What a great time to be staking your entire institutional infrastructure on a US company.
Big announcement from @manchester.ac.uk today:
"The University of Manchester has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, becoming the first university in the world to give Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to every student and colleague."
#GenerativeAI #Research #Manchester
"The University of Manchester has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, becoming the first university in the world to give Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to every student and colleague."
#GenerativeAI #Research #Manchester
World-first AI partnership between The University of Manchester and Microsoft announced
The University of Manchester becomes first university in the world to provide Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to all students and staff.65,000 staff and students will receive full Microsoft ...
www.manchester.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 11:09 AM
What a great time to be staking your entire institutional infrastructure on a US company.
decades of infrastructure neglect and institutional rot means MUSEUM AND BANK ROBBERIES ARE BACK BABY
December 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
decades of infrastructure neglect and institutional rot means MUSEUM AND BANK ROBBERIES ARE BACK BABY
There's just a giant intellectual, political, & institutional infrastructure built up around the Democratic Party, devoted to convincing it not to fight. The whole f'ing apparatus needs to be nuked from space.
November 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
There's just a giant intellectual, political, & institutional infrastructure built up around the Democratic Party, devoted to convincing it not to fight. The whole f'ing apparatus needs to be nuked from space.
We're shit at nation building, institutional reform and infrastructure recovery. We don't have deployable police. It will also be insanely expensive.
Washington — The U.S. Army Reserve is examining whether it can provide the military's Southern Command with police forces, medical personnel and other support units within the next four months, according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News. www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-gro...
U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba
Some units would "possibly [be] needed in 90-120 days," according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
September 25, 2026 at 8:19 PM
We're shit at nation building, institutional reform and infrastructure recovery. We don't have deployable police. It will also be insanely expensive.
Good thing many a university leadership team hasn't embedded OpenAI into their institutional infrastructure 🫠
“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Good thing many a university leadership team hasn't embedded OpenAI into their institutional infrastructure 🫠
📚 “Every citizen should know that libraries are under attack.”
In a new interview, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle outlines the structural threats facing libraries today & the paths forward for an enduring library system.
@cni-org.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org
vimeo.com/1103555091/8...
In a new interview, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle outlines the structural threats facing libraries today & the paths forward for an enduring library system.
@cni-org.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org
vimeo.com/1103555091/8...
CNI 2025 - Brewster Kahle - Libraries at Risk:Borrowed Infrastructure and and Institutional Resilience
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July 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
📚 “Every citizen should know that libraries are under attack.”
In a new interview, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle outlines the structural threats facing libraries today & the paths forward for an enduring library system.
@cni-org.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org
vimeo.com/1103555091/8...
In a new interview, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle outlines the structural threats facing libraries today & the paths forward for an enduring library system.
@cni-org.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org
vimeo.com/1103555091/8...
And when this pipeline functions, it doesn't just produce trust, it constrains power. It's the infrastructure that protects the public from the unchecked exercise of power. That's what institutional trust is really about.
April 6, 2026 at 12:47 PM
And when this pipeline functions, it doesn't just produce trust, it constrains power. It's the infrastructure that protects the public from the unchecked exercise of power. That's what institutional trust is really about.
More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.
The amount of money I saw one department paying for several AI services in a school year could cover the University’s pay one price textbook costs for nearly their entire enrolled student body in said department
Colleges could subsidize books for students rather than paying for premium versions of ChatGPT
September 16, 2026 at 9:54 PM
More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.
the end result of Trump 2 is going to be the complete collapse of the institutional right into an incoherent soup of billionaires and grifters all busy stabbing each other in the back
they spent decades constructing this infrastructure and it’s all coming tumbling down
they spent decades constructing this infrastructure and it’s all coming tumbling down
they've lost over 30 people in the last week, including 3 trustees with deep pockets
Heritage Foundation undergoes mass staff exodus as cracks open on the New Right
The divisions are no longer just between pro-Trump and anti-Trump conservatives.
reason.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
the end result of Trump 2 is going to be the complete collapse of the institutional right into an incoherent soup of billionaires and grifters all busy stabbing each other in the back
they spent decades constructing this infrastructure and it’s all coming tumbling down
they spent decades constructing this infrastructure and it’s all coming tumbling down
Reach me for story tips + issue backgrounding:
Email: anna.clark@propublica.org
Phone: 313-310-6592
Signal: annaleighclark.14
I focus on stories rooted in Michigan + the Midwest with national resonance. Interested in all issues, incl. infrastructure, public works, institutional accountability.
