you can tell that this isn't a real problem, because if it was this would be written by someone it happened to and not someone who it didn't happen to saying "but if it did that would have sucked."

Ding ding ding

wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

There are way more people in the world than I, as a young person, would have believed that consider their children their property, rather than people. I credit my own parents with the way that I struggle to understand how people can justify that attitude.

Elena Kagan from the top rope: "The Due Process Clause, needless to say, does not expressly grant parental rights of any kind..." Then she throws the words of Thomas and Kavanaugh from Dobbs, and Gorsuch from another case, back in their faces www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Conventional wisdom is a really fascinating phenomenon. We're at the point where "everyone knows" kids were being rushed into inappropriate gender transition. There are between zero and 10 recorded cases of this happening (depending on your definition of rushed).

This is truly the crux of it. It’s not about shielding kids or promoting “traditional values” — it’s about straight up removing options, and the ability to imagine, from their worldview

Put this on a T-shirt

Take 10 minutes this week and engage in one of the suggested activities to help the IMLS. Still. Again. bookriot.com/the-enshitti...

Contacting Governor Hochul will encourage her to protect the rights of students & educators to access a wide range of literature. Even if you live outside of NY, you can still write to Governor Hochul since vetoing the Freedom to Read Bill directly impacts those who work for NYC-based companies.

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"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Hey I seem to have lost the ability to add alt text...?

Let me be crystal clear on something: were this law to be passed, every one of the 13 states with Freedom to Read laws would cease to have those laws to protect them anymore. We have poured so much energy into those state laws–which matter, hear me–but they are not going to solve the big issue.

Yes

Hey folks, I hadn't thought of it in these terms, but protesting planned AI data centers in your local area *could literally bring the entire fascist house of cards down*, b/c the big fascist tech cos have bet HEAVY on AI, but the demand ain't happening so their $100s of billions of Nvidia chips...

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

Arrest them.

are we just going to have to collect a fleet of Charming Guys to go ask the president for things for the next three years

i am losing my fucking mind over here

I know the cruelty is the point is cliche and reductive by now, but there’s literally no other conceivable reason for this. It’s just sadism. And abuse.

I always think this because, IMO, the constitution bakes the need for evolution and change--the idea that this is a jumping off point--from the very first line "In Order to form a more perfect Union." MORE perfect, not perfect, meaning that it is going to NEED to be perfected by later generations.

This is, after all, why the amendment process exists!

“I think it would be great if we started trying to normalize the idea that the Framers could have gotten things wrong.”

So they’re going to cripple healthcare for the poor in Minnesota to make an example of the state. The warning is “don’t resist.”

The party of “life”

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Is anyone doing a high spice Amelia Bedelia new adult yet? Honestly wouldn’t be the weirdest IP take I’ve seen all week (‘tis the season)

A 1551 print of Ptolemy’s Almagest annotated by Galileo Galilei has been newly discovered in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze! 🌙🔭🪐 #HistSci

How much more could the newspaper journalist do if she wasn’t saddled with the writing of pesky newspaper articles?

Hmmm how interesting! What changed about the feasibility I wonder? 🤔🤪🤑

It's an attack on Tim Cook, yes, but also an attack on news organizations: bsky.app/profile/jake...

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this

I've been to some countries where people live under military rule or autocracy. And without fail, one of the questions I get when they ask about life in the U.S. is whether it's true that Americans just let homeless people die on the street.

(President Xi Jinping picks up the phone. There's nothing but breathing on the other line.) XI: "Quack, quack, Mr. Ducksworth." (He hangs up the phone. It has begun.)

Lyda, my bestie and fellow SF/F writer, has been volunteering at a food mutual aid that has had to rapidly scale up. This is their venmo, please consider donating.

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

Of all the books coverage you could do, all the romance coverage, all the culture coverage, you chose a fluffy piece about a lady who will not disclose her real name because she doesn’t always tell *people she coaches* the truth about her methods?

Me eating Girl Scout cookies out of the box, having not been on ice skates for over a decade: “her extension is for shit”

DICK VAN DYKE LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.