The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
Whenever i get ragebaited or simply overwhelmed and helpless, i try to redirect my energy to appreciating the amazing kindness and love of people who inspire in the community and then think about ways to follow their lead. There’s a lot of that in Minnesota these days
The UMN leadership - ultimately my bosses - has failed this test, as they have failed every test except, perhaps catering to the needs of power.
Gift link.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_i...
It's interesting to look at how Epstein directly, via hundreds of thousands of emails with his pedo buddies in academia, made US academia incredibly hostile to women for *decades*.
How many Emma Noethers never were, even before any of it was put into legislation?
If you want to know what's going on in Minnesota, I recommend following & listening to Minnesotans. I recommend reading the articles we share. Believe us when we tell you what's happening.
Check out stories from local outlets & this curated list of stories:
www.standwithminnesota.com/stay-informed
I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
A photo of a vigil at MLK Park in Minneapolis after the murder of Alex Pretti.
Tonight, my Minneapolis neighborhood gathered on street corners and in our local park to mourn Alex Pretti.
This is our FOURTH vigil in eight months. No community should have to go through what we're going through.
every day my heart breaks in new and horrifying ways and every day the people of this city put it back together
Thank you. We are trying to.
Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.
The outside is the agitator. But we will overcome it just like the others. ✊
I believe the scientific term for this is “picking the wrong one”
NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.
Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.
The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.
The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.
We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
Mayors should also be doing this - a daily account of ICE violence and law-breaking in their communities. @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social @cityofsaintpaul.bsky.social
A graphic for our friends in Minnesota.
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
ZOMG @mikecaulfield.bsky.social knocked this one out of the park. A detailed demonstration of LLM’s weaknesses using a pop culture fave most of us have seen.
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Time person of the year cover for 2025
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Stealworkers
Bollards. At bus stops for sure. ✅
‼️ UNBELIEVABLE RESULTS‼️ Hold my baguette while I count the people on bikes! How did Paris increase cycling by 240% in a few short years?
What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
AI will "cure cancer" like the GOP is "fixing healthcare"--by letting everyone who needs a cure or healthcare just die.
https://issuu.com/idsnews/docs/indiana_daily_student_homecoming_eedition_-_thursd
When administrators try to soft-pedal censorship of student press by cutting only the print edition, they are reminding us that paper is the medium of liberatory potential.
You hate it how companies like Google and Microsoft keep shoving AI down your throats, you have no idea how much worse this is for tech workers in regular companies, who have to actually report on how this crap improves productivity.
President Trump hosted dozens of wealthy spenders for a dinner on Wednesday in exchange for what he called the “tremendous amounts of money” they agreed to donate to construct a $200 million ballroom addition to the White House, a project that has sparked concerns from ethics watchdogs. “We have a lot of legends in the room tonight, and that’s why we're here to celebrate you, because you gave,” Mr. Trump said in the East Room. “They wanted to have a ballroom, and it never happened because they didn’t have a real estate person.” More than three dozen corporate executives and wealthy businesspeople attended the dinner, where Mr. Trump expressed gratitude for their opening their checkbooks for his long-desired state ballroom. Representatives from companies including Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Lockheed Martin were in attendance.
Meta, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, was the latest tech giant to remove content in response to government pressure. Last week, Apple and Google removed apps used to track immigration agents from their app stores. That included ICEBlock, a free app with hundreds of thousands of users, which let people anonymously share the locations of ICE agents within a five-mile radius.
Frustrating to hear people confine their concerns about AI & quantum computing to the possibility that "bad actors" may acquire them. Let's be clear: Big Tech cos., with their stranglehold on social media, search engines, & phones (& eagerness to capitulate to an authoritarian regime) ARE bad actors
These are not serious people. All this electricity for your own porn-bot... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
