At our school (UCLA), we’re told we’re in a budget crisis. And yet central IT is out here buying licenses from OpenAI. As I told the person responsible, if anything, OpenAI should be paying US for beta testing their dangerous, flawed software.

Reminder: All Haymarket print books come with a free, bundled ebook (where available)—so you can buy the paperback for someone on your holiday shopping list, and start reading the ebook yourself right away!

We have lived in a world where government data was... good. And we no longer live in that world. Where I could pull up a government website and be like yes this many people live in this country, this many people got sick from this disease this year and so on, and know that info was pretty good

I pictured Webster as an enby 🤭