mmm candy coated fennel seeds

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i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period

crying in the club* (*at my desk) bc stanley tucci took the USA women's hockey team out for a meal at his favorite restaurant and they gave him his own jersey

wizardry as a metaphor for nuclear weapons is an underrated aspect of these books

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

Imagine the perfect life

Cute little buddy on the back deck this morning. - red-backed vole. #mammals 🌿

My book goes to Congress🥰! Rep. Desaulnier recently quoted The AI Con in the US House subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. This is why "AI" will make our jobs worse. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

PSA you can oppose Israel without being a NAZI RAT.

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Wow I’ve got a bunch of very high profile mutuals following this account.

Hot Jupiters! Warm Jupiters! Cold Jupiters! Getchore Jupiters here!

I find myself truly bewildered by the petulant attitudes of tech CEOs and AI pushers. For years now, they've gleefully told people to "learn to do something else then," when confronted with the labor costs of gAI, and laughed/mocked critics. Why do they expect to be treated nicely in return?

"refugee" - the most well off group in my country, who still own most of the private land, who rarely live in poverty think they're oppressed for reasons I know but are too ridiculous to explain.

I always use my cursor to "scratch" cat pictures between the eyes

Our voices will ring out together As oooooooone!

if you're having a shitty-ass week like I am, I recommend singing along to "Fantasy" by Earth Wind & Fire, especially if you can handle the falsetto or harmony parts. It won't make anything better but it might lift your mood a little bit?

characteristically good work from Serwer. again saying: we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

Things that should have prevented any political career and sent the subject fleeing into the mountains.

listen to Damien

I've been saying for almost 2 decades now that it should the current paradigm of "AI" acting as a helpmeet to fascism should be no surprise, when the drivers of fascism— militarism, capitalism, carcerality, white supremacy, &c— are the soil, the water, & roots from which this idea of "AI" was grown.

UPDATE: Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal says that "ICE used a phony missing persons bulletin for a 5 year old girl," to lie and get into a Columbia residential building and detain a student. "It is unconfirmed at this time whether they impersonated an officer to do so," he adds.

They will record everything, and then we find out they are paying a reduced pay rate in another country, to listen to the conversations and flag them for *anything*

of the two articles currently circulating about Sheri’s Ranch which feature Jupiter Jetson, this one is way more worth your time. there is a fascinating and important story in the unfolding workers’ rights movement in Nevada’s legal brothels that will resonate with anyone who’s been a contractor

My interest in this “Democrats” group was piqued when the Koch-funded FIRE, which defends right-wing interests, rushed to its side in Illinois. So I took a look at what makes this group “Democats.” Their public filings and website provide no substantiation. We asked them directly … and got no reply

Boss, it's the fascism.

Describe your favorite games poorly: Remove invasive robot species in this heartwarming ecological adventure! A rogue brain threatens the world, but you will not fight it until you have resolved every emotional and interpersonal problem in your friend group. And of course…

our own Jupiter is known as a "cold Jupiter" because it exists past the "ice line" of our Solar System. However, many researchers think it might have drifted closer to the Sun billions of years ago before migrating back out. The story of planet formation involves knowing how these migrations happen.

I know *I* need a break from all the doom, and maybe you do too. So here's my latest article for @eos.org : could "hot Jupiters" (massive planets orbiting very close to their stars) help us understand how all giant planets form, including our own Jupiter? eos.org/articles/rar... 🧪🔭

the epidemic of men launching podcasts about nothing has gotten out of control to combat this I am launching a podcast WITH A WOMAN (veteran climate journalist Tracy Wholf) to talk about stuff that actually matters (the planet being destroyed by the worst people alive) Find subscribe links here:

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

As the “Harlem of the South,” Richmond’s Jackson Ward neighborhood served as a center for Black business, advocacy, arts and culture, until parts of it were destroyed by “redevelopment” in the mid-20th century. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978, Jackson Ward thrives today. #BHM2026

I need to write pitches or look for a job, since I'm gonna run out of money soon lol

We don’t want thunder; we want rum

This lawlessness has to end. Ellie Aghayeva must be safely released. And Dylan Contreras. And too many other students whose names we don’t even know. (2/2)

Yet again, ICE is using blatantly illegal trickery to circumvent judicial warrant requirements and abduct a student. These are the tactics of brownshirts. That’s why I’ve long been calling to abolish ICE. And why Congress should not grant them one more penny. (1/2)

Columbia says DHS entered a dorm at dawn today under false pretenses, detaining a student in violation of the law and university policy.

If you want to stand up against fascism, then you have to defend trans rights. It’s nonnegotiable. We all lose otherwise.

Puts me in mind of Halley's depiction, from 1715

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

The Guardian has identified the Columbia student abducted by DHS as Ellie Aghayeva. She posted the IG story below: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I can’t fucking take it anymore I made a goddamn blocklist to put these assholes on. Tag me whenever you see someone who needs to go on it. It’s short right now because it’s new but let’s erase these people from our timelines.

i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety. i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04

while the NYT and The Atlantic support trans genocide, and Kansas has abruptly stripped trans people of their driver's licenses, the work of @assignedmedia.org is more vital than ever: www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter

the stories are all saying Bill Gates has apologized to his foundation for "affairs", but has he expressed anything at all about the victims of his "affairs" (who were trafficked? and therefore not consenting?)? Does he think he did anything wrong?

The @garlab.bsky.social team loved visiting the Great Lakes Aquarium! That’s one BIG Burbot 😅

BlueSky-ers getting mad at me when I say I don't trust Graham Platner because he had a Nazi SS tattoo for 18 years

Trump famously made/kept a bunch of money by simply refusing to pay people he owed it to, and now under Republican control that’s the ethos of the federal government. It cannot help but fray the bonds that unite us, and it’s in some sense *the* fundamental problem we have to solve.