Polls only tell you what people think they’re supposed to say Have any anti-trans Dem go up & do their weakass doublespeak for 15 minutes, and then let me go up & say “I think all humans should have human rights, who’s with me” and then do your stupid fucking poll again

drop Google search. I use DuckDuckGo and Wikipedia. and I search the library, find books, check them out, look at their sources, check out those. I’ve heard Kagi is good. Help everyone else see why this matters. We must not let chatbot owners dictate the terms of our access to information and ideas.

the only safe data is the kind that's not collected

refuse, refuse, refuse

Congrats, Google. We now have unreliable AI narrators of impoverished information sources, representing their hallucinations as truth. I'm glad I learned to use a card catalog when I was a kid, because fuck this. I'm going to the library. (3/3)

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵

best trend of 2026. boo all these fuckers.

Without the library, there is no history, only the stories power wants told.

Last month, Brewster Kahle — digital librarian of the Internet Archive — was honored as a 2026 Fellow by the Computer History Museum, joining past Fellows including Tim Berners-Lee, Katherine Johnson, and Steve Wozniak. More about the award ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/03/24/b...

The next James Bond should be Gary Oldman in his Jackson Lamb persona.

Hard to overstate this. We think of the internet as forever. Vast stores of information have already disappeared.

“We live in a homophobic society…if you think there are not more gay players in the NFL, Major League Baseball, and the NBA, you’re just stupid” - Charles Barkley saying the quiet part out loud. I fuckin cried. god bless him and Jason Collins.

"The need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

my friends, local politics matter. wherever you are, pay attention. show up for something. find allies. campaign for the things you and your allies want. celebrate your wins, with cakes and bubbly and glitter and love.

“We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth — the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “information”. — as quoted in Guest et al. (2026)

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

In praise of fact-checking and against idiotic valuations.

The stuff I write about is so nuts that I find myself quadruple-checking the facts with pen and paper. For example, in 2020 Andreessen Horowitz led a $12 million investment round in the Clubhouse app (at a $100M valuation). It had 1500 users. It reached $4 billion valuation in 2021, then...poof.

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

one time i wrote a post about how AI could never replicate the human experience of writing and someone accused me of using AI to write it, like as a bit, and anyway AI is cooking all of our brains and @jasonkoebler.bsky.social says it so well here:

This hit me so hard this week.

I just can’t get over how willing the populace is to cede its fundamental right and ability _to_think_. Since when did that become so onerous and burdensome? Why do such large numbers of people find the idea of giving up analytical thinking a plus? Astounding and horrifying.

Events like the Black Zine Fair are INCREDIBLY important in 2026. With every passing day, right wing billionaires seize control of more of our communications infrastructure and publishing and media outlets. We HAVE to support alternate, genuinely independent means of communication.

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

The real Odyssey is to get enough of your prescription meds before you leave on your journey.

I am still absolutely stunned, in the best possible way, by the election results 🥹 Thank you, Brookline, for trusting me and @amynewell.bsky.social w/our library & showing up for our schools Thank you, P6, for re-electing me to TM So much love today ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🤍🩷🩵 brookline.news/vanscoyoc-ou...

No public service (education, health care, public transit, postal service etc.) should be run like a business. Business only serves investors. Public services serve the people. All of them.

My name is not "Mom". Stop saying "Mom" as a proper noun. Especially stop saying it as part of a headline about mothers' day "gifts for Mom" and maybe stop hawking mother's day gifts entirely. file under screaming into the void thanks

This is an attack upon the infrastructure of democracy as well as on creativity and critical thinking.

Listening to an activist praising LLMs as kin. It stems from misperceptions of how the tool works; she views it as honest with her because it queries data, despite saying it has bias. AI is designed to hijack belief & we are all susceptible: smart, should know better, AI experts or awesome activists

come on kids, get off screens and go outside! get off the road it's for cars don't ride your bike on the sidewalk you'll hurt someone take your headphones off it's dangerous stop being so loud you're disturbing people don't just loiter around go to the park but calm down there's little ones

I can't recommend reading this thing in full enough.

I love that this is making the rounds. I got sent this because of the confluence of my interests loving local government, especially town meeting, working on housing policy and being on zoning for my city. The MBTA law is a bare minimum of housing reform that towns are fighting it, is indeed immoral

I am delighted to announce that Brookline's prop 2.5 override passed bigly last night as part of a wave of progressive wins in our local election.

Last night, progressive candidates overwhelmingly won some highly contested races in our town election. We did not stray from our values. Protecting the entire LGBTQ+ community (THIS MEANS TRANS KIDS TOO!) was, in Brookline as elsewhere, among the many issues driving voters. Today we take the W.

100% dude and if you wanted me to take you seriously maybe you shouldn't have let Bret Stephens praise you because that did not improve my already-negative feelings about your politics.

I won my election tonight so I am soon to be a library trustee. thanks @librariesftp.bsky.social and @vogt4brookline.bsky.social specifically for the inspiration and help making it happen and congrats Marissa on your reelection!

Yeah folks I would be dead without psych meds and yes they can be hard to take and hard to get off of and yes they are not right for everyone and there are other good non med treatments but also rfk jr should fuck right off and nytimes should not platform him or his brain worms

Hmmmm, who do I trust more to look out for women, Smith College or a Trump appointee currently being sued for covering up years of sexual abuse?

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

RFK Jr. should fuck off and leave people taking SSRIs alone. Once again: health policy is being driven by the personal vanity of a man who believes based on nothing that he knows better than people with decades of expertise.

elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

I see RFK is spreading more dangerous bullshit about antidepressants. Here's a piece I wrote about that last year.

Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...

Yes, surely replacing all forms of access to knowledge, scientific production, lifelong education, labor and economic relations, etc with a giant dial in these people’s hand is the ultimate form of progress and desirable state of society

Good editions of fairy tales from around the world is perfectly good exposure: variations on how people screw up when making bargains with lying sycophantic entities who do not have the humans’ best interests at heart. I don’t see any reason to expose them directly to the lying sycophantic entities.

Last time he talked about this he wanted to make them more racist, as I recall.

This area has an amazing wealth of college/community radio. Hell yes for the likes of Record Hospital and The Secret Spot and Standing Room Only and the stoned Tufts kids playing "Venus as a Boy" twice cause they like it and they hope you will, too

WIFE: remember the time you talked shit about that restaurant that has now become one of our favorite, most reliable dinner options? ME: oh you mean the time that we dialectically overcame a past era of contradictions through protracted struggle?

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.