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Final reading list for my AI course follows, week by week. UC summer sessions are 5 weeks, compressed from the 10 week regular quarter (already short). So, teaching Comm/Media undergrads an upper division class on this, during the summer of the constantly moving AI needle was… a challenge. Still:

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Los Angeles is no longer orangebrown.

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I used to run into him all the time, he had that smile everywhere he went, that's just how he moved through the world. How sad. Good bye, sir.

I fucking love Abdul. Just home run after home run. "JD thinks America is small, like him." 🔥

Wish someone would release patches for my vulnerabilities

Me: Recycle Bin -> Empty Recycle Bin PC: Are you sure you want to permanently delete 20 items? Me: Yes PC: Deleting 4,121 items.... Done! (window disappears) Um.

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

The 5 at Camp Pendleton is fully closed again thanks to the Henderson Fire, which started yesterday. There’s also a new fire nearby called the Scales Fire. People traveling between San Diego and Orange County are not going to have a fun afternoon drive.

Michel Foucault Centennial at Duke University Press (2026) Michel Foucault Centennial, Duke University Press, 15 October - 15 December 2026 In celebration of Michel Foucault’s 100th birthday, Duke University Press is pleased to present a wide selection of articles and books that explore the life…

"in full agreement with Sally, we have taken the decision that we can no longer supply her works in the UK in any format," Faber said. The move comes after Rooney … announced last year she would be donating proceeds of her books to Palestinian Action, which was controversially banned in the U.K.

im fully convinced that MAGA content is just run through a mad libs at this point

It is insane that nationstates have given control of communication networks vital to military operations to a racist white nationalist oligarch. This is science fiction levels of idiocy. Starlink should be nationalized by Europe, taken by eminent domain www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

i know people think this is just bluster, and ill grant that’s probably most likely, but i don’t think we should understate the chances that a gutter racist president has staffed the DOJ with gutter racists that are going to try and denaturalize a sitting congresswoman cause they hate somalis.

Some research I did today brought me to this interview, which contains a shockingly good insight into why Western leftism's relationship to Russia has always been weird and occasionally painful, for me. Here, maybe you'll find it interesting: www.fpri.org/article/2025...

They're making a mistake imagining that some artificial consciousness(es) will turn us all into batteries because of some supremacist goal. It's far more likely some rogue accounting script at some car parts store in the midwest will turn the planet into goo for no apparent reason.

“I felt a great disturbance in the internet, as if millions of fascist and racist voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?

trans people “apparently able to feel pain,” surprising new study reveals

🆕 📝 New paper officially out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! In 2023, Change.org built an AI-assisted writing tool into their platform. We offer causal evidence that access to the AI tool changed petition text (word count, language)... but may have actually hurt outcomes (signatures, comments).

Good grief but this sounds annoying. But more importantly, please read this 🧵 from the beginning. You'll be smarter after, I promise.

This is vile, disgusting, perverted to such a degree that my insides have been roiling. I cannot fathom it. It's bad enough we still kill people in this country, and try to sanitize it and make it polite, as if such a thing makes it okay. This is just pure horror. I predict a vast audience.

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OneDrive just sent me a slideshow of "silly moments in your history" that's just a long series of photos taken sitting across various tables from my daughters. I really miss having them both in front of me at the same time :(

Every past depravity is a source of ideas for these people.

What actually happens in this kind of situation is that mom curses under her breath and takes over, because she knows that reading to a child is about the *experience* of parental engagement, not the mechanics of hearing a voice. He feels clever and smug because he’s unloaded the task either way.

A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.

This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Poetry interview with Anne Carson, who has just received the Nobel Prize in literature. buff.ly/mR5HpYb

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Even if all these parents were angels, this isn't new. A random comment on a reddit post the other day reminded me that we used to be able to do this much more effectively before the internet. It was called "moving out of state."