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Harnessing anti-data center sentiment is good but unless it can be funneled into getting tech giants to pay for grid upgrades as part of going in they're just going to keep building them in the poorest parts of the South www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
This is pretty fun and it's also lowkey insulting (personally, collectively, spiritually) that Cory doctorow is the patron saint of The Union Organizer Archetype
"AI solves a specific problem for propagandists: the most useful lies have no photographable evidence." Love this from @alicetiara.bsky.social on the slop aesthetic
When I ran BLS, I was asked constantly about the impact of AI on jobs. It's still one of the most common questions I get. So we put together a policy brief - for policymakers, journalists, and anyone trying to sort through what is happening with AI and jobs: siepr.stanford.edu…
🚨🚨🚨🚨 VICTORY! Following months of negotiations between @pen-guild.bsky.social leadership, WBNG, and POLITICO management, the company has agreed to shut down both AI products at the heart of last November’s landmark arbitration ruling! wbng.org/2026/05/22/p...
Missed this back in Feb. Any reporting on it since then? I.e., how much are they spending, how has this changed zoning fights, etc
Really loved this from @nathantankus.bsky.social. AI cannot and will not be the great financial crisis, it's too insular and the big 4 are too cash-rich. Instead, the crisis is political: a handful of billionaires are building pyramids out of social wealth that could be so man…
Been waiting for this to be officially stated. The Vanderbilt faculty were never consulted about the so-called "Declaration of First Principles" and whew doggy my alma mater has some issues. Mini thread! vanderbiltaaup.org/2026/08/11/v...
The reason they want to automate education is the same reason why we know how to fix it: what makes for "good education" hasn't really changed in 100 years. Small classes, high contact. Lots of movement around the edges but this basic proposition is expensive and labor intensive!
Yeah this ain't crystal pepsi, it's here to stay.
Quite liked this from Blekhman. There's real value for AI in science--especially the (currently) expensive simulations. But the real bottlenecks are getting funding, recruiting participants, approving IRB etc. I would also note that most AI barons have signed onto an assault o…
> Some articles also cite unnamed sources that don’t look like they came from the AI agent. Usually this is an unnamed Republican Senate staffer, operative, or strategist, in multiple cases described as “close to Senate leadership.” 👀👀👀 www.modelrepublic.org/articles/the...
Alright don't make me regret this: Doing some revisions to the Future of Work grad class. Who's got serious research about actually existing AI in actual workplaces? Closer to the shopfloor the better, we traditionally use each week for a different domain (health, transport, etc).
not as short on ai as many of my fellow travelers but the people for whom it's a game-changer at work, for whom the data center protests are baffling, need to understand that for most people at most jobs, their experience of AI is "now you can use Greebler to prepare your decks in Fluft." At best.
I'd like to see an llm sit bolt upright in the middle of the night and tap out 1000 words of the article you've been trying to figure out while your spouse tells you to go to bed or go downstairs
Ok fine I'll write the "where is ai in the labor process" article because no one else seems to want to do so
Serious q: What is the plan to make money off Google search if you're routing people to the AI overview first and foremost? Presumably the ads on search are worth less and the ads on destination sites are seen less. What am I missing here?
'It is clear: All “idée napoléonienne” are ideas of the undeveloped small holding in the freshness of its youth; they are a contradiction to the outlived holdings. They are only the hallucinations of its death struggle, words transformed into phrases, spirits transformed into ghosts.'
The reply guy doing DSA is a Russian Psy-op posts? Yep he's also posting ai pics of Trump giving fellatio. Never fails.
THE FURIOUS was terrific. Best martial arts movie in years, even with the baffling choice to put half of it in English via ADR/AI. Wide, unbroken shots that let top athletes show off for long stretches. Crucially, much funnier than, say, THE RAID. Brian Le is a revelation, deserves big money roles.
One fun email I got about the "What does AI do?" essay was along the lines of "ai is a mechanical satan sent to destroy us but is cost disease really a problem in higher ed? What about skyrocketing benefits?" Like my man what do think health insurance consists of? An assembly line of care widgets?
Ai could never fake a newspaper, it's like the fingers thing from two years ago
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