My hope is that the next decade of tech questions won’t be technological—they’ll be ethical. We already know what we CAN do. Now we need to decide what we SHOULD do. Those are humanistic questions, about how to get tech to better reflect human values

RT @sapinker: Yes, many critical-social-justice dogmas can't withstand intellectual scrutiny, so their proponents try to protect them via i…

was invited to a signal gc called Jobchat but contrary to what you might expect it turned out to be a Book of Job reading group

If you’re planning to see the @a24 @nathanfielder documentary about Elizabeth - after the movie, imagine having thanksgiving dinner with her AFTER calling out her lies. For years I was living in the twilight zone. I hope this film gives you a 3 hour taste of what that was like

Today I take the highly controversial position that in fact 4 year universities are supposed to be about education, not football, sex, drinking, or hiring lots of administrators, and they've lost the plot. dilanesper.substack.com/p/co…

The only way to combat the AI cheating crisis is with intensive instruction. This requires smaller class sizes and profs who aren’t teaching 5 courses a semester at 4 different colleges like many adjuncts. Cut the make-work admins, do a TT-hiring blitz. Anything else is madness.

Still one of the funniest philosophy anecdotes of all time

Imagine for 1 second that you have it wrong and Jews are telling the truth. That the genocide libel is bs. That Hamas are terrorists. That you are being manipulated to desire the removal of Jews from society. Do you understand if we’re right, that makes you the millions of European and African and Asian friends and neighbors who wiped millions of us off 3 continents just a few decades ago? What’s more likely - that we, the tiny minority who have been libeled and blamed and persecuted by every society in which we’ve ever lived for centuries, are the bad guys? Or that you, the non-Jewish masses who have hounded and defamed and slaughtered us all over the world over and over and over again, have once again been suckered in by propaganda you unquestioningly latch onto because it gives you a scapegoat to blame for your own problems and sins? “History repeats itself… except this time! I’m different!” Is essentially what every Jew hater tells themselves. No. You are no different than the Iraqi or Soviet or German or Algerian who turned on their Jewish neighbors the second they got the societal green light. Never in the history of the world has the group persecuting Jews been “on the right side of history.” Not once. Courage isn’t going with the crowd to hate on us some more. That’s easy. Courage is looking in the mirror, in a history book, at what is happening to Jews in our society, and saying stop this train, I’m getting off.

My favorite AI joke: Current models are getting close to PhD-level intelligence. After that, they're expected to achieve the intelligence of someone who decided not to do a PhD.

Higher ed has been contracting for a decade. Depending on how you count, around 100 or more four-year institutions have closed in that time. The closures and mergers are likely to accelerate in the next ten years. A range of 2-300 more seems very possible. hechingerreport.org/more-tha…

People are under-pricing the possibility of a black-swan-esque event where significant chunks of higher ed collapse suddenly. At some point parents will decide they will not pay $100-400k combined for their kids to cheat their way through college. I expect a bang, not a whimper.

This beautiful bridge mural in Indio, California, is something truly special. Watch how amazing the optical illusion is. It’s created by artist Harvey Garcia and it’s over 600 feet long.

Best use of AI I've seen this year

I’ve never seen anything more accurate in my life

Me explaining AI to friends

I'm so freakin sick of how Claude talks. It's not just annoying, it's infuriating. The honest evaluation: it's the precise mechanism driving my current headache. It's the load-bearing root cause of my daily stress. It's genuinely painful, and that matters.

New podcast: I joined @debsta4, UC Berkeley lecturer, Cal Poly professor, and host of Technically Human, to discuss misinformation and how @Crickit_ai verifies social video while people watch. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… #FactChecking #Misinformation

The UK Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) online portal platform is reportedly down for some users right now. Are you one of them? #UKETA #GovUK community.designtaxi.com/top…

🚨 Travel News Update: The UK ETA app is experiencing technical issues with a "system is busy" error, causing application delays for upcoming flights. Here's what you need to know now for travel to the UK: ivisa.com/news/2026-06-03-gb…

UK Electronic Travel Authorization System Down Traps U.S. and EU Travelers — An electronic travel authorization system outage is preventing U.S., Canada and most European travelers from boarding planes, trains and boats bound for the U.K. Officials say passengers are being turned away as the system remains unavailable, snarling cross-border travel plans.