Email: anna.clark@propublica.org
Phone: 313-310-6592
Signal: annaleighclark.14
I focus on stories rooted in Michigan + the Midwest with national resonance. Interested in all issues, incl. infrastructure, public works, institutional accountability.
January 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reach me for story tips + issue backgrounding:
Email: anna.clark@propublica.org
Phone: 313-310-6592
Signal: annaleighclark.14
I focus on stories rooted in Michigan + the Midwest with national resonance. Interested in all issues, incl. infrastructure, public works, institutional accountability.
Email: anna.clark@propublica.org
Phone: 313-310-6592
Signal: annaleighclark.14
I focus on stories rooted in Michigan + the Midwest with national resonance. Interested in all issues, incl. infrastructure, public works, institutional accountability.
This phony department of government efficiency isn’t about efficiency. They are about dismantling our institutional infrastructure. Never, ever invite them in. I can’t believe you don’t understand this.
January 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This phony department of government efficiency isn’t about efficiency. They are about dismantling our institutional infrastructure. Never, ever invite them in. I can’t believe you don’t understand this.
Again, perfect world, but I would issue a “new age for cultural institutions.”
Don’t just bring them back to pre-Trump funding. Earmark grants around political education. Reinvigorate them with clear purpose + resources to build institutional infrastructure
Don’t just bring them back to pre-Trump funding. Earmark grants around political education. Reinvigorate them with clear purpose + resources to build institutional infrastructure
Great thread. Here you’ll find the words “political education” which are rarely uttered in our country but seem pretty central for digging ourselves out of the hole we find ourselves in.
It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Again, perfect world, but I would issue a “new age for cultural institutions.”
Don’t just bring them back to pre-Trump funding. Earmark grants around political education. Reinvigorate them with clear purpose + resources to build institutional infrastructure
Don’t just bring them back to pre-Trump funding. Earmark grants around political education. Reinvigorate them with clear purpose + resources to build institutional infrastructure
Whatever makes them avoid actually building institutional memory that properly acknowledges infrastructure
The nonsense of “gen Z speak” (with tiktok as the digital nucleus) continues, as if both pop culture and tech writers didn’t do “millennial speak” (with bird app as the digital nucleus) for 15 years prior…
Just no intellectual growth at all, because being antiblack is more comfortable/important.
Just no intellectual growth at all, because being antiblack is more comfortable/important.
October 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Whatever makes them avoid actually building institutional memory that properly acknowledges infrastructure
Peter Thiel's firm Palantir, which has been credibly accused of both facilitating and profiting from genocide, is taking over large segments of the UK's institutional infrastructure.
Oh. Palantir has won a contract to deliver software to support Police Intelligence too. Leicestershire.
Defence. Police. NHS.
www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/ce565...
Defence. Police. NHS.
www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/ce565...
October 18, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Peter Thiel's firm Palantir, which has been credibly accused of both facilitating and profiting from genocide, is taking over large segments of the UK's institutional infrastructure.
also: if you dismantle that infrastructure it isn't as easy as going "whoops" and turning the faucet back on once you realize you fucked up, you're going to lose countless talented researchers and institutional knowledge you'll never get back
January 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
also: if you dismantle that infrastructure it isn't as easy as going "whoops" and turning the faucet back on once you realize you fucked up, you're going to lose countless talented researchers and institutional knowledge you'll never get back
The eight tracks are:
Education & Epistemic Capacity
Civic Empowerment & Democratic Practice
Value Formation & Societal Alignment
Investigative Infrastructure
Discourse Creation
Institutional Integration & Policy
Translation to Impact
Sustainability & Infrastructure
Education & Epistemic Capacity
Civic Empowerment & Democratic Practice
Value Formation & Societal Alignment
Investigative Infrastructure
Discourse Creation
Institutional Integration & Policy
Translation to Impact
Sustainability & Infrastructure
July 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The eight tracks are:
Education & Epistemic Capacity
Civic Empowerment & Democratic Practice
Value Formation & Societal Alignment
Investigative Infrastructure
Discourse Creation
Institutional Integration & Policy
Translation to Impact
Sustainability & Infrastructure
Education & Epistemic Capacity
Civic Empowerment & Democratic Practice
Value Formation & Societal Alignment
Investigative Infrastructure
Discourse Creation
Institutional Integration & Policy
Translation to Impact
Sustainability & Infrastructure
- Compounding extremes and cascading climate risks are increasingly overwhelming legacy policies, infrastructure, and institutional silos designed using outdated historical climate information.
