GRTC commits to another year of fare-free service

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

Sectoral commitment to move fast and break things (Earth's habitable conditions for all humanity)

Thinking about this part... "Before the second recess, all four of Louisiana’s Black congressmen, past and present, since the Reconstruction era spoke to the committee..."

Palmer drought index. Worst ever. Worse than the dust bowl. Fire season is coming.

I should learn to not talk about education on here because every time I defend the intellectual value of college someone explains to me that most people see it as job prep (without knowing that I work primarily with students who see it as job prep but who also, at every moment, reach for more)

My latest. America is giving dying mall vibes. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Happy May Day

In my first #phd labor econ class, my professor showed us a graph that I will never forget. It showed that CEOs make 300x more than typical workers. This graph radicalized me to love unions FOREVER.

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

My 2006 CRV x 2007 Civic household approves this message.

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

Back when I was a flight attendant, we occasionally transported prisoners (escorted by LEOs of whatever stripe), and even the ones designated "dangerous" were under no circumstances allowed to have their legs shackled or be chained up. This is condemning people to death in the event of an evacuation

Have you been asked by a medical provider recently for consent to have an "AI" scribe record your visit? Us, too. And we have **thoughts** buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

If Republicans have had a belated realization that gerrymandering is bad, they should work with Dems to ban it entirely. I suspect though that they think it’s just bad when it happens to them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Left: How people think Mississippi votes Right: How Mississippi actually votes

Immediately purchase a usb mouse jiggler even if it interferes with your work a bit.

Decided to do a little more digging to learn more about those 2020 Biden voters who skipped 2024, why they skipped, and what sort of message might win them back, and found this helpful research by Celinda Lake from last year: waytowin.docsend.com/view/rnv5spt...

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill. HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

Eugenics

I want off this ride.

Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both

have there been similarly culturally pervasive “everyone needs to start using this tech right now” pushes over such a relatively brief time frame as we’re currently seeing with LLMs? (This is a very genuine question)

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

We’re nearly 100 participants deep and growing! Come find new colleagues, collaborators, and comrades on our private social networking site (that takes place outside of big-Meta™), and engage in deeply generative dialogue with folks from across the U.S. and beyond! tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium

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NAACP announced it is suing xAI over its second data center in Memphis, claiming the company is illegally operating 27 gas turbines without a permit

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

Defund the Police is a good slogan, actually.

FYSA, the lead story is not "current GenXers brains are bad because lead", it's that lead poisoning disproportionately impacted poor and minority communities and those voters died younger. Also AIDS killed a lot of young progressive GenXers.

What’s shitty about the discourse about this post both on Threads and here is that there are genuine concerns about colonialism with respect to the moon, including for example: www.cnn.com/2024/01/05/w... 🧪🌔🔭

Now, you didn’t think we were done just yet, did you? 😏😏😏 Our Conference Guide is officially up on our website! Explore the full abstracts for all papers and workshops across all three days of the Symposium at tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium And, don’t forget to register before Friday to join us!

Trump’s pollster released a poll two days before Hungary’s election that showed Viktor Orban’s far-right Fidesz party leading 43-37. Instead, the opposition Tisza party won 53-38 and secured the 2/3 supermajority needed to unravel Orban’s authoritarian regime

Glad to see Gen Z re-learning from first principles the basic tools of protest.

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⚕️💉Day 3, Day 3, Day 3! 💉⚕️ Navigating Discourses on Stigma and Harm Facilitated by Steph Cull, VCU PhD Candidate. Featuring: Ryan DeCarsky, University of Washington; Marquisele Mercedes, University of California - San Francisco; and Jason Contino, UCLA. Register now: tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium

I wish science could explain what’s happening.

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

We’re down to the final week of announcements and less than two weeks from the symposium! Who’s excited?? 🙋🏽🙋🏿‍♂️🙋🏻‍♀️ Are you intrigued by medical and psychiatric diagnoses? The etiologies and genealogies of diseases? The trouble with health-related decision-making? Join us! tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium

It's hard to choose just one, but almost nothing beats my Sunsets on Lake Superior series.

Switch to Libro! They never center her. They profit share with indie bookstores. And they are not owned by Amazon! Triple win. libro.fm/referral?rf_...

Ever single gentile needs to read each and every one of these. A Jewish woman on Instagram made a post about how matzo is made and why we eat it on Passover. Every reply was violent, vile, and hateful. I need you to understand how even the most innocuous part of Jewish existence is reviled.

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Cherry blossoms in Japan.