Read this. I mean, you should always read @civilwarmemory.bsky.social but especially today.

it is part of why “you’re the racist for calling me racist” is legible. what they’re saying is, “you are the mean one for insulting me and even noticing race to begin with”

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

Where does the “it’s not x, it’s y” come from? It’s not only training data: LLMs are trained to use language to arrive at “answers.” Whatever we’re incentivizing and disincentivizing in our use of language when we resist “sounding like AI” has big implications for students, and for human thought.

6/1/1826: V:5 Thursday. Bath. Leonard. Roberts and E. J. Lee. Wertz. Hamilton. Markey. Rush

JOYCE MESSIER - “Of bodies of water and forest-covered surfaces, clusters of light where the cities lie. You've seen the montage, we all have -- this world is enough,” she concludes. CONCEPTUALIZATION - It *must* be. This is the greatest and kindest arrangement the atoms had in them.

🏳️‍🌈 Happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈 'Pride' goes back to Old French 'prud', meaning brave or valiant. The haughtiness connotations may come from arrogant Norman knights describing themselves as proud, which soured the word for the Anglo Saxon commoners

a neural network is not an 'actress,' it is not the type of entity that 'feels' or 'wants'. this fetishisation of ai products, a cause of several deaths and harms – partly due to anthropomorphic design – is not only doing corporate pr, it is also dangerous

For the afficianados, bio/psycho/social is Marr-ish; what McHugh proposes is more Tindenberg-ian (Disease/Dimensional/Behavior/LifeStory). As he describes in the piece, it's not meant to be focused on "causes" of psychiatric conditions but perspectives psychatrists need to consider for treatment.

Wow, do I like this new channel. Jackdaw breaks down some of the most popular lies in paleoanthropology: Might Makes Right, Hierarchy is Inherent, Patriarchy Is Natural, and Man Hunt, Woman Gather. On par with miniminuteman re: debunking mid-century sexist biases. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHUB...

Dev drops a post about a free musical instrument for iPhone. I downloaded it just out of curiosity. It is delightfully well designed. And really fun to play with. www.reddit.com/r/UnusualInstr...

My palate has rediscovered morning oatmeal

googled a line from the movie walk hard, the desired result being gif options. this was the immediate result. mf acting like we’re friends.

Just wild how many people are outing themselves as this gullible & antisocial

Imagine the stress if our built environment changed its functions & affordances so chaotically & capriciously. And then think about how much of our time & energy we spend depending on non-built-environment, digital infrastructure/tools. I am convinced it’s ratcheting up major stress on all of us.

School-induced anxiety is one of the defining crises of neurodivergent childhood. It touches nearly every family in our community. stimpunks.org/access/educa...

This is the message. Any Democrat willing to sacrifice trans folks—especially kids—will sacrifice anything.

ah fuck lads my liberation is predicated on buying the $15,000 nvidia A9000 cardset so I can run DeepSeek’s new 2T param Hitlerqwen model or having an enterprise seat for the ai company currently polluting a majority black community by violating the plain letter of the clean air act

I’ve encountered quite a few situations over the years where companies digitized an analog process based on process models only to find they overlooked most of what makes the process functional. Contextual inquiry is still such a rare art but it is the cure for this particular malady.

What happened in 2024: Governor Hochul missed the deadline to issue the regulations. Environmental groups sued. And won. Instead of course correcting, Hochul held secretive meetings to change the law. All those involved in creating and advocating for the law were left out of those negotiations.

"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵

OK! I collected much of what I @spookyachu.bsky.social @andreaeyleen.bsky.social (and other collaborators not on here) have said on the Turing test (from critical, gendered, etc. angles) as it keeps being relevant: olivia.science/turing — hope it's useful for others too. Happy Sunday! 🤖💭

Machines now generate around half of all English-language articles published on the internet. Jill Lepore retraces the long history of A.I. slop. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Have you ever felt the pull toward work that's more socially impactful? Marc Rettig followed that pull into long-term co-creation with communities. Catch his free live session and find your possible first steps. 🎟️ Sign up: https://rfld.me/4ueSSBa #UXDesign #SocialImpact

Meta and X are both leaning further into a paying-to-get-paid-to-post model. It's something even dumber than digital sharecropping. It's full-on digital feudalism. www.garbageday.email/p/making-you...

"Le Guin demonstrates why imaginative worldbuilding is an exercise worth pursuing, crafting a narrative that explores the human condition and the nature of empathy. It also happens to be a ripping good read." —Jay Gabler, reporter, Duluth News Tribune, on The Left Hand of Darkness

The No Man's Sky game community has encountered a new ARG. The old guard from the first NMS ARG ~8 years ago ("Waking Titan") has reactivated like some kind of sleeper cell, across Reddit, Discord, and websites. It's a trip. Some background here: skyscraper.havenmap.online/

Just joined r/SalsaSnobs in time for summer AMA

some liminal twilight zone feels going on here

Modern product development practices for slinging feature-based cruft into the webosphere maybe isn’t great for, like, rocket science? At least I’m assuming that’s what’s up here.

Today's post goes back to the issue of #polysemy or multiple meanings in #AI discourse and calls for more critical polysemy awareness as part of AI #literacy makingsciencepublic.com/2026/05/29/a...

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

👍⬇️ Polysemy is a real roadblock to dialogue, and while I am no ambassador, technical meanings are distinct from their commonly understood meanings. But that slippage goes both ways, and is precisely why we should avoid terms like "reasoning," "intelligence," "creativity" in the first place

Flanagan is the only candidate declining AI, crypto, AIPAC, and corporate PAC money. So if you want to avoid winding up with Schumer's corporate-funded senate pick in a blue state, you really should consider sending her some support: secure.actblue.com/donate/pf-web

Yeah I suspect the party stopped as soon as vanilla showed up

JUST IN: Martina McBride announces she will NOT perform at the Trump Freedom 250 event, saying she was misled — echoing claims made by several other artists who were listed as participants.

But also the way they thought the brain worked was “inspired by computers” And it’s all steeped in the “Cartesian error” that ignores the fact brains are just part of nervous systems which are just part of bodies which are just part of environments … hence an LLM’s stupidity with context

Mum says we have a Steam Machine at home anyhow.

In music news… Collective Soul's "Dosage" still slaps

Anything with a CPU and memory is getting hammered

yeah the singular is “Millus Vanillus”

Know what’s fun? We are now further in time from World War II (81 years since 1945) than WWII was from the American Civil War (76 years from 1865-1941) This is not, in fact, fun.

Cornyn is no moderate. He's right-wing and was willing to do pretty much anything Trump commanded. But Paxton is a kindred spirit with Trump, a fellow liar and cheater and scammer who connects with the president like a soulmate. Maybe a cellmate.

Let’s all be real clear: This does not mean Trump is powerful. He is a kingmaker in a party that is slipping further and further into chaos.

Smashing hit

This is the Bluesky content I crave.

This is the most incredible triumph of propaganda in my lifetime. The idea that Hitler was "left" and/or a "socialist" once was correctly seen as self-evidently insane. But here we have the richest & most powerful man on earth blithely repeating it.

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.