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Can this be a solution?
12.03.2026 13:52
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Fitzcarraldo
Can this be a solution?
Building trades fully embodying the old joke about how they’d dig their own graves if it was a union job. nabtu.org/press_releas...
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
It takes a certain kind of…narcissistic nihilism to look across the country at people self-organizing against something that is generally a fairly good material symbol of the intangible class warfare that has alienated them and say, “what a silly distraction from what *really* matters.” And yet…
For instance, you might say to yourself "But this is a very fast-moving technology, and it doesn’t seem likely that any meaningful A.I. legislation will become law without the White House changing hands" and then say oh ok, maybe that's one reason people are addressing this power locally instead.
A valuable practice when encountering people who are doing something that doesn't quite make sense to you is to ask "hm, wonder what I'm not seeing" instead of asserting "you're doing it wrong." Incredible what there is to learn out there when you do that.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...
In this new report, @ksavin.bsky.social, and @calliefreitag.bsky.social and I explain how Trump 2.0 and DOGE built up new barriers to the already-difficult process of getting disability benefits.
Let's talk about what we found, and what we recommend to address the issues. 🧵
There’s a pretty strong norm in the union world against publicly criticizing other union leaders but at some point I think it becomes necessary for labor movement leaders to start saying “Sean O’Brien sucks.”
Otherwise this guy represents all unions in people’s minds
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Importantly they are planning to hire these people on 2 year contracts so what actually happened is they fired everyone so they could rehire them with worse working conditions and an easy revolving door with industry 🔭
I see, so these young men have simply been consulting the ancient texts.
Also most of the recommended menus read like a diet book from the 70s. No vegetables besides potatoes and “2 cups of raw spinach with yogurt.”
I was testing AI stuff for work and asked for powerlifting diets (due to my hobbies). Most of the recommendations were ground meat and rice. I can’t figure out if this craze started with TikTok and shaped the AI or started with AI and shaped the TikTok posts.
hi there! sure!
Great resource for anyone engaged or interested in US AI policy and governance from @geomblog.bsky.social and his team www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...
Yep! Be glad to help!
I have learned so much from you over the years and would love to share! DM if you’d like!
My research is on working class women and AI and the ONE consistency among all of the interviews we’ve done so far is concerns about data centers and environmental impact. We do not bring it up - they do. Every single one.
Pretty sure the complaint is that young Americans are only in harm's way because the deranged president launched an unconstitutional war without any effort to justify it and, apparently, with no real plan or agenda in mind.
So, now seems like the best time for all that?
Cass Sunstein was pushing prediction markets as a fairer alternative to deliberation (e.g. committees, juries) back in 2008. (This and "nudging" in lieu of policy.) The quant asshole revolution of the Obama era laid the groundwork for the gambling, scams, and bullshit vibes paradigm of today.
This succinctly maps about the incentives involved in Amodei’s decision which, as Anil notes, is the bare minimum we should expect.
fyi the Columbia student newspaper has far more details on the ICE raid on a Columbia residence hall (including the likely name of the student in question) than any of the journalists y'all are reposting who aren't on campus. 🙂 support student journalism!
Upwork says demand for data annotation & labeling skills on its platform went up 154% in 2025.
As these jobs expands, people should know the reality faced by AI data workers.
@alphabetworkersunion.org & @techequity.bsky.social report: cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...
www.upwork.com/research/in-...
Sometimes the “best” service isn’t emotional labor like smiling. It’s matching the customers urgency. A fine distinction in the basically dead art of customer service.
historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball
BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social
Oh man...this day.
This is perfect. It could be diagramed like a poem for its layers and meanings. I feel such a sense of genuine loss this morning.
Rev. Jesse Jackson as he rightly noted in 2024 "was the first American presidential candidate to raise the issue of Palestinian human rights." He added, "Our histories from South Africa to Palestine, to right here in the United States of America, are inextricably combined"
In case you’re wondering what kinda shit I live for, it’s this.
🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities.
As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.