This computer science professor agrees with @dnsprincess. The humanities are crucial.

I mean, it cuts the other way too: a lot of the credulous nonsense about AI would melt away if people had a better idea how to think about software systems and mathematical models, what they really do and don’t do, how to look at them critically.

The key in my view is people having multiple ways of seeing and not narrowing themselves.
https://infosec.exchange/@dnsprincess/115140939294365490

Good. More. Bigger.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/first-of-its-kind-ai-settlement-anthropic-to-pay-authors-1-5-billion/

Going all-in on AI is going just great over at GitHub / Microsoft.

Top three community discussions for the year:
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions?discussions_q=is%3Aopen+sort%3Atop+created%3A%3E%3D2024-09-04

If it’s true that left-leaning people are cutting right-wingers out of their lives, he asks, is it because folks on the left are less tolerant — or because people people on the right are less tolerable? Which could it be?

Well, gosh, who knows…let’s see here, could it be that “social dominance orientation,” “authoritarianism,” “psychopathic propensities,” “malevolent disposition,” and “reduced empathy” make a person less tolerable? Do ya think? (spoken in dripping rhetorical question voice)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656625000704?via%3Dihub

One of those cases where it’s both trolling •and• a serious argument that deserves more consideration:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2xzjzuyrgz6dmjy2xdhlawgl/post/3lxuhopj6522j