starving Gazans Packed with calories and protein, the same magic mixture has successfully treated famine for decades—but due to funding cuts it's now in short supply.

Packed with calories and protein, the same magic mixture has successfully treated famine for decades—but due to funding cuts it's now in short supply. www.wired.com/story/whats-...

I cackled. Because the alternative is to cry. 🤣

None of the Epstein/Maxwell survivors were notified of Maxwell’s transfer to the minimum security facility.

Show me your budget, and I'll show you your values

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.

It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.

They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"

Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

Historians are the most valuable people in society right now. Politicians, reporters, editors and pundits can't meet the moment because the vast majority are either unaware of the historical events preceding it or they're simply incapable of synthesizing them. Historians are our pathfinders.

BREAKING

TOKYO (AP) — A tsunami has hit coastal areas of Russia's Kuril Islands and Japan's large northern island of Hokkaido after an
8.7-magnitude earthquake early Wednesday.

Tsunami warning sirens blared Tuesday in Honolulu and people were told to move to higher ground.