Fire near Glasgow Central Station. Major travel disruptions: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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“This is the first time in human history that we are mourning in the future tense” is an idea that will stick with me for a very long time www.tiktok.com/t/ZThv5U9mt/

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

The men, sent to Africa after completing criminal sentences in the US, are from Cuba, Jamaica and Yemen

Palantir staff working in Defence offices. Removing standard audit requirements. Watering down cyber-attack reporting. That’s the deal that the surveillance giant got with the Australian government. Read the report here: www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/09/p...

lol

Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

Please take a moment, please, to call Gov. Ivey at 334-242-7100 with the following message provided by Death Penalty Action

“This study is probably the most depressing project I've been involved with in my entire life…It's distressing to see others engage in fraud &in misleading others. But if you believe that science is useful & important for humanity, then you have to fight for it”🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

They deserve a future!

not that it matters, but the ICC considers this to be a war crime.

I'm going through the discovery materials for the MLA/AHA/ACLS lawsuit to restore funding to DOGE-canceled NEH grants. The disregard for humanities scholarship and public humanities is just astonishingly stupid. DOGE literally compiled a spreadsheet of "craziest grants."

I was afraid to look. Apparently my grant got a "no" not DEI evaluation by gen AI and DOGE canceled it anyway. The whole thing is bananas. The ARCE grant to digitize their library on pharaonic, Coptic, Jewish, Islamic Egyptian material got a "yes." Racist, stupid, nonsensical, non-logical

And all 60 years' worth of NEH grants will be outspent in a week of attacks on Iran

ok this is at least very funny

Hello friends: there are a lot of #mutualaid and #settlersaturday posts coming across this weekend. If you can spare a little to make someone else’s life that much easier please consider doing it. It’s a small thing but small things add up ❤️

i shout "BOOST" into the void it goes "boost boooost boooooost booooooost" ... and the echo comes back "doooonate doonate donate DONATE" it's science, really. just donate if you can, boost please. 💕💸 #HelpSky #MutualAid #MutualAidBoost

DoD obviously knows where it conducted TLAM strikes and could have acknowledged responsibility for this tragedy even while it investigated the attack.

Amazing amazing amazing!!! Food-love-bombed for #DC #mutualaid for spring break. There was no note but it is Mac n cheese, Chef Boyardee, chili mac Hamburger Helper, and wipes and soap for families!!! Thank you!!!!

"Asked by the plaintiffs’ lawyers why Tikvah, which had never applied for a federal grant, was tapped for [the biggest grant in NEH history], Mr. Wolfson [whose wife works for a Tikvah-related group] said Mr. McDonald had been impressed by an episode of its podcast and asked him to reach out."

'scuse me as I spend a few more minutes screaming "NONE OF THIS WAS NECESSARY AND ALL OF THIS WAS AVOIDABLE" into the void.

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good evening to everyone except the very small albeit rather vocal minority of bioarchaeologists and physical anthropologists terrified of transparency and public debate about the retention of ancestral remains in collections www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

the CIA orchestrated the 1953 coup d'état that overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister, turned the functionally democratic constitutional monarchy into an absolute monarchy, which returned the favor by adopting strict anti-communist, pro-Western policies and ensuring the flow of oil

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Enrique Tarrio and other Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy. Trump pardoned them. Tarrio and his men planned the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Tarrio even claimed credit for it, messaging others: “Make no mistake…We did this…” Now he’s meeting with Sec. Rubio.

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

This is horrific and grotesque, but it is always important to point out: as long as running concentration camps in the United States is a legal, profitable business model, companies will fiercely bid against one another for contracts.

During law school cite checks, we would pull *the hard copy* of every single authority cited in the piece we were publishing. How the hell are hallucinated sources getting past prestigious, peer reviewed academic journals??

Is this bad? “City officials expect to reach a ‘water emergency’ within months and run out of water next year.“ “The region’s largest industrial users, which collectively consume the majority of the region’s water, remain exempt from emergency curtailment.” www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...

rosary show & tell! these are the ones I keep next to the bed, both from the Holy Land. the reddish one was made by Palestinian Catholic artisans and the cross is olive wood. My mom brought it back for me. The one with the silver cross was her own. the little reliquary says AQUA JORDANIS if u squint

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Ahem

My only problem with @fractalecho.bsky.social's book is that now I have to figure out a different book to write. But while i sort that out, i can make everybody go read Rua's book. S go read it 😃

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

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The hours will keep moving forward until morale improves.

So… I've been writing for about 18 years on the idea that if you somehow manage to make meaningfully conscious machine minds & then you treat them as tools, then you're enslaving those minds, and that's pretty messed up. And this ties into something else I've re-upped recently: LLMs can't say "No."

NEH's budget is tiny—not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.

Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

The NEH is just small beans. Like 6 hours of war could fund it for a whole year.

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

Thank you so much to the MLA, AHA, ACLS for pursuing this lawsuit

It's International Women's Day! It's a day to be feminist as fuck, so here are a few of my favourite blog posts (written by me) on this theme. #IWD2026 #WomenInSTEM

Hey, here’s yet another great reason to hate ChatGPT (and the whole lot of them)!

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

Hi guys can you help me repost this 50 x? Thank you, much love, Michael.