I just want to add that the fact that we talk about Haiti this way without also talking about Haiti in 2026 is a product of centuries of American interventionism....

News — University of Central Florida (UCF) abruptly shut down two of its three libraries today, plus an important resource desk within the main library. Staff were given no warning. UCF is the 2nd largest public university in the country w/ ~70k students. Library hours page confirming closures:

Celebrated my Grandfather’s 95th year on this side & I couldn’t be more proud. Mardi Gras was our theme; & Grandaddy showed up & out. The Family’s Rock. My pride & joy. How proud & grateful I am to be one with Him. Blessed.

Hey y'all, you can help Sydette here. Help a Black woman not only survive, but thrive - as we all deserve to do. gofund.me/619acc195

For those of us in the classroom, it’s been 15 years now…

Please join me in donating to Sydette’s Survival Fund. Thank you in advance for any amount you contribute and for any reshares of this resource raiser. gofund.me/f0f84812e

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 6, including 2 children and an Al Jazeera cameraman

You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.

The conversation I have had with each of my kids: "if you *ever* run into a problem online and you think you're in trouble, you can *always* come talk to me about it, and if you think I will be upset about a choice you made just start out by saying 'I may need some help.'" And I will take that...

Multiple sources have told me that I've been trying to "pour from an empty cup" lately. So, hopefully, this time away fills my cup a little. Because I've got a lot more pouring I wanna do.

Or, you know, those other lists

If you cheered on the people of Minneapolis standing up to ICE, here is your opportunity to materially support them. Pitch in what you can. We must grow in the face of repression. chuffed.org/project/1865...

Proof of life.

Just a reminder that all those LLMs are built on the pilfered vast libraries of humanistic and social scientific knowledge production. Good luck, society. You’re gonna need it. www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...

Trump further guts the Education Department by shifting oversight of special education and civil rights to other federal agencies

Moving special education to the Department of Health and Human Services will not help students with disabilities. It will not help families. It will not help teachers. It will send us back, 50 years if not more. This will re-segregate students with disabilities. www.aapd.com/ed-transfer-...

Really need people to stop saying that the Minnesota 15 are going to be fine, that their charges will be dropped like ours. That was four days before trial, was NOT supposed to happen, and only did because of persistent, diligent, and incredible work by our lawyers.

I want you to notice how this article, which took two journalists to write, doesn't even bother to seriously explore whether the claims being made by companies are true it's genuinely just not relevant to them

PDX: the COVID + Health Resource Library (CHRL or “choral”) is popping up again at APANO’s Open Studios on Friday 6/26! It’s a mask-required drop-in style BIPOC art space to “experiment, play, explore creativity, and cultivate connections.”

I wrote a piece a few years ago as a sort of primer that tries to historicize and contextualize the current counterrevolutionary war in Sudan. It’s basic and is meant to give folks who haven’t been following closely a sense of what and why it is happening.

They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

A literacy crisis means people are struggling to UNDERSTAND what they are reading, not that people can't necessarily read.

These people need to be shunned and banished from universities. Professor used AI to write an op-ed about *academic integrity* (it has since been retracted by the original publisher)

Fuck this all the way to the lava pit She said: “I really do feel that it’s allowed me to focus more of my time and energy on what really matters, which is the ideas, the thinking … rather than spending a lot of my time writing sentences from scratch.” Full article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Feel as though people will truly never understand his death. He was killed for being an Indigenous Queer Man with a Transgender Partner. Every single one of those signifiers on axis/intersections/marginalizations is extremely important, but it is in tandem all at once not just because he “Gay”.

Scamming and lying have always been allowed against certain populations. We need (for the first time) a social order that does not carve out certain people for predation. Because if lying and scamming are ok when its towards "those" people (as decided by the white majority), none of us are safe.

Gonna be a generational burden to recreate the norm that scamming other people is bad when our positions of leadership are being filled by proud scammers and people who previously only succeeded in the field of social media engagement bait

A glimpse of our dystopian future. Pair this with Anthropic's Claude being used in Venezuela and Iran, and Grok being embedded in Pentagon infrastructure. The march of "progress" continues ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Gk...

Fired 60 Minutes-er Cecilia Vega put out this statement: "In recent months, my producing teams and I have experienced efforts to insert political bias into our stories. Reporting teams have held back on submitting story pitches about important news topics out of fear of the internal repercussions."

I appreciate the clarity of the moment we are in.

"In May, the New York Times reported that Rosenbaum had included 'more than a half-dozen misattributed or fake quotes' in the book seemingly generated by AI."

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

It's interesting to observe how much publicity this very obviously bad book is getting

You’re not going to believe this — no one does — but I have never used AI to write. Not a query or to brainstorm or to outline or to draft. At most, I have struggled to turn off the “powered by AI” grammar suggestions in some app. But…this is extremely skewed thinking.

Why are we using “outsider” as a synonym for “unqualified” here?

Abolish the police, they do not need to have a good reputation or exist.

NPR’s science correspondent @ngreenfieldboyce.bsky.social is among those who was laid off. 😒

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development of AI.

Yesterday Israel ordered the inhabitants of Nabiteh to leave (population of 100,000) They then ordered the inhabitants of Tyre to leave (pop of 200,000). Now they've ordered the entire south to leave - up to 300 towns & villages. Alex Crawford reporting from Lebanon today

Ableism: A system, according to Talila “TL” Lewis, that assigns “value on people’s bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normality, intelligence, excellence, desirability, and productivity... 1/

Once again, inevitable question: if this is what they’re doing to Senator Kim in front of cameras, what are they doing to the detained people inside that facility bsky.app/profile/davi...

Fighting to keep the apartment I'm lucky to have as a Disabled woman who's worked very hard to get SSA benefits for a decade This has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. I couldnt have survived this long w/o community $maelee21 V: @ Maelee-Johnson PayPal.me/maeleeJ ko-fi.com/maedaej

"The resolution spearheaded by Ghana received 123 votes in favour. Three countries voted against it—Argentina, Israel and the U.S.—and 52 abstained. Denied their basic humanity and even their own names, they were forced to endure generations of exploitation with effects that reverberate today…"

Yep. And it's not the only way and many cannot write for different reasons, but studies show that cursive writing, and writing by hand, boosts learning and thinking.

One thing AI LLMs are very good at: convincing their victims that mediocrity is greatness, and that the ability to generate high volumes of mediocre content is a substitute for skill, talent, or work. This is the distinct impression I get every time I look at LinkedIn.

@ebthen.bsky.social I just wanted to say hi. Proof of life.

Gift link to my story today on how the rise of AI-assisted writing is blurring the lines between human authorship and slop — and leading some writers to feel pressure to overrely on tools that still have serious, albeit increasingly subtle, flaws. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I talked to the author of the "Future of Truth" book that turned out to have AI hallucinations. He told me he feels "seduced and betrayed" by ChatGPT, at one point suggesting it might have undermined him on purpose. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

$9-billion taxpayer transfer to a $5 trillion company for US spy agencies to go all in on AI. NYT doesn't include a single critical word from a privacy or civil liberties expert. Just a don't-worry-about-it assurance at the end. Also: Anthropic is not our friend. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...