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Advisory to Academic Workers In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and other academic workers.
www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

y’all

two recent screenshots. I’m now wondering why I even take screenshits to be frank

Many people who spread misinfo are fully aware that what they’re sharing isn’t true, but they continue to do so b/c it supports their beliefs, reinforces their worldview, or helps push a particular narrative. In other words, accuracy often takes a back seat to persuasion or emotional satisfaction.

We are definitely in an era where a disturbing portion of our news sounds like deranged, satirical Mad Libs.

The judge finds that because "defendants' conduct likely violates the First Amendnent," factors weigh in favor of entering a restraining order against them.

She will not limit the order to the Broadview facility, but will limit it to the northern (court) district of Illinois.

Ellis finds the plaintiffs have demonstrated a likelihood of success on allegations that feds' "expression of force... is unreasonable and excessive" in response to peaceful protests.

Low stakes conspiracy theory: the “protect are kids” groups pushing for age verification and anti-encryption etc are really the identity thieves’ guild in disguise

“limited billing information” was also taken—including payment type, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and purchase histories. Customer IP addresses and messages with support agents were also exposed.

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

The shutdown is already causing flight delays. Service to more than 170 airports could stop entirely Several major airports were experiencing delays on Wednesday, and smaller airports were at risk of losing service altogether by the end of the week.

The shutdown is already causing flight delays. Service to more than 170 airports could stop entirely

imagine the money games could make if they were more inclusive of 48% of their potential base. sorry to bang on kpop demon hunters and love and deepspace drum again but they’re eating everyone’s lunch because few others were investing that level of production in feminine audiences

Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror on Steam From the mind of Dr. Timothy Leary comes Mind Mirror, a trippy journey through your own mind. Mind Mirror is not just a game, it is a valuable tool to help you explore your own mind, make decisions, a...

he helped develop this store.steampowered.com/app/1603300/... - that it is still available on steam is kind of wild

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence

"Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence"

please, for the love of your own mind, read this arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01395

#sycophancy #perceptionsofAI #humanAIinteraction #llm #largelanguagemodels, #anthropomorphism

The Looseleaf Report #71 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive This video is an episode of The Looseleaf Report #71 hosted by Victoria Looseleaf from 1989 featuring an interview with Timothy Leary. Leary discusses memes,...

what's wild is this is basically what Leary was saying here, at the ten minute mark, back in the late 1980s:

archive.org/details/Timo...

i mean, Gary Lachmann said it started in 2014 so we had nothing to do with it... he would know, right?

The Unseen Internet Our contemporary digital landscape often reflects a strange logic: Elon Musk believes there’s a one-in-a-billion chance that we are not living in a com...

My new book, THE UNSEEN INTERNET (about the intersections between magical thinking and tech innovation) is officially available for pre-order via @mitpress.bsky.social!

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255388...

For decades, NSF broader impacts have been explicit that a target goal is increasing participation in STEM fields. I don't think I have ever read a proposal that does not include any of these flagged terms. Nearly every grant will fail in the decision tree later in the thread.🧪⚛️

The word "systemic" is on the banned list, so if I study systemic inflammation & health, flagged. If I study political science, flagged. If I study trauma, flagged. Keep in mind that the largest mental health provider in the country is the Veteran's Administration, but we can't study trauma now?

Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

NSF is still freezing grants and reviewing for potential clashes with trumps edicts: terms such as“broadening participation” language, foreign assistance, climate science, domestic energy” all flagged. This is insane, career wrecking and damaging for quality science 😡🧪

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%.

The actual number is less than 1%.

Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.

Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.

As of this morning, it’s gone.

Pain ain’t nothin but a number between one & ten least that’s what they tell me each time I go in. Yet nothing has meaning when flesh is torn from the mind/numbers are fragile and logics break down. There is only the lightning of pain seeking ground.

Interior photo, blurred. Leg of person on a bed with left foot in surgical bandages, photo shows left leg in jeans and a tiny sculpture of a red fox in the background.

Poetry as painkiller.

given the mod tools available, anyone experimenting with using BG3 for research around perceived in-group out-group identities? The racial aspects alone seem… promising

Foot in surgical wrap

Out and about, mummy wrap & all

what good comes of destroying institutional knowledge?

Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while...

this is stupidity on parade

apnews.com/article/coas...

‘Institutional Destruction': A Federal-Funding Pause Sent Shockwaves Through Higher Ed Late Tuesday, a court injunction blocked the Trump administration’s move until next week. The freeze led to a day of chaos for colleges, which receive billions of federal dollars annually.

Funding is paused for many of the Education Department's discretionary grants, including programs that support students’ basic needs, veteran students, rural students, and foreign-language education. chroni.cl/4glzhbt

this is how PKD’s novel A Scanner Darkly resolves, fwiw