The eugenics imagination is so strong in tech that they are literally dismantling all forms of science that aren't based on statistics and scientific racism

Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.

Think about the long term effects - if you are summarizing your emails or docs, let's say misinformation trickles in a (very low) 5% of the time. Every day, bit by bit, you are adding incorrect info - like static or glitches - into your mental picture of the world. How long can you trust it?

I can't wait to see all of my mutuals that play Fortnite regularly to not touch the game for the entirety of the season in solidarity of all of their trans homies! It's so nice knowing so many people that aren't just allies when it's convenient for them! 🙂💖 Hint. Fucking. Hint.

"US researchers" here seems to mean extremely senior people. People continuing to not get that there's an entire scientific ecosystem that has to exist to permit those people to do shit.

Don't snitch tag, not even to dunk on or drag people. Especially not when there's a power differential. Trust that if people wanted someone involved in a thing, they'd've tagged them already.

Ouch

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

because i blocked them, here’s a screenshot from clearsky - i wouldn’t normally snitch, but WTF honestly. not a safe person.

- Links between atoms - Tags for classes and terms of a knowledge graph - Types to build systems of atoms relevant to your processes Yeah, I think I am very happy with the design (and clean terminology) at play here now.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

Es ist so erbärmlich. 2.000 Menschen. Vor den Taliban geflohen. Nachgewiesen schutzbedürftig. So viele wie in 1 Woche in Deutschland Asyl beantragen. Oder in 1 Woche neu aus der Ukraine nach Deutschland kommen. Also in Summe so viele wie in 3 Tagen insgesamt kommen. Und dafür dieses Schauspiel?

"in this moment of political darkness, new york will be the light "whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community one of the many black women that donald trump who has fired from her job... your struggle is ours too"

we can make a better world.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Mamdani: “NYC will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, LED by an immigrant!” 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

@aoc.bsky.social says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody." "We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

VA and NYC results bode well for a blue wave into 2026 if the Democrats would just stop running a lemming train through the GOP's cliff-side Overton Window.

Remember how in the Business Insider story about all his sexual abuse allegations he chased after a fleeing, naked teenager trying to avoid rape going "Stop running away from me. Stop running away from me."

Equipping my sandwich with a toothpick and crispy bacon to boost its stats like I'm customizing a gun in Call of Duty

Teen Vogue and WIRED are both part of Conde Nast. If they've cut the politics coverage at Teen Vogue... it makes me worried they'll cut Wired as well. I hope not, but...

Tomorrow the most populous city in the country will elect a socialist whose platform features multiple robust food justice proposals by a wide margin. Meanwhile, the amount of money being poured into proactively asserting this is a statistical fluke could feed every SNAP recipient in the city.

Once these meds got labeled as "weight loss" drugs, it was only a matter of time before they would be deemed "non-essential" & insurance companies would quit covering them. It was already a struggle for diabetics to afford these meds and get them covered consistently.

I got notice about this in the mail and for years diabetics have literally been begging folks to be mindful when discussing their use of GLP-1s and begging journalists to be mindful of how they report on these medications because of what is happening now. calmatters.org/commentary/2...

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

that users were justified in their rebuke of this dataset was *summarized*, but never quoted; only the disdainful eye-rolling posts from data scientists got actual screenshots. of any ethicists' writing opened their eyes, made them realize something, at HF, that was not materially reflected.

i'll briefly summarize by saying that HuggingFace scraped the content of a bunch of bluesky users without their explicit consent on the basis that it was technically possible to do so, and when people expressed anxiety and concern HF initially doubled down on their right to do so, frustrating users

We are steeped in patriarchy and white supremacy If we are not unable to question our own biases, beliefs and assumptions - if we're not willing to be called out by our comrades - we're toast

US officials were—what else—exercising these threats to delay the adoption of a first-ever industry tax on greenhouse gas emissions that had already gotten broad support from both government and companies www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

The Democratic establishment's ugly reaction to Zohran Mamdani reveals an unpleasant truth. They would rather lose elections than change. The addiction to rich donors and consultants is killing the party. But Mamdani shows a path out. An analysis. www.salon.com/2025/11/03/z...

The design evolution of the pseudoraptor, an intelligent predator from the world of Chriirah. #creaturedesign #conceptart #art

I was blown away by the response to my trans "It's Dr, Actually" pins so, by popular demand, I made nonbinary ones too. They were so successful, I've now expanded to a whole range of gender pride flag variants, as well as some plain and shimmery colour versions! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...

"If you don't know what a drug is doing in your body or how it works it's upto you to realise what it is for"

The vicious anti-intellectualism and anti science retorts on social media, and offline, from people like this towards leaders of the field just because they are — women, people of colour, whatever — not coded as experts is terrifying especially from other women and other educators. No solidarity.

Can anybody kindly share useful alternatives here or strategies since this obviously won't cut the mustard and I suspect and hope Philip is open to ways of doing this that actually work. Using an LLM to detect plagiarism does not work, sadly.

N95s can prevent more than just Covid! They stop colds, flus and other airborne illness. They’re also highly effective against pollen, pollution, wildfire smoke and environmental triggers. Many maskers haven’t been sick in years. Respirators are pretty amazing.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

More serious discussions between Jimbo Wales and editors about the role Wikipedia is meant to play in society.

why do i care so much? bc disabled people, especially women, get angrily condescended to ALL THE FUCKING TIME and most of them just choke it down for a host of reasons that don’t apply to me so i will force the assholes to look in the mirror

it’s SO funny to me that these people never understand that if you’re willing sneer “i’m sorry for trying to be helpful” we can all tell you were just tryin to jerk off (badly) to your (imagined) superiority the entire time. condescending AND wrong is a pathetic way to go through life, son

And in the book, we start by making the point that "AI" isn't one thing/doesn't refer to a coherent set of technologies. So you don't need to say "they" do have some uses in response to nonsense about "AI". Name the tech you're using, don't lend valor to the rest.

...and then you tried to bless us with the insight that the term is being used for different things but you know the only true way it should be used, and when it was pointed out to you that you can't decree how a language community uses a term, you checked out that the person you're talking to...

...what we know (or assume) about the convo partner. You entered into a discussion with Prof. Bender not knowing what she said/wrote previously about AI (how the term is being used for different things), glazed over the fact that what she was talking about in this instance were in fact chatbots,...

It's also a reflection of how things are reported IMHO. So many awful things are reported as this team vs that team, or stripped of the underlying context right. Gerrymandering is at its root a tool to suppress people's votes but it's rarely stated so plainly.