Moral panics intensify social divisions and can lead to political violence

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Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”

« Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so would jeopardize federal funding. When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat »

Article de @cecilealduy.bsky.social dans la version papier @aoc-media.bsky.social de cet été.
L’autrice relève une impasse dans laquelle on n’a pas fini de voir les politiques et les médias s’embourber : la notion de « bon sens » opposée à l’idéologie (pas le coeur du papier mais mentionné)

La métaphore guerrière justement, c’est ça qu’analyse @cecilealduy.bsky.social : son histoire et son omniprésence aujourd’hui
« il faut prendre les métaphores au sérieux comme agents d’une acculturation idéologique ou du cadrage médiatique »

As all the teachers & profs say: If we were that good at indoctrinating kids, we could get them to do their homework.

Following victories in legal cases in Hawai‘i and Montana, 15 Wisconsin youths are suing their state’s Public Service Commission claiming laws that stymie the green transition violate the state’s constitution. By @danad1012.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org... buff.ly/SSuD60X

🚨 SCOTUS just issued a decision in the NIH grant termination cases. And it's awful.

In plain English, the likely result of this is that SCOTUS just re-terminated ~900 NIH grants worth over $1.9 billion in unspent funds

This is an atrocious decision by Justice Barrett & the right wing of the Court.

Supreme Court: Allows Trump to cut off millions in NIH science grants.

Le cahier de vacances de la commission lutte contre l'extrême droite des écologistes est disponible commissions.lesecologistes.fr/posts/1TU3ts...

Avec @marinetondelier.fr @cyriellechatelain.fr @sabrinasebaihi.bsky.social @leabalage.bsky.social @cecilealduy.bsky.social @attac.org et tant d'autres !

The regime has posted signs at Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans, asking visitors to report "negative" historical interpretations. Hard to imagine a positive interpretation but it's probably just an excuse to shut down the park.

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NYT found the “big beautiful bill” would be the largest transfer from the poor to the rich in a single law since at least 1990.

In fact, it would be the largest transfer *ever.*

Reagan’s low-income cuts were MUCH smaller - and his tax cuts were done separately. And before him, nothing comes close.

🌲Ed Sheeran explains to Louis Theroux that he dislikes private jets and prefers trains because "I like the environment, I like trees." We know that this type of messaging from celebrities is hugely impactful. We need far more of this from more stars.
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ALSO: spread the #StandUpForScience word with MICROFLYERING at your protest !!

Let’s flood the streets with facts. Disrupt disinformation, spread science.

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"A mannequin simulating a child crossing the street to board a school bus was crushed over and over again by a Tesla equipped with a self-driving feature...safety advocates' latest warning"
#teslatakedown #MuskMustFall @realdanodowd.bsky.social @resistaustin.bsky.social www.chron.com/culture/arti...

The gubernatorially appointed boards that oversee Texas universities soon could have new powers to control the curriculum required of students and eliminate degree programs.

Texas is poised to become the latest GOP state to exert control over university curriculum

Around 200 Stanford faculty and students gathered in White Plaza Friday in a rally to support higher education, academic research and international students.

Big hypocrisy for such a little man.

My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.