I was trying to explain what ChatGPT is to my mom (she thought it was a messaging app) and after my explanation and some thought, she volunteered, “Oh, so it’s the magic mirror in the beginning of Snow White when it only tells the queen what she wants to hear.” Perfect analogy.

FRIENDS!!! HOLY SHIT!!!

Required reading for anyone who wants to talk ableism and AI (because we can’t talk about both without also talking about eugenics): “Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI” doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

Gonna die on this hill but efficiency is the opposite of education. Learning is not efficient.

"You want to buy a big pretzel from that German food truck and eat it for twenty minutes, even though that sounds like way too long? Go for it. This is Free Time. Dip it in cheese and stand around like an idiot while you chew your pretzel and watch everyone run around like rats."

The truest litmus test of whether you feel positively about someone: would I make you a gift? If the answer is anything but an enthusiastic yes, it’s a no!

Facts, Fire, and Feels brings together research, critique, and storytelling from the edges of knowledge production. We read the literature. We name the harms. We amplify the studies that treat us as whole people. We reject the ones that don’t. stimpunks.org/research/ove...

This, always and every day and no matter what, THIS. Right now many things are terrible, they would be a lot more so were there not so many people doing so many things in in hope, in defiance, in solidarity.

misogyny, racism, & fascist ideologies ai systems encode and exacerbate that we've been telling you about for yrs never went away. it's just that governments & those in position of power said "we don't care about that. just adopt ai at whatever cost"

A response that just floors me every time is "the anti-ai movement is ableist." Do you see those kinds of posts? After all the eugenics coming out of the mouths of AI evangelists, treating AI as a boon to the disabled is just...I can't tell if it's AI-driven delusion, stupidity, or paid propaganda.

its also incredibly condescending, the arguments that disabled writers and artists cannot create or think without gAI. There are absolutely legitimate use cases as access tech, but that does not mean institutions or companies or states should be making this push to universalize gAI in everything

It’s just using a marginalized group as a tool for their own ends. It actually makes sense if you think about it because they already don’t see us as real humans so why not just turn us into a faceless non-human talking point to serve their own ends.

I know that this isn't the point of the encyclical in the slightest, but can we point out the fact that it contains internal links? Talk about technological shift! (Lots of you might shrug at this, but it's actually a noteworthy change)

At a certain point, you GET TIRED OF BEING TREATED LIKE A SLOT MACHINE. Honestly, I hate that the term “rejection” for not sleeping with a man is the normalized one. It sounds so active, even violent, when actually, it’s passive. Your pitch didn’t change her mind.

Make a zine Nobody can stop you Nobody can stop you from making comics

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries.

Even or especially if you're not Catholic, this is a big part of why the Pope's thoughts about AI are worth paying attention to

The contemporary Catholic tradition calls this "integral ecology": as Francis writes, “the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” cannot be separated.

This right here. Just at the level of craft, ALONE.

I would pay a premium to listen to NBA mic’d up players and coaches live unedited

This. And it's way more than 1 in 4 if you count the people who just vicariously enjoy watching it happen, and the people with ostensibly "left" or "progressive" politics who indulge in it under the guise of "justice," "calling out," or "accountability."

::stares in land-grant university::

Being optimistic isn’t inherently noble. Nor is it aligned with a particular ideology. Many seemingly competing institutions and campaigns call for positive thinking.

Oh no, a man didn't like something I wrote.

There is absolutely no defense for red apples. None. They are a tragedy.

“Bubble” is just the word you use to say “community” when you don’t like the people in the community.

Read. To. Your. Kids. I. Promise. You. Have. The. Time.

Having vigorous disagreements is not the only valuable kind of socializing, nor is it the only way to learn anything. Hope this helps.

if you have a child with a disability/chronic illness, do not put them on social media even if it makes you personally feel better about your worries. There are other ways to connect with people in similar situations, to build community.

Time for emergency hot takes! -many people cannot grow their own food and should not be expected to as a solution -Costco's basic membership is $60/year ($5/month) and can pay for itself in one purchase -Red delicious apples are gross -more men should use purses and fanny packs -duffle bags are bad

Never *let* them win at games! But don’t be a jerk about winning and celebrate when they win.

Loving your kids unconditionally doesn’t mean thinking they’re perfect, it means appreciating that they’re complex, flawed individuals.

"When you’re the parent of a disabled child, you’re not the person most impacted. Your child is." rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/05/22/s...

me: sipping a Popping Boba Margarita 🍹🍉

The new Diet Coke font is AWFUL. This could be what does it. This could push me left.

Our new pied-à-terre tax will have the ultra-wealthy elite — those who own $5 million apartments in New York City but don’t actually live here — pay their fair share.

My 🔥hottest🔥 parenting take is: WE SHOULD PROVIDE PEOPLE EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO CHOOOOOOOOSE PARENTHOOD. It’s bad for everyone when we don’t give people autonomy over becoming a parent.

The tech industry is so deeply uncool that they ruined the coolest city in the world just by being next to it

Among disabled people, it's not uncommon for their parents to be their first bully.

Parenting a disabled child doesn't mean you actually understand ableism as they experience it.

Had the chance to see Safiya Noble (!) perform a stand-up comedy routine last night and can confirm that ridicule as praxis makes for a joyful means of both analyzing and mocking tech bros and their brilliant ideas.

Still remember the crushing moment as a young researcher when I realised that proving something through evidence had damn near no impact on social policy unless it was politically useful to believe it.

subtweet but omg some people can't just quickly say hello or thank you or nod/smile or whatever else you think is the best/default/only way to show kindness treat people like people indeed end subtweet

A GOOD SEARCH ENGINE IS WORTH A LOT OF MONEY A SHITTY SEARCH ENGINE IS POINTLESS

The unpaid burden on the people who provide emotional labor right now is beyond the beyond.

Fuck the whole fucking everything right now: between cis gays and lesbians lionizing the transphobe Barney Frank, and the comply in advance bureaucrats, I'm fucking exhausted. (I am also sad I have only used 'fuck' as an adjective, a verb, and an adverb.)

Time for bed. I can doomscroll more tomorrow.

water is so good. y'all ever drink water? this shit slaps