Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

Who are the cool, up-and-coming early career trans women and transfem non-binary people doing scholarship in women's and gender studies - particularly outside North America? I'd love to hear about their work!

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Davos this, World Economic Forum that. There’s only one meeting of spoiled, entitled, oafish men I care about, and it’s happening in my bedroom right now.

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

“sorry, say that again?” —omegaverse author’s first time encountering the phrase ‘wolf whistle’

Looking at the art I made in 2016 (for that 10 year trend thing) and this is shit but it still made me laugh

i’m fascinated by this new strategy wjere multiple ai company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti ai sentiment has hurt their businesses

JULY 2013 Netflix releases a tv show set in a women’s prison. The Golden Age of Transgender Rights Is Begun TWELVE YEARS LATER “Never mind.”

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Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

The fallout of the AI bubble won't be just a financial one, but of mass de-skilling and atrophy

The UK is genuinely brilliant at gaming/music/cultural industries, and I swear one of the reasons we're currently broken is that too many people in power refuse to accept and embrace this.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Screw AI, what's your favorite real photo? Mine's currently The Fall of Icarus by Andrew McCarthy. Yes, this is a real photo of skydiver Gabriel C. Brown plummeting against the actual, real sun taken through a telescope 1.5 miles away from the jump in November of 2025. I. Love. Real. Humans.

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New Study finds a significant reduction in suicidality after trans people receive gender-affirming hormone therapy. “Hormone therapy was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time…” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How we should all refer to Twitter from now on

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

A month ago I adopted a one eyed hamster from my local animal shelter

Where are all the science fiction readers on Bluesky? If you're out there, say hello!

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

end-of-year shoutout to ao3 writers who wrote 200k words, 2k words, or just thought really hard about a fic and never opened the doc. i appreciate each and every one of you!!

playing around with the idea of a bat monk but I think I went to cute with this one. going back to my big book of bats to find something scrunglier.

Could this have anything to do with the two major parties and all the media hyping far-right narratives and "dining across the divide" increasingly unashamedly in the past couple of years? No, it must be those grassroots "legitimate grievances" I keep hearing about...

PRESENT DAY PRESENT...TIME!

todays my birthday. it’s also the day 16 years ago I discovered that a customer for the data center I worked at had racked 3 full cabinets with over $200k of brand new server hardware on top of $80 of canned soda from our customer lounge vending machine to avoid spending $600 on mounting rails

God jul, nästa år vänder vi kampen mot fascismen till seger!

If you’re transmasc (define it as you wish), I’d be interested to know what manhood means to you. Anyone who doesn’t align with transmasculinity in some way, please feel free to boost and read! 🫶

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Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach

New definition of cis just dropped.

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Does playing Wordle make you violent

In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.

I arrived into the BL 3 days after the cyber attack to see some precious material I'd ordered weeks in advance & cried all over the librarian who offered tea & sympathy & later emailed me photos they had taken on their own phone of any of 'my' material they manually retrieved. Support the strike!

“A universal system of human rights was built to make sure that we could never end up in that nightmare scenario [of hierarchisation of rights in the Nazi era] again. We have to be very cautious and careful about the ultimate consequences of the paths we might embark on.”

The Jengabus is coming And everybody's jumping Their motion shakes the table And makes the tower unstable We need a different approach To playing games on this coach Avoid egregious wobble By maybe trying Dobble