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The chef’s kiss in this essay about how ambition is destroying education at Stanford is the note at the end, where we learn that the author, a Stanford senior, has a forthcoming book on the subject. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...
Everyone in charge loves to say this is "new." New technology they can't keep up with. Nothing about this is new, except that there's no longer anyone to victim blame. www.404media.co/radnor-high-...
@nycdoe.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov When the majority of city council says something, maybe it's time to listen?
Across the US, people in cities and towns are fighting back against the construction of data centers. Today on the podcast, scholar Britt Paris joins 404 Media's @samleecole.bsky.social on why that gives her hope. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5twr...
“the idea that 15 days after SpaceX I.P.O.s, it’s essentially going to be part of all of our retirement portfolios; and all of our index investing is actually really consequential for households.” The A.I. Bubble Is Coming for Your Retirement Account www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10…
Just a reminder that all those LLMs are built on the pilfered vast libraries of humanistic and social scientific knowledge production. Good luck, society. You’re gonna need it. www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...
Outcry is a chatbot “designed specifically as a ‘private, on-device AI mentor for activists, organizers and movement builders.’”
“Americans speaking out against artificial intelligence data centers on social media are falling under police surveillance, a confidential law enforcement bulletin obtained by The Intercept reveals.”
This is true, but there’s also plenty of founders’ AI in all the America250 programming — eg:
“Nonfiction publishing is uniquely vulnerable to AI because the industry has long neglected to do anything to ensure the books it publishes are factually accurate. ‘Ppl outside of the industry don’t understand that, contractually, publishers are not obligated to fact-check.’”
"The 'knowing' has been outsourced to a machine; we just retrieve the bits we want + leave the rest behind. Whatever that is, it isn’t knowledge, + one of the truly astonishing things abt this moment is the fact that so many ppl are perfectly happy to know so little. Again Bis…
I think often about how the presentist AI discourse ignores the nearly identical arguments made about “big data” + “smart cities” a decade+ ago. As folks were celebrating the Knicks broadcast on Links, it struck me how their Google surveillance guts have been normalized 🤷♀️
Rdg lots of stuff acknowledging mounting public *fear* of AI. Yes, I’m glad there’s more attention to the aversion — but it’s more than fear: it’s distrust, resentment, disgust, the Spectrum of Justified Bad Affect. “Fear” implies a phobia one can conquer with exposure, understanding, etc.
I just stopped by Printed Matter, where they were hosting a Parsons class. Craig, their bookshop director, told me that last year, class instructors commonly asked shop staff to pull artists’ books that exemplify 🎨 use of AI; now, students are asking to see material that offers an *antidote* to AI ✊
So many subway ads for genAI agents promising to make “killer pitch decks” – for more stupid AI agents, no doubt
Love the framing of this Times article: AI has *created* 13 new kinds of jobs at Box! Sure, you’ve invested so much in this crap, you now have to hire techs to shoehorn it into places it’s not needed, barkers + evangelists to talk up its use, folks to fix its errors and security vulnerabilities,,,
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