Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

“The industry knows it’s vulnerable,” said Merner. “They are not totally confident they can win cases on their merits.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Good Trouble ✊

My nephew is so close to being able to make the tuition payment for KUAS! Please, please donate if you can, even $5 helps. If not, then a share goes a long way, too! Help make his dream come true! 🙏📖🗾 #MutualAid #HelpSky #Tuition #STEM

This morning, we held a joint Audit Committee and Minneapolis City Council meeting regarding the after action reviews to assess the City of Minneapolis’ handling of the shooting of Davis Moturi & the death of Allison Lussier.  The findings from today’s after action reviews are deeply troubling. 1/

'everyone' doing a bunch of work here futurism.com/artificial-i...

The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist Krystal Two Bulls, the executive director of Honor the Earth.

497) Humourbot. Takes your place when a well-meaning but clueless acquaintance decides to offer 'advice' for dealing with your chronic pain, mental health, etc. Very good at politely nodding along and looking interested in absolute bollocks. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Any Dem who runs on a platform of ending every single government contract with Palantir, then hiring a team of experts to undo the damage these fascist dorks have done to our infrastructure, communications and personnel, not only has my vote, but has my donation checks and volunteer hours as well.

sticker company sent me this video of a test print (we later decided to go without textured prints for most of the designs) so in fairness to the AI guys blocking me, they made the technically correct call

Happy Earth Day! 🌳 Protect the trees. 🐝 Help the bees. 🌊 Clean the seas. 💖 Grow love in community youtu.be/qBn3E38AZmw

Meta is logging its workers’ every keystroke to train the AI that will replace them. Extract what workers know. Model it. Cut the workers. This is happening because governments are letting it happen. On this. On Palantir. On facial recognition. Inaction is still a choice. And someone is making it.

The QuitGPT campaign has surged since January, with 700,000 users pledging to cancel subscriptions amid concerns over military AI:

imagine sitting on a potential challenger to the current bloc of social media platforms people are on but dislike for various reasons and going "no, no I must burn through my userbase's goodwill as fast as possible because I'm too bitter that funny trans women are more popular than AI dweebs"

I also want to shout @lataco.bsky.social's great feature on the organizing in Monterey Park, aptly titled "How to Stop a Data Center in Your Backyard":

And adults.

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

A water recycling plant Elon Musk promised to build in Memphis to offset the huge amount of local drinking water Grok's data centre devours has been postponed indefinitely. Apparently, Musk considers drinking water for local people less of a priority than increasing computing power for Grok👇🏾

To shield people from spiralling energy costs in the wake of the Iran war, UK government pledges: - Free plug-in solar + up to £12,000 worth of rooftop solar + battery for lower-income households - breaking the link between gas prices + energy bills share.google/GPhzrUeMcM2E... 1/2

Schools, colleges and other public institutions originally had until this week to make online content accessible to people with disabilities. Now, the Justice Department has delayed that deadline. n.pr/3Qnk6Hq

"Francesca Albanese is trying to stop a genocide. That is her crime. United States and Israel are trying to stop her – by destroying her life, her career, her family, and her voice." Please sign and repost. This petition is aimed at the EU, but should be also supported by people outside Europe.

Who could have possibly predicted this entirely predictable snafu?

ICE detained over 70 of Minnesota’s children - ripping them out of school, forcing them into inhumane detention centers, and traumatizing them forever. We need to bring all our babies home. Then, the federal government must repair and restore all the harm they’ve done.

NBC projects that YES will win in Virginia.

I hate that this article of mine may be relevant again, sigh. Also good video. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I have many, many things to say about this, as someone who runs a media outlet Like... the moment you do something like this is the moment you lose everything, because it's so cartoonishly evil that you can't even BEGIN to fathom the harms it will do to real, passionate, hard-working people.

Paramount is big enough to retaliate not only against its own journalists but also smaller outlets where it advertises. And it hasn’t even acquired Warner yet. A company owned by allies of a censorship-obsessed president can’t have that kind of power.

We see the increase of strokes and heart attacks after wildfire smoke events. It’s not inevitable. Masks (and indoor filtration) can save us from this.

This is a bad take. If you feel like you're not on a high moral ground, maybe it's because you were so eager to leave the existence disabled people have been relegated to that you're enabling the ongoing spread of a virus that can kill and disable people while our access to vaccines is in jeopardy.

This is not bitchy subskeeting, by the by. This is me looking at a fresh wave of “lockdown was so hard” posts and just… There is very little cognition that some people never left, because everyone else stampeded to get out.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

Not said enough! 🙏 US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... The “$2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets…”

please contribute $1 if you can ❤️ i can't tell you how important this treatment plan is. i hate saying stuff like this because it makes it all real, but i would like to live 🥹

"The Climate Scientist Who Fought Back" | My interview with the legendary @dfenton.bsky.social for the new #FentonForecast podcast: www.fentonforecast.com/episodes/epi...

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Last night’s ICE abduction near 20th & Central didn’t happen in a vacuum. Friday morning they were found stalking people at Huset Park and earlier in April they kidnapped someone near East Phillips community center.

This whole thread 👏🏻✨

It's 2026. The question isn't which thing can we burn to produce electricity that is slightly less worse than the other things we burn. Building new infrastructure to burn things in 2026 is peak stupidity and greed. Luckily solar, wind and storage are cheaper.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

A wildlife disaster unfolds alongside the human tragedy in the Strait of Hormuz @greenpeace.org reports Iranian vessel Shahid Bagheri, stuck by a US warplane in early March, is still leaking oil near the Strait, with nearby wetlands at risk: www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s... 🧵 1/5

💸🏘️ UPDATE: Goal 🆙 to $375K Donate: NeighborReliefFund.org Many families in Minnesota are in crisis and need help now. Our local #MutualAid fund alone has $41,000 in requests for rent relief that are overdue. Please share widely! Thank you to everyone who is helping us keep our neighbors housed. ✊🏻

Yet another reason I cannot stand shills who claim AI/LLMs could be great for translation and/or preserving threatened languages. 🙄 They most emphatically are not and won't be, because the data colonialism machine was built to parse (and prioritize) privileged languages and lacks cultural context.

Support the Global Voices Spotlight: Positive action on climate In May @globalvoices.org is looking at the actions people are taking to fight the climate crisis

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Good reporting from Duluth News Tribune on my case - www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/f...