Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It is a CHOICE to treat gen AI products as something other than what they are: Manufactured by humans and capable of being poorly, incompetently, or recklessly made. 27413
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Imagine if a crib that sometimes collapsed while a baby slept inside was treated as an impossible to predict feature of the emergent complexity of cribs and therefore we decided nothing could be done. 420443
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yeesh. 👀 (Bloomberg) - The most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom will be massive capital destruction in the US, with market share going to cheaper open-source Chinese models, according to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 1021464499
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialAlan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“Companies” do not make decisions. Humans who hold disproportionate power within them do. Name the humans and hold them accountable. There are countless examples of failure on this, including with the bank crisis, Boeing, and tech industry harms. 06434
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialChokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent. 8560213
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.wapo.stTrump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policyThe purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk. 6238451396
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialPat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It was a high bar to clear, but I think this is the worst Vanderbilt sub-report yet! And I feel especially confident in my assessment here because - unlike the report's main author - I'm actually a PhD-carrying, publishing musicologist. 2876
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialPat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is the most elitist and racist way of measuring "scholarly standards" I've ever seen! They literally just defined "central areas" by ChatGPT classifications as "Western art music"! Plus some predictable whining about anecdotes of "cancel culture" (e.g., Schenker, Brown's open letter on racism). 11015
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialPat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's weird that only Kit Fine is an author on the overall Vanderbilt report, while this sub-report is listed as being written by "Kit Fine in collaboration with Simon Morrison". One of many weird things about this report and the whole Vanderbilt report... 361
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialPat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Vanderbilt sub-report on Music Studies is out. TLDR: it is utter garbage. The long-awaited evidence of our “deterioration in scholarly standards” is...: "the shift from...central areas of music scholarship [Western art music] to the more peripheral areas". www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s... 1414531
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialAnna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I will continue to tell US migration history WITH Native American + African American history. "Gateway city" from a Native American's point of view is problematic. That's the pathway where settlers pour into their territory. 1719
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities 207125783122
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Y'all denied her tenure 263318616
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Interesting that they’ve learned that people will react positively to socialism if it is defined correctly so they’ve had to stop doing that. 631150
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialJosh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 09/10/2026Great @marisakabas.bsky.social interview w/Steven Hale of the Nashville Banner, who served as a media witness to the botched execution of Christa Pike. Having to witness state-sponsored murder is heavy; and then witnessing that murder fail not once but twice? www.thehandbasket.co/p/christa-pi... 113633
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/10/2026NEW: Reports reveal Trump is letting Big Tech write its own AI rules. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic said the rules were too strict. Trump made them voluntary. Then Musk and Zuckerberg said they were too harsh. Trump cut the 90-day review to 30 days. I’m pushing for guardrails. 33945222
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialJohn Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026As completely deranged and fucked up and wrong as he is, I gotta say it is stressful to have the damn president of the United States constantly attacking my state of Minnesota, sending violence, calling for violence, putting all lives at risk, killing our neighbors. Like it really takes a toll. 562172383
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW. 531935540
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialJames BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 07/10/2026AI does seem to be good at industrialising various forms of annoying, exploitative or trust-abusive online behaviour, to the point where useful systems will/have become unusable unless they have big ditches dug round them 112
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity. 32252941459
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialMarty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026And they're now making very different decisions without it." [5] 898750
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialMarty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Would have been nice, I think, if Jan Greenberg had responded, as virtually any of us would have, that "For your information, virtually every woman I know made crucial life decisions--in the workplace, the bedroom, the doctor's office, deciding where to live, etc.--in reliance on Roe. ... [4] 10127595
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialMarty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Countless women will now make different decisions about careers, education, relationships, and whether to try to become pregnant than they would have when Roe served as a backstop....For millions of women, Roe and Casey have been critical in giving them control of their bodies and their lives." [3] 51383123
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialMarty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just to be clear, this isn't much different from what he wrote in Dobbs. To which Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan aptly responded: "This is to ignore as judges what we know as men and women. The interests women have in Roe and Casey are perfectly, viscerally concrete." [2]supremecourt.gov 41541148
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialAnna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant 962072466
