No matter how writers try to make sense of these stories, they all just make me profoundly sad and worried for us all, especially our children.
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No matter how writers try to make sense of these stories, they all just make me profoundly sad and worried for us all, especially our children.
New preprint from me: 'AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum' zenodo.org/records/1890... - "This paper treats AI as a diagnostic for deeper, nihilistic changes in the existing order of things. It proposes instead decomputing as a decisive turn towards infrastructuring the common good."
DEI, like woke and CRT and all the rest simply mean to them: things I don't like.
who see war as a game and AI as a cool new toy
Today in The Department of Education both exists and doesn't exist.
If you were investing in the future would you like to spend a billion or more dollars a day on a war for oil or would you like to spend that money to rapidly reduce your dependence on oil?
Now we get to see both of those approaches in real time.
I mentioned autonomous weapons targeting (alongside the domestic spying panopticon aims of DOGE, Palantir, and DHS camps) re: no GenAI policy in my programming class.
Even the most ardent GPT students sat up and took notice.
We have a moral imperative as adults/teachers/mentors to talk about this
I know let’s make kids in school think it’s a fun toy that will help them get a great job.
“For cultural literacy” seems like an argument people make when they have heard that books are good but are not themselves particularly interested in reading them, so need to explain their importance some other way
You gotta be DUMB-dumb to pick this fight.
New Yorkers actually like our mayor. Tish James said you wanna get to one of us, you gotta go through all of us, and she meant that shit. Nope. Nope nope nope don't you try that fash violence for clout shit here.
Bruh. You don't want that smoke.
oh this makes more sense now it's really good at killing people in various ways
@natebowling.com writes from Abu Dhabi about the illegal, immoral, deadly, and destructive war launched by the Trump regime in our name, killing adults and children and terrorizing a region with our tax dollars, with our military members, and fellow Americans left to their own abroad.
A woman with two dogs was I think going to meet someone at the airport and was going in the same elevator that I was going in and one of the dogs jumped up and bit my knee. Very fast I didn’t even see which dog did it.
My day started this way, then with a missed connection for a flight, then with an extra leg of travel and a whole day delay, and then I got bit by a dog in an airport elevator— not seriously, but enough to go to urgent care for a tetanus shot. How was your day?
So…even when it reveals incompetence or the willingness to do evil (the only two options here), the military must be praised.
Instead of banning meth, why not teach people to use it critically?
The point is, LLMs aren't designed to be used critically. They are built to do exactly what this author/AI user says we shouldn't do.
The only way to make AI less harmful is to change its design, not to change the way users engage with it.
Every time I go back and reread sections of the Project 2025 "Mandate," I am horrified anew. Just read the part where they claim that providing universal free school lunch is a method of spreading "radical ideology."
The non-creepy, I see you and appreciate this small interaction wink.
Was winked at this morning. Feel like there should be more of us winking at each other more often.
Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.
The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.
"Vance now spends every day of his life agitating for a society that sees the people he loves most in the world as undesirable foreigners who should be forcibly deported."
My latest for @theunpopulist.net
"But what’s so fascinating is that grassroots conservatives, like the ones I interviewed, talk in strikingly similar terms. They see vouchers as a failure of democracy, with billionaire donors and super PACs replacing ‘we the people.’"
Same applies to #OntEd — I wonder if this is a universal issue in teaching. 🤔
Trump take pump.
I do think most technophiles are earnest. Saw it with car culture when I studied that.
Yet he was superintendent of two large school districts, Chicago and Rochester. He should know and care about children.
The question isn’t whether we can catch up technologically, but whether we can develop the political will and strategic coherence to build an American version of this future—one that reflects our values of local control, individual liberty, and democratic participation.
Tucking this in at the closing isn't ironic, it's cynical.
