BBC News - Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein files www.bbc.com/news/article...

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

This sums up my view nicely, sad Clausewitzian that I am, despite this being (as @sefrench.bsky.social notes) probably being apocryphal.

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

I’m hoping it’s not a coincidence that he just put a gag order on the pentagon press corps

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They've lost the 9yos

In my life I've seen treatments for AIDs developed, vaccines for Ebola and malaria, and now this. Medical science is one is the areas that still consistently seems to make these miraculous advances and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone involved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

gives lie to the whole “but no one knew they were like that back then” (also would be nice to see someone bring her book back out)

What must the world think of this country now?

I know it’s not everything, but it’s something: how each of us, in our little spheres of work & community, can help foster & sustain places of care, decency, & intelligence even when powerful people celebrate venal, coarse, mendacious practices. What a gift, to be able to do something so worthwhile

Current mood... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky #animals

Trump is now whining to the UN about the UN working with another developer and not him on their building

Good for Professor Bakken at West Point. Apparently their faculty restrictions now even include a ban on "expressing opinions" (how does that even work when teaching? We ask our students to express opinions!!!) apnews.com/article/west...

“Transgender people and immigrants are not at the root of any problem I face in this country…”

your moment of calm chaos... baby raccoons playing in the kiddie pool...

Look at academia giving me a little hope

The only way this could be more suspect would be if Tom Homan was wearing a little Hamburglar mask as the money was handed to him in a sack with $$$ signs on it.

How do people as dumb as whoever “eigenrobot” is even survive real life? Seems like they’d just walk into traffic or something, bless their hearts. Smdh.

A frenzy of AI hype fuels trillions in spending on costly compute infrastructure. This piece details how real profits and transformative applications lag, revealing a bubble driven less by innovation than by capital reallocation and speculative excess. By @edwardongwesojr.com buff.ly/LBy7HyO

Hey @mayorofseattle.bsky.social the way to be a "leader" in "AI" is to not fall for the bullshit. It's super disappointing to see all of these city documents based on wishful thinking that talk about "AI" without defining it. www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/18/h...

Hey #edusky: what have I said for years about not putting images of children on your websites or socials ? This is why www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A hugely important story largely overlooked by most US media. abcnews.go.com/Politics/sec...

“No,” said Frog.

This 'skill' will be obsolete by 2027. This is like going to school to learn cheat codes for Elder Scrolls IV. Might as well teach how to fax. The demand is going to be for people with critical thinking skills, ethics, who can research.

I was away for a few days in parts of South Wales with slow to no Internet, and it was kinda nice not to know about all the shit that we are in all the time.

Stephen Colbert should run for president. I mean…look at Zelenskyy.

The Word: Shhhhhh! Stephen Colbert returns as Stephen Colbert! 👍

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

Pope after my own heart

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr: "I think it's worthwhile to have the FCC look into The View and some of those other programs."

Psychiatry has yet to identify a single bio marker of “mental illness” but sure let’s do high tech physiognomy that sounds fun

So the check that this thing is working is that it matches the biases of other students. That sounds like a great idea.

Kind of exhausting I know, but it’s important to keep pointing out these reductive, bias infested experiments are just bad science. “Students who had reported depressive symptoms were deemed [by other students] less friendly, expressive, and likeable than those who didn't report feeling depressed.”

kinda painful watching the light leave this guy's eyes as he repeats "what do i do first?" bsky.app/profile/shac...

This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.

“As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices…, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.” - Moliere “Humor is the only test of gravity, & gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious & a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.” - Aristotle

🙁 Jerry is leaving #BenAndJerrys (via @yobencohen.bsky.social)

UN experts condemn Trump's "extrajudicial executions" of alleged drug traffickers. “International law does not allow governments to simply murder" them. "Criminal activities should be disrupted, investigated and prosecuted in accordance with the rule of law." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

“When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say: Hey, I’ve got a new lease on this thing. So let’s go.” A life of art, activism, and heart. R.I.P. Robert Redford. 🕊️💫

Do you ever open a text and think “I’ll reply when I have the energy” and then BOOM it’s been two weeks and you’re a terrible person

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We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU

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One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

I am just really happy for the Koalas and for those of us who support vaccines—close to 50% die of chlamydia. 💉 www.popsci.com/environment/... Vaccines save all lives, including koalae 🐨