BREAKING: My fall LGBTQ reporting & virus classes were cancelled & I’m not allowed to teach at Medill while I’m “investigated.” Whatever happens, I’ll be fine— like Medill, I “write boldly & tell the truth fearlessly”— but I’ll neither stay nor go quietly.x.com/democracynow/s…

very funny that FDD lies about when and why it was founded in its official history. fdd.org/about-fdd/ slate.com/articles/news_…

This was the topic of my The New Republic piece from yesterday newrepublic.com/article/185530…

More and more people—in tech companies, consultancies, regulators, universities, among others—are saying this and proving it to be true: AI does very bad work and creates more labor for humans. crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-…

None of the technocratic tweaks mentioned in this article, whatever their merits, are “AI”. Everything is AI now, nothing can get funded or built without calling it AI. This madness has to stop

Somehow how missed one of the names George Orwell gave the British foreign office in 1949 when he was rattling off suspected communists was Charlie Chaplin. nybooks.com/articles/2003/…

It should be obvious that the only utility of this (besides lining the pockets of AI developing donors) is being able to say “Sorry, computer said no more outdoor camping, gotta go!”

Compare how the Biden-Harris administration talks about an American killed by Israeli forces compared to an American killed by Hamas.

there’s currently 9000000 open investigations US officials are hard at work on. They never reach any conclusions and go on for yrs and sometimes decades but you can bet your bottom dollar they are looking into to Israel’s latest war crime done in broad daylight and streamed in 8K