Pat Bagley (@bagleycartoons.bsky.social)

@adamserwer.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:45 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

@drmommr.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:58 AMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

One of the worst human beings ever. We’re having a run on that right now. The world needs some heroes.

@conifergirl.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:45 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

@jensorensen.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:10 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Latest comic: Machine out of control

Out of control

Woman drinking beer: It feels like there’s a weird robotic machine spinning out of control and no person or government is capable of fixing it.

It’s taking over everything, eating up precious land and water and spewing pollution like a rogue agent hell-bent on destruction.

If things keep going like this, there will be no humans left!

Woman 2: Yeah, the AI threat is pretty scary.

Woman 1: AI? I’m talking about our insane shareholder-first economy.

TV news announcer in background: stocks up again on deregulation… more drilling… next: record heat on the West Coast!

@rightardia.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:50 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Another Select Steve Sack cartoon

@sltrib.com Oct 11, 2026, 3:26 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Sci-fi author Becky Chambers is set to visit Utah for the first time.

@miaganga.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:35 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

@bagleycartoons.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:53 PM

I’ve read it. It’s a good book. Would recommend

@oregonthedm.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:03 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

The most fun thing ever to randomly see

@lynnmiclea.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 2:46 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

@sltrib.com Oct 11, 2026, 4:37 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Letter: Why aren’t Utah’s leaders calling out the Trump administration’s inhumane treatment of immigrants?

@rightardia.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:13 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Select Bill Bramhall cartoon

@altnps.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:52 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Starting tomorrow on Indigenous Peoples’ Day federal contractors are scheduled to begin removing thousands of saguaros and other desert plants from Tohono O’odham land in Arizona for Trump’s border wall, according to tribal officials.

@maddow.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:22 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

“'The recent decisions to shutter nearly complete offshore wind projects and to pay Total Energies hundreds of millions of dollars to renounce wind leases are an assault on logic and the American taxpayer,' he wrote...”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comVeteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists

@nortygirl.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 2:16 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

🇺🇦👇🏼

@moranstephen1000.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 2:38 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

I know Canada is right on you border but they sell evil, woke diesel that will make your truck & tractor gay.

@rightardia.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:21 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Select Drew Sheneman cartoon

@juliacurlee.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:56 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Weak men hide behind their phones.

If the President or Hegseth want to throw slurs at a trans woman who served them — they can say it to my face. Then everyone can see the hate behind their policies.

Thanks to @nicollewallace.bsky.social for having me on.

@jaymichaluk.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:14 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Trump is a Jack off.

@rightardia.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:49 PMReposted by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Select Steve Sack cartoon