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[davdislay @davdislay]

la eterna batalla entre ciencias vs humanidades fue creada por los sosos de los ingenieros, pregúntale a gente de física, matemáticas o a biociencias sobre letras, pintura y música y segurísimo que es uno de los pilares de su vida

[John Gallagher @MereSophistry]

The smartest English departments will double down on ensuring their students have read long arduous books, numerous a semester. They’ll have reading labs where students read & take physical notes for 3 hours at a time. They advertise their students can concentrate for hours.

[Chris Riedel @medievalhistory]

The number of people outing themselves as bad scholars over this is making me realize that many of our supposed peers lied their way into their positions, which given the number of people who actually did the work & yet lost the game of academic job roulette is just infuriating.

[Hamid Bendaas 🇩🇿🇵🇸 @HBendaas]

It’s good to see a Harris campaign staffer publicly say this

[Pal-Awda NY/NJ @pal_awda]

Kathy Hochul is sneaking a buffer zone law she knows is unconstitutional into a critical budget bill in defense of illegal sales of stolen Palestinian land. Why is the New York State budget being used as a vehicle for the expansionist settler project?

[It's politics @uspolitics1111]

This is the top comment btw

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT.

The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time.

A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B.

Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself.

GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won.

Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective.

It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect.

Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance.

99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time.

If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars.

Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

We can finally stop pretending we don’t know how OpenAI and the rest of the Silicon Valley AI cartel intend to stay profitable.
The answer is, and always has been, war.

If you consider the monstrous infrastructure required to sustain these systems.
We are talking about colossal, billion-dollar data centers.
We are talking about tens of millions of dollars burned daily just on cooling systems, the relentless, devastating strip-mining of the earth for rare-earth metals to build their GPUs, and the astronomical power consumption required to train these massive models.

Then you'd realise that there is absolutely no way they are recouping hundreds of billions of dollars from $20 monthly subscriptions and a handful of API tokens.
Every single wire, every server farm, and every algorithm was designed from the ground up for military contracts, autonomous weapons, and global surveillance.

Mega-corporations are the true, unmasked face of evil we need to fear and not the pathetic, spineless puppet politicians they buy, lobby, and install into power to act as their PR mouthpieces.

People condemn the "British Empire" for its savage imperialism in Nigeria, completely forgetting the Royal Niger Company, the ruthless, profit-driven private corporation that actually bought, sold, and brutalized the region while hiding behind a corporate charter.

People remember Hitler as the singular monster of the Holocaust, but they conveniently grant amnesia to IBM, who built the punch-card tracking systems that organized the extermination camps.
They forget JP Morgan, British Petroleum, Standard Oil, IG Farben, and the rest of the corporate titans that funded the fascist machine, supplied the fuel, and provided the logistical backbone that made such an industrialized horror a reality.

People blame George W. Bush for the Iraq War which turned into dirty slaughterhouse that eradicated millions of Arab lives and sacrificed thousands of American troops.
But they conveniently look the other way when it comes to Halliburton, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and the rest of the defense and oil conglomerates that bathed in the blood of the Middle East and walked away pocketing hundreds of billions of dollars.

You look at these slick, modern corporations with their fancy campuses and you wonder how they sustain their endless wealth? The answer is terror, the answer is wars and endless wars.

If the American hegemony were to miraculously collapse tomorrow, do you really think the wars would stop? Nope, not even for a second.

These corporate parasites hold no loyalty to any flag.
They will simply and happily pack up, migrate to another global superpower, change their letterheads, shuffle a few board members, and continue spreading terror and devastation across the globe to feed their own insatiable greed.
It is an endless cycle of parasitic migration: from Britain, to Germany, and then directly into the veins of America.

America today will beat its chest on the global stage, claiming to be the supreme fighter of "Antisemitism" and the supreme defender of human rights.

Yet they conveniently omit that after World War II, under Operation Paperclip, the United States gleefully absorbed the very architects of the Nazi regime.
It was the exact same fascist scientists, the complicit corporate bankers, the brutal intelligence officers, the chemical engineers, and the rocket manufacturers who facilitated the Holocaust that moved to America.
The US swallowed them whole, along with their blood-stained equipment, their stolen trade secrets, and their patents.

The only difference now is the crosshairs. Their target is no longer European Jews; the crosshairs are fixed squarely on the rest of the Global South. The names of the companies and their leaders have all changed, but the core, venomous philosophy of absolute imperialism is still very much alive, breathing, and hungry for its next war.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Holocaust Museum, Amsterdam

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

It does feel like if a group of Palestinians with machine guns broke into an Israeli school and shot a bunch of children, it would be breaking news in every outlet on earth…?

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat.” — Roger Freeman, adviser to Reagan and Nixon, arguing for limits on access to education. The US is functionally illiterate by design. Literacy is a tool of freedom, something that is intolerable in the land of the free.

[Organize CA｜Abolish ICE! 🇵🇸 @Organize_CA]

Democrats have a THREE-QUARTERS supermajority in the CA legislature and they just killed the single-payer universal health care bill, aka CalCare.

Democratic leadership, both statewide and national, are corporate controlled and have ZERO vision. We need new, bold leadership!

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

Our own evidence is being confirmed. AI slop is contaminating the information available in the world at an unprecedented rate.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

630,000 weekly users show signs of psychosis or mania.

There's never been another product in human history that does this

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

The return of climate politics in, like, 5 years is gonna be the mother of all returns of the repressed. People now asleep will wake up screaming

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

110,000 papers contained AI invented references in 2025.

This is the pollution of science by AI slop.

[G Raghuram @UntergrundmannG]

A new MIT paper by Acemoglu et al. models something I've felt for over a decade but couldn't quite name. When AI delivers personalised answers without requiring effort, it severs the joint product that human learning always created - the private benefit...

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[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Not true at all. What Postman argued was that we’ve replaced a culture of mass literacy with a culture of the screen, where everything is entertainment and the person who can grab the most attention will rule us. He warned that we would no longer have the capacity for deep reading or sustained reflection. Education and media would lower themselves to the level of the dumbest person. His words are truer now than they were then, and it all started with TV.

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

Tens of thousands of studies based on faulty evidence, & these will be cited by tens of thousands more, which may include even more AI-generated hallucinations, which will be cited by even more....This is how the very foundation of what we call knowledge is destroyed.