every one of these guys would be the hugest loser you've ever met if there wasn't a massive makework program for men willing to act on their most sadistic impulses in this country

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

First Lady Melania Trump suggested that AI robots could replace teachers. As a former educator, I know students need encouragement & learn best when they feel seen & supported. AI robots cannot replace that. In Virginia, we value our teachers & we invest in our students.

“I made the robot ask you a question and drew you being unable to answer it. CHECKMATE.”

Spotted on lampposts all over downtown. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

I’m thinking of Challenger astronaut Ronald McNair tonight. I bet he’d be thrilled.

Et voila.

Thanks to @africasacountry.bsky.social for working with us on this two-part series on The Underbelly of Conservation, as mining and #conservation increasingly work together to dispossess local communities of land and livelihoods in the name of development and environmental protection in West Africa.

The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

An amazing Whistle Coven friend is printing these fidgets for @romancingthevote.com, and we're looking for a few folks to help cover the filament. These could help us send up to $2500 to grassroots voter orgs who will be fighting strict ID laws this fall! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

“AI” is a lack of consent machine. The tech, its development and the narrative. And part of the reason it’s done so well since around the woo is because its targets are the same targets that journalism, academia, and yes America CHOSE to fail since its inception

I believe in many cases people think the AI is giving them *back* their agency. That it allows them to start taking control of their own destiny again. We have to help people understand how believing everything that comes out of the robot undermines that goal.

Why aren't the effective altruist eugenicists into diversitymaxxing, the one thing genetics actually tells us would improve the selective fitness of the human species? Oh. Right.

I'm not even joking! jewishcurrents.org/bad-memory-2

For anyone unclear on the direct connection between queer conversion therapies and Applied Behavior Analysis? The father of ABA also happens to be a father of gay conversion therapy, & he did it to "effeminate" toddlers. Well into the 1970s. He then turned back to autistic conversion therapy/ABA.

Anytime I talk about racism, white leftist men show up to tell me there is ‘no war but the class war’ and all I hear is “okay but race works in my favour and wealth doesn’t so wealth must go, but race can stay.”

Watch LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman on @pbs.org Stream, watch, rent or download in the U.S. and Canada! Episodes released weekly. Season 1 explores Antarctica and the North American Prairies.

When the birthright citizenship decision comes out, people will say it could never have gone any other way, that the law was obvious. But the mere fact that SCOTUS took on the case is evidence enough that we are living in a time of democratic precarity.

Mike Pence got totally owned here: Jewish plaintiffs won a ruling against Indiana's abortion ban, using the law he signed 11 years ago as governor to help evangelicals refuse to cater gay weddings and such. Now similar challenges could win in other red states. We tell the story at @forward.com.

The NFL has (another) woman problem. The league’s third female official was fired after 3 years but alleges the man who evaluated her performance was also harassing and humiliating her. VERY INTERESTED TO HEAR THE RESPONSE FROM THE NFL REFEREES ASSOCIATION. www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-active-n...

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

Scientists of all people should not need to be convinced that accuracy in our language is important, that convincing people that a flyby is the same thing as a visit is odd. We should also be honest that the intention behind this mission is New Cold War + commercialization/militarization of space.

One of the reasons this is a bad #scicomm situation is that since the first moon walk, “going to the moon” has taken on a specific meaning in American culture: physically being on the moon. Using this language to mean two different things is literally confusing for people bsky.app/profile/chan...

What's making me happy right now is thinking of Trump sitting/sleeping there, with ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how hard he's losing.

Something that you have to become acclimated to online is that once you reach some undefined follower count, you are in fact no longer a person but you are "an account." People will talk about you in that way. And that depersonalization is still parasocial. But "accounts" do not have any feelings.

I still think about this a lot.

i hope everyone around me on the subway enjoyed my look of abject disgust as i read this.

Anyone who wants citizenship to be an inheritance linked to blood, such that out-groups can be unrepresented and exploited by the in-groups, is a fucking fascist and needs to be treated as such.

A painting by Labrador Inuk traveler George Niakungitok, painted while he was in Germany in 1825. He sold his works to Americans and Europeans who paid to see him in an exhibition.

Vampire felines - or meowsferatu, if you will

ICE arrests tripled last year in LA — and more than half of those arrested had no criminal record | LAist laist.com/news/ice-arr...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr LGBTQnation Continuing to show support for trans people, the Dem party tweets that: “Trans rights are human rights...We honor their resilience & celebrate their incredible courage.” Rep party responded with single word: "No."

1.) details matter 2.) we need not be wedded to our own catastrophe 3.) despair is the work of fascism

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

shoutout to this magnificent piece of public art

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

April is right around the corner, and with it so is April rent. Our neighbors are still in need of support from the impacts of ICE’s invasion. Below are some Ward 8 mutual aid efforts, please support as you are able to.

they did this on Trans Day of Visibility.

“No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.” - George Orwell

When people complain about "political bias" in a work of art or literature, they usually mean "political bias that's different from my own political bias," because their own biases are invisible to them.

ANTHROPIC IS USING AI TO FUCK UP OUR CLAIMS ABOUT THE USE OF AI???? okay I feel like we should sue again for this

We also wouldn't be worrying about this at all if the current court didn't take a "LOL, nothing matters" approach to precedent. They're writing as if they expect future courts to respect their decisions, while taking a flamethrower to previous courts' reasoning.

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

it’s hard to imagine having but not using personal celebrity to free kids from prison. i don’t know what other famous people are doing.

Nova Scotia hockey legend Bill Riley remembered as community builder, leader

It's never been easy to be trans in the US...this is more true than ever today on Trans Day of Visibility. RFK Jr. et al., are actively attacking trans folks and gender affirming care. You can send a quick letter to your rep: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/153... @standupforscience.net

It’s been 5 weeks since NYU Langone ended care. Mamdani’s office has not directed H+H to absorb patients or enforced NYC human rights law against the hospitals stopping care. He also has not answered multiple trans journalists questions on if he will commit to doing so.

still out of work and Everything Helps!