Do better, @aft.org

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

My 81-year-old mom has a friend who is constantly texting her links and quotes from David Brooks columns. My mom thinks Brooks (and the friend) are kind of preachy and obnoxious. She’s complained about this to me before. Last night on the phone I got to tell her about the latest Epstein news.

Not a good look.

We are pleased to announce that we have archived all of the layers from the defunct HIFLD Open GIS repository! A big thanks to Frank Donnelly and all the volunteers who helped out, especially tripleshrimp, ciarra, sefk, and Frank's students! Explore more: www.datarescueproject.org/hifld-data-s...

This entire weekend

Most Americans don’t know how to care adequately for other people. That’s a huge chunk of the mess we’re in.

AI and fracking ride a tandem bicycle. Which is to say, AI depends on blowing up rocks, extracting 400 million year old vaporous corpses and lighting them on fire. Also fracking and data centers both consume and destroy a fuckton of water. e360.yale.edu/features/pen...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

I will never forget traveling in Salta and Jujuy in NW Argentina and seeing the graves (painted in blue and white) of the young men conscripted into that war and killed. They lived in deserts and their first view of the ocean was being shipped off to be killed on it. Las Malvinas loom large.

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

Conservatives believe getting an A for nonsense is a human right but food isn’t.

Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1

*beijo de chef*

I can think of no more important time to be doing work with this extraordinary community at UW

In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

My dissertation examined the spread of misinformation related to science topics. I defended in 2016, and after that year’s U.S. elections (and what I’d learned in my research) I had to mostly walk away from those topics for my own sanity. This is where my colleagues are now.

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Four UCLA undergrads were arrested on Tuesday while exercising their right to support @afscme3299.bsky.social’s picketed strike. We demand all charges be dropped.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

On the morning of Thursday, November 13th ICE hit a dozen locations in Pomona within around 90 minutes. Several people were kidnapped. They’re still very much here and terrorizing communities.

The Mapping Deportations project has an animated timeline of who gets deported in the US. In the 1910s the US starts deporting more Mexicans than any other group & doesn't let up through the present day. You can follow which groups are the targets of immigrant panics pretty clearly.

Kudos to Mary Bruce of ABC News for asking about the bonesaw in the room.🔥🔥🔥

A very happy Tiny SoCal Dogs Peeing on Rugs season to all who celebrate! 🎉

The cool sh*t we could have as a civilization if minoritized researchers could just DO SCIENCE with their energy. Whew.

I did not consider myself particularly naive about working in academia, but I will never, as long as I live, understand a system that forces Claudine Gay to resign in digrace but not Larry Summers.

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

The LA Times knows their audience.

Hell yes

Very few members of Congress write to constituents about "bitcoin" in their official congressional e-newsletters, but Republicans do more than Democrats

Please share this far and wide!! Starbucks workers are officially on strike, demanding an end to the company’s Unfair Labor Practices!! REPOST if you stand with workers and promise to NOT BUY STARBUCKS while workers are striking!!!

“The Trump administration is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government. The foundation of this edifice was formed not when Trump took office, but decades before….” -Sarah Kendzior Seems like a good day to remember this. Get it together, bksy mods.

Doing a data workshop next week in the Digital Scholarship lab….brought to you by Del Taco. 🌮🌮🌮

@adamschiff.com @padilla.senate.gov Your mailboxes are full. I hope this means you are busy with your staff holding firm on the ACA funding.

Supermoon has us feeling some feelings.

Very much enjoying the REWILDING keynote from @bonstewart.bsky.social here at #ReclaimOpen. Very much in my GenX nerd feelings.

if you liked this great story about how zohran's campaign and youth outreach, you should 1) donate to the gofundme started by TV's laid-off workers: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido... and 2) hire lex, who i genuinely believe is a generational talent as a politics writer

@ndlon.bsky.social has an open letter out — World Series Champion LA Dodgers from this city of immigrants have no business visiting the White House.

This this this. We leave no one behind. 🩷

Interested in coming to Champaign-Urbana and using the collections at @illinoisrbml.bsky.social ? We have a $3k visiting scholar program for that! Applications accepted beginning Nov 17. www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/research...

Truly this. Every European elite opinion like this I read = one more LARGE COKE WITH EXTRA ICE I will attempt to order on the continent (when I can afford to travel again).

Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.

And having it be during a thrilling World Series game where the parents with trick or treaters are checking in as the game is heard between houses with open windows on a lovely SoCal evening. Sublime.

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up. "But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

ON TO GAME SEVEN! Woooohooo!

USDA HAS THE MONEY, pass it on.

I would like to freeze this baseball game in little cubes to thaw out and enjoy over the winter.

The Python Software Foundation was recommended for a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation. The terms of the award said PSF could not work on DEI, whether or not the grant funding was used for it. PSF therefore declined the funding. Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains