Reprehensible comments deserve swift condemnation, and Johnson is being even more disappointing than usual.

It’s not even March, and it’s the second time this year I’ve woken up to Trump treating the military like his plaything to do something reckless while I was asleep.

This line made me laugh-to-keep-from-crying:

Trump said the U.S. had “sought repeatedly to make a deal” but Iran “rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions.”

Hey, what happened to the deal we already had with Iran?

He is the shallowest man on earth.

It’s a sign of how crazy everything is right now that this is just one of sevral political developments contributing to my current anxiety.

Things are piling up for Hegseth.

Good on the publisher, and what a dumb world we live in. Also, “narco terrorist” reminds me of the poli sci class I had where we spent an entire day (week?) talking about the difficulty of clearly defining terrorism. It was mostly an abstract conversation, even with a GWOT backdrop, but I feel like it was preparing me to detect nonsense from this DoD.

Powerful read on the need for (and absence of) hope this Advent for immigrant Christians.

Some good (scary) observations in here—not least speculation on what xAI’s version of Sora would look like.

Surprised that more isn’t made of the fact that Anthropic was surveilling users’ conversations for its research. Are professors and students thinking about the company’s ability to read everything they type?

Closing digital divides is good, and increasing diversity in tech fields as good, but I’ve been complaining for years about computer science ed that we stop at the nobility of those goals and don’t ask ourselves about the deeper motivations behind those initiatives. So it is with AI: A more diverse field more available to all is better than what we have, but we also have to ask whether AI education is actually a social good.

There’s always been a dark side to internet culture, but I don’t think it was naïve in my earlier work to argue for recognizing its value. Yet, it’s important as a scholar to call out the ugliness that’s happening here.

Don’t even know what to comment here. How is this the world we’re living in?

Some horrifying details in here.

Heartbreaking read. This line in particular was like a punch in the gut:

I have lost a third of my body weight after nearly 21 months of war in Gaza.

Ryan Walters continues to be shameful.

More reporting like this. Anti-semitism is a genuine problem, but there is nothing genuine about the Trump administration’s supposed concern about it.

Quelle tristesse !

This is what my employer cut ties with.

50,000 is roughly as much as all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Kentucky. The whole university gone.

Let’s all support the Internet Archive—that goes for you, too, publishers.

Acknowledging the ambiguity in Musk’s salute is important: not to let him off the hook, but to recognize how much more dangerous things are when they’re ambiguous than when they’re straightforward.

Worrying stuff.

What a mess.

One more thing right out of the Twitter playbook from DOGE: Firing people without understanding how important they are.

If there were such a thing as a good army fighting a good war, it would be the Allies in World War II. It’s wildly irresponsible to overlook the awful things done by that army in that war for the sake of holding both up as “good,” though.