As it happens, I had occasion to hear many of these ultimately bad-faith AI booster arguments in a speech I attended this very day. Good to review this point by point take down.

So a long dreamt of, long sought after HIV/AIDS Public Health miracle in the offing that the regime cannot subvert?

I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally. Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event

Meet the interpreters improving access for Deaf Indigenous people. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

The thing about taking another bad fall is the pain that lingers, and right now I can’t afford the gasoline to go to the store to buy pain meds. If you can share this and/or chip in I would be very grateful. Thank you for reading.

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

OH MY GOD OUR NSF GRANT WAS CANCELED LITERALLY THE DAY AFTER WE WERE NOTIFIED THAT OUR NO COST EXTENSION WAS APPROVED *dies*

The oceans just hit an ominous milestone. A new report sounds the alarm on ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries. grist.org/oceans/the-o... #Oceans #Climate #Heat #Earth #Environment #Greensky

posting this again, $1400 short of the goal. anything helps 🩷 #MutualAid #transcrowdfund #urgentrequest #bipocMA #queermutualaid #MutualAidMonday

The only correct translation of "ba'al tekiah" is "master blaster". When English hands you an opportunity like that, you don't turn it down.

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

11/ There are still some copies available, but this book deserves a reissue with a introduction by somebody famous.

Seeing a whole lot of mutual aid postings today. Mutual means mutual - if you can share a bit with someone else please do ❤️ search the hashtag if you’re not seeing it yourself and do a kind thing today!

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

"IOC says trans policy to be based on science but panel makeup tells different story" "Researchers whose findings suggest no clear competitive advantage for trans women have reportedly been excluded from this group." Thank you, USA Today for reporting on this. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

As many of you know, I have spent many years working on tracing the dispersal of the Neferibresaneith ushabtis on the market around the world. We are publishing an update to this article: www.jstor.org/stable/26555... which has a number of tables at the end listing those identified by 2018.

Oh.

Our current admin hates disabled people 🌈 www.afge.org/article/cdc-...

Spain and Italy are sending warships to protect unarmed citizens bringing aid to the starving people of Gaza. Israel is a terror state engaged in deliberate mass starvation and killing of civilians. We need full sanctions. Full boycott and international action to end the genocide.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Oh my goodness what incredible, incredible news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Court has affirmed what we already knew to be true: Paul Dama deserves to call the #MA7 home. After ICE abducted him, a vacuum was left behind. I am grateful to our community, who showed up in numbers to reciprocate Paul’s love and immeasurable contributions.

ICE must immediately release Paul from this unnecessary detention. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

half-remembering that thing about how most Roman citizens experienced the fall of Rome as simply one day their local bridge went out and nobody came around to repair it

In the TV context, the joke is attributed to Jack Paar (1960), but Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. made the same joke in 1857 in the very first issue of The Atlantic Monthly. (His "Breakfast-Table" columns were a continuation of essays he had written for a different publication in 1831–32.)

If 1800 people went missing from anywhere else it would be nonstop news. This is and continues to be criminal.

Hell is not hot enough.

look at how people talk about what we should do with these people. look at the people who insist we should understand them or compromise with some of them. look at the candidates who want your vote and don't want these people to face prosecution.

In my opinion the internet is better when people are on their own little sites minding their business talking to people they’re interested in talking to. It’s worse when there are two websites and everyone on them has been driven insane by an algorithm designed to drive them insane.

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

Thanks to @chuckjones.bsky.social and the AWOL list I've just seen this title today, and I'm wondering if anyone has read it yet. Very intrigued by the framing of using AI as necromancy! thedigitalpress.org/practical-ne...

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-

In this scenario NVIDIA would set up an entity to buy its own GPUs and then lease them to OpenAI. This isn’t exactly what Enron did, but it’s sure getting close!

Submit your abstracts on Christian apocrypha and come hang out with us at UVA this spring!

Shanah tovah umtukah, my friends! Sending warm wishes to all of you this Rosh Hashanah.

Navratri Ki Shubhkamnaye – नवरात्रि की शुभकामनाये संदेश May Maa Durga stand with us and bring us strength and victory in dangerous times.

Don't know where to start with school board activism? Our friends in Oregon put together a tool kit static1.squarespace.com/static/62a0d...

I was asked yesterday to post a walkthrough of Life Over Time, the shortest-lived and generally weirdest iteration of the Field Museum’s fossil halls. If you visited between 1994 and 2004, this is the version you saw. I’ve got some time, so let’s do this.

If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

Indigenous African nations had a variety of ways to address gender diversity before colonisation, which didn't usually include dehumanising trans and queer family members. May this case in Kenya set off a wave of Africans decolonising gender in their laws. 🙌🏽🖤

The Brothering continues. Finn is settling in, and Seamus looks exhausted about it, but they’re getting along very well. As soon as I took this, they started running around together again.

The alt text here surely deserves an award. 😳

#OnThisDay - 23 September - in 63 BC Gaius Octavius was born. As Augustus he would be the first emperor of Rome, with the Senate declaring his birthday a public holiday. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC Augustus 492; Martin von Wagner Museum (H 6736). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Meanwhile Australian landlords are coming up with even more ridiculous ways to take all your money

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray. No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye. Thank me later, An actual expert

Worth sharing with the not-online, don't read @wired.com folks in your circles who imagine that plagiarism-ecocide machines actually know anything.

I'm not the first to notice the reinvention of @wired.com from mouthpiece of tech ideology to showing everyone else how to do journalism today, but this cover is something else. The inclusion of their own hagiographic covers in the back is a nod to that shift, which is beautiful. Also…