So, in retrospect, I could see that hadn’t gone so well.

Seeing people mocking Trump by saying he's wearing diapers is still fucked up. Idk how to get through to folks that when you choose "uses disability aid" to be the thing out of ALL the things to mock, you're being really fucking gross and ableism is ableism regardless of the target.

Hmm, “Frankenstein” is really really good. Once again del Toro understood the assignment

bingo

This has got to be the funniest mass-transit policy story I've read in hours.

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty. But beware...

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

What did Watson and Crick discover? Rosalind Franklin’s lab notes.

Asked my mom whether her first passport had a gender marker and she couldn't remember, so she dug it up for me. Nope - 1976

I earwormed myself.

Just got a text from Michigan Health and Human Services regarding SNAP 👀

The correct headline here is "Trump administration begs courts to let him keep starving children and elders"

Did women ruin the workplace?

They're hiding the resegregation of the tech industry. www.wired.com/story/google...

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

i’ve become radicalized on crime, looking for some serious motherfucking tough-on-crime politicians, but tough on serious crime, the kind that causes massive rather than just particularized harm, the “nonviolent” (despite mass casualties) crimes of the rich and powerful.

It's still Halloween in my heart. Tiny goblins built a Halloween superstore in my left ventricle.

It's that time of year when Halloween decorations haven't all come down, and Christmas decorations are about to start going up. We're in...the Tim Burton Zone.

"... best practices are better implemented as the default so that all candidates, regardless of whether they are neurodivergent or neurotypical, can benefit without the added burden of disclosure at potential personal risk."

justin with a banger

"but the computer is NEUTRAL" uh-huh...sure jan news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

The only people gung ho about AI are AI companies, Republicans, and the tech press. Should tell you all you need to know about how worthless it is. The reason you think AI is popular or inevitable is because the press says so. It isn't true. They made a bad bet and are trying to force you to eat it

A thing in the AI Discourse that offends me? There's so much focus on using AI for accessibility. As if disabled people don't deserve human effort and expertise? Like, I get it: making something accessible takes a lot of work and thought and, crucially, listening to disabled people.

I propose the Stop Listening To Computer Guys Challenge. (Difficulty: apparently fucking infinite.)

I felt inspired 🐸 + 🥪 = RESIST

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

This is the level of pettiness I aspire to. 👏👏👏

Sad to report: there’s at least one cybertruck here in upstate NY. Its driver cut us off (of course they did), so we got a very close-up view. The sheer lack of aesthetic sense of the thing is breathtaking. Yes, photos are ugly, and views of it in passing, but pals? It’s uglier the closer you get.

Congress gets paid during the shutdown. They keep their access to food & healthcare. ICE gets paid. They continue to terrorize the public. Yet the poorest & most vulnerable go without food assistance. The government prosecutes a man for throwing a sandwich; but won’t give a man a sandwich.

Maths... If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars. If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars. Tax the rich.

A million seconds is 11.6 days A billion seconds is nearly 32 years A trillion seconds is nearly 32,000 years

Not only was Sandwich Guy acquitted. He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Attn folks in Delaware, Nevada, New Hampshire, Maine, & Michigan! Your Dem Senators are also getting a LOT of pressure to cut a deal to end the shutdown- by ditching healthcare. Reach out & let them know healthcare must be fixed first! Names & phone numbers below.

We been here for years (1828).

the leader of the department of health literally runs away everybody else rushes to the hurt guy and the Make America Healthy Again guy says "I gotta get outta here" let a hundred gifs bloom

About two dozen current and former FDA officials blamed the pullback on deep staffing cuts under the Trump administration. Inspections declined early on, after 65% of the staff in divisions responsible for coordinating travel and budgets were fired or left. projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

Why does this matter? *Nearly all seafood, ~60% of fresh fruit and ~40% of veggies are imported. *Research shows imported food has been increasingly linked to outbreaks. *Foodborne illnesses (i.e.🦠 listeria, e. coli, salmonella🦠) can cause severe illness and death. www.fda.gov/food/consume...

yet more reason to stop doing in-person conferences

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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Starvation burrows into our genes, making our descendants more susceptible to metabolic dysfunction and unintentional weight gain. They are making our children's children more prone to weight gain, at the same time as they say that's an undesirable thing.

This girl really knows her angles

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

Fascinating to see how one academic library vendors is trying to restrict students/faculty using LLMs. source.colostate.edu/guest-column...

I am not going to be having any babies but if I were I would much rather have them here in Canada than in the US where the mandated leave is <checks notes> 0.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

i try not to be smug about this...it takes un-learning because we're all swimming in the norms we grow up in, but also, whether it's in a workplace or dating or whatever, but not being able to get along with or relate to women as a cishet man is a skill issue

the women in the workplace discourse is very funny because a man who can act normal in an office environment that's predominantly female is absolutely on easy street. it's maybe the best gig anyone in history has had. and yet for many guys it is utterly impossible