We really don't talk about Aramark and Sodexo enough.
11.03.2026 22:34
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We really don't talk about Aramark and Sodexo enough.
A tweet of mine from May 9, 2017: This is going to be the dumbest dystopia.
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NEW: Deloitte is being investigated by Newfoundland & Labrador's accounting watchdog over the firm's use of #AI in a $1.6-million government healtcare report that contains at least four fake citations #artificialintelligence #nlpoli
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Turns out, the Haber Bosch process working best with piles of cheap natural gas means that all the fertilizer is now made in like three places
Food prices were already rising before this latest war began... with oil and fertilizer prices rising, food prices are likely to rise further and drive up world food insecurity.
www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
Cursed, the whole Microsoft Office ecosystem is truly cursed.
Outlook is sabotaging my professional emails with - I can't believe this is a real thing - "joyful animations" and automatically re-installing it.
Co-pilot - otherwise known as surveillance-are-us - is also continually re-installing.
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
⚠️ What happens when a war in the Gulf raises bread prices in Africa?
“Africa is unlikely to be a military participant… It will, however, be an economic casualty.” – Million Belay
#Foodsecurity cannot be outsourced to volatile global markets.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/gulf-c...
#FoodSovereignty
Another murderous, mean war
I am starting to wonder if people who spend a lot of time talking to LLMs lose their stamina for actual critical analysis because they're so used to having their own priors reflected back at them in the guise of another's voice.
They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.
Disappointing that the Canadian government has not condemned the US attack on Iran
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.
This 🧵 is extremely comprehensive about USDA's bipartisan industry capture and the horrific conditions for meatpacking workers and the animals they slaughter.
I'd add, the land grant university system is captured too, and always happy to produce small science results that the industry wants.
This is Neal Katyal. He argued for Nestlé's right to profit from child slavery without consequence before the Supreme Court—and won! Thank you, Neal.
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WEIL: ".. It turns out that the abundant free cash flow that Meta reports to investors is something of an optical illusion."
@wsj.com $META
www.wsj.com/business/c-s...
Monday closure for the St. John's, MI and Signal Hill campuses, including the Childcare Centre, except employees involved in snow clearing Alert sent: Sunday, February 22, 2026 8:33:38 PM Event: Monday closure for the St. John's, MI and Signal Hill campuses, including the Childcare Centre, except employees involved in snow clearing
It's not very often @memorialu.bsky.social is preemptively closed! 👀❄️
"Epstein's Family Values"
Superb piece by the brilliant Melissa Cooper.
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
“These crimes were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption, extreme misogyny, and the commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls from different parts of the world,” the experts said." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
UN HR Special Rapporteurs weigh in on the Epstein Files
“So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity”
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
so this is interesting in that it's not actual measurement, it's just a survey of vibes. but even the *vibes* are not good.
Prepping for this talk, I'm struck that some universities *actually engaged with their local experts* (imagine that!) on their library design projects. University admins so infrequently recognize or activate the expertise represented on their own faculties!
www.swarthmore.edu/libraries/sh...
MUST READ:
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
thread. related, my impression is a lot of higher ed administrators are significantly oriented toward making a mark on an institution in the short term so they have a claimable on their CV to get their next admin job elsewhere. that incentivizes vandalizing institutions, whether by AI or otherwise
<jazz hands> The Academics!
