Richard Grusin
@rgrusin.bsky.social
Walker of woods, lover of forests, friendly with trees. Theorist of mediation. Arboreal nonhumanist. Zayde. Recovering academic.
This is essential listening for anyone interested in the racial and environmental damage caused by AI. Listen to this now
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is essential listening for anyone interested in the racial and environmental damage caused by AI. Listen to this now
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Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
Jeffries and Schumer must both go. Now.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Jeffries and Schumer must both go. Now.
You can't make this shit up. No words.
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
You can't make this shit up. No words.
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So yesterday Trump was holding hands with MBS, and today he's demanding the execution of two Senators and four Representatives.
Seems like something rubbed off
Seems like something rubbed off
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
So yesterday Trump was holding hands with MBS, and today he's demanding the execution of two Senators and four Representatives.
Seems like something rubbed off
Seems like something rubbed off
Fascist asshole.
Trump issues an order for the arrest and criminal prosecution of members of Congress who made a video reminding soldiers and sailors that they swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and shouldn't implement illegal orders. Trump's conduct is unabashed fascism.
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Fascist asshole.
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Name a film with a forest.
I mean,,,
I mean,,,
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Name a film with a forest.
I mean,,,
I mean,,,
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Extra points for the butcher's MacBeth handwashing gestures:
'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Making the green one red.'
'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Making the green one red.'
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Extra points for the butcher's MacBeth handwashing gestures:
'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Making the green one red.'
'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Making the green one red.'
This is an interesting CFP, not least for its total plant and tree blindness. The editors fail to open discursive or intellectual space for thinking about the impact of AI on plants, trees, and the vegetable kingdom more broadly, including its energy and environmental costs.
AI, Animals, and the Future: Aligning AI Trajectories with Nonhuman Welfare
The ethical implications of AI have received increasing attention in recent years, yet a crucial blind spot remains: the impact of AI on nonhuman animals. As ...
link.springer.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is an interesting CFP, not least for its total plant and tree blindness. The editors fail to open discursive or intellectual space for thinking about the impact of AI on plants, trees, and the vegetable kingdom more broadly, including its energy and environmental costs.
Votes like this make it crystal clear that most Chicago Aldermen get their financial support from corporations and the wealthy, to whom they are sadly beholden rather than to the people of their wards.
chicago.suntimes.com/2025/11/17/f...
chicago.suntimes.com/2025/11/17/f...
Finance Committee rejects Johnson’s $600M tax package
Monday’s defeat sends the budget negotiations back to square one. For the second straight year, Brandon Johnson has lost control of a budget process that Chicago mayors have long dictated.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Votes like this make it crystal clear that most Chicago Aldermen get their financial support from corporations and the wealthy, to whom they are sadly beholden rather than to the people of their wards.
chicago.suntimes.com/2025/11/17/f...
chicago.suntimes.com/2025/11/17/f...
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Breathtaking falsehood in the reporting of CNN. They sweep the well-documented claims of sixteen accusers under the carpet. Kate Bolduan is not a journalist. She is a political propagandist.
Kate Bolduan: "The president has not been accused of any crimes or wrongdoing as it relates to Jeffrey Epstein or these files even with these emails being released. That's one thing we need to make clear. There's no accusations of any wrongdoing so far."
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Breathtaking falsehood in the reporting of CNN. They sweep the well-documented claims of sixteen accusers under the carpet. Kate Bolduan is not a journalist. She is a political propagandist.
Go ahead, Mehti. Say Donald Trump had Epstein killed. Why so coy?
“To be clear: I am not saying Donald Trump had Jeffrey Epstein killed. I am saying that if the situation were reversed, there is no doubt that Donald Trump would definitely be claiming Joe Biden had Jeffrey Epstein killed” - me for Zeteo
We Should All Be Epstein Conspiracy Theorists Now
Mehdi on the creepy dead pedophile who was threatening a creepy president, the latest from Marjorie Taylor Greene's revolt, and Gavin Newsom's ambitious attempt to unite the Democratic Party.
zeteo.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Go ahead, Mehti. Say Donald Trump had Epstein killed. Why so coy?
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Already at Yale Law Vance was known, in the words of my daughter, who was in the class a year behind him, as an “ambition monster.”
i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
Opinion | JD Vance Is Idling at the Edges of American Politics
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Already at Yale Law Vance was known, in the words of my daughter, who was in the class a year behind him, as an “ambition monster.”
This is gross. But Lawrence Summers is gross.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This is gross. But Lawrence Summers is gross.
No matter what you think of MTG, this kind of thing is dangerous and totally unacceptable. MTG has already been victimized in multiple pornographic deepfakes. The confluence of sex and violence has been Trump's metier for most of his life.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s had ‘warnings for my safety’ after posts by Trump
One-time Maga loyalist diverges with Trump on issues including Epstein, so US president has withdrawn support
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
No matter what you think of MTG, this kind of thing is dangerous and totally unacceptable. MTG has already been victimized in multiple pornographic deepfakes. The confluence of sex and violence has been Trump's metier for most of his life.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The fascist takeover of higher education continues apace at Montclair State University.
Montclair State University has with no reasonable justification replaced all departments in the humanities and social sciences with four non-disciplinary units, seemingly randomly chosen by uni executive leadership with no regard for faculty input or governance. Terrible & portentous
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
November 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The fascist takeover of higher education continues apace at Montclair State University.
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On top of its considerable destructive cultural and socio-economic impacts, AI is destructively extractive of energy and water.
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
On top of its considerable destructive cultural and socio-economic impacts, AI is destructively extractive of energy and water.
The University Is Ruined (with apologies to Bill Readings).
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The University Is Ruined (with apologies to Bill Readings).
There is no "data" in my mind. Or yours either.
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
There is no "data" in my mind. Or yours either.
I believe Google had always already chosen a side.
Choosing a side: "Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group." www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I believe Google had always already chosen a side.
So here's the thing. Billionaires gonna billionaire. JB "Richie Rich" Pritzker epitomizes what is wrong with the Democratic Party, which is beholden to (and in Pritzker's case embodies) the same billionaire class that funds the Banana Republicans. JB may talk the talk, but he doesn't walk the walk.
Pritzker absolutely opposed to Johnson’s Chicago corporate “head tax”
Gov. J.B. Pritzker told the Chicago Economic Club Oct. 21 that he absolutely opposes Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to revive the corporate “head tax” as part of his new budget proposal.
www.illinoispolicy.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
So here's the thing. Billionaires gonna billionaire. JB "Richie Rich" Pritzker epitomizes what is wrong with the Democratic Party, which is beholden to (and in Pritzker's case embodies) the same billionaire class that funds the Banana Republicans. JB may talk the talk, but he doesn't walk the walk.
