Dell Hymes is a foundational scholar in linguistic anthropology who sexually harassed his students and colleagues at Penn for many years before he was finally removed. I don’t cite Hymes’ work in my research and I don’t teach it, and I’m very open about why I don’t.

what people sound like when they say i asked claude

Easy to implement features I regularly see being requested: - Edit function on posts - Removal of the artificial character limit - Ability to set who can/can't see a post Things I see multiple people decry each day: - Addition of AI Assistants - The fascist agenda Let's block and report @attie.ai

My anecdote: My mom kept all the graphic novels in Dutch so I would be motivated to learn it faster. You should have HEARD me yell at Michael when he burnt Walt's Spanish comic book! 🤣

Rewatching this excellent takedown of JKR by @contrapoints.bsky.social today instead of, you know, supporting the evil work of a billionaire TERF who wants to erase trans people from the face of the planet.

Have a great Hermitage story from long ago! Punchline is I had to go back the next day as our curator-guide was moving SO fast. At one point I thought, ‘Wait! I am *running* past a Rembrandt!’

Pullman Washington checks in ✔️ #GoCougs #NoKings

Amtrak Coast Starlight rolling under the No Kings march. Portland, OR

Dude thinks everyone who isn’t a white cis het male Christian Republican is a demon. Adding UFOs to his “maybe not real and I hate them” bucket seems far blander and expected than any situation mentioning UFOs should be

Albany NY No kings was two walls of protesters stretching as far downtown and I could see..

A massive No Kings crowd turns out in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Please stop spreading this rage bait. The quote everyone's angry about, about "crappy identity politics," is not from Weir.

Pete Hegseth removed 4 decorated Army officers—2 Black, 2 women—from a promotion list. The Army Secretary refused, calling their records exemplary. Hegseth overrode it. Possibly illegally. They gave decades to this country. He erased them & called it meritocracy. This is white Christian nationalism.

JK Rowling hates trans people and systematically harasses women she doesn’t personally think are pretty and demure enough. She is a danger.

While most Americans are too intentionally-due-to-our-systems uneducated to grasp symbolism (see: the literacy crisis), this is still Hitler-style shit.

Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983). Sammo Hung plays Master Chang Mei, an old wizard with long, magical, tentacle-like eyebrows (also known as Long Brows).

Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

Meanwhile, the same Canadian government that isn't doing anything to help Canadians trapped in US ICE custody currently has no travel advisory for the US. No warning at all. There's an advisory for the UK, but not the US.

OpenAI announced today that it is discontinuing Sora, its AI fake video generation platform. Sora is the main platform being used to create fake ICE deportation videos covered by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social a few months back.

sharing this incredibly detailed and informed video from @jazzastudios.com explaining how AI art is not art because it genuinely upsets me that this does not have more views if for no other reason than i highly respect him for speaking out about his previously very flawed views on the subject

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

ICE in airports means comic book conventions are gonna end up whiter as people of color decide not to travel and I think the industry needs to grapple with that.

Time sensitive: this is the last day to submit comments opposing the Bureau of Land Management's clearcutting of Oregon's ancient forests. This is a tool that educates you on just how diabolical it is, and it helps you submit your comment. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...

Hi there, Your AI flyer looks like shit

I don’t know when I have ever read anything so bracing. just a magnificent refusal to be distracted from the real questions. really, really, really good stuff

This is bad: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest airport in the world, has *turned off* its official wait time tracker www.atl.com/times/

My pumpkins? SMASHING!

He doesn’t need to “offer”. There’s an established method for writing checks payable to the federal treasury. He could just do it. That he chooses not to demonstrates that he doesn’t intend to do this, he just wants the PR that comes from saying it. Since when does Reuters uncritically repeat PR?

JFC.

New from me for @latimes.com: Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is a leading Republican candidate for governor, has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last November’s election and is investigating whether they were fraudulently counted. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Just adds to the fuck Bari Weiss and CBS ownership feelings.

And it's just one more reason why sports teams and leagues (and yes I am talking to you US World Baseball Classic team) need to back off their fetishization of the US military. Once you become a vehicle for propaganda, it's inevitable, especially with this Administration, you are forced to be it.

Yet another writer co-signing this. My voice is specific and one of the great pleasures of writing for me. I check it meticulously throughout the process and I’m gonna notice and holler if something gets changed. And no, the LLM cannot imitate me enough to fool me. It can’t imitate anyone that well

*Vibrating with so much anger she sneezes* (Summer cold.)

Jake update! He’s hissy! He’s sad! But he’s FIV/FeLV negative, lets us pet him after hissing, has great blood work, and needs an echocardiogram to approve dental surgery. He needs socialization and a foster but he’s getting love, care, and some socialization work with us and we’re so happy he’s ok!

I have a novelist joke but it needs revision.

I get this one a lot, too. People also think I sleep with my crutches on.

Dear parents of young children: when your kid loudly asks "why does that person have a stick?” Please— don't be embarrassed. Don't shush them and drag them away. Disability is not a shameful secret. They're asking because they don't know. Just answer the question.

The former star of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” allegedly engaged in “unlawful sexual activity” with the victim.

Project Hail Mary directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord talk about astrobiology, optimistic science fiction, heist films and handsome scientists

The conservative Cato Institute is accusing the Trump admin of carrying out the largest fraud in the history of the immigration system — totaling $1 billion dollars. The scheme allegedly involves taking processing fees from immigrants, then never providing the promised services.

We’re suing to stop the administration from rolling back public health and environmental protections around greenhouse gas pollution. This illegal action simply denies reality: greenhouse gas pollution poses a danger to our health and our environment.

This is why the dunks and jokes about the Doge boys aren’t funny. It’s why the silent acceptance of disappearing a black women is “understandable” And it’s why the lack of accountability beyond “ story” or “ admiration “ Doesn’t work But everyone thinks we deserve less so it’s fine

The guy who wanted millions of unvaccinated kids to get Covid will be speaking at the NIH tomorrow as a guest of Podcast Jay, who also wanted millions of unvaccinated kids to get Covid.

The most consistently accurate frame to understand the appearance of articles like this is knowing that The Guardian and OpenAI have a partnership.

Good news for UK creators: the government has backed away from advocating a change to copyright law that would have allowed AI companies to train on materials without permission (it is "considering" other approaches) www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"zio isn't a slur" anything can be a slur. if i walk up to a black person and say "nightskin" with enough contempt and venom, it will be understood that i am attempting to attach a meaning -- one of degradation on the basis of immutable characteristics -- to a set of phonemes. Slur

Waffles hath a goode tyme