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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 17h

Same in CT. It's cuts cuts cuts ideology at extreme. Society way past 1980s tax/welfare revolt, past peak neolib austerity of early 2000s. Now completely culturally+socially submerged and political-economically engaged in race of cuts. No space for other creative thinking. Only cuts. @aaup.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They’re just really not bothering pretending to do law any more, are they?

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like this could be cover art for a book on tech fascism.

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b9a1baa8.bsky.social @b9a1baa8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is literally just the oversized Florsheim shoe loyalty test, but for tech CEOs.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The term “artificial intelligence” is now wrongthink

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Law folks: Is this unique to the tech companies or an example of something more widespread? Anything you’d suggest to read related to this for a complete novice on corporate structures? (I’m curious for my own research of it’s another case of the law carving out special rules for the tech industry.)

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If he pleads to the court for mercy because he’s unrepresented, is that better or worse than the orphan version as the definition of chutzpah?

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If only she were part of the only governmental body actually empowered to do something about it!

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s kinda of amazing how often supposedly smart people sound really unintelligent when they attempt to challenge assumptions and say something profound.

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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seriously - if one of OpenAI's *employees* were routinely hacking their competitors and random government websites, I feel like the reaction would be more than just vague expressions of disappointment. I'm not sure why the default is to shrug this off as the price of innovation.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you step back it’s pretty amazing that we’ve all become so inured to Trumpco’s rampant criming that impeachment isn’t even discussed because it’s unrealistic. Nothing less than conviction, removal, and prison time does justice to the constitution. But we’re not generally talking about that.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Journalists really need to understand that even *if* their brains aren’t actively being cooked on X, being on there isn’t providing the insight into the popular mind that they think justifies their committed presence. Just leave. You’ll have a better understanding of the world.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes. The lean of a social media site does not mean much by itself. The question is how the site is perceived, and far too many people in positions of influence think the warped feeds they're served on X, Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok reflect the population at large. Absolutely not.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 23/09/2026

Appreciate the direct link Chris’s post makes between the Supreme Court repeatedly making shit up to suit its agenda, and hack Trump appointees on the lower courts who decide that they are perfectly within their rights to do the same thing

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...

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It's the accountability, stupid.

Doing crime

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I miss when someone’s choice to identify as a Democrat gave useful information about their beliefs. (I guess “to the left of literal Nazis” is technically some information. I’d rather it meant more.)

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Of course. Newsom rarely misses an opportunity to be terrible lately.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Serious question - who’s the most credulous journalist who writes about tech? Does anyone else come close to matching Roose?

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/09/2026

one of the 21st century’s great tragedies is seeing a media industry gutted by decisions made by the tech industry elevate a bunch of industry shills as the people meant to help the public understand how tech works and what impacts it’s having on the world

one of the 21st century's great tragedies is that millions of smart people were convinced to bury their heads in the sand by either stochastic parrots discourse or Zitron-style capabilities denialism and haven't updated based on new evidence. nature is healing but it's so late.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This comes after what, three price hikes in two years? We are not far from everyone turning back to pirating. That era showed you can only squeeze so much out of consumers of media.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How could this even be in doubt?

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The essence of why the “pacing problem” is not a helpful construction.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

…And 3) I am really tired democrats vice signaling to try to gain votes on the right that will never, Ever go to them as long as those on the right have a republican to support. Just hold on fucking principle, you utter feckless cowards.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fun update: It appears that someone is now organizing a campaign of hate mail to the UCLA law profs who signed the letter objecting to Chancellor Frenk’s inappropriate attacks on our academic freedom.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is absolutely perfect. Read it.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our chancellor is completely out of pocket. 50 law faculty wrote him a letter explaining why the comments he made linking the scholarly even to antisemitism and terrorism were inappropriate and aided back faith attack on the university. We demanded a retraction and a meeting.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“A university leader … repudiat[ing] scholarly programming because it provokes political objection … is incompatible with academic freedom and the university’s public purpose.” Damn right. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-ca...

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itwasgg.bsky.social @itwasgg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fucking this.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026

"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the patriots are at home this week and unrelated but did you know you can write stuff on a beach ball and if its deflated you can put it right in your shirt and no one will know until you bring it out to inflate it?

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I feel like you've lost the plot in your "coalition" if the headlining organization is Project Liberty, owned by billionaire Frank McCourt, and Future of Life Institute. finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

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50+ Leading Organizations Launch Coalition for Pro-Human AI

More than 50 leading organizations spanning technology, policy, research, investment, philanthropy, and movement-building today announced the Pro-Human AI Coalition, a global effort that brings urgent...

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When I say this to my friends or law scholar colleagues who don’t focus on tech, I think they’re thinking that I’m being hyperbolic, making a bombastic declaration to make the point that I disagree with the doomers.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People keep bringing up Bill Gates’s concerns to me like they should have more weight than other experts’ and I’m like, um, why? Dude last designed software before Y2K and made his billions by innovating in breaking antitrust law? Let’s chill with the tech genius worship, k? From any generation.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s like he asked an early version of AI for a gotcha point from the left about how abuse perpetrators often were victims at one point that applies to bestiality and he just ran with it.

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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"A tool whose accuracy swings fifty points depending on how you hold it is not a tool that needs a better-trained user. It is a tool that has not been finished."

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Why prompt engineering for physicians fails at 2 a.m.

Prompt engineering for physicians is a workaround for a tool that swings 50 points. See why patient safety history puts the fix in the product, not the doctor.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wouldn’t even mind it as much if they’d just admit that what it’s about. Instead they’d sneer and say this is what the constitution has always demanded how can you dirty libs not see it.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a great thread. Many of us are pretty pissed at Frenk’s lack of leadership here. He demonstrates that he neither understands what law schools do nor his own job responsibilities, especially in the face of consistent bad faith right wing attacks on the university he’s supposed to be running.

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Aaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The suggestion that representing someone who did horrendous things—and that inviting such a lawyer to speak on a panel at a conference—in any way reflects an endorsement of those terrible deeds is a threat to democracy, at a time when democracy is already teetering.

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Aaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Profoundly disappointed in our Chancellor, as a member of the UCLA law faculty and a Jew, for so quickly forgetting the lesson Justice Jackson and others taught us at Nuremberg: the rule of law demands that everyone be provided a robust defense.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And no one will be able to sue to stop it because we all share the same injury from the death of the planet

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s great to be a Michigan Wolverine! Hail!

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tired: Every billionaire is a policy failure Wired: Every billionaire is a threat to the global post-WWII mostly democratic world order.

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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Been thinking about how to convince liberal friends and family who are less online about how problematic NYT has become. Like when I discuss issues, they’ll engage with me even if I disagree, but when I get on the NYT I’m just dismissed as a radical lefty that can’t be taken seriously. Thoughts?

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