Reposted by Kristin MillerTodd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 16/07/2026“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar... 5653822442
Reposted by Kristin MillerPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"theverge.comThe ChatGPT browser is already deadChatGPT Atlas didn’t even last a year. 6542221383
Reposted by Kristin MillerSteven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026When you owe a university money: We're going to boot your car, repossess your diploma, and retroactively fail you on the swim test When a university owes you money: Sorry, what is money? We think there's a person on the 6th floor who handles that but they're out until January. 13820110
Reposted by Kristin Millerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/05/2026a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype 12964611239
Reposted by Kristin Millerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/05/2026it is part of why “you’re the racist for calling me racist” is legible. what they’re saying is, “you are the mean one for insulting me and even noticing race to begin with” 201660152
Reposted by Kristin MillerNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about. 5136701193
Reposted by Kristin MillerTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them. 73507685
Kristin Miller @kristin-miller.bsky.social · 19/05/2026We’ve got until 5/22 to submit comments. Let them have it 🧱 000
Reposted by Kristin MillerPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a... 58482662264
Kristin Miller @kristin-miller.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I lived in the Bay Area during the Glasshole incursion. We got rid of them, it’s totally possible — though these are more insidious because less visible. I’m starting by unfollowing any account doing branded collabs with Meta glasses. 000
Reposted by Kristin MillerCabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't. 991272846875
Reposted by Kristin MillerAndrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Do you want the Tank Girl future? Because this is how we get the Tank Girl future and last time I checked none of you are sentient mutant kangaroos. 14496182
Reposted by Kristin MillerSam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 04/05/2026the biggest tech companies in the world are endorsing a new bill that would shove AI onto kids in school www.404media.co/literacy-in-...404media.coOpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund ‘AI Literacy’ in SchoolsA new bill introduced by Senators Adam Schiff and Mike Rounds would award grants to the National Science Foundation—which has endured massive funding cuts under the Trump Administration for science re... 66784301
Reposted by Kristin Miller404 Media @404media.co · 04/05/2026People are physically destroying AI and surveillance infrastructure. This week, we talk to @bcmerchant.bsky.social about the Luddites, who are notoriously misunderstood and fought for worker protections against automation during the Industrial Revolution. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z4k... 927694
Reposted by Kristin MillerMadeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Solidarity with workers at the University of Chicago Press, who have formed the first union at one of the oldest and most distinguished academic publishers in the U.S. 0225
Reposted by Kristin MillerChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/05/2026IT’S TIME Dear California gov candidates, 🚨 There are 61 candidates in this race. SIXTY ONE! That’s how we hand the general election to TWO Republicans. If you’re still in single digits, the window’s closed. If you care about the Democratic Party, do the right thing. Drop out. Be loud about it. 1921906850
Reposted by Kristin MillerBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Of course Dawkins’ first move is to feminize his AI companion as “Claudia.” It gets more embarrassing from there. 2375
Reposted by Kristin MillerInternet Archive @archive.org · 23/04/2026🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️ 261567828
Reposted by Kristin MillerKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/04/2026New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will - Increase Microsoft's emissions 160% - Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc... - Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined stand.earth/press-releas... 8250182
Reposted by Kristin MillerMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/04/2026No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this. You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history. 812548713
Reposted by Kristin MillerCalifornia Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 09/04/2026🙌 FACULTY WIN: 21 CSU Long Beach Lecturers Become Tenure-Line Faculty After 10-Year Fight ow.ly/nJoZ50YGIeM 132
Reposted by Kristin MillerParis Marx @parismarx.com · 09/04/2026Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it. His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.disconnect.blogMake ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smartsSam Altman wants intelligence to be a utility that you pay him for 38972345
Reposted by Kristin MillerThe Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 05/04/2026Like fossil fuel executives, AI titans have long insisted that their technology is inevitable. That, too, seems not to be true. bit.ly/4sjj24Bbit.lyThe AI Boom Is a Climate BustIt’s not just the massive amounts of water and energy data centers require—AI is also spreading climate misinformation across the Internet. 46734
Reposted by Kristin MillerDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026When i say that opposition to data centers and "generative AI" can be a winning issue for Democrats, i mean it. You tie it to resource theft and billionaires doing whatever the hell they want to whoever they want, and people will lock tf *in*. Because they're already there.nbcnews.comOklahoma city council members welcomed a Google data center. Now they face a recall.Residents in communities across the U.S. are taking a radical step to oppose the AI building boom. 2393140
Reposted by Kristin MillerFuturism @futurism.com · 31/03/2026Remote assistance workers can "take temporary control of the vehicle."trib.alTesla Admits Its Robotaxis Are Being Driven RemotelyTesla revealed that its human operators do, in fact, temporarily take control of its robotaxis if necessary, unlike Waymo. 092
Reposted by Kristin MillerAdam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 31/03/2026BREAKING Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop funding NPR and PBS is “unlawful and unenforceable,” a federal judge ruled. Doc buff.ly/WcnQN4A 11779412182
Kristin Miller @kristin-miller.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Autotheory for lost girls: loved getting to be part of this deeply thoughtful, haunted, sad, funny, and incisive panel on Yellowjackets at SCMS. Added an extra layer to be in Chicago where I last lived when I was the same age as the characters, fast approaching the cliff of 2001. 000
Reposted by Kristin MillerHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/03/2026“It is not that AI is taking our jobs per se, but that AI is being prioritized over many of our jobs.”insidehighered.comFaculty Push Back Against OpenAI DealsAs higher ed institutions pay tech companies millions to provide students and faculty access to custom AI-powered tools, some faculty in Colorado and California are pushing back. 431073
Reposted by Kristin MillerAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/03/2026Louder for the people in the back. www.theverge.com/report/90181...theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 331782448
Kristin Miller @kristin-miller.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Stoked to be part of this great panel at SCMS about Yellowjackets, co-organized by @jbcole-kurz.bsky.social Last session on Sunday if you’re in town. 041
Reposted by Kristin MillerManisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026The latest AI doc has incredible access to CEOs like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, but doesn't interrogate their grandiose claims or press them about the tech's perils, instead shifting responsibility to the public. Read @milesklee.bsky.social' review: www.wired.com/story/a-new-...wired.comThe Latest AI Documentary Asks: Just How Scared Should We Be?“The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like Sam Altman off the hook. 2358
Reposted by Kristin MillerMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 26/03/2026It’s infuriating, but also just so depressing. *No one* in charge of any part of our educational infrastructure seems to understand why it’s important for people to…read things that are difficult. 216249
Reposted by Kristin MillerAndrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities 2858041746