“A bill under consideration by the New York state legislature would prohibit artificial intelligence-powered chatbots from providing legal or medical advice, and it would allow users to sue chatbot owners who violate the ban.”
03.03.2026 18:37 — 👍 327 🔁 76 💬 7 📌 12Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.
28.02.2026 01:46 — 👍 3252 🔁 1031 💬 39 📌 11
A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules.
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...
See? More of this, please
13.02.2026 20:22 — 👍 1729 🔁 328 💬 9 📌 0Every American needs to watch this:
05.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 20527 🔁 10285 💬 580 📌 982
As the article notes, UD removed my students' research from public access on the internet in July 2025.
However, you can see a pre-deletion version of their work on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20250612...
(Of course, any further work on these projects within UD has stopped.)
hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism
01.02.2026 02:33 — 👍 2012 🔁 416 💬 19 📌 15
Pat Bagley cartoon
Cartoon by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune
08.01.2026 03:55 — 👍 19811 🔁 6926 💬 278 📌 178
Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One
Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One https://theonion.com/every-trait-disqualifying-ice-agent-from-previous-jobs-ideal-for-current-one/
07.01.2026 18:30 — 👍 4524 🔁 962 💬 33 📌 29
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Since theres not one link to this story over here variety.com/2025/politic...
03.12.2025 23:32 — 👍 308 🔁 100 💬 2 📌 0The people smiling and nodding while Trump makes racist comments about Somali folks
04.12.2025 01:51 — 👍 190 🔁 70 💬 1 📌 1it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
03.12.2025 18:17 — 👍 2880 🔁 1285 💬 29 📌 19
The picture is entirely the text of a quote from an Israeli general about settler violence against Palestinians on the West Bank.
Comments on the epidemic of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank from a retired Israeli Army general as quoted in the Washington Post.
20.11.2025 21:59 — 👍 216 🔁 68 💬 5 📌 2the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism
20.11.2025 03:29 — 👍 3521 🔁 713 💬 31 📌 20
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in one month of "ceasefire." Gardens, homes, entire neighborhoods turned to dust www.bbc.com/news/article...
12.11.2025 03:58 — 👍 265 🔁 187 💬 9 📌 3
C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...
"New York is going to turn into a communist hellhole where poor people are barely exploitable anymore. So count me out. I’m packing up the offices of my toxic masculinity troll site and taking my miscreant talents somewhere they’ll be appreciated, like Florida or Texas."
09.11.2025 15:01 — 👍 695 🔁 161 💬 10 📌 11Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness
31.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 1286 🔁 332 💬 21 📌 8
The eighth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live.
OUR NATIONAL NIGHTMARE. The reins of government power, technology, and the press tighten and tangle in a few white billionaires’ hands. Where is this American cabal going next, and how deep will it drag us with it?
hammerandhope.org/article/nati...
a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes
a day in an american life
When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points
16.10.2025 19:56 — 👍 6478 🔁 2247 💬 120 📌 120It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
08.10.2025 08:07 — 👍 5472 🔁 1660 💬 63 📌 45
[Trump announces that ICE agents will now wear white hoods]
New York Times: the president makes a bold fashion statement
They zip tied children.
02.10.2025 02:11 — 👍 1309 🔁 718 💬 34 📌 12
Transgender people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to be victims of violent crime. bit.ly/transvictimized
15.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 666 🔁 285 💬 11 📌 16
Since we’re talking about political violence, know this:
“The murder rate for Black politicians in Reconstruction was 2,317 per 100,000. This rate is 20 times greater than *any* *other* demographic in the United States as of 2020, where the highest homicide rate was less than 105 per 100,000.”
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
