Dorn
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Apple is anti-union.

Tesla is anti-union.

Amazon is anti-union.

McDonald's is anti-union.

Starbucks is anti-union.

Google is anti-union.

Walmart is anti-union.

These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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AI is a tool for disciplining labor??
AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds
: Rise and grind, robot overlords demand
www.theregister.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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ICMYI on Friday...these are really unusual comments from a FDA CDER director on political interference....

"There’s a lot of weight up above me," Tidmarsh said.

“And so I can always be overturned, which is fine,” he said. “If that happens, that happens.”

insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/a...
New US FDA CDER Director Pledges No Politics In Approvals, Adds Higher Ups Can Overturn
New CDER Director George Tidmarsh promised to keep politics out of drug approvals, but suggested during a meeting with staff that he could not insulate the drug center from political pressures coming ...
insights.citeline.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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AI bros will sometimes claim that AI will solve "the scarcity of human minds".

Take a supply-and-demand model though, and you'll realize that that's just another way of saying that knowledge workers are too expensive.

It's all about deskilling
July 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Ingeborg and I wrote a thing about "hype", and why we think that framing AI through that lens is increasingly inadequate - check it out!
Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us
By Hagen Blix & Ingeborg Glimmer
hagenblix.github.io
July 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Gonna put this little gem into my language bag
June 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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The future is looking bleak.

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
June 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Our planet recycles everything, including civilizations

georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/the-pseudo...
The Pseudoscience of Economics
Value comes in many shapes and forms.
georgetsakraklides.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It looks like another Fire Smoke year

Manitoba Wildfires and you:

firesmoke.ca/forecasts/cu...
Smoke Forecast - FireSmoke.ca
firesmoke.ca
May 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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"The belief that technology can fix the damage done by previous technologies is not just misguided. It’s a faith. And one that must be examined with more than technical cleverness—it requires ruthless honesty."

(Art Berman)

#collapse
May 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Next Tuesday (Apr 29) in Chicago, at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social! Come by and join @m.sappir.net and me for a discussion of AI, Class, and Capitalism!
"Why We Fear AI" is out now with @commonnotions.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Trump: I will be doin a shock-and-awe on April 2. Stock market: Wow, we didn't expect to be shocked!

Really should put a dampener on the idea that these guys are wealthy because they're smart
April 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Tomorrow!
April 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Can the GDP fall that quickly?

www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...
April 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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If you were Donald Rumsfeld, you might say, GenAI is a tool for creating unknown unknowns. You tend to end up not knowing what it is that you don't know
It is *so critically important* that unit tests be *completely understood* by the person writing them. That is your safety net! That is the foundation upon which the rest of your code is built! Let copilot generate all of your code as long as you write the unit tests! 😭
April 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going…
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Capitalism falls apart when boycotting becomes a lifestyle
March 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Happy to share that the paper describing the AILuminate v1.0 benchmark is now out! arxiv.org/abs/2503.05731
The benchmark is designed with @mlcommons.org to assess LLM risk and reliability across 12 hazard categories. AILuminate is available for testing models and helping ensure safer deployment!
AILuminate: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons
The rapid advancement and deployment of AI systems have created an urgent need for standard safety-evaluation frameworks. This paper introduces AILuminate v1.0, the first comprehensive industry-standa...
arxiv.org
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Don’t worry. Government employees are safe if they speak in a personal capacity.
March 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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I think @wendyorent.bsky.social and I thought this might happen, not that this took any genius
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
February 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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In the Obama years, big tech was the darling sector of liberal politics - now they've all joined the far right. We wrote a little thing in Jacobin arguing that AI and labor politics are a major force in that shift. Check it out!

jacobin.com/2025/02/tech...
Tech Workers Can Still Fight Silicon Valley’s Overlords
Don’t let the AI of it all fool you — tech workers can still bring Silicon Valley to a halt.
jacobin.com
February 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Wow, authors' copies have just arrived! So cool (and kinda strange lol) to see our work in print!
Amazing job from @commonnotions.bsky.social! Love the cover design from Josh MacPhee <3

Get a copy here:
www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai
February 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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gml.noaa.gov is now non-functional. This is the site that I would go to every month to get updated GHG data for my graphics.

I'm not sure if scrippsco2.ucsd.edu will have access to the CO2 data, or where I will get CH4 data.

I made a local backup of gml last week in anticipation.

In remembrance:
February 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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We had two papers accepted at NAACL'25! 🥳

- Improving model evaluation using SMART filtering of benchmark datasets (Gupta et al. arxiv.org/pdf/2410.20245)

- On the role of speech data in reducing toxicity detection bias (Bell et al. arxiv.org/pdf/2411.08135)
arxiv.org
January 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM