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Having now read the Administration's proposed compact with universities, I have two thoughts:
This is not the sort of system set up by an administration that ever expects a different party to be in power again.
It is a "fuck you, make me" moment for universities.

By my read, the only way for a university to comply with this compact is to gut their social sciences, arts, and humanities, and a good chunk of their sciences, too.

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State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

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This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Every day I draw closer to actually planning what was initially a joke of an idea — a private conference where people who feel absolutely insane in our regular life for not believing robots will save us from our ogliarchs can just get together and latent to be normal for 36 hours. Over drinks.

300,000 Black women have left the labor force in 3 months. It’s not a coincidence. For decades, the public sector has been a lifeline for Black women shut out of economic opportunity. It’s no surprise that Trump's federal downsizing targeted them first, explains gender economist Kat...

“This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of federal policy choices — most immediately, sweeping job cuts across public-sector agencies where Black women have long held the strongest foothold in middle-class employment.”

Skyline cleanse.. his name is Emmanuel Savary…🔥🔥🔥

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not.

—Fanny Howe, RIP

every 60 days the supreme court reminds us that ... these people suck

An incredible thread that I needed to read right now:

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

Approaching a priest and seeking absolution in the bathroom cuz you feel bad about doing a fascism is wild

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor.

He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down.

The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him.

This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

Please read and share this whole thread. It is important. As Alyssa points out, this is the thin end of the wedge. The goal is lowering all vaccine uptake and production which will (and has already started to) destroy herd immunity for other serious, once-nearly-vanished, diseases. Take action now.

If they didn't call it "AI" and instead called it "enhanced predictive text analysis" or something, then there's no way to con people into believing it's thinking for itself and thus no way to build a hype bubble.

You can't get hundreds of billions of investment dollars for Autocorrect Plus.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Chicago Pope will be airing between Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D.

Look...everybody likes a good shortcut. But LLMs aren't one. They're a longcut. They appear to save time, but they take away control. This isn't even touching on the many, many ethical and environmental concerns (others have done that). This is about integrity of data.

Samantha Hunt, one of my colleagues at Bennington College, said earlier this semester: “One of the most radical things I do is move slowly.”

I think about it all the time. Slow, steady, determined.

Be the artist who, like a persistent trickle of water, ends up carving a canyon.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

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I THOUGHT YOU LOOKED A LITTLE LEFT OUT AND I’M A PLEASER
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No One is Coming to Save Us But Us. Introducing "The People's Project."

I’m so excited to reveal the cover of THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT.

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and I have spent the last few months reaching out to the people we ourselves turn to for clarity and hope. This anthology of twenty-six writers is a community in book form.

"The layoffs included hundreds of workers at the Bonneville Power Administration, a self-funded entity in the Pacific Northwest that controls more than 75% of the region’s high-voltage transmission lines, as well as the flow of electricity from 31 federal dams and one nuclear power plant."

sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession