Regina Tuma

The new book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” aims to explain why superintelligent AI would eliminate humanity. But along the way, the authors “fail to make an evidence-based scientific case for their claims,” Adam Becker argues:

The accelerationists and the doomsayers are two sides to the same coin and neither should be heeded

A majority of undergraduate students use AI for classwork, several studies show. Ian Bogost spoke with college students to explore their motivations behind using the tool—and the painful revelation professors may face this in classrooms this fall.

For decades, a group of Argentinian women led an extraordinary campaign to find their stolen grandchildren.

AI chatbots lean slightly leftwards - despite what Grok has been doing lately. My latest for @economist.com Espresso

Late Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials are retiring under worse conditions than Early Baby Boomers. Later generations will likely face even worse retirement conditions due to pending and proposed policy changes economicpolicyresearch.org/resource-lib...

The New York Times' "coverage of anything remotely political is poisoned by its obsession to prove its neutrality by taking cheap shots at the left, no matter the cost to its obligation to accuracy and fairness." @froomkin.bsky.social hits the 🎯 as usual weighing on NYT's recent hitjob on Mamdani.

There were 28 nationwide injunctions against Biden, and the Supreme Court didn't have an issue with any of them. I wonder what changed.

If you're interested in seeing what the conversation on X looked like on Saturday morning, as the information warriors there went to work framing the shootings of Democratic lawmakers for political gain, I made an interactive graph: faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot...

What's the Future of Media under Trump 2.0? | LIVE with Tara McGowan of @couriernewsroom.bsky.social & Lincoln Square Executive Editor @sjdemas.bsky.social www.lincolnsquare.media/p/whats-the-...

🧵 I’ve talked a lot about disordered discourse, conspiracies, polarisation, denialism. But maybe the better question is: why does this keep happening? Why does our shared reality keep fracturing? What are the drivers I talk about as a dimension of disordered discourse?

I know there are lots of serious & important things going on in the world right now but I just learned I completely missed this show on Long Island last year of George Grosz's 1940s "Stick Men" series & as someone who loves Grosz's late work I'm just totally gutted😞 www.heckscher.org/exhibitions/...

Very glad to see this out: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition Special Issue Misinformation: Current Directions and New Insights psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

The GOP now seems to be made up of people who’d have survived the Milgram experiment without much stress. I can’t get over their ability to justify ever-more-horrifying shocks Trump is giving to human beings, the system—and they’re coming up with more ever-more-horrifying versions of their own.

🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨 TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts. MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here. Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️ OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid

Dear @nytimes.com There can be NO DISAGREEMENT on Canadian sovereignty. The correct answer on a test would be that Canada is a sovereign country. The unwillingness to recognize that fact merits a failing grade for the student questioning that fact. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

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Sen. Cory Booker's marathon speech on the Senate floor won the floundering Democratic Party something it has desperately needed in the Trump era: attention and the applause of its base.

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

"The most jarring aesthetic in this burgeoning MAGA stagecraft is the unbridled embrace of face-altering procedures: plastic surgery, veneers, and injectables like Botox and fillers. The overall look has since been disparagingly referred to as 'Mar-a-Lago face.'"

I’ve now watched this clip like 10 times and it’s instant first ballot hall of fame. One of the most comically out of touch things I’ve ever heard heard from a public official.

AP: Weekslong lockups of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America apnews.com/article/bord...

⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞

Have questions about the recent news on Medicaid and what it means for New Jersey? Join me at my Medicaid town hall this Friday at 6:00 PM. RSVP here Bit.ly/LM_TH for more details.

One small thing: i signed up to phone bank for Josh Weil for district 6. There is a special election in Florida on April 1. The two house seats are in deep red districts but if dems win them, they flip the house. If you want to phone bank, you can do it from anywhere. Sign up! mobilize.us/s/TO6Bdo

As more and more Americans get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning. 🧵: www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

Vote them out. History will not be kind. @chuckschumer.com @fetterman.senate.gov @cortezmasto.senate.gov #SenDurbin #SenKing @shaheen.senate.gov #SenGillibrand #SenSchatz #SenHassan #SenPeters

Remember: whatever happens from here on out the Dems who vote for this GOP budget are complicit. Because they willingly surrendered the power they had to stop it. The idea that allowing what’s been happening the last two months to continue is a way to avoid “blame” is madness

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

@chuckschumer.com Resign! We need new leadership! #SchumerResign

I cannot emphasize this enough: no one will remember the shutdown even happened when it’s time to vote next year. One way or the other!

No longer can this be the face of our fight for democracy! Chuck needs to resign.

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

@chuckschumer.com @chrislhayes.bsky.social Schumer is not a leader.

The Columbia deportation case is bad enough on its own — but the precedent is worse. People can be deported without breaking a law because of a vague reference to foreign policy.

The headline e makes NO sense. Emergency call To Orwell 🤦🏻‍♀️

There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n

We need a Navalny, not a Newsom. No offense intended against mainstream politicians like Newsom. It’s just that at this point we are way beyond the realm of normal bullshit politics.

My new piece in @theguardian.com Techno-optimism is human pessimism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s the same dynamics over and over again, from “voter fraud” in 2020 to “waste and fraud” now. Set the frame, manufacture evidence to fit the frame (through fabrication, misinterpretation and mischaracterization), amplify that evidence to reinforce the frame, repeat ad nauseam.

“The [Trump] administration has dismantled a number of federal guardrails to protect the integrity of our elections," @larrynorden.bsky.social told @apnews.com. This "sends a terrible message...about where the administration stands on election security."

Fascinating article from two researchers who have been studying right wing media with recommendations for how the left can/should build new media infrastructure to compete: jacobin.com/2025/03/left...

Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.

The Supreme Court decision should have been 9-0. The fact it was 5-4 reveals how utterly compromised the bench is in favor of right-wing authoritarianism.

I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers. Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."