Rejane (Re-JAH-Knee) F

Socioeconomic & Health Justice Warrior. Fannie, Ida, Toni, James, & June guide me. 'Umi Says' is my anthem. Views are mine & ever-evolving. #WakandaForever

[Rejane (Re-JAH-Knee) F @Frederc10]

This is AmeriKKKa. Violence, cruelty, exploitation, inequity, sickness & their profitability are this nation's tools of choice & preferred way of life. Always has been & will be until we honestly reckon & truly redress.

#UvaldeTX #BuffaloNY #NewtownCT #ParklandFl #TulsaOK

[Rejane (Re-JAH-Knee) F @Frederc10]

@briebriejoy - any chance you can get Linda Tigani on @BadFaithPod? Seems like fuckery is afoot. The @nytimes just reported that @NYCMayor is trying to fire her for being critical of his waning racial equity commitments...while keeping Tisch. SMDH if true: https://t.co/CjtG7EgH3C

[Council Member Sandy Nurse @CMSandyNurse]

@RacialEquityNYC Chair Linda Tigani is doing what NYers voted for: leading the Commission with integrity and a commitment to enacting the City's first Racial Equity Plan. Excited for our continued work to budget for equity & make NYC a more just place.
https://t.co/GQ7326mukd

[Jacobin @jacobin]

In her new book, economist @IsabellaMWeber explains how inflation has helped drive the far right’s ascendance around the developed world — and how effective price regulation can promote affordability and boost the Left. https://t.co/m5mVzscZO4

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Amy Acton’s stepfather was indicted for raping her from ages 9-12, and her mother chose to stay with her rapist until he died. Acton’s mother lost custody of her and her brother following her stepfather’s arrest for rape. She had not spoken to her mother since this happened.

Politics can be dirty, but this is so utterly despicable and such a POS move that if you support this clown, that says a lot about you as a person.

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

Today, billionaires have yet again bribed, censored, and bullied their way to the top. As a result, a billionaire media conglomerate closely allied with the president will soon own one of its closest rivals, including some of the nation’s most critical news outlets. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund will co-own those outlets, too.

Layoffs will follow. People from L.A. to Atlanta will lose their jobs, small businesses will lose their contracts, your cable bill and movie ticket will be even more expensive. Dissent against money and power will be even harder to find.

This did not have to happen. Thanks to an extraordinary outpouring of grassroots anger against the merger, a coalition of 12 state attorneys general sued to block it. They beat Paramount in court, winning a court-ordered pause on the merger, and beat them again at the negotiating table, getting the conglomerate to agree to pause the merger until as late as next June.

But the Ellison family does not care about the law. Instead, they loudly threatened to leave California if their merger did not go through immediately. Gavin Newsom caved to that pressure. So did Xavier Becerra. And eventually, so did Attorney General Rob Bonta, agreeing to a weak settlement that will be exceedingly difficult to enforce.

People want champions who are not afraid of rich bullies. Newsom, Becerra, and Bonta did not meet that mark. The people who work in the film and TV industry and the small businesses who support it will suffer as a result. And so will everyone who values dissent in our democracy.

This is not the end. The coalition that fought to block this illegal merger will fight to break up big media. There is legislation pending in Congress today that would retroactively break up corrupt billionaire mergers. This industry was once marked with strict rules so that a small handful of conglomerates couldn’t own everything. There’s no reason we cannot return to that reality. There’s no reason we can’t build on it.

But today is a loss, and that loss will be felt by the people who can least afford it.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

‼️In Antitrust We Trust (w/ @BedoyaUSA)‼️

Former FTC commissioner Alvaro Bedoya returns to Bad Faith to explain the role Gavin Newsom & other west coast Dems played in undermining a lawsuit to block the Paramount/Warner Brothers deal. He also weighs in on the AI doomerist scuttlebutt of the last few weeks, & explains why he believes the big tech handwringing was about a desire for favorable regulatory conditions -- not a robot takeover.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Gavin Newsom hands huge win to Trump and his billionaire cronies.

[Bob Vylan @BobbyVylan]

This is amazing. The single most comprehensive register of investors, profiteers and legacies left by those that took part in Britains enslavement of African people. The level of research that must have gone into this is mind blowing.
https://t.co/6N8dnlzKWK

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.

A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.

Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.

The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.

The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.

Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.

The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.

The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.

[Rejane (Re-JAH-Knee) F @Frederc10]

Hoping to get @timnitGebru and the @dair_ai team's take on this as well as @NPCollapse and @ControlAI's take on this thread. 😬😱👇🏾

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WOW — “So forgiving debt is fine for you… but not for anyone else?”

Rep. @MaxwellFrostFL corners 1 of 20 boomers he faced about why he opposes canceling student debt when he admits his own family had debt forgiven. Incredible stuff. 😕🤔

(H/T @jubileemedia)

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Just because technology is everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere.

The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way.

This week, we announced a moratorium on all generative AI for public school students in 2K through 8th grade.

Because New Yorkers deserve to know that their kids will receive a high-quality education. They deserve to know that their children’s data won’t be mined by Big Tech. And they deserve to know that their children’s growth won’t be compromised for a corporation’s bottom line.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

The largest pediatric amputee population in the world was created by the likes of this genocidal demon. The resistance managed to take his foot. So @adidas chose to make him the face of their company. I hope good people of the world let Adidas know they made a toxic decision to cheer genocide. May it poison their brand forever.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Here are the 33 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block federal funding to American colleges if they engage in boycotts against Israel — a foreign country that's committed genocide and killed Americans using American tax dollars:

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Give it about 75 days: Republicans will suddenly rediscover the national debt and use it as cover to cut Social Security and healthcare for the most vulnerable Americans, all while funding multi-billion-dollar wars overseas and pushing more tax cuts for the wealthy

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

This is the most predictable shit from Republicans: vote to give all the money to the rich and corporations via the Big Beautiful Bill and then demand poor and working people pay for the debt you put us all in.

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

Haiti doesn’t have a “gang” problem, it has a US imperialism problem.

Trump just revoked TPS from 350,000 Haitians overnight. But why are Haitians driven to leave their country in the first place?

In an interview from February, Dr. Jemima Pierre of @Blacks4Peace calls out US policy of "dumping guns and arms" in Haiti to create a failed state, resulting in the violence we see today.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

greater percentage of children killed in Gaza than in Europe's holocaust. that's a hell of a statistic.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

CNN: Yeah, I think a lot of people watching this to hear you, a Parkland survivor, talk about AIPAC in the same breath as NRA, will be surprising.

HOGG: It shouldn’t be. Both are getting kids killed. I don't draw a line between whether it's kids in Parkland, kids on any street in America, or if it's kids in Palestine.

[Rejane (Re-JAH-Knee) F @Frederc10]

💯🎯👇🏾

[Terrell The Leftist🌹✊🏾 @TerrellLeftist]

I don’t engage in political conversations as much anymore because too many liberals, especially Black liberals, seem more invested in fame, name recognition, and representation than actual political substance.

A Black face in office does not automatically mean Black liberation. Too many Black voters continue supporting candidates who protect capitalism, corporate power, and the same systems that exploit working-class Black people. Even when leftists present evidence, voting records, donors, and policy outcomes, it often gets ignored because the candidate is popular, familiar, or knows how to perform representation.

Representation without economic liberation is not progress. A Black politician who serves capital will still help maintain the same system harming Black people.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

I have this app. Millions of Muslims have it. What a disgrace.