September 22, 2026 at 1:07 PM
- Compounding extremes and cascading climate risks are increasingly overwhelming legacy policies, infrastructure, and institutional silos designed using outdated historical climate information.
If anyone believes their project should run as public infrastructure - come talk to us.
If you believe that running components as public infrastructure is beneficial to the ecosystem and you have institutional funds available - come talk to us.
@modalfoundation.eurosky.social
Please RT
If you believe that running components as public infrastructure is beneficial to the ecosystem and you have institutional funds available - come talk to us.
@modalfoundation.eurosky.social
Please RT
April 1, 2026 at 10:02 PM
If anyone believes their project should run as public infrastructure - come talk to us.
If you believe that running components as public infrastructure is beneficial to the ecosystem and you have institutional funds available - come talk to us.
@modalfoundation.eurosky.social
Please RT
If you believe that running components as public infrastructure is beneficial to the ecosystem and you have institutional funds available - come talk to us.
@modalfoundation.eurosky.social
Please RT
This is like being at war, except our institutional infrastructure is being destroyed instead of physical infrastructure.
Similar result though - lives lost, people broken, and even when it's over, decades or more to rebuild.
And it's all being done from the inside.
Similar result though - lives lost, people broken, and even when it's over, decades or more to rebuild.
And it's all being done from the inside.
October 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is like being at war, except our institutional infrastructure is being destroyed instead of physical infrastructure.
Similar result though - lives lost, people broken, and even when it's over, decades or more to rebuild.
And it's all being done from the inside.
Similar result though - lives lost, people broken, and even when it's over, decades or more to rebuild.
And it's all being done from the inside.
Voters will hopefully.usher Trump off the stage of American politics in a few days, but the affective and institutional infrastructure of Trumpism, which built upon the infrastructure of the Tea Party, wch built upon the infrastructure of Buchananism, etc etc...will still remain.
November 1, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Voters will hopefully.usher Trump off the stage of American politics in a few days, but the affective and institutional infrastructure of Trumpism, which built upon the infrastructure of the Tea Party, wch built upon the infrastructure of Buchananism, etc etc...will still remain.
Don’t discount “oopsie.” A lot of institutional knowledge of the infrastructure is gone.
March 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Don’t discount “oopsie.” A lot of institutional knowledge of the infrastructure is gone.
Mamdani is where voters are. Talked clearly about affordable housing and groceries, infrastructure, healthcare, and defending basic human rights.
Cuomo was smug, condescending, and despite his institutional experience, barely knew anything about constituents. Sex pest didn't try.
Cuomo was smug, condescending, and despite his institutional experience, barely knew anything about constituents. Sex pest didn't try.
For months now we have been hearing Democratic pundits say, "Democrats need to meet voters where they are."
Tonight, New York City voters seem to be telling them pretty clearly.
Tonight, New York City voters seem to be telling them pretty clearly.
June 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Mamdani is where voters are. Talked clearly about affordable housing and groceries, infrastructure, healthcare, and defending basic human rights.
Cuomo was smug, condescending, and despite his institutional experience, barely knew anything about constituents. Sex pest didn't try.
Cuomo was smug, condescending, and despite his institutional experience, barely knew anything about constituents. Sex pest didn't try.
Context: I’ve huddled w/ teams of comms people & lawyers, trying to get every word exactly right in response to attacks on my research, while the attackers threw bullshit against the wall & into congressional reports. Our institutional infrastructure aren’t well designed for these kinds of attacks.
February 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Context: I’ve huddled w/ teams of comms people & lawyers, trying to get every word exactly right in response to attacks on my research, while the attackers threw bullshit against the wall & into congressional reports. Our institutional infrastructure aren’t well designed for these kinds of attacks.
That means different responses for different failure modes. Where verification infrastructure has been destroyed, you rebuild production capacity. Where accountability venues have been captured, you need institutional insulation. These aren't the same problem.
April 6, 2026 at 2:22 PM
That means different responses for different failure modes. Where verification infrastructure has been destroyed, you rebuild production capacity. Where accountability venues have been captured, you need institutional insulation. These aren't the same problem.