Knowing which problems are common or uncommon itself requires significant domain knowledge

me explaining that it’s too cold

I want to remind y'all that ebooks are not free of external costs. Ebooks have associated environmental costs. Data storage and cloud servers aren't free to use, or consequenceless, or inherently better for the planet. Don't mistake personal convenience for global benefits.

UNC-Duke win probabilty chart or Bitcoin value chart?

Our February link round-up is live!

I would go to any academic conference if you promised me the Muppets would infiltrate it

I converted to Catholicism a couple weeks ago. Here’s what I think Jesus got wrong.

I feel like this is one of the more valuable things I've published; hope people give it a read. www.publicnotice.co/p/delia-rami...

“When asked what people should take away from this film, Snyder emphasized the immense courage of these everyday workers who choose to show up and fight, even though they have everything to lose.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

i didn’t ask to have an emotional support politician but here we are

Library workers, library patrons, students of all ages, moms and dads and grownups of all kinds, have been organizing against book bans in this district for years, some of the most inspiring people I’ve met.

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Even if you already know this, here's how to turn off the AI features in Gmail proton.me/blog/turn-of...

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

What an incalculable loss. What massive contributions, that reached beyond her field.

It would be vile and invasive even if it were, which is what a lot of us have been yelling about for decades.

No. Commonsense reform is to burn ICE to the waterline and scatter the rubble so that all of us who value a constitutional republic with a Bill of Rights can prevent such a monstrosity from ever being constructed again. And nothing above is hyperbole. God, but you are not a leader for this time.

This is as close to motivational speaker as I’m ever gonna get.

Incredible contrast between this and Keir Starmer running a delivery driver over

"If you have a business person saying, 'No, I’d prefer that you not teach that version of American history, but I prefer that you teach the one that I like,' you’re going to get teaching that is nothing short of ideology" -- @isaackamola.bsky.social on ‘intellectual freedom centers’

oh shit this piece is really good

One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

In his forthcoming book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You, George Washington University Law School professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson explores how sensor-driven technologies, social media monitoring, and artificial intelligence can be weaponized against democratic values and personal freedoms.

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

Okay, it took me three days to finally do this, BUT! You can buy whistles from us now! I stress again that getting the whistles free is the OBVIOUS OPTION but some folks want 1-5 Kit Rocha whistles instead of 100 whistles, or to support us. So. OK! thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4449...

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants https://theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-for-murdering-without-proper-warrants/

Remind me again: How many millions of dollars is the football staff being paid? www.dailytarheel.com/article/brea...

Early Arthropods xkcd.com/3199/

Today’s flower, a personal favorite, the dandelion: Symbolizes the ability to overcome challenges and survive in difficult conditions. 🌱 F*ck Trump and his fascist regime.

AAUP NC President Belle Boggs: “When people don’t feel safe, if they don’t feel like they can do their research, I don’t see how they can stay.” dailytarheel.com/article/inve...

“They have largely given up on organic adoption by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion.” theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/you-have-t...

As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪

Check out Chapelboro’s curated guide of local winter weather resources here:

I watched a bunch of AI sessions at the WEF so you wouldn’t have to. But you should read this.

Story of the modern US state and capitalism since at least the 1940s—always money for war, police, and surveillance, and never enough for socially useful institutions, food, shelter, health care, and other public goods

Terrific essay by @erikmbaker.bsky.social in Jewish Currents "Accommodating militarism in higher education for the sake of fighting Trump will not do anything to prepare the academic profession to eventually confront its complicity in American-sponsored atrocities" jewishcurrents.org/higher-eds-b...

"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”. ht: Dagmar Monett

Library Workers in Times of Hype: AI Edition Matthew Noe, Ella Gibson, Ruth Monnier 📚 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

What's the best map of global AI supply chains you've seen? Looking for visuals for a lecture on tech colonialism

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

I’ve got another review up at @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org !

imagining a script that adds "the only nation to ever deploy a nuclear weapon in war" as a clause prefix to each instance of "the US" I read in print and finding it incredibly clarifying actually

Really nice to see @notquitehydepark.bsky.social back in the @lrb.co.uk with a piece on Richard Siken (fear not, she brings up both Supernatural *and* AO3). She builds a career retrospective with fine economy (“Siken … cannot lie”). More from SB in @strangehorizons.bsky.social soon!

Dr. King on the relationship between colonialism & fascism: "But one of the greatest things that this war is doing to us in Civil Rights is that it is allowing the Great Society to be shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam every day."

In light of Democrats calling for more "training" for ICE, this passage from my book Copaganda seems relevant:

Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.

This Page Intentionally Left Blank: @pinebeltblues.bsky.social reviews KJ Cerankowski's NOTHING WANTING (@uminnpress.bsky.social)

Fire evening https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/fire-evening-1929

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...