How Trump Made Penn Quake in Its Boots

Editorial | Penn has an AI problem

The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board argues that Penn’s choice to embrace AI is detrimental to the institution of higher education. 

Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

People and institutions of civil society must coordinate against him.

Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield@mastodon.social)

🧵 As a former Republican consultant who left in 2015, I'm often asked why Trump and his minions are willingly destroying science, K12 education, universities, international organizations, public broadcasting, and social welfare institutions. There are many reasons, but the main ones are psychological rather than ideological. They struggle with abstract thinking and are afraid of the world...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes — and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone.

In Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Trump’s Wrath

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, blamed shoddy construction, contradicting President Trump’s pet theory. Mr. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her.

What Anthropic's fight with the Pentagon tells us about the politics of Silicon Valley

Trying to make sense of the conjuncture

Hasan Piker Threatens the Establishment. That’s Why They Want to Destroy Him.

Critics are leveling baseless charges of antisemitism and bigotry at the mega-streamer. But they’re really scared of the challenge he poses to their power.

Grand Delusion

The Trumpist Intellectuals Wake Up

How Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric Fuels Violence

Hate speech from the far right is increasing the risk of violence against LGBTQ+ people such as the Club Q shooting

These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump’s War Against “Antifa”

If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.

Trust — Utopian conspiracy

A network of utopian conspirators, a sandbox for their creative, technical and critical projects, and a site of experimentation for new ways of learning together.

300+ pledge to boycott the New York Times’ op-ed page over their anti-Palestinian bias.

Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until three demands have been met. The demands address the anti-Palestinia…

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. — ProPublica

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a result.