your software is not conscious, you absolute weirdo

Anya Karenina

Freedom -Langston Hughes

When my (writing) job bosses say these things, I wonder how they think writing happens. If I don't understand the subject well enough to come up with ideas and outline, HTF am I supposed to write anything?

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli. * This hard mode is only hard for dudes

Predestination indoctrinators have lots to answer for, sure. But: it’s time we felt sick of these deep dives, of having to learn abt pig Latin (or Old Norse) tattoos & obscure protestant sects, and angry abt the attention these ppl steal from meaning, beauty, life www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

Pro-tip for the Swalwell campaign staff now maligning the women accusing their boss of sexual misconduct: it's not worth it. There will be other campaigns and other candidates but there will never be another time that you won't regret behaving this way towards survivors.

Trump is gutting the Forest Service after a record-breaking wildfire season in 2025. Newsflash: we can’t prevent forest fires without the essential employees that make the research into them happen.

people split hairs about the genocide classification all the time, but Trump unambiguously wrote down his intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group, and then he broadcast it out

I'm catching up on this today, as France is also in the midst of a wave of anti-Black racism - directed here against the new mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko. Big protest in Saint-Denis in support - and I'm seeing if anyone has posted on here the statement by Dominique de Villepin from X.

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

Audiobooking my way through Montesquieu and just constantly doing the Leo-pointing meme at his analysis of despotism. The despot, to secure lawless rule based on pure domination, must snuff out both civic virtue and personal honor. It's not enough for the despot to be bad; he needs everyone to be.

AI and a newish radiologist said the growth in my breast was benign. It was v small, circumscribed. A 2nd radiologist with decades of experience said, “it looks fine but I still don’t like it. Get a biopsy.” It was triple neg breast cancer. We need more experts. radiologybusiness.com/topics/artif...

Loved season two of Deadloch. I watched the first season at least three times through, and yet Prime didn’t do anything to show me that the new season had dropped. Weird, right?

Good HE is really simple: quality time spent with subject experts who know and care about their students. My university and many others are deliberately abandoning this truth in favour of financial and organisational efficiency.

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

DHS shutdown causing travel delays? Worry not: Some of America's least-trainable gym felons are stationed over by the Gordon Biersch looking at Kalshi on their phones

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

this is unironically the best case for punitive taxation there are arguments about fairness and freedom and whatever else but at the end of the day it is self-evidently far too dangerous for society as a whole for anyone to have that much money, the end

It is lovely that the Art Gallery of Ontario can now name the Black woman in the gorgeous #18thc portrait they acquired 6 yrs ago & also date the painting. It's from 1775. She is Eleonora Susette, enslaved by the Dutch governor of Guyana, accompanying his widow on her return to the Netherlands.

Read this course description from WVU’s new Washington Center yesterday. And today I read the NYT’s piece on Chavez and am struck with Esmeralda Lopez saying “The movement is the hero.” Give me a real life movement over a sanitised hero any day

Confiscate 99.8% of Andreesen’s net worth for the public good, wait 20 minutes, and then tell him his memory of ever having more than $4 million is false.

I am conducting research into how autistic pupils experience Holocaust education as part of my doctoral research. If you're a secondary history teacher of autistic and non-autistic pupils, I'd appreciate it if you took the time to complete the following survey: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Trump’s failure to secure the Strait of Hormuz and his plea for help are yet another example of ‘Make America Look Stupid Again’. Neither the US nor Israel has the naval capabilities to ensure the world’s oil supply. Without consulting anyone, they broke it, and are now relying on others to fix it.

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

Murdering random Jews in response to Israeli state violence is violent antisemitism. It shouldn't be necessary to state that. And yet

If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats

Shame on Senator Tuberville: Keep New York City out of your bigoted mouth. This Jewish New Yorker is proud that we elected our first Muslim mayor. (2/2)

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

Dire

The long-term impact is usually discussed in terms of white collar job destruction, but the threat of a regression in levels of skills and education is highly underestimated. It's not about future unemployment but future crippling.

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“Look at that bird” A Play In Three Acts

I might be more willing to use AI if the the AI enthusiasts didn’t talk so much like -people recruiting for a religious cult -frat boys at my first college party trying to get me to drink the mysterious dark liquid from the red solo cup they just handed me -19th century snake oil salesmen

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The difference between the spike in global oil prices now versus 2022 is that this time the US president single-handedly caused it to happen overnight with a policy while accepting no responsibility, while the US president in 2022 was blamed for it even though he didn’t cause it.

I think a lot of people will read 3000 words, but I don’t think everyone who writes 3000 words needed 3000 words to write the thing they were writing. Those are the pieces that people won’t read to the end.

wow can't believe slurs would do that

jesse singal suggesting that someone else has a professional stake in this is wild since it's the only story he's written in a decade

I actually think Talarico needs to join a lawsuit with Crockett . Unity is the only way forward. If he wins but loses Black Texas voters, then he loses the general.

States have started proposing steep reductions in disability services to cope with Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Idaho is the first to suggest scrapping home care altogether — An action with a high human cost. My latest @19thnews.org.

progressive trends in education, the Association for the Study of Free Institutions. Wilson fails the statutory requirements that "The Archivist shall be appointed without regard to political affiliations and solely on the basis of the professional qualifications required to perform the duties 🧵

I will never understand how anybody could look at a photograph of a beautiful creature and think that it needed to be improved

Red States: Only teach approved christian nationalist content Blue States: Teach anything you like as long as you hire an adjunct to do it cause you ain't getting faculty lines in the humanities lol

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.