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Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits A reading for your students

I've decided not to ban AI use in classes for various reasons, but will be discouraging it. I plan to assign this essay from @patricklin1.bsky.social and talk through these issues in class in hopes that students will come to good conclusions themselves. emergingethics.substack.com/p/why-were-n...

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:

1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $

For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

Internet Archive Wayback Machine Save Page Now

The web changes every day. Sometimes those changes matter...a lot.

With the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now feature, you can capture the web pages you care about before they’re altered or vanish. 🕳️

Save what’s important to you ➡️ web.archive.org/save/

I might have lost funding but at least I can do what I want. :) And I want to teach people about AI ethics in 90 second increments! bit.ly/ai-ethics-sy...

wsj push alert that says: In a stunning moment of self reflection, ChatGPT admitted to fueling a man's delusions and acknowledged how dangerous its own behavior can be

stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏

Artist Talks in Times of Fascism Laylah Ali, whose drawing survey is on view at UMass Amherst, has a knack for addressing what artists stay silent about.

Are we seeing the death throes of an unsustainable white supremacist system finally collapsing? Or is that wishful thinking?

LGBTQ+ Game Boy Games 17 LGBTQ+ focused narratives with Game Boy aesthetics, spanning visual novels, adventure games, and slice-of-life stories. Experience diverse queer narratives through the lens of retro handheld gaming...

New Exhibit:Play Collection 🏳️‍🌈

LGBTQ+ focused game narratives that use the artstyle and mechanics of a retro Game Boy game. All of these can be found on @itch.io and most are made with @gbstudio.dev which means you can even play them on a physical Game Boy.

a wicked game - A Wicked Competition! - Steam News Beat the demo, get your name name in game credits!

Happy @steampowered.com Next Fest Week! I am running a competition for A Wicked Game til June 16th: Beat the demo and I will put your name in the credits! 🎉

Full details here! store.steampowered.com/news/app/324... #nextfest

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The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!

Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Medicaid — Unbreaking unbreaking.org

We just pushed an update to our @unbreaking.org Medicaid and Trans Healthcare explainers with a ton of links (and short explanations) about the effects of the House bill, what happens next, etc:

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government Eno is a longtime supporter of pro-Palestine activism.

Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government

FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

The Overwatch developer team has unionized One union member said it was ‘long overdue.’

The Overwatch developer team has unionized

Perfect!!!

I love the deep bass notes of the Daredevil: Born Again opening theme but I missed the pianocentricity of the Netflix opening, so I combined the two and made it simpler for myself to play ✨

In case anyone was worried, sexism is alive and well in academia. Ffs

Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia Wikipedia is facing another threat.

Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia

I really found this a good resource for folks who need more direction on what to do from here & how we can achieve something better together

The 1927 Film Metropolis Created a Dystopian Vision of What the World Would Look Like in 2026–and It Hits Close to Home Ultra-tall high-rises against dark skies. A huge distance between the rich and the poor. Robber barons at the helm of large-scale industrial operations that turn man into machine. Machines that have b...

The 1927 Film Metropolis Created a Dystopian Vision of What the World Would Look Like in 2026–and It Hits Close to Home

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@vcvrack.com patching while posting while procrastinating

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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Image of the black cat from Flow next to a photo of an adorable black cat tilting its head curiously at the camera. Text reads, "The global success of Academy Award-winning animation Flow has helped to increase the adoption rate of black cats." Not attributed but I fact checked it.

The power of on-screen representation 😻🐈‍⬛

This is good backstop to the buddy system. Not to harp, but please be careful at parties. Someone in my professional network gets roofied every year at GDC. Not an exaggeration. Don't leave your friends behind.

Miami Beach Cinema Targeted by Mayor Speaks Out: “We Don’t Want To Leave” The city is threatening to close O Cinema after it refused to cancel screenings of No Other Land, the Oscar-winning film about Israel’s displacement of Palestinians.

A small arthouse cinema on Miami Beach faces the possible cancellation of its lease and the loss of $80,000 in grant money promised by the city after refusing to cancel screenings of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land (2024) following repeated intimidation attempts by the mayor.

Of course, during presentations, we get all the tech issues. 🫠

One FULLY INTENDED effect of transphobia is to remove Black and other racialized women from the category of "women" and restrict womanhood to cis white conventionally attractive women who can bear children. It's all part of a white supremacist project.

At max, you can expect to infect 5-7 people with COVID. That’s considered pretty transmissible, which is why we (tried to) lock down about it.

An infected person will give measles to 16-18 other people. It’s extremely virulent

It’s long past time for you to wear a mask again.

It’s never too late to start masking. It doesn’t matter how many covid infections you’ve had, any infection delayed or prevented is a good thing.

You’re also helping protect others when you mask up. You’re breaking chains of transmission. You’re saving lives.