My SIL found out her 7 YO's school was encouraging using genAI in their creative writing lessons. He's 7! His mind is a sparkling fountain of creativity right now! You better believe she went after them about it.

Butlerian Jihad NOW

Absolutely speechless “Transgenders weren’t into making chips I guess” LYNN FUCKING CONWAY INVENTED MODERN MICROELECTRONICS SOPHIE GODDAM WILSON DEVELOPED THE MICROPROCESSOR THAT RUNS THE WORLD AND I (I do not compare myself to those two) WROTE THE SOFTWARE THAT ALLOWED YOUR SMARTPHONE TO EXIST

My heartfelt condolences to Canada, its Indigenous Peoples, and all those who lost homes, forests, health and loved ones during this awful tragedy.

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

This month, we published another article revealing that MSG kept a database of VIP event attendees, labeling some of them as LGBTQIA and assigning a “risk score” to others. This is also now free to read:

Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.

“The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.”

"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We're pleased that the court is requiring Florida to prove that Alligator Alcatraz is closing permanently — vague assurances of ‘just trust us’ from Florida officials and ICE just don’t cut it.

"A stateless person becomes an unexpected complication inside systems built for efficiency. [...] Most people simply have no idea what to do with someone who falls outside the categories their systems were built to recognize." #statelessness

This is big. The first vaccine tested to PREVENT pancreatic cancer in high-risk individuals aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

Duckworth on Hegseth announcing testosterone screenings for troops: "It sounds like gender affirming care to me, so I'm glad he's come around ... this is just more performative bullshit from the least qualified secretary of defense in our nation's history."

Democrats have stopped talking about climate. Strategists say that's smart—but they're wrong. Making climate a top priority wins votes, and barely 1 in 10 voters will vote against climate action. Read all about it in my newsletter, "Notes from the Electric Era." electricnotes.news/p/yes-democr...

Wildfire pollution is coming for our lungs AND our minds

This is the most insufferable thing about this entire fucking era of culture/politics. Reactionary ppl dont just want the freedom to make self-sabotaging decisions (which they already have!), they want to require the rest of us to tell them how good they are & how great it is that they do that.

Hearing about the men, women, and children incarcerated at Kilmainham Gaol (for stealing bread, begging, drawing political cartoons...), about their inhumane treatment, and about the revolutionary energy that inhumanity generated, it was easy to see parallels to US prisons & detention centers today.

The San Diego Zoo just had their first ever echidna twins, and the mom is taking care of one puggle while human caretakers (puggle cuddlers? puggle huggers?) raise this one.

Meta glasses ad vandalized in London https://manualdousuario.net/en/they-live-meta-glasses-kylie-jenner/

Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."

"Why does nobody trust institutions anymore?"

Like most people, I always thought it would be neat if we had a more exciting food supply

Tonight Trump will re-litigate the 2020 election. Why? In support of his SAVE act, which is actually a Voter Suppression Act. This is a Hail Mary effort to keep his corrupt power grab from being swamped by a blue wave in November.

If you aren't up on Radcliffe, this would be an excellent opportunity. And If you are, well, same goes.

Everything is A-Okay! Oh wait, didn't read the whole thing. Everything is A-Okay B-Not Okay or C-aaaaaa

Yes. I might even go further. those demanding prison the loudest might be the most resistant to redistribution.

My writing inspiration for today (and maybe for the rest of my life): "Monsters need hobbies." - @chucktingle.bsky.social via @talkscaredpod.bsky.social - now on a post-it in my office. #WritingCommunity #horror

I will not be listening to opinions on gender and biology from those who think women originated from a rib cage…

Demanding opposition "shut their mouth" while threatening "bloodshed" if armed agents run unchecked traffic stops is chilling af. Homan isn't acting like a civil servant. He’s using the textbook authoritarian playbook to justify forced population transfer, which is akin to ethnic cleansing.

Hey guys If you're bored and looking for crimes to investigate, there's a whole bunch of stuff filed under Epstein, Jeffery. You don't even have to stand out in the hot sun to do it. Grab a coffee. Sit down. Get to reading.

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits. (Published April)

If you want to stop fascism, you need to stop those who promote it, enforce it, and profit from it.

suno scraped deezer. depraved. maidenless

1) The entire history of women's sport has been men trying to prevent it. 2) Homophobia and especially transphobia always, ALWAYS correlate with misogyny, and cis women who can't see that are turkeys voting for Christmas.

Huge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4

39) Track your wins. Make sure other people know about 'em. This is especially important if you're a traditionally overlooked demographic. Because if you fall for the fiction you should be modest and downplay your own accomplishments? Certain types will LEAP at the opportunity to help you w/that.

roberts et al have a mental model of racism as being defined entirely by the most atavistic mania of the jim crow south. if it isn’t that, if it wears suits and ties and speaks the language of national security and executive authority, then it not only doesn’t count, *it’s not racism*

shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

reminder that all the AI "authors" swamping publications RN are using software built on shit like this:

A 13-ton haul of cocaine disguised as bananas exposes alleged links between US financiers, luxury Dubai real estate and a crypto-trading Irish fintech. Read more: bloom.bg/4gyzmfH 📷: Jorge Guerrero/AFP

Merely abolishing ICE is the moderate, restrained position. The moral position is prosecutions, a truth commission, and fundamental constitutional reform so a rogue court run by extremists can never again approve secret police death saques occupying our cities.

Decades of dehumanizing copaganda have primed people to see a Black man allegedly fleeing law enforcement as deserving of death, as expendable. ICE has the same script writers now trying the same tactics. The only way to challenge their narrative is to challenge all of it, every time:

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

I come back to this book every couple of years. politicalscience.jhu.edu/faculty-book...