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Yeeesssss!!!! (This will always be the defining image for me of the “evidence” against Columbia students)

Listening to a talk where they’re explaining various problems with AI transparency and how AI companies will cook their score cards and I just never stop hating how capitalism makes it so much harder to know things like “is this powerful emerging technology safe?!” #SPSP2026

Lmao

Burger King AI bot will check up on staffs' please and thank yous The fast-food chain is testing OpenAI-powered headsets that monitor staff interactions with customers.

Fuck no
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

tomorrow's article is a banger ngl

What a result!! Huge congratulations to the amazing Hannah Spencer - everyone in Gorton and Denton has just made history. This result shows @greenparty.org.uk can win anywhere, that the politics of hope can win over the politics of hate & there is no longer any such thing as a Labour safe seat 💚

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

I honestly don't think suburban and country folk have a clear picture of how this would go either. Good luck driving your gas powered car 5 miles to town when the supply lines fall.

thanks!

some weapons are designed for self defense, capture, nonlethal crowd control, use against animals, Ren faires... others are designed for battlefields. Doesn't much matter who the weapon is legally available to, weapons have different designs and purposes.

Rep. Omar Statement on the Arrest of Aliya Rahman February 25. 2026 Press Release WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) released the following statement after her State of the Union guest, Aliya Rahman, was arrested during the president's speech. "My guest, Aliya Rahman, stood up silently in the gallery during the president's speech for a short period of time. part of which other guests were also standing. For that, she was forcibly removed, despite warning officers about her injured shoulders and ultimately charged with 'Unlawful Conduct "Reports indicate she was aggressively handled until someone intervened to secure medical attention. She was taken to George Washington University Hospital for treatment and later booked at the United States Capitol Police headquarters. *The heavy-handed response to a peaceful guest sends a chilling message about the state of our democracy. I am calling for a full explanation of why this arrest occurred."

Wtaf?
#SOTU #Ilhan #FDT #Trump #Epstein #ICEOUT #Fascism #Censorship #EpsteinClass #EpsteinAdmin

This is clearly blatantly intentional voter suppression and any claim otherwise is completely unserious

this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit

you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table

you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

On Laws and Counterfactuals | BJPS Letters to the Editor Correspondence from Christian Loew and Siegfried Jaag on Lange

New letter to the Editors:

Christian Loew & Siegfried Jaag
On Laws and Counterfactuals: A Response to Lange

Read it here: www.thebsps.org/letters/loew...

#philsci #philsky

I may have been a quaker for too long but I honestly don't think there are many forms of violence effective at protecting against state violence.

I still don't see what pathway goes via political violence to trans liberation.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

PSA: You don’t have to shame people into voting for a hypothetical future nominee in a general election that is two and a half years from now

I think there is a deeper argument driving this which goes back to Peirce & James, but is also in Dretske & Putnam, which is that (a) if the meaning of each belief is just determined by other beliefs, then we quickly get a circle, and (b) something external has to tie the sign to the signified.

Honestly this is exactly the attitude that would lead you to two dimensional semantics, a research program built in accepting the twin earth intuitions but making sure we learn nothing deep about semantics as a result.

UCLA said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is backing off.

Harvard said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is left sputtering.

Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern giving in was a big mistake. If only there were lessons against appeasing fascists.

My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Before: How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students After: A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education

Change in Headline

Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking

why do we want law enforcement to take drugs?

i feel like we've had a good enough sample size for like two decades on whether or not body cameras on cops do anything whatsoever to stop them from killing people. the guy that murdered renee good was filming it on his phone for fun!