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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 6d

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 11d

It's simply ending the partnership between government and academia that drove the most successful era of science anywhere ever. There's no eternal rule that required this system, it was a just a specific, creative innovation that worked. It seems wr will learn its value the hard way now.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11d

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 25d

I had some thoughts about people saying that "debate me bro" trolling is somehow the height of democratic discourse.

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 25d

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas

Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas

Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was engaging in good faith. Perhaps the perfect example of this is Ezra Klein’s silly eulogy claiming that Kirk was “

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 26d

American media has been manufacturing parasocial reactionaries for decades. Limbaugh, Beck, Shapiro, Jones, Carlson, Hannity, etc. The importance of these figures is not ideological purity, consistency, inventiveness, etc. It’s that they keep you company in your cab, your cubicle, on your commute.

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Dan Guadagnolo @danguad.bsky.social · 27d

sometimes they have televisions attached and that allows me to rage watch house hunters on HGTV! Kind of a perfect vibe for a very fast run

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 11

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · Sep 11

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors

American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Operations Command, and more attacks could come soon.

theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...

U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors

American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Forces, and more attacks could come soon.

theintercept.com

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · Sep 8

New pub: @culturalstudies.bsky.social has just posted the interview that @imreszeman.bsky.social and I did with Andreas Malm re: Fossil Capital, the development of his thought, and plenty more. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Sep 8

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · Sep 7

over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does

a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains

one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone

NPR @npr.org · Sep 7

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

Postal traffic to US drops more than 80% after trade exemption rule ends, UN agency says

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

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Dan Guadagnolo @danguad.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congrats Dylan! Preordered!!

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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · Sep 1

Whoopsie. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change: Evidence from U.S. Résumé and Job Posting Data
35 Pages Posted:
Guy Lichtinger
Harvard University Department of Economics

Seyed Mahdi Hosseini Maasoum
Harvard University

Date Written: August 31, 2025

Abstract
We study whether generative artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes a form of seniority-biased technological change, disproportionately affecting junior relative to senior workers. Using U.S. résumé and job posting data covering nearly 62 million workers in 285,000 firms (2015-2025), we track within-firm employment dynamics by seniority. We identify AI adoption through a text-analysis approach that flags postings for dedicated "AI integrator" roles, signaling active implementation of generative AI. Difference-in-differences and triple-difference estimates show that, beginning in 2023Q1, junior employment in adopting firms declined sharply relative to non-adopters, while senior employment continued to rise. The junior decline is driven primarily by slower hiring rather than increased separations, with the largest effects in wholesale and retail trade. Heterogeneity by education reveals a U-shaped pattern: mid-tier graduates see the largest declines, while elite and low-tier graduates are less affected. Overall, the results provide early evidence of a seniority-biased impact of AI adoption and its mechanisms.

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · Aug 29

One of Australia’s worst exports: consultants Nous are wrecking Canadian universities nationalpost.com/feature/how-...

How to run a university in Canada? Outsource it to this management consulting firm

Nous Group's template for getting out of the red has been adopted by major schools. Critics call it the corporatization of higher education.

nationalpost.com

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Dan Guadagnolo @danguad.bsky.social · Aug 28

Absolutely. I wouldn’t have been able to finish in time!

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 28

70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men.

His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary

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Dan Guadagnolo @danguad.bsky.social · Aug 28

Being a hater is delightfully human too. The chatbot will only ever flatter the user!

Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · Aug 28

“The machine is disgusting and we should break it.” anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

anthonymoser.github.io

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Dan Guadagnolo @danguad.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hard to overstate how badly this’ll screw over international doctoral students across the US.

Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · Aug 28

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · Aug 28

DOUBLE #hpbio job alert! The @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social has 2 postings for full-time tenure stream positions in the #Philosophy of Science and/or Tech at the Assistant and Associate prof levels (general #philsci or phil. of race/indigenous knowledge/non-western sci).
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · Aug 27

Can I recommend a book by @drewmckevitt.bsky.social because “gun capitalism” is key to understanding all of this

uncpress.org/978146967724...

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · Aug 28

Can’t say enough about how people just want to live, and everything about our society is aimed at making that impossible

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Joe Lanman @joelanman.bsky.social · Aug 26

Avery Edison
@aedison
I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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Dan Guadagnolo @danguad.bsky.social · Aug 26

oh rad I'm doing this too! Im just trying to figure out the copying situation for the texts since we've got a bit of a Big Brother situation going on wrt copyright here.

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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · Aug 26

Remember: LLM-based chatbots are tuned deliberately to produce outputs like this, in the service of keeping users' attention and encouraging them to pay real money

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · Aug 26

The exchanges between Adam and ChatGPT are devastating. This, in my mind, is the worst one.

One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."

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Dan Guadagnolo @danguad.bsky.social · Aug 26

Awful. It is maximum engagement. The outcome of a product working as intended.

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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · Aug 25

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"...the same groups advising on how to disarm the intergenerational economic bombs that have started to explode are the same groups that helped set them...

productivity is determined by owners and managers, yet workers are always expected to pay the price."

Sound familiar Canada?

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