California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/c... “.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

COMMISSIONER GOMEZ: “.. No edit to a website can erase the long-standing congressional intent to create a multiparty, independent regulatory agency like the FCC that is accountable to Congress and the American people, not the whims of the White House.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

more under your control than any other point, yes, but certainly still not about a single issue, and never, ever just about you. it's you, relative to other candidates, but also in relation to the dozen other personalities in the discussion (and their relationships with each other), and dept needs.

What gets me about executives at movie/videogame studios being taken aback at consumer backlash to AI is that they seem genuinely surprised that we like the human beings that make the things that we like

Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”

Breaking: Members of Gullah Geechee community on St. Helena Island urged Court to restore access to sacred cemetery blocked by private landowners. Residents requested an injunction against landowners; court denies landowners’ motion to dismiss the case. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

Meanwhile, I am still in therapy talking about the racism I witnessed in a hiring process and simply didn’t have the votes to stop The way hiring is rigged against Black candidates is fucking wild, up to and including just saying completely racist shit to people’s faces during the interview.

The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.

people out there who can do the job just as well as anyone else. There are quite literally, hundreds of equally qualified people who want to teach Twentieth Century US History. So whiteguys please stop it. You are embarrassing yourselves.

a person of color or a woman, or a left handed pipe fitter. Personally, I'm tired of guys who have never been on search committee complaining about how hard it is for whiteguys who study eighteenth century shoemakers. It's not your topic, it's not you, its that there are a 100 equally well qualified

And another thing: anyone willing to allow their grievances to be weaponized by the fascists in this of all moments is decidedly not someone to be taken at face value.

I’m sorry, this white guy who got a campus visit to Brown and was taken seriously by the committee thinks the only reason he didn’t get the job was because they only cared about race? I think I can come up with another reason…

Wait…omg…this entire anecdote I mean argument is premised on the experience of someone who DIDN’T EVEN ATTEMPT THE MARKET???? I literally applied to hundreds of jobs over seven or eight years before getting a TT job offer.

I always think when I encounter this particular type of aggrieved white man in or around academia that they would not be able to survive a single week in the shoes of the people of color/women they are convinced are less qualified than them, and only get jobs because of our identities. Not one week.

As more and more creators are expected to be on camera to promote their comics, can we talk for a second about how this opens up female creators to intense harassment about their looks? Not to mention a lot of "You only have a career in comics because you're good looking" comments?

Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”

I've always positioned optimism as in "everything will be fine" against hope which is "if we show up and do our utmost there is a chance." But those words mean different things to different people. What's striking is how many safe & comfortable people want to give up while the most endangered fight.

There is always something to be done, and that something makes a difference. That is what optimism is: choosing to believe that you can continue to make a difference, and doing so, as much as you can.

You can be optimistic about climate the way that you are optimistic about a hurricane: by knowing what coming, by having a plan, by helping those most vulnerable.

The fossil fuel industry has managed to keep us immobile with a combination of jaded pessimism and ungrounded optimism. Combatting that isn’t just going to look like hard number crunching.

See Cheryl Harris, “whiteness as property“ 1993 harvardlawreview.org/print/no-vol...

The absolute seething resentment that people with names like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Nikole Hannah-Jones and Clint Smith write best-sellers and win awards. It doesn't matter how few black writers there are, every single one is a usurper of their birthright

Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...

it's shameful regardless. Larry Summers is not the bar

Quick reminder that anesthesiologists use fentanyl for major surgeries like heart bypasses and kidney transplants. There's really no good alternatives for these kinds of procedures. But I guess MAHA depends on the whims of two doddering old men with no training in medicine.

Writers of Asian (AAPI) descent: Kundiman's Writers Retreat is open for applications now! Kundiman is an awesome organization with impressive teachers and writers. Of course, I've never been a part of it, but I love what I see from Kundiman and I give when I'm able: www.kundiman.org/retreat?mc_c...

💔... so young. So much life to live. All the lives he might have saved. All the lives he could have touched, changed. His family's unimaginable sorrow must become ours... we've seen exponential loss from guns, from the campus to the beach, among the poor and the privileged. This must end. NOW.

Well anyway, if you are actually interested in the relationship between materialism and feminism and standpoint and incels (aka mad about that article Seth posted) here’s the thread you should read

I mean, surely it’s not the American right or white supremacy or antisemitism or Trump’s America First movement or algorithmic social media that might help explain Fuentes.

How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’

🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.

It /is/ a problem that the right has articulated a reactionary vision for the humanities and the left has pushed ROI analysis to boost tech and marketing degrees.

NSF now planning to let POs largely decide what gets funded, and to send PIs reviews that are only 3-5 sentences long. They don't have to use outside reviewers (except maybe 1) and don't have to convene panels. (1/5)

The rest of the media was totally irresponsible for not running with this headline: novaramedia.com/2025/12/15/n...

this is why I don’t really question the grammar so much as random citations that weren’t on the syllabus or clearly incorrect material that is like… bizarrely wrong.

YES! So many structures and words that have been classed as AI giveaways are what speakers of English as a second language have been taught and encouraged to do.

"A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory" excellent takedown of ******* Matthew Yglesias's lazy take of critical race theory by sociologist @victorerikray.bsky.social in @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

So and so "single-handedly" did X. No Chad, they most certainly DID NOT.

What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Inarticulably devastating

Woah. Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success. The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points. The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.

Ok, yall know the news, you know things haven't ceased, you know displacement is escalating and winter is compounding it. Simple ask—pledge a weekly coffee for six families & a camp. It means food, emergency healthcare, winter & newborn supplies, shelter. chuffed.org/project/hope...

when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.

I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.

Come back to me when every corporate CEO has to have a socialist in the boardroom for "balance."

If you're American, I've reposted discussions of The Guardian's severe anti-trans bias that inflamed a moral panic, endangerimg the rights and lives of trans people in the UK. Important to note: @us.theguardian.com is actually fine, even good, on trans issues.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

"The clinic ... run by the Christian, Maryland-based humanitarian organization World Relief and funded by USAID, provided a key weapon in the fight: IV bags to stave off dehydration and death. The bags cost just 62 cents each, and in three months, the clinics had helped save more than 500 people."

“There didn’t appear to be a single Black juror in the room.”