The US NSF has put out a "dear colleagues" letter that is essentially a yard sale list for @ncar-ucar.bsky.social It asks questions such as, who'd like to take over some of NCAR's programs? Is anyone interested in commercial use of the Mesa Lab? If you have thoughts, send them to [email protected]

Republicans behind "child safety" legislation and internet bills are motivated by the belief that conservatives aren't treated fairly by big tech—Trump often says this in plain terms—so it has nothing to do with protecting women and children, but everything to do with media control and suppression

"wow they're so needy" 🐣 🪶

I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

If you give Einstein your credentials to log in, then it can access ALL of your campus portals: your financial accounts, transcripts, email, health records, &c. because all of that is under one umbrella. Literally the only way to your LLM is through your campus login. The security risk is massive.

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

“i’m still punk” i whisper to myself as i turn down the music in my car so i can see better

some benevolent cyberpunk for you

“A federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”. Sound familiar? That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed. This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year. They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Jason Haley’s Southaven home is one of the closest to the gas plant helping power Grok, where 18 turbines now operate 16 to 24 hours per day and have made his life at home “torture,” he told city officials.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives. futurism.com/artificial-i...

And sure, we can talk about how all AI isn’t a scam but the stuff that has come to define the industry, the stuff its richest and most influential leaders are pushing, and the stuff we encounter enshittifying our day to day lives? That’s the scam

I guess I do agree that AI is a big deal in the sense that it’s going to make everything worse for the foreseeable future against all reason, logic, and evidence of it largely being a scam staring all of us in the face

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

We are living in a world where we have safe and effective vaccines against some of the most detrimental diseases in history. And yet people choose not to give them to their children and protect them and others. Measles could have been eradicated by now.

Julian Bailey, 43, is the man who was killed by U.S. Marshals in DC earlier this week. This is a message from his family. #JusticeForJulian

What a perfect example of how these people are not just incompetent, they’re lazy.

New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>> floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

🚨New paper + software Folks I want to introduce #evolved —our R package for teaching evolutionary biology through inquiry-based learning. For undergrad + grad courses. 🧬💻 Paper link: doi.org/10.21105/jos... #RStats #Evolution #STEMEducation #activelearning

Bees 🐝

In fact the whole point of notepad is that it is as barebones as fucking possible.

of course, this is a surveillance dragnet we built ourselves through a mix of rampant consumerism and extreme fearmongering of our neighbors, communities, homeless people, and people of color. it has always been quasi networked, but Search Party explicitly automates this. that is not good

At AAG Detroit in 2025, Dr. LaToya Eaves was in dialogue with Drs. Katherine McKittrick, Willie Jamaal Wright, and Kevin Grove about the pathbreaking book, Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. @spacedemands.bsky.social @blackgeographies.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get … tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle. But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.

I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.

Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make. www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

economists ran the numbers and, uh, it's bad!

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

The IMLS propaganda machine is in full swing, and $14 million in tax dollars just went to PragerU to do the work that libraries and museums are actually experts in. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

And Epstein was an explicit eugenicist! Even in the (unlikely) scenario that the academics writing him chummy emails didn't know about the pedophilia charges, they were seeking funding because they thought their work aligned with his interests, which were monstrous.

peaceful march, kids in strollers, people in wheelchairs... and they launched enough gas to engulf multiple city blocks

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices

404 Media has published the full user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE to bring up addresses for deportation targets. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

Nonsense. It's not possible to steal AI technology. I know this because Google's own LLMs are built using a complete copy of my legal blog, and that's somehow not stealing because, as Google says, a complete copy of my legal blog is both trivial and utterly essential for their tech to work.

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Border Patrol shot someone in Arizona this morning outside Arivaca. The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are not unusual. Border Patrol agents have killed hundreds of people over the past few years. We know about Renee and Alex because Border Patrol was deployed in a city, in front of cameras.

as we celebrate the most sacred holiday in the calendar I just want to let everyone know that every small boulder is just a large boulder the size of a small boulder please use caution.

STOP BEING ANXIOUS ABOUT EVERYTHING AND LOOK AT THIS LITTLE GREMLIN #birds 🐣

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.