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialThe Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Disturbing 🧵 I work in DC, but it's part of my job that I don't speak to journalists; I prep people who do. One of the things that I've noticed is a significant deterioration in basic standards of practice, including respecting off the record communication and porting quotes from other contexts. 214332
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialMike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.nbcnews.comHow Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rightsAfter issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community. 501250695
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialFifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A federal judge said that police conducted an "unconstitutional warrantless search" by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman's travels without probable cause. This is one of the first judicial lines drawn in the sand regarding Flock cameras. 🧵 418767
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialokay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026it's like Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame never happened 1143
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialAILA @aila.org · 02/10/2026"In a policy brief released Monday, AILA says: 'People are receiving late or no notice of the changes in locations to these new facilities. Some are not even marked as courts, making it difficult for people to find their hearing locations.'" bit.ly/46UZkUEbit.ly‘Secret’ immigration courts popping up in federal buildings, observers sayThe Trump administration is holding secret, pop-up immigration courts in federal buildings that the public can’t access, and lawyers are having trouble finding detained migrants through an on… 27141
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialAnna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 01/10/2026& residents and I asked the students to explain which level to contact for help or to complain. We talked about USPS, snow removal, drainage flooding in the street, immigration problems, tax issues, election eligibility, funding for CUNY. Go to the right level of gov for help. They got it. 2/2 2565
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialAnna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Taught federalism in Intro to American Gov. It's an abstract dry topic. So provided examples of maps of gun policies by state to show why Chicago has a homicide problem when it has tough gun laws. And a map of 287g agreements. Then we went through a bunch of problems we may encounter as citizens 1/ 4708
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialYale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 01/10/2026Yale removed “improving the world today” and “ethical, interdependent, and diverse community” from its core mission statement, centering research and teaching. Brian Rosenberg called the change “a retreat.” How does narrowing Yale’s stated purpose help rebuild public trust? 3/5 1116
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialSergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This not only means our borders are closed to those fleeing religious persecution - it also means that those who are here are arrested, imprisoned, & often deported to the places that torture you for being Christian or the “wrong” religion. 110129
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"biden is sooo mad at netanyahu he's going to stop funding the genocide any day now, probably" is a tactic they tried every couple of weeks while he was in office. there's no rescuing his legacy here sorry 362521368
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US. 181981697
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialElizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Working people deserve to know that when politicians make decisions that affect the economy, they’re doing it for the public and not their stock portfolios. Ban Congressional stock trading. And ban Presidents and VPs from trading stocks, too. 713940
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialArienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership. 193135804
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Romeo Romeo, where the fuck art thou Romeo?" 3321211
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialThe Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There are more rapists walking free at Cornell than there are transgender college students competing in sports. Guess which ones American oligarchs want you to focus on so their Republican buddies get reelected? 631599
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialJoey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Are you kidding me? The idea was a brief symbolic protest and then a shrug? 4319
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialSCP @10-5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s actually discouraging how much of the discourse gets diverted to “AI good or AI bad” when the obvious and more pressing issue is “AI *companies* are definitely bad” 526153
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026for whatever it's worth: as a political philosopher I fully cosign this message 101030121
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/09/2026“This is one part of the surveillance and intelligence wing that ICE is building,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @fedscoop.bsky.social. “It’s a big part of it, but it’s still just one part. ... It’s going to feed in and be indexed alongside all this other surveillance equipment and pipelines.”fedscoop.comICE awards contested, controversial surveillance contract to Thomson ReutersDocuments shared exclusively with FedScoop offer insight into the initial contract awarded six years ago that acted as a critical building block in DHS’s current surveillance apparatus. 18262
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialKelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026LMAOOOOOOOOOO. Sheeran’s tour dates at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium all got rained out 😂 www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...cbsnews.comEd Sheeran's Gillette Stadium concerts canceled due to nor'easter, tour promoter saysEd Sheeran's Gillette Stadium concerts in Foxboro, Massachusetts, have been canceled as Boston braces for a nor'easter. 1644661
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 52851353
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialVittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So excited to pay for one bot to scream at another bot instead of having a system that most other wealthy nations seem to think is pretty okay. 03210
Reposted by @quixoticquail.bsky.socialCorinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 22/09/2026maybe y'all should listen to us when we tell you what motivates politicians to say transphobic shit and what it means for us instead of throwing tantrums about how unfair it is that we get to be the arbiters of transphobia 837092
