Many congratulations to Archbishop Mullally and all my Anglican / Episcopalian peeps. What a glorious, holy thing.

Monkey wrenching is such an under appreciated form of protest

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

Humans are like knives: you can accidentally cut yourself but you’ll probably keep the damage pretty limited LLMs are like machine guns: you can inflict maximum damage incredibly quickly. As blast radiuses increase, you need more safety procedures not less.

Rad AF / Aspirational for local government entities anywhere

The only tech product that has delivered on its promise of redefining its field while also preserving the best of the past is this

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern

Seven-word death punch

The Jetsons lied to us

Every time I post about endometriosis and dare to make it, gender inclusive, I always get a lot of comments from people angry that I didn’t just say “women” And every time, I think about how Rowling has enough money to cure endometriosis forever. But she doesn’t actually give a fuck about women.

even setting aside the intended effect of campus crackdowns: one difference between now and two years ago is that half or so of them are gone, having received their four year degrees, and "students" (2026) and "students" (2024) refer to two largely different populations of people

Once again, not a trans person or a drag queen 🤷🏻‍♀️

Diplomas were withheld, students were beaten, jailed and threatened with deportation, and career opportunities evaporated; despite all of this, student activists have indeed stayed in the game and their tactics have evolved. "Why aren't they protesting?" is asked in extreme bad faith.

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

trans women have been trying for years to explain that the anti-abortion and anti-trans movements are ultimately the same movement and these bastards just come out and say it

“… would run afoul of a 1982 Supreme Court decision, which blocked states from denying public education to young people based on immigration status. Plyler v. Doe… held that restricting public education this way would violate the 14th Amendment’s enshrinement of equal protection before the law.” 🤬😤🤢

The Onion is here to stay. It is going to disrupt everything. We are living in the The Onion era. How are you using The Onion to turbocharge your productivity? Your answer will affect your annual performance evaluations.

Did they shoot everyone

If you look up the basic history of some Left Org you’ll probably learn that 1-3 men started it. If you dig a little deeper you’ll discover the 1-5 women who did most of the organizational labor. If you look even more, you’ll discover that 30 more women were also there the day the men “founded” it.

I’ve proofed and error-checked legal research that was done by the AI tools offered by Lexis and Westlaw, as well as other material that was clearly generated by AI but where I didn’t know the model used. It takes anywhere from 5 to 10 times as long to cite-check AI research as human research.

Going slightly insane by learning that a lot of AI safety mechanisms are just “we gave the model a preamble we hope it will listen to” and “we asked another agent to keep an eye on the first one and hopefully listen to our security requirements”

Me to Lindy after reading Koul’s piece and this email

(the secret for interpreting quantities of interest regardless of model complexity is just to use marginal effects) marginaleffects.com

Heya #edpolicy or #gis or #census folks... 🚨 School districts often need census data configured into idiosyncratic, non-census-standard geographies. Know of a *recent* take on this huge task? I know SABINS with 2010 but for 2020 census blocks, state or national...? www.nhgis.org/sabins-schoo...

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

"The Trump Admin has removed or altered hundreds of signs & exhibits in NPs across the US, covering topics from climate change & pollution to slavery & Indigenous history. That’s why Beebe created MissingParkHistory.org, an interactive website that documents every piece of media flagged for removal

my mom was the first co-ed class at UVA and she overheard the president at the time say if they didn't lower admission standards for male applicants the school would have had a 100% female student body; white men have always been the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action

Handsomest boy trying to absorb law/history knowledge by osmosis @unlawfulentries.bsky.social

We use the word “class” for a reason, essentially

I'm a bitch / I'm a lover / Beowulf killed Grendel's mother

Join us for our RPP 101 online series, starting April 6! This 4-part series builds from session to session to provide a comprehensive exploration of #RPPs for those new to research-practice partnerships or wanting to rethink RPPs. More info + registration: buff.ly/tCQkjz2

You may have read that Meta spent $80B on its metaverse flop. That's wrong. That's operating losses, not total investment, and it ignores all the years before Meta reported Reality Labs as a standalone segment. From the 2014 Oculus acquisition to today, the "Metaverse" total is closer to $115B.

Genuinely: everything the corporate world can do, computer nerds will do better for free given the chance. UBI would honestly drive more innovation than any runaway computer algorithm. Imagine what happy humans produce when healthy and able to pursue art!

And today, folks, is when we blare the San Patricio album from The Chieftains & Ry Cooder. 🍀🎶🇮🇪🎶 🇲🇽 ✊ youtube.com/playlist?lis...

So good

is there nothing simone biles can't do

fell for it again award recipients

destroying my opponent's ability to threaten me by shooting myself in the head

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

Result! Just received from Grammarly: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces." 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

This is the work of 2-5 people, full time, for five years. Work that is trying to increase knowledge of the world, of human health and trying to create a healthier population. Which we somehow can’t afford. Because we need to kill hundreds of people in far off lands for reasons that are false.

A tomahawk missile costs the taxpayers the same amount of money as one five-year major NIH research grant. Remember that every time they tell us one of those missed the target, blew up paintings of enemy aircraft or tanks, or was the fifth and unnecessary hit on the same target.

welcome to bluesky, here is your copy of the communist manifesto and a complete world baseball classic schedule for some reason

it's important to remember the difference between correlation and causation when reporting on the Iran war and gas prices. it could have gotten twenty percent more expensive in a week even if we hadn't done all that. there's no way to know

This is a two way race.

The Ascension of Christ, by Adriaen van der Werff, 1710, 📸 by Issac Baldizon

Stunning 🧵 full of the risks of #genAI in litigation & policy making. I’ll be shocked if the DOJ lawyer keeps his bar license after this VERY PUBLIC debacle, he should be so embarrassed he could barf ONLY PUBLIC THANKS TO @randyhermanlaw.com