WHAT you can’t just take over other countries

World introvert day!!! I had no idea. Yay!!! Back to reading.

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here

A picture is worth 1000 words... This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK. Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect. Chapeau!

For the record, this is still true.

This thread is so interesting to me. I'm a very avid reader, and it's good to be reminded that most people....um, *aren't*.

Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year

One more #corgi photo before this account returns to the regularly scheduled cat posts. Connor had a great time playing in the snow on our walk this evening.

This thread makes me sad, not because the people in it made bad choices, but because the goal of the college class should be the learning in community along the way, not the result, not content acquisition. And professors can do things to encourage or discourage that.

Merry Christmas y'all youtu.be/qSkN4EXhBR8?...

Americans and others who do not know: tonight is the night for #duvetknowitschristmas. Enjoy.

The black cat atop the stones at Stonehenge during the Winter Solstice 2025 celebrations, delivering its blessings for the coming year.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

Well, this is absolute perfection. 😂 Make your day better. 👇

My mom’s corgi, Connor, is helping me show off my newest @peculiarityshop.bsky.social purchase. I got some gifts & couldn’t resist a new shiny, pretty bracelet for myself.

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

If I can’t prevent myself from being a horror movie protagonist, I can at least be one where the audience doesn’t feel I deserve it for being a total dumbass.

Okay what the actual fuck this actually looks hilarious youtu.be/ZfNLApPCa8E

“call your congresspeople and beg them not to sentence trans people to death” is a regular feature of our politics now and it fucking sucks

Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.

(I know that’s actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now.)

In an effort at something good on the internet today: A thread on Mr KJC, gingerbread architect of the early 21st century. Mr KJC got his beginnings like so many gingerbread architects: with a kit house for the kids. Kind of fun but the premade pieces are dry and nasty, only technically edible.

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

Delightful holiday thread🎄 ⬇️

This is the choice that those with power have made— This is the life they want for our children and us. It will continue until we change who is in power or how power functions here.

The academics on here especially, many of us know someone or many people at Brown or have personal links to the institution in some way There is a proximity for us that means people may be feeling shocked in a way that is persona

I’m not sharing anything because the reports are all over the place but the Brown news is awful

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

This description/reflection from @mattdinan.bsky.social on how he essentially delegitimized using LLMs as a way to outsource student thinking/writing is a model on how to work through your values and build a course around them. mattdinan.substack.com/p/the-ai-ske...

When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

Okay! Seems like there's some interest in healthy peets! I'll add to this thread as things pop up at work and I go "Oh yeah! That's generally useful!" Let's begin! 👣

Parents' use of the strategy following teletraining was associated w/ increased communication turns, increased use of aided AAC as a communication modality, & increased expression of unique vocabulary concepts by their children with multiple disabilities. https://on.asha.org/3YhNcbO

ACIP too stressful? or you just need a break? rest and enjoy some emergency caturday

EGOT!!!

Anyone casually weighing in on this race needs to understand this.

It is true that the timed test suits particular kinds of neurotypes better than others, and so a lot of people need accommodations in order to do their best work in that context. There is a lesson here, but it’s not that too many people have accommodations.

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

In honor of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's legacy as a disability activist and writer, today we are republishing Bitch Magazine's Access Series, which was originally curated by Alice Wong. Worker-owner and former Bitch editor-in-chief Evette Dionne updated the intro to the series here:

#Romancelandia Holiday Fairies is BACK for our 6th year! 🎁✨ This community-powered gifting initiative is all about mutual aid, kindness, and making sure no one goes without a little magic this season. Let’s make 2025 our most generous year yet! Learn more: bit.ly/holidayfairies

It is hard to describe just how much RFK Jr. and Trump have poisoned the way we talk about autism. It’s gotten so bad that a few months after I published this piece, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, the Autism Society of America and Autism Speaks denounced the CDC www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...

yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore I feel like we need this

I think AI issues are manifesting in very different ways based on the kinds of institutions, the disciplines we're in, etc. But a lot seems tied together by the ways we've set up failure as something to be feared, utterly, and this was already a huge problem before the arrival of ChatGPT etc

One major work project is finished for now so I’ve had the brain space to read other nonfiction & this book from @thewaroncars.bsky.social people is high on my TBR. Bowie is (somewhat) patiently listening to me agree loudly as I read on this #Caturday. #ProofOfCat

Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This is so messed up. The vast majority of these are graduate degrees and some of them are doctorates.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

JUST WHEN I THOUGHT TODAY COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES❗@karlamcgregor.bsky.social and co are 🔥on fire🔥 in @ashajournals.bsky.social in a 🆓🔓 article about #devlangdis and its spectral nature. This assertion will stay with me: "To diagnose is to categorize". pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....

“But Emily Merolli, a partner with the Sligo Law Group, and a former member of the department’s general counsel’s office, said the administration’s actions “are not legally supportable.”” www.the74million.org/article/whit...

Alice Wong. i could literally teach an entire semester of philosophy of technology & disability through a lens of just her. You should all go spend time with her work. Her essays, podcasts, TV appearances, books, all of it; it is all so good. Good night Alice. Rest in power, pending justice & peace