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Literally all our lore, stories and mythology about technology is about how destructive it becomes when unregulated by humanity. I don’t know what more I can say than the ENTIRE body of human creative expression to ppl who choose to ignore those warnings.

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this…

This is your daily reminded it isn’t about the tan suit or the Cheesecake Factory 🤮 or the false cultural outrage of the moment, It is because Obama is Black.

Alex Pretti’s family holding their first news conference addressing the media this morning. It’s been 9 months since their son was disarmed before being shot to death by federal agents in Minneapolis. No one has been held responsible.

“The federal government went on tv and lied about Alex. They tried to slander his memory to cover up their crime. Not only was it wrong. It was shameful, unfair, and unacceptable. We want our sons killers brought to justice once and for all.”

💕Minnestota💕

just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

Almost every freaking star visible to the naked eye has a name derived from Arabic.

I think next time one of my students asks in class if there will be extra credit, I will respond that the first person to come up to the front and recite a full soliloquy from a Shakespeare play will earn an automatic 100% on their next test. I don’t teach English. I’m just hungry to see it.

A movie version of the Scottish play as a modern retelling titled “Mac Daddy Must Die” with gender blended casting including a reveal at the end that MacDuff in fact has two fathers and no mother (one of his parents being a trans man).

Best advice I’ve heard, “Treat social media like it’s enemy territory; like you are participating in a propaganda play, not reality.”

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

The more I think of this deplorable Turek thing, the more it looks like a moral test that he utterly fail. Someone probably told him if he through trans ppl under the bus he’d win the election. And he did it. It’s the height of moral failure.

A reminder that collective punishment is a war crime.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

I just opened up the new iPad version of Bluesky and I think I heard angels singing hallelujah.

In the MAGA mind, Trump's vicious abuse of female reporters is simply of a piece with the rape ad itself: It's all a bet that MAGA misogyny and depravity are still political winners. Flagged by @atrupar.com:

Via @explosm.bsky.social

Vivek Ramaswamy has been a horrible person in public for so long that until a friend reminded me, I totally forgot that I wrote a letter to the editor blasting his opposition to a living wage for campus workers more than *two decades ago*

I know the speed of the connection they get to Star Shield is life for death for Ukraine but their struggle to get the speed they were promised increasingly sounds like an arguement we’ve all had with our internet providers.

U.N. Says World Has Lost Chance to Limit Global Heating

Our next Star Party is this Friday (Oct 23) from 8-10 pm at the UIS Campus Observatory. Weather forecast looks promising and we plan to be looking at the Moon. Info at the link go.uis.edu/starparties

All my money on the Dems winning Congress then picking off and impeaching cabinet secretaries that have done things to make even Trump mad. Start with Hegseth. 86ing the ppl who piss Trump off will have less resistance and sends a message to all the other rats on the ship.

City swim meet and senior night this evening for my kiddo! All the grandparents are here for it.

Trump aides are preparing to impose financial penalties on millions of Americans in default on their federal student loans next year The plans are unlikely to be announced before the midterm elections, according to this report

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

“It looks dangerously like the construction of an internal spying agency,” said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union. “It’s a nightmare in the making.” buff.ly/jTk1bTa

So my chancellor straight up lied to my Campus Senate about talking to me about a decision she made. Just leaving this here. Oh, I have receipts.

Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff knew in 2024 that a student had reported being gang raped at a fraternity house, but never followed up to learn what had happened to her or whether any of the accused students had been punished. https://to.pbs.org/4ypJJaO

BREAKING: A complaint has been filed with the California Bar against White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia, citing Popular Information’s reporting, for “the Unauthorized Practice of Law and for Holding Herself Out as Entitled to Practice Law.”

Career Advice | How to Save the Take-Home Essay by Making the Writing Process Visible AI-detection scores are a black box. But a writing process visualizer lays the groundwork for rich conversations about AI and writing. By Chris Gortmaker: https://bit.ly/4i02ewg #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Happy Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier day for all who celebrate. October 14, 1947

That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

SUSAN COLLINS: My heart goes out to the family of the man who was shot in Biddeford. My Duran Guerrero TROY JACKSON: Well the man's name was Johan Sebastián Guerrero. That was his name.

I hate this timeline.

Wait for it. Someone is going to sue them because 🎶you’ve got to fight!🎶For your right🎶To Paaaaaaarty!🎶 I don’t agree with that but it seems almost inevitable in a country that gave us Donald Trump twice.

I do not find it funny that I as an atheist can quote the Bible better than most ppl who loudly proclaim that they live by it.

It’s almost like these LLMs are seven year old boys with a wad of cash and their father’s car keys. Same mindset. Same morally questionable decision making.

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

My respect Zelensky would skyrocket if he responded to Trump’s latest with “Trump should find a new job. He bores me as Putin’s favorite sock puppet.”

Comparing this to the end of Marcos Inaros in the Expanse. Or less skillfully done with every Bond villain. There is something satisfying about seeing someone so arrogant and presuming hoisted on their own petard.