I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

Today someone who is a terrible person complained that because someone tried to kill him because he was doing bad things, we should just allow him to do more bad things. Am I missing anything? Hoo boy.

I have the rest of today until the 29th to make at least $326 to be able to pay the copay for my surgery on the 1st. I won't be able to do much on the 30th because I have a check-in with my primary and then have to check in to the hospital for testing, I'll have to stay the night.

An interesting article: "Angels in Coptic Magic II: The Twenty-Four Presbyters." #Egyptology #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/20...

"New Approaches to Egyptian Grammar: Findings and Prospects of the LCDE Project." A conference on 4–5 May 2026 at the University of Basel. Free online attendance is possible on Zoom (pre-registration required). #Egyptology #LangSky mkilani.github.io/lcde-workshop/

you're gonna have to be more specific

Having just spent the day reading about the massive capital redistribution out of early modern Africa and thinking about its long, long trail of consequences, reading about the current massive capital redistribution project of AI tech lords hits even harder than usual 😞😡

*walks into bluesky* *carefully and quietly backs out*

a great native family I know in Minneapolis is trying to raise some funds to send their son home after his unexpected death any thing helps, please share

YAKOKE! Thank you all so much! Made some major progress and I could not be more grateful! Thanks to this progress I am $326 away from having the $750 for my copay on the 1st for my eye surgery. ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...

Indigenous land defenders are being killed and criminalised at alarming rates, AI systems scrape traditional knowledge without consent, while Indigenous women face escalating rates of violence, crises that Indigenous leaders confronted this week at the UN. www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/04/25/i...

What I’m against is what Blake called single vision—being possessed by one single idea & seeing everything in terms of this one idea, whether it’s a religious idea or a scientific idea or a political idea. It’s a very bad thing. We need a multiplicity of viewpoints~Philip Pullman

The role of dehumanization in the #cycleofgenocide www.patreon.com/posts/516827...

@alexip718.com's list of "A.i."-slop-free news sources. Because if an outlet uses "A.i.," it just can't be trusted any longer. go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

If you want journalists to be nice to you, don’t have power. It’s a very easy fix. And if you are mad when journalists hold power to account, you are part of the problem.

Here's the *10-page* paper published in *Nature*. (For non-scientists, this is a very big deal and the kind of thing press offices usually get excited about.) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is not a flower.

Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this comic illustration of a cat herding geese! 😻 They used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. From Deir el-Medina, Thebes. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #Archaeology

“Reframing ‘language endangerment’ as ‘language oppression’ may help to articulate new forms of care—here conceptualized as empathy, concern, and engagement—for the social conditions of both languages and the people who speak them.” Georgia Ennis americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

It looks like you’re discharging your cognitive dissonance in a stranger’s mentions. Would you like to: - sit with the discomfort instead? - go for a nice walk outside? - do some journaling on this subject? - search the web for more context about the subject under discussion?

The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers. Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers. (Published Dec. 2025 with @highcountrynews.org)

The same NSB that silently went along with his destruction of the NSF for the last year. DID NOT SAVE THEM

Extreme-right Chilean government planning to dismantle science funding 🧪

"There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.” ~Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Every sunrise is magic✨ I wish you a day of magical possibilities #eastcoastkin #sunrise

I think you mean the White House is breaking a law that was put in place by congress after Watergate.

One of the worst things to happen to America was journalism ceasing to be a middle income career like teaching or accounting and transforming into a bullshit job for precocious rich kids because parental subsidies are required for your first decade in the business.

If you don't believe in magic, how can you ever hope to find it?

lol sorry, gang. I'm just browsing Kickstarter tonight and I see so many projects with AI art and obvious ChatGPT copy. The whole point of a Kickstarter pitch is to assure your audience of your competence. Nothing about using genAI does that. And that's why your shit isn't funding and never will.

The wizard works on revising his research paper.

You’re not wrong. Teaching is a skill cultivated through practice. A person can be brilliant, technically skilled, and horrible at teaching. Being an expert in a field doesn’t mean that you’re capable of teaching it.

Me when people keep using ChatGPT:

In an alternate timeline where this happened in the 1970s as originally promised it would’ve been built in the median of the Bishop Ford and I-57

I want to acknowledge that it genuinely sucks for international authors who did not file US copyright to not be included in this suit, and I wish there were a way for that to happen.

i like following international news as a reminder that ALL of this [waves hand at everything] is optional

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

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I’m officially homeless and living in my car. I really need help to find housing and afford medicine and groceries. If you can help please share and contribute. Thank you so muchPatreon.com/word... Paypal.me/wordglass CashaApp/Venmo wordglass 1/2

Just checked and the final Anthropic status update is in place with # of claims received. 440,490 claims received means roughly something like $2678 per work ($1339 when split between publisher and author).

This is wondrous! 😍

Every engineer who saw the Internet grow knows that the three most dangerous things in the world are: 1) Backhoes 2) Water 3) Squirrels If you think I am joking, then you do not appreciate how tenuous the infrastructure of modernity really is.

We keep a list of our majors who go on to absolutely crush it in their chosen fields & break them down by industry, so new students can see that in whatever line of work they choose, & if history is any guide, yes, it’s true: they will very soon be the boss english.georgetown.edu/english-alum...

And people wonder why editors are famously grouchy. This kind of “I have no idea if you even wrote this” would be why

How to turn off Copilot in Microsoft Office (at least heretofore): support.microsoft.com/en-us/office...

print copy of @monikaamsler.bsky.social's Element has joined the rest of the growing family!

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

I'm sorry to all my TTU colleagues who were at one point under the impression that they worked for a university

Northern Cheyenne activist Krystal Two Bulls says there are 103 to 160 proposed hyperscale data centers on Native lands. The data center boom is a “modern-day iteration” of “settler colonialism,” impacts of which include noise pollution, cancers and respiratory illnesses, water depletion and more.