“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform? thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

We're hosting Lavender Languages from 2-4 September 2026. Save the date! Plenaries and a formal announcement to be follow shortly...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

I truly do not care what causes autism unless learning that information can be used to support already existing autistic people live easier and more fulfilling lives

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Every time I see a rainbow I am certain that we have been gifted the most magnificent possible planet to live on

My daughter was one of dozens of students arrested at Columbia and then suspended from her PhD program for two years in response--a clear project of the Palestine exception. Jessie runs it all down here. Paywall but you can see a preview at least. zeteo.com/p/columbia-u...

“Ghassemi and her MIT colleagues found that AI systems were more likely to leave female patients untreated.”

Doing a quick post from holiday to show everyone this perfectly curled kitty on a shop front in Hydra

To explain this photo a bit more: back then, most programming was done on paper (sometimes on special coding sheets), then punched onto cards/tape, then fed into a mainframe to be tested (& if necessary debugged). Counterintuitively, needing LESS computer time was the mark of a better programmer!

Expert rejects Met police claim that study backs bias-free live facial recognition use

Check out this event from 14-17 August with our researcher Dr Amy Gaeta👇

Pop up VR event! Starting at the IWM in Duxford, I’ll be co hosting a VR experience about the psychological experience of drone warfare. The event will run from 10-4:30PM on August 14-17th. We will be in the American Air Hanger. No sign up required.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

"But there's no trans Olympic athletes!" Please realize that's not the point. The point is to manufacture consent. The Trump regime has enacted worse and worse anti-trans policies nearly every week for 7 months, and every step of the way the country has complied. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Been re-reading David Wojnarowicz's brilliant, devastating memoir Close to the Knives, and this passage always hits me like a ton of bricks with its eerily present sentiments.

You can criticize current elected officials without redeeming or downplaying the injustices committed by previous elected officials. There’s room for meaningful comparison, but it doesn’t help anything to hand out redemption arcs just to prove a point about the horrors of the present administration.

A Russian missile killed a pregnant woman in the Ukrainian hospital where she was being treated. “We were waiting for a son and then in one minute, the ... Russians,” her husband Oleksandr said.

The No ICE in California bundle is close to its $100,000 goal with just under a week left! This bundle benefits the LA-based Immigrant Defenders Law Center and RAÍCES who are helping LA families apprehended and transferred to detention in Texas, you can get a zine from me and a lot more for $10USD!

A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident has spent the past week detained by immigration officials at the San Francisco International Airport without explanation and has been denied access to an attorney, according to his lawyer.

🪨 Land is drying, and fast A new study finds that the world's continents have been losing freshwater since 2002, faster than ever before. Dry areas are drying quicker than wet areas are wetting, shrinking water supplies and raising sea levels. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SciComm 🧪

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF). This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

BREAKING: Concession workers at Fenway are on strike. This is the first walkout in the 113 year history of the Boston Red Sox’s stadium. These essential workers will be on strike as the World Series champion Dodgers come to town this weekend.

Hello! I’m WIRED’s senior politics editor, and it’s hard to put into words what it’s been like in our newsroom this year. I am so in awe of my colleagues here, and so grateful to wake up every day to get you, our lovely readers, the news. If you’ve haven’t already, subscribe!! Help us keep it going.

A history of the Lesbians for Liberty’s 2002 kiss-in protest, my lesbian youth, and the Lesbian Herstory Archives’ upcoming exhibit at Barclays www.them.us/story/lesbia...

"In recent months...the destruction has been carried out mainly through mechanical means." The IDF weapon causing the greatest destruction in Gaza has evolved from US-built bombs to US-built demolition charges to US-built bulldozers (which do a much more thorough job more cheaply).

“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”

Lou and I are sending love to everyone impacted by the horrors of this administration

ICE is sweeping up people with disabilities now, making no accommodations for them. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Gonna be in nyc for a few days next month. Any suggestions for queer and/or anarchist bookshops/bars/third spaces I should check out? I’m already aware of the Bluestockings coop

Pleased to share my review of Adam Fish's Oceaning: Governing Marine Life with Drones; an inventive, smart, and timely addition to critical drone studies that identifies its human-centered limits: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nursing homes already struggling to recruit staff are now grappling with President Donald Trump’s attack on one of their few reliable sources of workers: immigration.

My response to Ring's decision to roll back reforms and go back to surveillance on behalf of police as a business model. This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)

Pleased to share my review of Adam Fish's Oceaning: Governing Marine Life with Drones; an inventive, smart, and timely addition to critical drone studies that identifies its human-centered limits: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Philosophy professor & US Citizen Jonathan Caravello has been brutally detained & effectively disappeared for trying to help a legal observer remove a teargas canister from under their wheelchair during an ICE raid on a California farm. …is a sentence I've now had to write. What… in the actual fuck

Fanny Howe (1940-2025)

BREAKING: A federal court blocked President Trump’s order restricting birthright citizenship and certified a nationwide class, protecting the citizenship rights of all children born on U.S. soil.

Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrity—a fighter in all senses of the term—has moved on. Read her. The powerful voice does not depart. It only grows louder…. 1940-2025 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

End-Song by Fanny Howe

“Huge swathes” of severely disabled people will be hit by Universal Credit cuts, contrary to government claims they will be protected.  My exclusive in today’s Guardian ahead of the vote: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

So my academic friends who run quant surveys… did we know that qualtrics included a section about using data to train genAI in their privacy statement? Are u including this in ur IRB? Cuz ppl I’m asking say they didn’t know and this is not my neck of the woods (I am a qual researcher lol)

It’s why U of F banned bans ‘Gator bait’ cheer. “According to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Michigan’s Ferris State University, white hunters sometimes used live Black infants to lure alligators during slavery and the Jim Crow era.” jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/201...

Where’s the report on how much harm and damage these academics have caused for gender non conforming people? What about the students and staff who have to work with academics that actively argue against the legitimacy of their existence?

This bill is literally deadly; people will die from these cuts, and there is zero justification for that

Call or email or fax your senators. (Again. I know, I'm sick of it too!) If they're against the bill, tell them to keep fighting. If they're for it, tell them you'll do everything you can to unseat them. Not sure what to say? ☎️ and scripts @ 5calls.org

These people are heroes

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

In a 6-3 decision by Kavanaugh, the court upholds the preventive care mandate under the ACA that required coverage of HIV medication. The courts liberals joined. Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...