found the post of all time for the shit I be feeling lately, oh my fucking god

Learning more about #Tanstack DB and generally "the stuff" of locally cached data and streaming updates to it, and now I appreciate Websockets and their like way more. Streaming IPC is generally something that still weirds me out as someone used to passing cause-of-work with functions and callbacks

"Furthermore, whatever MAHA psychiatry says, the Trump administration’s broader agenda has been to weaken the public health and social safety net infrastructure that any humane response to mental illness depends on. This is why I hesitate to endorse even the sensible-sounding parts of MAHA agenda."

Die Zusage der Politik lautete: „Die Krankenkassen haben keinen Zugriff auf die Daten aus der elektronischen Patientenakte ePA.“ Jetzt sollen die Kassen die Daten doch nutzen dürfen. Das ist eine Einmischung in die ärztliche Behandlung. www.aerztezeitung.de/Wirtschaft/G...

"SpaceX has proposed one of the most aggressive corporate governance regimes in US history, intending to guarantee Elon Musk cannot be fired." As @madisoncondon.bsky.social remarked to me, Musk is transforming US corporate governance. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Guys, guys. The water slug I designed for Subnautica 2.

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Ahahahah holy fuck. Two orders of magnitude token cost. This don‘t end anywhere but the ditch. GL HF local models. Guess you hope you‘re good enough m.youtube.com/watch?v=LFlj...

Relatedly: publishers, festivals etc. measuring someone's reach on algorithm-driven, sociopath-owned, or video-based platforms are effectively demanding that women and minoritized people face more abuse in order to (maybe) get (better) book deals. #publishing folks should hang out *here* more. 💙📚

in case anyone ever needs evidence of why I’m constantly banging on about how badly women historians are treated, these are my mentions right now

Next Michael Bay proposal probably after he already did coal-powered spaceships and lightsabers

dawg I had to revive my Bad Place account for book proposal reasons and right now they are losing their minds at me for saying The Odyssey is not a true story

NEW: Mayo Clinic, the massive U.S. hospital network, is using what it describes as “Ambient Listening” to record patient interactions with nurses, including in emergency rooms, then using AI to process that collected data.

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

This has been such a persistent issue with the @nytimes.com in particular, and criticized so often, that you really can't see it as an oversight anymore, but as a deliberate policy of contempt towards other media outlets.

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

This was notable to me: “The update also includes a notable shift in how conversations start on the platform. Women will no longer be required to send the first message, marking a change from Bumble's previous format.” Wasn’t this the entire value proposition of Bumble??

So, women can't use their lived experience to keep themselves safe

The President is telling the IRS to give him $10 billion rn

I guess it's hard to have a unique voice if you don't actually possess the capability of having a perspective

I would also listen to a band called Compulsory Finger Guns

Optional finger guns is a great band name

The Stillaguamish Tribe in Washington wants to save salmon whose habitat has been destroyed by development. They’re getting land back and turning a dairy operation back into a tidal marsh where the Stillaguamish River meets the Puget Sound. www.kosu.org/news/2026-05...

Fox News: We want the Trump admin to build a surveillance state to ferret out all crime and round up undocumented immigrants, using whatever technology they can find. Also Fox News: How dare a surveillance state ticket our car for illegally parking!

Fundamentally, the reason we do science is the same reason we make art. Both are creative expressions of our humanity and both are tools for us to explore and understand reality. To treat either as a commodity is to diminish ourselves.

A thought synthesis of the past few days, with regards to exchanges with @botmatrix.myatproto.social and @olivia.science - we‘ve confused the universality of the Turing machine‘s information processing with a fundamental reason to be the foundation of our societal fabric.

I‘m just happy to find enough interesting expert voices on here to listen to and absorb stuff from without them being completely hounded off the plattform by raiders or reply guys.

We can have OCR glasses without pervert net. We do actually. And the fact that they are more expensive than meta is a problem we can solve. By fighting for policy change rather than fighting for scraps from corporate overlords.

But they’re bad at reading. These glasses would much rather give me an AI summary than read — and it took a long time to figure out how to get my glasses to read and it’s still mostly more of a pain than loading something into the Speechify app and having Snoop read

Meta glasses are absolute game changers for the blind community — this isn’t special pleading — they are completely revolutionary and though expensive they are in relative reasonable reach in a way a lot of disability tech is not It is expensive being blind

sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about

I’m tired of the dishonesty of this entire debate. The folks calling for “perspectives different from their own“ are shutting down Women’s and African American studies because they hate differing opinions. Marginalized folks had a small foothold, and powerful people decided to push them out.

"AI alignment" Yeah well Elon Musk went out of his way to enable the computational manufacturing of CSAM en masse. And Altman sures likes his lying and deceiving. Let‘s talk "Billionaire alignment" maybe.

Meanwhile his allies are coming for adoption. These people *hate* children. To them children are means to express their own power (over others) and nothing more and frankly for that crap we should place them all outside the gates. These people are toxic to a working human culture.

"let people enjoy things" well i enjoy rigorous cultural criticism how about that

One good thing that entertainment journalists covering The Odyssey can do is never to ask Nyong'o, Page, or Nolan about this. When a prominent racist and transphobe says something racist and transphobic, go make his life miserable and leave his targets alone. They have nothing to defend or explain.

Wow, New York Times, how did that ever happen

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In this essay I will argue Critical Role is- (there's usually a convex icosahedron that is a McGuffin in each campaign)

MOX TAX

Careful sleeping on my desk, Freddie, or you’ll get a book dedicated to you, too.

On that day, the fash 'peacefully expressed' themselves by doing sig heils and throwing full beer bottles and cans, fireworks and trash at us while we were kettled outside a Trafalgar tourist shop for several hours. This has, for some strange reason, never been mentioned in the papers

Here's another example from the court record of Mark and Phillis, two enslaved people from Charlestown who poisoned their enslaver in 1755. The AI summary says they are "described as a man and woman." That's not true. They're described as a "Negro man" and "Negro woman." It's important context!

To be very clear, I'm not trying to use the AI — I'm just trying to read the court documents. It's clear that the AI is programmed to replace offensive language. But what does that mean when it's being used to summarize historical documents? What happens when people rely on the summary?

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

In addition, Family Search frequently utilizes prison labor to digitize materials they make available so it's just a turducken of exploitation activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

Rawbraining it

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’