ABrockwell @aebrockwell@qoto.org

USC went from cancelling their valedictorian’s commencement speech on a made up claim of safety, to canceling all commencement speakers, to canceling commencement altogether—all to prevent the student USC educated on genocide studies from applying her USC education at USC.😑

What a complete failure in leadership.

A friend of mine is looking for a short story she and her husband remember from grade school. She says it is not Asimov. Copious Googling hasn't helped. Her description of it is: "the story is really short, and it's about the unveiling of the latest advance in robot society (the planet being wholly populated by robots now), a self-healing, organically powered robot, and as you read you realize the robots have recreated humans"

The fact that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife was one of the organizers of Donald Trump’s armed insurrection should be mentioned every time SCOTUS is in the news, IMHO.

I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about how China might be using TikTok to steal our data and manipulate us...

But why aren't we at least as worried about the U.S. billionaires who own the other apps stealing our data and trying to manipulate us?

I just coined “#Xycophancy” to describe the thought processes of #Musk stans and I’m very proud of myself.

Happening now at NYU: I am not sure how many students have been arrested; they sent in the NYPD in full riot gear.

At least two of my close colleagues, both in the history department, have been arrested.

NYU President Linda Mills should resign before we vote no confidence.

@StillIRise1963
There is no excuse for the Colombia administration. Conversation was needed. Not police. Cowardice choses the latter in this event. President, VPs, more, come down from their office life and talk WITH the people they are actually in their jobs to serve.

Let's be clear. There is no place for antisemitic harassment or violence on campuses or anywhere else. None.

But protesting the slaughter in Gaza is not in itself antisemitic, and having armed police arrest peaceful student demonstrators is never acceptable.

Mind blowing 🤯

Former tabloid executive Mr. Pecker has testified, that in 2015 he made a secret deal with Trump to catch and kill stories that could hurt then presidential candidate Trump, while at the same time agreed to write negative stories about Hillary, which were run by Trump’s fixer Michael Cohen for approval before publication.

Trump has been screaming “election interference” for many months now, and today we find out, that is the exact term for his own crime.

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-04-23-24/index.html

One things I learned during 30 years as a teacher: A well-crafted question leads to more learning than a well-crafted learning outcome.

Google is a strangler fig, in the long term its only goal is to kill the World Wide Web.

First they help you find good content, so people visit and use and enjoy and participate in good web sites.

Then they insist on scraping every piece of value they can, and presenting it to the user such that they never have to visit the websites at all.

Then the websites die, having been choked to death by the strangler fig, and people blame the websites for dying, not the strangler who bled them dry.

When I was growing up, it was considered poor manners to talk about when you did something charitable.
Now, I think I would rather hear that my fellow humans are still capable of kindness and charity. We certainly hear enough about those who are all about enriching themselves.
I have limited means but feel passionate about people having food to eat and will help when we can.
A close friend living in another state is on a fixed income and had to decide between her car registration and insurance or her grocery budget. Everything is expensive.
The three of us decided to buy her groceries for the next month. She got her first instacart delivery from us today. She said it made her cry. It made me cry, too.
There is still good in our world. We just need to make it happen.

I really suggest for Marjorie Taylor Greene to move to Russia since she seem to love Putler so much

Seriously people..

How did we get so far that such damn clowns are "running" or more ruining the US

It's not funny anymore

“This machine kills AI.”

Right now seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first impeachment was for withholding military aid from Ukraine until he could extort its president for dirt on Joe Biden to sabotage our election.

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇸🇺🇦

When a kid dies in my ER, there are multiple debriefs, and we usually see some of our staff really hurting for days afterwards. It’s a rare thing, it is awful, and everyone from the prehospital providers to the ER registration staff are affected.

Hospitals in Gaza have seen thousands of dead kids since October.

There's still IMO way too much enthusiasm about #AI at the #VA where I work, but at least I managed to get my boss to admit in a conversation the other day that while #Copilot may be a good tool for experienced, senior devs, it's a huge problem for inexperienced devs to depend on it, and we as a profession are going to end up producing and then struggling to maintain an overwhelming amount of crap code as a result.
#CivicTech

Does anyone think NPR does NOT have a liberal bias? That doesn’t mean they’re a propaganda factory like Fox, OAN, and other RW media. Every journalist who is not a conservative activist, has a liberal bias. They still operate under journalistic standards.

The problem is that free speech, truth seeking, and the rule of law are apparently exclusively liberal concepts, now. It’s not NPR’s fault that the GOP abandoned the principle of professional integrity.

I've written about the NPR uproar and why the framing is all wrong, completely missing the point.

The press should have precisely two biases: pro-truth and pro-democracy. When reality is asymmetric, "balanced" reporting is deception. I explain more here: https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/why-we-need-press-objectivity-not

#shitpost