Dan Cryer
@danielcryer.bsky.social
CC English prof. PhD in rhet/comp. Rhets of environment, gun culture, AI & writing. Drummer. Bmore/Abq/KCMO. Editor at http://smartishpace.com. Find my AI & teaching resources at https://aiminimalist.wordpress.com
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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“You know that U2 album you didn’t want? Yeah, that’s our entire business model now.”
This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“You know that U2 album you didn’t want? Yeah, that’s our entire business model now.”
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
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"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
September 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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"...[H]ikers use artificial intelligence to help them discover a route, only to discover that the trail is not safe. 'Since about one year ago, many people have begun to think everything on ChatGPT is correct...[i]t is not a tool for mountain advice, for routes, or for planning.'"
Why Are the Italian Alps So Deadly This Summer?
On average, three hikers have died every day throughout the summer in Italy’s high peaks. Experts explain why.
www.outsideonline.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"...[H]ikers use artificial intelligence to help them discover a route, only to discover that the trail is not safe. 'Since about one year ago, many people have begun to think everything on ChatGPT is correct...[i]t is not a tool for mountain advice, for routes, or for planning.'"
The whole “Epstein list” fiasco being the thing that finally alienates a bunch of hardcore MAGAs is pretty interesting from a media literacy perspective. The “not new” thing it shows is that you can do all kinds of horrible things out in the open without losing supporters...
July 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The whole “Epstein list” fiasco being the thing that finally alienates a bunch of hardcore MAGAs is pretty interesting from a media literacy perspective. The “not new” thing it shows is that you can do all kinds of horrible things out in the open without losing supporters...
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As @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social write in The AI Con: "Troll the hell out of them...The more we can pierce the cultural bubble that Sam Altman and his kind live in, the better we can upset the idea that the encroaching of these systems is...inevitable."
So repeat: "Bro, what."
So repeat: "Bro, what."
June 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
As @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social write in The AI Con: "Troll the hell out of them...The more we can pierce the cultural bubble that Sam Altman and his kind live in, the better we can upset the idea that the encroaching of these systems is...inevitable."
So repeat: "Bro, what."
So repeat: "Bro, what."
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refreshing to find out that some bombs are too unseemly to drop
Presidents have been known to use salty language behind closed doors. But President Trump may be the first to very deliberately drop an f-bomb on camera.
Breaking another presidential norm, Trump drops the f-bomb on camera
Presidents have been known to use salty language behind closed doors. But President Trump may be the first to very deliberately drop an f-bomb on camera.
n.pr
June 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
refreshing to find out that some bombs are too unseemly to drop
A plea to fellow teachers.
Can we please stop saying “AI is just a tool”?
When we enter the technologized world of modern writing, it’s more like one of our hands becomes a hammer, and finding the button to turn it back into a hand is far more difficult than just banging…
aiminimalist.wordpress.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A plea to fellow teachers.
It feels very bad and cynical to always be thinking, “I wonder what this is meant to distract us from,” rather than just absorbing the weight of what’s happening, but here we are.
June 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It feels very bad and cynical to always be thinking, “I wonder what this is meant to distract us from,” rather than just absorbing the weight of what’s happening, but here we are.
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America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...
FIFA drops anti-racism, anti-discrimination messages for Club World Cup
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...
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One thing that's been striking to me at the Tesla Takedown protests in San Francisco is the first-timers, which is a great sign of growing resistance..... Read this thread, if you're not too busy getting ready for #NOKINGS today.
My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
June 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
One thing that's been striking to me at the Tesla Takedown protests in San Francisco is the first-timers, which is a great sign of growing resistance..... Read this thread, if you're not too busy getting ready for #NOKINGS today.
Imagine seeing an immigration raid in your city and thinking, “This is fine.” After watching this administration admit it mistakenly sent a man to a Salvadoran maximum security prison then fight tooth and nail to leave him there.
June 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Imagine seeing an immigration raid in your city and thinking, “This is fine.” After watching this administration admit it mistakenly sent a man to a Salvadoran maximum security prison then fight tooth and nail to leave him there.
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RIP to the great Sly Stone. A monumental loss. His PR just sent this out.
June 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
RIP to the great Sly Stone. A monumental loss. His PR just sent this out.
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AI is incapable of solving env injustice and env racism because AI is causing env injustice and env racism.
This is the future they want us all to accept soon, but they’re going to soft launch it by hurting Black communities first, and you know why.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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NAACP calls for emergency shutdown of Musk's supercomputer in Memphis
The civil rights group alleges that the project’s pollution could be harmful to nearby residents.
www.nbcnews.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI is incapable of solving env injustice and env racism because AI is causing env injustice and env racism.
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Young people sue Donald Trump over climate change
Young people sue Donald Trump over climate change
If they’re successful, they’ll stop executive orders boosting fossil fuels.
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May 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Young people sue Donald Trump over climate change
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very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."
May 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
So when are we going to retire "half-dollar sized hail" as a prediction? Pretty sure no one under 60 can picture that.
May 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So when are we going to retire "half-dollar sized hail" as a prediction? Pretty sure no one under 60 can picture that.
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“This moratorium would mean that even if a company deliberately designs an algorithm that causes foreseeable harm — regardless of how intentional or egregious the misconduct or how devastating the consequences — the company making that bad tech would be unaccountable to lawmakers and the public…”
Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' would create 'unfettered abuse' of AI, 141 high-profile orgs warn in letter to Congress
The signatories include Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy and Technology, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Alphabet Workers Union, and more.
www.businessinsider.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“This moratorium would mean that even if a company deliberately designs an algorithm that causes foreseeable harm — regardless of how intentional or egregious the misconduct or how devastating the consequences — the company making that bad tech would be unaccountable to lawmakers and the public…”
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This week, the GOP slid an amendment into the budget reconciliation process that would ban US states from enacting laws that govern AI.
This of course was not an aberration—it’s the direct result of Silicon Valley lobbying efforts, and big tech’s union with Trump and the Republican Party.
This of course was not an aberration—it’s the direct result of Silicon Valley lobbying efforts, and big tech’s union with Trump and the Republican Party.
Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s united campaign to ban state AI laws
Inside the effort to de-democratize AI
www.bloodinthemachine.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This week, the GOP slid an amendment into the budget reconciliation process that would ban US states from enacting laws that govern AI.
This of course was not an aberration—it’s the direct result of Silicon Valley lobbying efforts, and big tech’s union with Trump and the Republican Party.
This of course was not an aberration—it’s the direct result of Silicon Valley lobbying efforts, and big tech’s union with Trump and the Republican Party.