The pace of change is accelerating, and the implications are far-reaching. Keeping up isn’t easy, but it’s essential. www.wired.com/newsletter/I...

I love breakfast - unexpected Valentine’s Day cookies from a neighbor edition 💜

Baystate Health, the largest hospital in my area, wants trans kids to die. Or at least, that’s what their letter - sent to families depending on them for care - indicating that they would be withdrawing medical support for trans youth- will lead to. For shame Baystate Health. Evil cowards.

Many of us have been making noise about this but still not enough I appreciate this explainer from Matthew

CBP kills yet another child

One of those days where I’m full of rage.

I’m no Congressional policy expert but with House passage of the SAVE act & DHS funding votes still on the table, it sure feels like they’re setting up the Senate to “choose” between the right to vote & the right not to be snatched off the street or shot by secret police How about neither?

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

“Consider that the AI hype is true.” My dude. Lots of us have considered this. We’ve tried it, put it through its paces, and found it seriously lacking. It’s impressive software with very limited real world applications. No amount of advertising money they throw at it will make it less of a hype.

This morning the word “edupreneur” came across my inbox and I just… Aren’t y’all tired of the song & dance routines to prove care work is worthy? What if “educator” was a full sentence?

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

I brought my D&D dice to class today and had the students rolled to answer questions about the week’s readings

They are increasing abductions & going after legal observers

<insert my shocked face>

This was precisely the thought I had when that commercial aired Along with the increasing use of these camera networks by state actors like police depts & 🧊…

Massachusetts resident here (who doesn’t follow football but knows on *principle*): Go Seahawks!

No, “A.I.” *can’t* do that.

Face recognition technology is so dangerous that government should not use it at all—least of all our federal government’s out-of-control immigration agencies. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Listening to Janelle Monae’s Pynk and dissociating is an underrated Friday night activity

Having so much fun designing next week’s class

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Ooooooooh I wish I was closer to Penn

Fwiw, if a “qualitative analysis” involving ChatGPT involves “hallucinations” (as it inevitably will): Beyond the moral questions surrounding use of these resource-extracting/human-exploiting BS platforms, I do not see how - as a peer reviewer - I could trust or take your “analysis” seriously. 😒

🔥🔥🔥 what a wonderful company to be with

Yesterday when reviewing core content from last semester, I asked the doctoral students to assign a song to each course they took (& explain why they chose that song). A fall semester review mix tape, so to speak. They did not disappoint 😂

Not really my lane but as former EMS this seems like a no-brainer

"Tech CEOs Say AI Is Ushering in an Age of Abundance, But Instead the Evidence Shows That It’s Pushing Down Wages" The purpose of a system is what it does.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Rituals of Death & Dying Naval Navigation Neoliberalism, Globalization and Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life Victorian Poetry Intro to Environmental Engineering

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Example of *actual* nursing leadership.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

ICE murdered an RN for the VA in cold blood this morning on the streets of Minneapolis ANA (@americannurses.bsky.social), American Academy of Nursing & others—> where are you?!?

And ***even if*** he had a “serious criminal history” (which he didn’t), you don’t get to tackle a bystander with four guys, pin him to the ground, & then execute him in cold blood Justice doesn’t work like that The law doesn’t work like that The Constitution doesn’t work like that

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning

Summary executions in the street Kidnapping toddlers Concentration camps Racial profiling Femicide Breaking & entering Domestic terrorism Any one of these is more than enough of a justification to impeach, abolish & never bring back

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Here’s the thing about bullying and power: You can’t be bullied if you hold all the power. If you hold significant power over someone (be it wealth, racial privilege, physical strength, decision-making authority, rank, etc) & they challenge you- you’re not getting bullied. But you might be one.

Watching colleagues in health care doing backflips to write proposals that say anything *but* “diversity” or “health equity” while I scream “YOU’RE DOING THE WORK FOR THEM!!!?!”

Hey, we could all use some good news today

PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine against-a-i.com

So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE. There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it. Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance. 24 hours. Go. www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...

This is criminal conduct by the DHS

At MASSMoCA with my knitting, reading Kim Crawley’s Digital Safety in a Dangerous World 🧶 💻

Since living in West Africa in my 20s, radio has been my constant companion But this past spring, for my mental health, I had to take a break from what was an almost constant stream of NPR (& associated news) in the background So far I’ve listened to 79 books 📚 It’s been good for my soul

If you find this article interesting, I *strongly* recommend reading: * Virginia Eubanks’ 2018 book “Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police & Punish the Poor” *Ruha Benjamin’s 2019 book “Race After Technology”; & *Cathy O’Neil’s 2016 classic “Weapons of Math Destruction”

One of many assumptions behind that $3 meal on which they ran “over 1000 simulations” is that folks have access to grocery stores & kitchens where they can safely store, heat & prepare frozen goods & *poultry* (a hazard if not heated properly) AND the necessary tools & supplies Even without spices