Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Hacked VMS board spotted in Nashville on Korean Veterans Boulevard.

Wow. Here’s some data viz!

ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/b...

Rapist-In-Chief.

Flávio Bolsonaro just lost in Brazil. Viktor Orban lost in Hungary. On Tuesday Benjamin Netanyahu will lose in Israel. Come next Tuesday we will win the midterms and take first step to destroying MAGA and putting Trump in prison! (That must be our goal)

WHOA.

More blood on his hands.

Thinking of teaching a course next semester on “Creative Yesfiction.” Putting the syllabus together now. Starting with Joyce’s Ulysses. (“and yes I said yes I will Yes.”) Other recommendations?

Mass voters are facing a pretty hefty ballot this year, but never fear! Your friends at Porter Square Books are hosting a workshop this Sunday, Oct 25 with the League of Women Voters to go over everything you need to know. RSVPs appreciated!

Toponymania = latest symptom of dementia.

“Pretend that I’m on the ballot.” So busy pretending.

Not for nothing, I have never heard Jan Crawford disavow the Muslim Brotherhood, and I just think that is very interesting and rather troubling.

as others have pointed out, this is how a good teacher handles a(n intentionally) difficult student -- you take them seriously, then dismantle the premise of their point

“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT told the shooter, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” Our investigation uncovers how OpenAI's chatbot fed a school shooter’s violent fantasies and planning for a massacre

I am a type 1 diabetic, and last night Dexcom forced me to agree to a new terms of use in order to continuing using the app and view my blood glucose data. Glad I had the foresight to "view agreements" and then copy the entire document. Because there appears to be NO WAY TO VIEW IT AGAIN. And...

Life is hard because there are so many things you have to do and so many things you shouldn’t do all available on the same device in your hand.

Incredible reporting!

Today would be a good day for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that yes, he is a lunatic, and they should report and write accordingly.

Did not know that Expedia is even more evil than Amazon!

For this Indigenous Peoples Day, your astonishing artifact is the earliest known Indigenous depiction of a European — a wood carving from Nunavut dated to 1350. 🧪🏺

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

Green heaven. The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌍

Don’t clap too much! “After being told she has won, Pillay jokes that she doesn't quite believe the news is real, going on to have a jibe at the US president: "If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump"”

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

I'm in The Crimson today asking Harvard to "reboot" our relationship with AI by: matching investments in AI with investments in reading and writing; (re)constructing "analog" education infrastructure; and developing regulations from the bottom up (incl. departments and faculty committees).

MIT professors bedazzle cameras to protest expanding surveillance network Tenured faculty are using rhinestones and googly eyes to demonstrate against 500-plus new cameras and plans to potentially implement AI capabilities....

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

What stories can we tell and not tell? What is the line between knowing and not knowing? It's not as simple as we often think.

The NY Fed examines how tariffs affected inflation and finds that, without them, goods prices would have declined as of last February. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/10/how-...

This 👇

Love this 👇

1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.

Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education:

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

Ashley did incredible work taking care of others during Metro Surge and beyond. Now she needs our help.

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide

The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 

Wow—this is a good one. Taking the piss out of Bezos. His fundamental inhumanity skillfully skewered here.