if you're wondering why your trans friends everywhere are a little on edge right now, it's because a story about a radical conservative christian student abusing rules and processes to deliberately target a trans instructor consistently gets reframed to omit the entirety of the anti-trans bigotry

Algeria passes law declaring French colonisation a state crime, demands apology and reparations.

Shopping mall in central Marseille includes: Shoe repair shop Clothing repair & alterations shop Shop with clothing up-cycled & run by ex prisoners

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

"Life is unfair" OMFG

23 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- U of OK teacher removed who failed Bible-quoting psych student fired. The student had ignored the assignment & submitted attack on gender instead, incl that “pushing the lie that there are multiple genders” is “demonic and severely harms American youth."

Transgender people deserve the same chance to thrive and live fulfilling lives as everyone else. Shame on Republicans for trying to strip away healthcare from vulnerable children. And shame on anyone who votes to deny care to families trying to do right by their kids.

I’m just here to say that the basis for the Avatar movie was Ursula Le Guin’s novella, The Word For World Is Forest. 1972. Radical text, just a decade after African independences. Just want more people to know that

Noir.e, Enfant, on t'adultifie pour ne pas te protéger Adulte, on t'infantilise pour te maltraiter ✊🏾

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

I stopped cold at “a college sophomore.” NYU b-school, in case you were wondering Imagine having this kid in one of your classes. In other news, I noticed while acquiring this info that the kid’s hair is already thinning. (No shade on baldness, just 🤣 given the hair obsession of his progenitor)

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

Obviously, puppy killer just keeps making shit up. But we left because of the fascists, most definitely. We were feeling increasingly vulnerable & we had means and opportunity. Which is not most people. We certainly feel safer outside the US.

if you need me

It may be temptingly facile to dismiss my statement but I'm a data scientist who was quite excited to start using LLMs. I still have some limited uses for them, but for the most part they introduce so much error that they are not practical tools for the work I do.

In addition to all the things in the replies: -most journal articles have abstracts. AI won’t do better summarizing the main argument than the author did -a point/detail can jump out because of your own interests, but for that you gotta read. AI won’t do this for you bc it’s not in your brain….

This is a dumbfounding guideline. Absolutely a destructive and incompetent recommendation that was clearly made by people not qualified to judge such decisions.

If only the sentence could end differently. Attendees lined up to… Gonna leave it there

Qween Jean’s Black Trans Liberation Kitchen brings chosen family together over a feast.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

I first wrote this 3 years ago, and it is as relevant now as then. To the tune of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - 🎵ELON THE THIN SKINNED SNOWFLAKE🎶

They made a better Cybertruck half a century ago.

Favorite thing from evals of my last course on US soil: "This class is sort of unhinged but really amazing....a lot of work & the readings & hand-written annotations are no joke...it will genuinely make you rethink everything abt your daily life, if you let it." Unhinged If you let it YES!!

If there only was a word for a governing system in which one set of laws applied to people of a specific race, and a completely different and much harsher set of laws applied to those of another race... www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

I just left SF. I used to love the city. Still do love its geography, architecture, beach, parks… But I’m so glad to leave the endlessly proliferating Waymos behind, along with the culture that produced them & the politics that enabled them. The kids are alright, but the 30-somethings are not.

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

About 300,000 Black women have left the workforce in the first half of 2025 as the Black unemployment rate topped 7%, limiting their access to healthcare, groceries, and maternal care. From Naomi Bethune: trib.al/ZtXbgQx

Oh look, it got worse in the couple days I wasn’t paying as much attention, quelle surprise

i cannot get my university to engage with the question “why do fascists love AI and what do you believe their goals are for universities?”

Paul Kirchner

someone threw a little tantrum about this in my mentions earlier and im still kind of annoyed at how entitled people are to demand i stop sincerely expressing my feelings about a political party that is explicitly collaborating with fascists because i will suppress voter turnout by not shutting up

AI word generators are a huge and getting huger part of the enshittification of the scientific publication environment. In other words, of science as we knew it.

Another piece from *1990* that highlighted the weird culture of masculinity in cyber tech, this one by @avastmachine.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.

Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition." A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.

I’ve never felt more spiritual kinship with AOC than in this moment. Goober is a favorite insult, and JD is absolutely a goober. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

"you're a man" ad hominem "you were born a boy" sunk cost fallacy "you're amab" false dichotomy "you have xy chromosomes" false equivalence "trans people are mentally ill" non sequitur "changing your sex isn't possible" skill issue

“I am not here to make anyone comfortable.” Right on. Horrifying when wkg conditions constantly make you angry. It wears the soul, turns you into someone you don’t like. The gaslighting undermines your sense of self, despite your resistance. Reclaiming your full self is the only path to healing.

solidarity with trans people and death to fascism

I'm just a comic artist who wears binders and not a legal jargon expert, but this seems SO disingenuous from Trump's FDA. It seems like they're trying to gotcha TomboyX about binders being "medical devices" and TomboyX not having manufactured binders (which are SHAPEWEAR) in compliance with that.

ok 150 for "high-quality" how much for a beater

In that spirit: I am definitely ruder than Sarah. I ignore the vast majority of DMs. I cannot (will not) deal with multiple channels of online communication. My brain is already sufficiently broken by the ones I do use. If you need to reach me privately, email. It’s not hard to find.

Youth

I told you so. Those who are here FAFO’d. I wish it were possible to see statistics on this aspect of the affair www.theafricareport.com/402668/is-th...

On est toujours à l’âge de Twitter en France. Il faut arrêter. Après moins de 48 heures sur place, je constate que même les gens qui se considèrent bien informés sur le plan international n’ont vraiment pas idée de ce qui se passe aux US, ni de la complicité de Musk et son engin.

Reposting this with alt text. Delete your Twitter. Now.

I thought nah, I won’t see it because I know/care nothing about baseball. Turns out no knowledge required to see the funnies

If nothing is done to stop Trump and the GOP, in three more years there will be nothing left of this country. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

AI is not our peer, so AI review is not peer review. If for some godforsaken reason the editor of a journal wanted to know what AI would say about a paper, they could do it themself.