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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...
But I was told it was inevitable.
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?
I asked my creative writing students to anonymously share their thoughts about AI. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
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…
The smart cities discourse was most prevalent when folks were still talking about "big data." I mentioned a few boosterist texts in this piece fm a decade ago, but none are AI-focused. I think the "network state" discourse (e.g., Balaji Srinivasan), which scales up from the ci…
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.’”
AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.
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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