Yourself, but as a cartoon.

CALLING ALL MASSHOLES!!! The MA house will vote later today on the Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act. It’s a good bill! Call your reps and tell them to support the amendments that @aclum.bsky.social is backing, and OPPOSE amendment 18, which would gut the bill FFTF.link/madataprivacy

These billionaire dudes really *really* want to “live” forever.

Oh so it’s PSAs-about-Ebola serious. 😬

Looking at these numbers in context of the monopolistic, king-making, surveillant power of these companies, makes me think the whole bubble *needs* to collapse. And to take these companies (+ NVidia!) with it.

Did you see this??? An entire 50 PERCENT of Democratic voters under 30 want the party to MOVE TO THE LEFT on transgender issues. Comparing with other issues polled, it's second only to healthcare as an issue younger voters want to see the party move left on.

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

I’m a nurse scientist & I’ll be attending #FAccT2026 in Montreal for the first time in a few weeks. I’m eager to learn & make new connections! If you see this & would like to connect, let me know! Here’s a link to one of our more recent papers: www.nursingoutlook.org/article/S002...

This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…

Have some flowers 💐

So-called “Competency-based education” & assessment makes sense for a profession *obsessed* with maintaining homogeneity, virtue ethics and the optics of care. Who needs critical history, structural competency, moral reasoning or the “why” when just looking the part is enough to pass?

This is BULLSH*T

Fantastic 🧵 on NotebookLM fabrication. People claim (based on vibes) that it's a data-isolated platform wholly grounded in the input. Of course it's largely system prompt and training corpus. And fabricates heavily on stereotypes, like falsely claiming the Norwegian faculty are talking about tuition

I’m disturbed by the trend of digitizing libraries (& chucking physical collections) I’m not saying don’t digitize —> that can certainly offer some accessibility benefits I’m saying only-digital libraries puts way too much power over our knowledge & archives in the hands of too few (mostly corp.s)

As if any of us needed another reason to get off Google once & for all…

From my own personal experience, for anyone doing AI- assisted work on race, slavery, colonialism, resistance, and violence... DON'T. I tried running some writing through AI, and it would strip out language about race and violence. "Ask" it why, and it will gaslight you.

arXiv: announces 1-yr ban for anyone submitting AI slop Some “authors”:<insert whiney voice of a 3-year-old throwing a tantrum> But what do you meeeeeeean we can’t use our plagiarism machines to steal & manufacture content anymore? You mean you want us to *actually* know what we’re talking about?!?

BREAKING: Boston City Council just unanimously passed a resolution condemning dangerous age verification and censorship laws, including the proposals put forward by @massgovernor.bsky.social and the MA House. Backlash to age gating social media is growing! www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

This sounds really promising.

Hell yeah.

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bluesky: At least it’s better than LinkedIn and that other place.™️

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Slightly increase a band Les Tigres

This warmed my heart. The students get it. The sooner folks who occupy the podium do, the better.

a problem with retractions is they often don’t get seen by all those who read the original. the bigger problem is that many people won’t even care about the retraction and will still believe the original.

Of all things, the journal Nature making me feel seen on this Mother’s Day.

<sees news> <lights candle> <descends dusty, cobwebbed stairs> <shuffling noises in the basement> <muttering> … … AHA! <ascends steps rapidly> <eagerly thrusts arms out with papers waving> HERE’S THE 3O+ PAGE ANTI-LMS PEDAGOGY GUIDE WE WROTE 5YRS AGO!! rachelkwalker.medium.com/alternatives...

I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke

Why is anyone - I mean ANYONE (of any political affiliation!) - looking to RFK Jr. for health advice?! The man is not a clinician. The man is not a scientist. The man possesses literally ZERO health care/public health qualifications. He is literally making sh*t up. Snake oil salesman with a tan.

RIP USC 😡

Burn it with fire 🔥

That’s cool. But does your Pride have sled dogs?! 🐕 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Truth.

Oh look, it’s Baystate Health - the largest health system (& only pediatric ED) serving all Western Mass 🙃

OK I needed this.

I had the tremendous pleasure of co-advising Burcu’s diss, which provided the foundation for this ✨ book. Bldg on yrs of ethnographic research, Burcu offers an important + timely cautionary tale abt technosolutionism’s inevitable disappointments + destruction, and the power of community knowledge

AACN quietly erasing previously trumpeted (& recent!) commitments to diversity, inclusion & equity from the Essentials & replacing them with the so-broad-as-to-essentially-be-meaningless “Access, Connection, Engagement” framework already had me going. Then SCOTUS decided to gut the VRA. F this.

I’m giving this as a gift to all the people in the last year who have said “I think [XYZ use] is bullshit, but some of the medical AI applications seem to be impressive…" where radiology is the most frequent example

Timeline cleanse amidst the breathless news updates: Here is a lovely sunset I experienced recently, while deep in the woods.

Literally my weekend 😂

We love to see it.

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

Woooooooooooooooooooooow. This makes me very sad. My heart goes out to all the talented students, faculty & staff who call Hampshire home. What a loss to the valley, & higher ed.

Had a vivid dream where Lieutenant Sulu was an Emeritus Professor in the UMass department of mechanical & industrial engineering, & everyone was just so proud to have a former member of the Enterprise crew on the faculty.

They made it!!!! 🙏

A reminder that no one has worked out how to spot emotions, nor even is there a full consensus on what emotions there are. Anyone remotely claiming to is lying.

Absolutely heartbreaking. So many mathematicians I know studied there, men AND women. Maryam Mirzakhani studied there. If this isn't enough to cancel/relocate from the US the International Congress of Mathematicians #ICM2026, nothing will be.

Happy Sunday everyone, my chicks say hi 🐥 💜🐣 Look at those fuzzy little butts!