AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:

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The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Are we arguing that they should pay less for sleep apnea, or MORE FOR LOST LIMBS? The Jeff Bezos is really coming through in this headline

ChatGPT adds Washington Post content to growing list of OpenAI media deals The Washington Post on Tuesday inked a deal with OpenAI, allowing the startup's viral chatbot, ChatGPT, to display, summarize and quote the newspaper's content.

Just leaving this here for no reason

Who's Afraid of The New York Times? Zohran Mamdani's win shows the limits of the Grey Lady's influence

My latest premium newsletter is about the failure of the anti-Mamdani media blitz, and what it says about the decaying influence of The New York Times.

OpenAI is well aware of how its products stoke manic, suicidal, psychotic, and other forms of unhealthy behavior, but company leadership insists publicly that the problem with the tech is that it isn’t reaching *enough* people. Bulldozing the vulnerable is corporate strategy

Hiking

"Who's winning?"
"Nobody. One side's just losing slower than the other."

'Night Moves' [1975]

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

this is as good as turning the Constitution off. If this is what congressional leaders are going to do when an executive just seizes power from the legislative branch, we do not have one.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Look, not to chide people for being out of touch, but: Average Americans don’t care about the stock market, and don’t use homo words like “groceries”. They live off chrome spray, guzzoline and being awaited in Valhalla.

The History Books Purged From the Naval Academy's Library The Trump administration is engaged in something much worse than book burning. It is attempting to burn down the entire cultural infrastructure that supports the pursuit of history.

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I could never finish The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, it made me physically nauseous. But now we’ll get to live it so there’s that

Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security.

That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.

In practice, the answer to the question “is this constitutional” is dependent on whether Republicans or Democrats want to do it.

Nate Silver 🤝 Noah Smith
Knowing nothing about the past, skimming Wikipedia and not doing the reading, and assuming they’ve invented a new way of understanding human history

Slate is doing what is known as being a badass

It's true I await your directive o leader

Almost twice as many young men are single compared to young women

Almost twice as many young men are single compared to young women?
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Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested after attacking ‘corrupt’ Maga movement Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe was arrested in California on Tuesday after protesting against what he said was a tribute to the Maga movement

Hey, look, here’s @chriswarcraft.bsky.social out there walking the walk

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The White-Power Fantasy of Reacher Have you watched ‘Reacher’? Vulture’s Angelica Jade Bastién gave in to the streaming juggernaut, expecting wallpaper TV at its tamest. She found a white-power fantasy instead.

Have you watched ‘Reacher’? Vulture’s Angelica Jade Bastién gave in to the streaming juggernaut, expecting wallpaper TV at its tamest. She found a white-power fantasy instead.

i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie Elon Musk, "DOGE" and the future of the Constitution

new video up about our constitutional crisis youtu.be/aBVGmDaQRbE

Michael is your dad now. It's fine.

Hands up if you got a B in intro to stats and can still tell what's wrong with this paper without reading any more than the callout

This paper will demonstrate that I do not understand what probability is or means there fixed it