Wayne Myrvold

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

This thread.

It's so tired. But there's one key feature of this cycle, as it currently runs, that I want to focus on:

Step No. 2? The lib backlash that drives the whole thing? It doesn't have to be real! You can just make it up!

You might be a cool bassist, but you'll never be Meshell Ndegeocello cool

Benjamin Netanyahu decides on full Gaza occupation, PMO says | The Jerusalem Post The Prime Minister's Office conveyed the message to IDF chief, saying If this does not suit you, then you should resign.

Horrifying, I have no words. Except that, of course, this could have been fully anticipated from the day this "war" began.

October 7th is the best thing that ever happened to Netanyahu.

Even apart from how ghoulish this is, it seems p catastrophic to be treating output from the stochastic parrot as a legitimate journalistic source. Going in exactly the wrong direction on the need @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has underlined: discouraging lying as requisite to a functioning society.

a pink radio is sitting on a table next to a cassette tape player . Alt: a pink boombox.

My neighbors always listen to the best music.

Whether they want to or not.

"Always look for the truth from the ground up, rarely from the top down. Journalists are never real journalists if they are the agents of power, no matter how they disguise that role. Real journalists are agents of people." . - John Pilger (1939 to 2023)

This message is now more relevant than ever.

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."

--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

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don't be chip

Something very dystopian about having to prove to a computer that I'm not a robot

Motherfucking wind farms…

Resistance Summer School is officially in Session! Columbia cancelled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media. But I decided to teach it anyway. So I built a school, instead.

500+ students online and in person.

My first independently operated course and lecture begins TONIGHT!

WE MOVE!!

karenattiah.substack.com/p/resistance...

Tech elites are turning AI into ChatGPTrump The administration's new AI plan gives Silicon Valley everything it wants — for a price.

"Incorporating their AI products into government work is of vital importance to the tech chieftains who are buddying up to Trump. You can choose not to use ChatGPT, but if decisions about Medicare and Medicaid are being made by an AI system, it will affect your life whether you want it to or not."

I have been re-reading a bunch of my own cartoons from 2020 to the present for an upcoming project and if everything that has happened since then has left your memories a little vague, I am here to promise you that nothing happening now was remotely unforeseeable

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

"AI" is IT from A Wrinkle in Time.
"Just give in," the AI pushers say. "We can all be together in this. You don't have to think."

Time to hold onto your inner Meg, friends.

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."

—Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

2025 Foundations of Thermodynamics Workshop, Singapore - YouTube Recordings of talks from the Foundations of Thermodynamics Workshop held at NTU Singapore 16-18 July 2025.

Talks from the 2025 Foundations of Thermodynamics workshop held at NTU Singapore, co-organized with @wmyrvold.bsky.social, are now available on YouTube here: bit.ly/yt-ftd2025

Thanks again to all participants for attending the workshop and contributing to the lively and fruitful discussions! :)

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Hot Jazz courtesy of violinist Jesse Grandmont this Sunday in Market Lane! FREE, drop-by. #ldnont #ldontjazz

The cancel culture panic existed to coddle the powerful who experienced the mildest of criticism and to pave the way to astroturf conservative censorship into the mainstream

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

A beautiful misprint on this platform named @zackpolanski.bsky.social as a candidate to lead the Green Party of England and Whales. Sounds good to me.

Columbia University Caves - Daily Nous Door #1: Lose at least $400 million in federal grants. Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy. Not an enviable choice for any university. Columbia University just chose Do...

Door #1: Lose at least $400 million in federal grants.
Door #2: Lose at least $221 million and your institutional autonomy.
Columbia picks Door #2.
dailynous.com/2025/07/24/c...

Wow! This is from 30 YEARS ago! Mad TV predicting/demonstrating that the origins of MAGA are long entrenched in the #Republican psyche.

World’s top court says climate inaction can breach international law Nonmembership of the Paris Agreement doesn’t exempt countries from duty to fight global warming, ICJ says.

Governments can be held legally responsible for climate inaction, the world’s highest court said in a landmark decision on Wednesday, opening the door to a cascade of lawsuits.

www.politico.eu/article/top-...

"What perfect albums were released when you were 16?"

1979:

I call BS on this. People want progressive politics that preserve public services with a secure social safety net but what we get instead are right leaning parties