oh, that's why a bunch of my skyline is awake at an unusual hour, the ground gave a wake-up call to everyone

Shout out to everyone that will misread this as being "pro-China," instead of "disappointed in the US" There is no structural advantage that China has that makes it easy for them, but prevents us from being pro-science, pro-university, and pro-collaboration with our allies. We do this to ourselves

Correct, because at our current point on the value chain a large number of workers need a level of education that makes them susceptible to the Woke Mind Virus

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

imo we should give longer grace periods when h1b folks get laid off to mitigate this but if people are saying that the program should be ended because it has flaws, they are wrong.

most people who criticize ai for misleading hypothetical other people have not used any LLM interfaces at all, so it is worth mentioning, yeah (not saying people aren't sometimes misled just tired of it being seen as the only possible outcome)

The requirements for getting an H1B are extremely strict, I know because I had one. They include proving there are no Americans who are willing to do your job, and you MUST be paid the prevailing wage for your job, so claims that H1Bs are used to undercut wages are simply lies.

There are a bunch of people in my replies saying racist things, and I really should have seen that coming.

Like if this were happening 2000miles south I think headlines would be “Strongman tightens control of justice system, represses speech, deploys troops internally; opposition flailing; courts enable power grab” or something

oh my god I'm going to be so pissed if I can't get my leucovorin/folic acid that I need to counteract the methotrexate side effects, because Trumpies have bought it all up. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who don’t care after all.

The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".

My favorite nugget is when I tried to make SpongeBob but kept hitting the policy filter. Thought for a bit, tried "robert the sponge" -- it worked.

It is, incidentally, also an LLM built entirely on data that was gathered consensually (since I wrote it all), and uses no more power than the computer on my desk that I was already using to watch YouTube or whatever, and doesn’t take anyone’s job away. So that’s all interesting to me, too.

I fucking remember telling @nitasha.bsky.social and @kateconger.com that this was the inevitable consequence of the "bipartisan" pressure on tech giants to investigate them for "monopoly power" or "foreign control", that it would create leverage for regulation that Repubs would use to backstab Dems.

well, I guess TikTok is going to be state media now.

Thank you to all the neighbors who were out today trying to keep each other safe. Let's find this man and get him free. @massgovernor.bsky.social , @katjanaballantyne.bsky.social , I want every resource working on finding him - and the 4 other people detained earlier today - and getting them home.

The next two minutes of video show me offering to walk off with him since he's not being detained. He declines, because he "doesn't want to be rude". Less than two minutes later, they place him in cuffs with no explanation and stuff him into a car with NY plates.

This morning at 11am, corner of Hathorn and Broadway in Somerville MA. 3 ICE vehicles idling on nearby corners. I was following two ICE cars that were cruising around the neighborhood. This person was just walking down the sidewalk when two ICE vehicles stopped and officers jumped out to stop him.

The Kamala Harris thing is bad. It's actually less bad of she's trying to run again in 2028, but it's bad either way. Standing up for trans rights will get you "even Kamala Harris and Sarah McBride say-"ed to death.

Someone canceled a ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND dollar wedding

Truth Social doesn’t even have a bug bounty program and I don’t think they have any real responsible disclosure flow

Black women in tech balancing the schadenfreude around how we are pushed out and harmed and told it was about how we didn’t “make it” With the abject terror at how this is just racism and persecution of people based on the whims of the people everyone chose over you Yep I see you

If by debate you mean *statement about basic human rights* countered by *call to genocide with a wojak attached posted by PutinLover88* then that’s truly a loss

it was literally in a bag www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Lindsey Halligan is a 2013 law grad, an insurance lawyer, who acted as Trump's personal lawyer for several years and is now tasked with bringing the Smithsonian into ideological compliance. In the context of the Trump Administration this makes her well qualified to be US Attorney.

Did Homan declare the $50K on his income tax returns?

(If you're wondering, Newsom's tweet was actually about him signing a law banning facial coverings for law enforcement in California, a bill that Noem begged him not to sign. It was not a "threat" in any manner whatsoever).

People outside tech don’t get how massive a blow the $100K/year foreign worker fee is. 66% of Silicon Valley’s tech workers are foreign-born. Even if some have green cards, that’s still a huge percentage hit with massive fees plus it limits the pipeline for new talent the industry relies on.

In addition to recognition push: Saudi, France, Norway & Spain are rallying a set of allied countries around an emergency aid package to the Palestinian Authority to the tune of $200m per month to prevent the collapse of the PA amid Israel’s withholding of hundreds of millions of dollars it is owed

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

Ahhhh... he posted it again with Lindsey Halligan's full name, so maybe it wasn't a DM? Who the hell knows. But this is a weird freaking thing to post publicly.

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

omfg @wired.com printed one of the rotating acronyms for what does NPM stand for verbatim not realising it was a joke, they think it stands for Node Packet Management

Oh my god, this isn't a benchslap, it's a bench hulksmash.

Amphetamine psychosis is probably a good comparison: a lot of people are susceptible, but most will never have a chance to find out. Except in our world suddenly meth is on shelves at 7-11, the media is flooded with hype for how productive it'll make you, and every new TV comes with a box.

Things we learned from my wife being profiled by Campus Reform a few years ago: - Be careful responding to emails from people you don't know asking about your research - Don't list your office location on your university web profile page

Lia Thomas met the NCAA requirements for transition when she started competing as a woman. Did the right accept those standards? Or, if they disagreed, argue that they could be more stringent? No. They said she was a man who was unfairly competing and pretended that there were no standards at all.

Or maybe actually the fee will only apply to new applicants! If you are an H-1B holder abroad right now you have to choose between the very first flight to any US airport, or betting the chance to ever see your dog again on the words of an unnamed WH official over the letter of the OE.

Besides the effects on the tech industry, right now there are H-1B holders—people—who built a life in the US. If they are traveling, they have 17 hours to get back to the US, or the life they built will be shattered and taken from them. Can you imagine constantly living with this uncertainty?

let's not give @badambulist.bsky.social any more story ideas ;)

Federal voting intention (Gen Z) 🟥 ALP: 33% 🟩 GRN: 31% 🟦 L/NP: 18% 🟧 PHON: 5% ⬛️ OTH: 13% RedBridge | 19 Aug-8 Sep

reading all the h1b worker first hand accounts who turned around at the airport and just accepted they could no longer go visit family and friends and they are basically at the mercy of their employers for this 100k thing. it’s heart breaking. globalnews.ca/news/1143776...

remember when the “tech right” were insistent he’d increase high-skill immigration? lol. lmao even.

the notion that trans women have an advantage in sports is entirely made up and has no basis in science. it's based on the notion that trans women are cross-dressing cis men what little peer reviewed science that has been done shows that, if anything, trans women have a disadvantage over cis women

the Dems really need to get smarter and stop answering the trans equivalent of the "have you stopped beating your wife?" loaded question and associated rhetoric that accepts the eliminationist framing.

here comes the cereal airplane buzzing towards your face again to feed you another spoonful of Oops! Always Right

yeah the prose is not good. to a degree i think it's a probably-futile attempt at dodging congressional backlash even though bluesky had one of the harshest kirk crackdowns and still got called an enabling site

On Tuesday, the process which may result in the first Australian sacking related to posts concerning Kirk commenced.