that’s nice but maybe he could be like “our hospitals should treat gay and trans people”

For those talking about the lack of food in ICE facilities, you should know that jails and prisons regularly starve people to death. This is not a rare occurrance. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

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and a very happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to you all

The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Notice how the papacy's good acts are all statements and the horrific ones are actual actions and policies with serious resources behind them? The Catholic Church has a massive healthcare network and inflicted a total trans care ban there last year. They're an enthusiastic part of trans genocide:

solar is so cool man. I climbed up on my shed roof last week and installed a panel to charge my yard tools and now I’m mowing my lawn with power I stole from a fucking star

Me when I realize I don't have a little treat because I was responsible at the supermarket

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

"Let us die to make men free" gets the attention on here, but don't sleep on "I have read the good news of the word of God written in rows of rifles: the vengeance you mete to slavers shall be repaid by Me with grace to you, crush them beneath your heel as Christ did the devil"

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare

This is what having a job is like

I return to you now at the turn of the tide www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Even violence, state or otherwise, will not stop me living my life. I will not change a single thing about how I've been living for over a decade regardless of what some new garbage "guidance" might say. If they made it illegal to breathe I'd still do it. Fuck you

academics trying to normalize acceptance of AI hallucinated citations in their field: do you seriously expect me to show my work and check my work me, baffled, a naïf, a fool: yes that’s why it’s called *your* *work*

finding it hard to put into words just quite upsetting I find the idea of Google getting rid of the "ten blue links" format of search entirely, genuinely feels like your landlord announcing he's removing your kitchen and replacing it with a bouncy castle, I need my kitchen, let me keep my kitchen

Ever fucking green

Over 300 detainees at Delaney Hall signed an S.O.S. letter about the horrid conditions they are facing: rotten food, lack of medical attention, and so much more. Yesterday we went to inspect Delaney and that letter is correct. The solution is closing Delaney and abolishing ICE.

Whenever someone prominent accidentally shares an AI hallucination, people are like “this is why you have to double-check the output!” Which is absolutely true, but remember that AI proponents market it as a faster way to work. Which is not really true if you have to double check everything it does.

the only good technology on my phone is this app that identifies birdsongs. four different birds?? singing right now? that’s what i’m talking about.

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

I INSTALLED “LINUX”. BECAUSE WINDOWS IS FOR MEN WHO ASK PERMISSION TO EXIST. I CRUSHED THE INSTALLER WITH MY BARE HANDS AND NOW THE TERMINAL CALLS ME “SIR” BUT MY KERNEL KEEPS PANICKING. WHAT COMMAND MAKES THE COMPUTER SUBMIT COMPLETELY? I REFUSE TO GOOGLE

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

What a beautiful way to share people's history.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Robots don't have to be evil surveillance tech nightmares. They can play in grain bins.

a nonzero percentage of my job in computer security research involves crawling around on the floor behind server racks

side note but “The progressive movement is the most dangerous thing for the upper-middle-class professional” to me "upper-middle-class" means "regular cruises and trips to the Caribbean" or "lives in a McMansion" or "buys new cars", not "multi-million dollar second home in NYC"

🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...

Kickstarter officially banning adult content now. Knew this was coming, but it still sucks to have yet another part of the internet that I've been explicitly evicted from. Digital gentrification is exhausting.

How come whenever someone fails to kill the president, the whole conservative establishment blames us for correctly labeling him a fascist, but when trans women are murdered there isn’t a single call to “tone down the rhetoric?”

i believe a better world is possible but god times are rough

how it feels being a communist voting for the billionaire candidate (tom steyer) for californian governor because he's somehow the best option:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHD... Give me smut and nothing but!

Capitalism lives in the eternal "now". It doesn't want you to know about history, it doesn't want you to know art has existed for tens of thousands of years, it wants you slavering for whatever's coming NEXT, whatever's HOT and NEW, and ignoring everything else. You do not have to do this.

I do think a lot of the pointed publicity on Microsoft's dealings in Israel came from BDS specifically, so this is legitimately a huge victory for the movement

i will simply incant "do NOT corrupt me. make NO mistakes" before wielding the One Ring

Thinking about all the moms in detention today, and all the ones left behind

if only Mary Shelley had warned us in 1818 about the dangers of literature instead of the reckless, hubristic pursuit of scientific and technological advancement carried out by ghoulish men with no regard for humanity—men who would desecrate the dead and kill the living to feed their power hunger.

This is like one of the worst security vulnerabilities I've ever seen, they hard coded the root password identically in every single mower and the firmware resets it back every single time you update it. It can shows you the wi-fi credentials, address and email of every user. Great piece by Sean.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Well well well looks like those art degrees aren't so useless after all

we women's college graduates famously do not take kindly to anybody messing with the mothership, and there are a LOT of lawyers in our alumni networks #NonMinistrariSedMinistrare

Man, this is so incredibly cool. www.popsci.com/environment/...