Michael Rubenstein
@polumetis.bsky.social
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I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
January 7, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”
September 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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"Nemzer reflects on the surreality of the collapse in real time: 'It’s this constant attempt, on one hand, not to panic or become hysterical–everything is OK, everything is OK. On the other hand, you can’t allow yourself to get used to this.'" A lesson for the US. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
‘Kept fighting despite the odds’: the Russian journalists who risked everything to report the truth
In an expansive five-hour documentary, young journalists are branded ‘foreign agents’ for continuing to report independently as authoritarianism spreads
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
"Nemzer reflects on the surreality of the collapse in real time: 'It’s this constant attempt, on one hand, not to panic or become hysterical–everything is OK, everything is OK. On the other hand, you can’t allow yourself to get used to this.'" A lesson for the US. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
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And what you don't hear about in the press releases are the data mining companies that are hiring PhDs by the hundreds to create the data & evaluate the models.
genAI is basically a software layer around the knowledge academics produce...
genAI is basically a software layer around the knowledge academics produce...
It's funny that the AI kids are saying that education is bunk, we only need AI, while at the same time arguing their models are important because they can imitate PhDs.
Do you know how many PhDs we could train with $50 billion dollars? That's roughly the *entire* budget of the NIH.
Do you know how many PhDs we could train with $50 billion dollars? That's roughly the *entire* budget of the NIH.
August 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
And what you don't hear about in the press releases are the data mining companies that are hiring PhDs by the hundreds to create the data & evaluate the models.
genAI is basically a software layer around the knowledge academics produce...
genAI is basically a software layer around the knowledge academics produce...
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So, the book has a cover, thanks to the kindness of Colin Davidson. Out in January 26 with some events in Ireland the end of February, start of March. Will be available in the US slightly later. Thanks to you all for encouragement along the way.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
July 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
So, the book has a cover, thanks to the kindness of Colin Davidson. Out in January 26 with some events in Ireland the end of February, start of March. Will be available in the US slightly later. Thanks to you all for encouragement along the way.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Public things:
Public broadcasting is about more than content. It's about an ethos. That there need to be spaces in society that are not soaked in the logic of consumerism and profit. Where people are treated as citizens, valued for humanity and their ideas rather than disposable income. It's simple, but powerful.
July 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Public things:
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Never before in U.S. history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next.
This is dictatorship.
This is dictatorship.
July 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Never before in U.S. history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next.
This is dictatorship.
This is dictatorship.
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Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.
Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.
That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.
It's fascism.
Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.
That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.
It's fascism.
July 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.
Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.
That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.
It's fascism.
Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.
That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.
It's fascism.
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I missed this by Jim Chandler but it is as clear as day for anyone looking.
A Total Assault on the University | Los Angeles Review of Books
James Chandler argues that claims of combating antisemitism are a bogus rationale for the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on universities, from 2017 to the present.
lareviewofbooks.org
July 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I missed this by Jim Chandler but it is as clear as day for anyone looking.