Another day, another prestige-paper op-ed worried about hypothetical “AI” drones (whatever that means) that fails to really mention or meaningfully engage with how 100% human drone pilots are using small cheap drones to target civilians *right now*:

As batshit as things have gotten since my rural childhood in the ’90s, I’m also not really that surprised, because I grew up around these people. We had neighbors shrieking about black helicopters throughout the Clinton years; now they have Facebook and a GOP that’s willing to use them.

it amazes me how many people have made it to adulthood and not noticed yet how many if not most vocal critics of Rural America are people who are themselves FROM rural America, and who would rather eat broken glass than go back

last time i visited family in rural indiana, i accepted my uncle's offer to smoke pot on the back porch and we chilled for a bit. then with full conviction in his voice, he started telling me the govt was transing all the kids to build a woke communist army. there's a reason i've never returned.

RIP chaotic bisexual Herman Melville; you would have loved AO3.

100%. Don’t let TERFs colonize the narrative here. Most studies show that lesbians are far more likely to be trans accepting than almost any other group. It’s just, as queer ppl, we’re more likely to be in proximity to a lesbian transphobe than a straight one.

Ninety percent of the 71 detainees contacted in the concentration camp on Fort Bliss say they were beaten by guards are witnessed beatings, in addition to inedible meals and lack of access to medication or lawyers.

Smoke forecast for tomorrow afternoon. Seems lovely.

I hear everyone on their use cases for tracking themselves. I’m just telling you that convenience is why we are very seriously at the cusp of living in this guy’s fever dream youtube.com/shorts/vxsFy...

Listen, once the consumer tech made us FEEL good/right/in control? Our libidinal desires took over. we are “feeling” our way right into corporate sovereignty and ceremonial government.

Also, both is basically a scam and a grift now bsky.app/profile/joer...

More people should be familiar with Martin Sostre. This is what we mean when we say the Prairieland case is not new

if you're a professional programmer, and you have 'ops folks', they do not and have never actually trusted you, and you can treat your models like they treat you

Perhaps a way to look at it is AI is a function of degrowth in a dying world: we depend on tech, we replace workers with a 'crucial' machine that routinely breaks stuff and it's noone's fault. Give us money to maintain this machine so we can at least have 75% of what we're used to.

For those of us with disabilities or small kids (or both!), life is all backrooms like this. Elevators that are bathrooms, bathrooms that are broom closets, the longest hallways to nowhere. (I raised my smalls while living in Dot and working in Cambridge and I remember that hallway well.)

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

With two people dead in Memphis in four days and one the same week in Houston, that's four people federal agents have shot and killed over just nine days. July 5: Tyrin Johnson July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo July 8: Alfonso Ivy July 13: name not released yet

open borders

I dunno man; my small town farmland-adjacent community is full of queertrans, immigrant-protecting, anti-war families and I can tell you our kitchen table convos are ALL about Lady G today. His name comes up when I walk my 11yo thru how we got to this point in American political life. We remember.

More than two years after her arrest while attempting to protect students against police violence at the break-up of UC Irvine’s Gaza Solidarity encampment, the UC Irvine administration continues to subject Tiffany to unfair and costly disciplinary procedures. sites.google.com/view/withdra...

Anyway, remember that San Diego & San Jose stood up and fought back when the fascist administration threatened their ICAC money, whereas NCMEC rolled over & went along with the fascists in order not to endanger *their* money, which comes from the same pot as ICAC grants.

For every Star Trek, we take a drink.

We analyse this through 1️⃣ the cognitive: what is forfeit when statistical pattern-matching substitutes our thinking 2️⃣ the pedagogical: AI literacy as currently deployed is a symptom 3️⃣ the political: AI's infrastructure inherently naturalizes labor displacement pdf: zenodo.org/records/2122... 5/

My most doomy take is that liberal governments were in fact serious about decarbonizing, but then realized that carbon capture doesn’t actually work and they would have to manage the devaluation of trillions of fossil capital, and they quietly decided that they would rather let the world burn. 1/2

“.. part of a growing number of similar violent interactions involving civilians and immigration agents. More than 20 people have been shot at since September, nearly all of them in their cars.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

I’ve been in the space of feeding folks for nearly 4 years now. It’s getting worse and no amount of mutual aid or food banks will get us out of this.

An exceedingly rare article which not only centers trans voices, but lays out in stark terms that this is a refugee crisis spurred by the Trump regime's campaign of hate. www.adn.com/nation-world...

The U.S. military shot and killed an American on U.S. soil this morning

Like people also don't understand that "gender non conforming" isn't so much a particular look or presentation it's often literally doing anything which patriarchs consider to disrupt the natural roles of men and women however ridiculous.

Great paper by a 🌟 group ( @posada.website) that shows the "annotation pipeline as a site of epistemic contestation" & how 'ground truth' is "a sociotechnical artifact manufactured through a sequence of deliberate & often invisible choices," including labor conditions dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

glad congress isn’t alive to see this

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

Mourners marched across the Mississippi to the federal building carrying coffins for every migrant that has died in DHS custody.

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Ok wait NOW he really is watching himself watch himself on Fox News.

Amigxs: I’m boosting my newbie Spanish with a 2-week online intensive: 9-10am Eastern, July 13-17 & 20-24. My instructor Elissa is a total delight. Come join me if you’re learning this summer too? Será genial. courses.expressfluency.com/beginner-spa...

Proprietary LLMs create “a scientific edifice built on shifting sands, where“findings” have best-by dates haphazardly set by commercial parties” Brilliant short piece 👏

William Frey and I wrote about how the international media and politics of compassion and paternalism can boomerang into domestic issues among algorithmic systems in our 2024 article on "Savior Swarms" on issues of mass shootings and racial justice datasociety.net/research-lib...

Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013. To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS/Atom/JSON feed to your web site and keep building a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.

Part of why housing discourse is such a mess is that when housing prices are successfully lowered by local government policy (which is exactly what happened here!), it gets reported by the local paper as bad news.

In shock news 4 out of 9 US Supreme Court Justices have declared that the US Constitution is not constitutional. 🤪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

An immigration attorney says that there are now swaths of people held in immigration detention centers who shouldn’t be detained at all. “The number of people who are detained outside the scope of the law has increased dramatically.”

FYI, our story today includes this chart. Great deal of work involved in building it. Trump & Lutnick families have financial ties to at least 14 companies/executives pursuing federal financial assistance for mining projects or permits from Trump administration. Seeking $8.9 billion in total. (!)

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

This increases the likelihood that only these sorts of technologically oriented projects will continue to attract funding while training in fundamental skills necessary to the practice of history (paleography, language learning, editorial practice, etc) will lose support. 7/n

And that’s because there are very wealthy people and organizations who fund the use of historical artifacts to advance research and promote hype for a given technology but no money whatsoever for the boring old process of transcription, translation, and editing. 2/n

My brother, if we win the Democratic Party primaries then we ARE the Democratic Party

“Unauthorized use is not a threat to me. It’s licensed use within a power structure where all the money flows to the top.” Pitch perfect @dadadrummer.bsky.social talking about Spotify’s new AI music “tool” on NPR @wbur.org

Happy Pride to every woman whose parents once said "you can't be gay, you were boy crazy as a child!" The boys in question: