Perfectly summarized.

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑 Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for. We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

Disability rights activist and writer Alice Wong has died at 51. "I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more," she wrote in a parting message. asamnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

This is an insightful discussion about using LLM AI for science communication (please don't). Among the *many* problems, it can't distinguish correlation from causation. By @em-underwood.bsky.social with Abigail Eisenstadt

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

Trump's HUD plan cuts ⅔ of permanent housing that will force 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the streets. That money will now go to enforcement of work mandates, forced treatment, & inhumane encampment sweeps ✏️: @nytimes.com

This is helpful. We need to develop our internal AI detectors.

""There is no good way to say this." ... By "this," I mean what might feel like or look like the end of education – an end not spoken about with the solemnity of the policemen but rather with a real jubilation from technologists and venture capitalists, who gloat about disruption."

'"There is no good way to say this" but to say this: AI is the antithesis of education. It is the antithesis of the future. As such, it is a kind of epistemological death, and I recognize... we have long been surrounded by such efforts; we are grieving already. And yet, we go on.'

Billionaires are worth $8 trillion. It's shameful that we gave $40 billion to Argentina instead of spending $9 billion to feed American families. How is that America First?

From campfire to cortex: storytelling as shared cognition - Stories as an evolved cognitive technology www.brainpizza.com/p/from-campf... #dublin #dbf #stories #cognition #norm #culture #psychscisky #neuroskyence

Democrats at every level of power could simply repeat "he must resign" over and over and over again. It's what the GOP would do if the situation were reversed. Further erode his power by pushing him to lash out more.

“It’s really inspiring to hear this verdict,” striker Tyler Pycena said. “We held a company that tried to break federal labor law to account. We did not allow our employer to just trample on us. When that sinks in, you can smile.”

This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area. “We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”

Thank You @governor.pa.gov

I'm sorry, but these images of the left of Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers are absolutely identical. No, really. What's happening to your brain is called the Leaning Tower Illusion (discovered in 2007), and it's never *not* going to work on you, however many times you look. As I said: sorry.

McConnell is now quoting Trump's Truth Social post saying that SNAP would not be paid until the gov't reopened. In their notice of compliance, the gov't stated the exact same things they did previously. If that was the case, the gov't was required to make the full SNAP payments.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

I'm canceled my Spotify subscription until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/5O0KlfVA

WTF IS THIS? Blocking the will of the people? The Ohio House will soon vote on a Republican-backed bill that would allow counties, cities and other local governments to block library levies from the ballot.

women, are they bitches?

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

Oh look English teachers have their lesson plan for the day on how word choice exposes POV. anointed not elected: reveals contempt with a whiff of religiosity strode not walked: implies arrogance cavernous not packed: evokes emptiness, darkness It’s you, NYT. You are talking about yourself

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

NBC News projects that Pennsylvania will retain all 3 Democratic state Supreme Court justices. Its a complete and total loss for Republicans tonight. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Teen Vogue changed my life and their politics team was doing incredible journalism comparable to very little other publications. I can't say I'm not disappointed with this decision. Sending y'all love❤️

The cooking oil she needed was too expensive. The 65 yo woman “had $52 of her $289 monthly food benefit left, and little hope that her card would be reloaded on Sunday as scheduled.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u... by @jennarussell.bsky.social (gift link)

Amen

Okay, I went back out tonight with a clearer sky and the knowledge that I gained last night and took what I think is a much better picture of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). I'm quite happy with this one.

If you ever feel like you are waiting to start living, this poem is your friend: www.themarginalian.org/2025/01/10/n...

Judges should also demand that federal agents stop using the word “police” on their uniforms. There is no federal police force and they are in essence masquerading as police, the way Fox News pretends it is a news organization.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

“We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qualitative approaches…” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

He did.

"If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate." 🧪 Powerful commentary that outlines the history of broadening participation in US science & what we stand to lose as these efforts are rolled back.

"In a world on fire, how can we concede so much power to an exploitative technology that produces questionable results, operates in opaque ways, deepens social precarity and fuels the planetary emergency?"

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Trump was able to find $40 billion to bail out Argentina and $300 million for his new ballroom. Yet he can't find funds to prevent millions of Americans from losing access to healthcare or stop kids from going hungry. Cruelty is the point.

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...

Our new health insurance premium feels more like a shakedown‼️ Thank you, @politicsgirl.bsky.social , for sharing your story. You’re right—there are millions like you. Our new premium is over $3K/month for a family of three. Could we scrape it together? Maybe. Should we have to? No. 1/2

It's hard. Life is hard. We can't have nice things. But we can try to do our best, so...just for your consideration...

I just… i hate this sociotechnical and -political paradigm, so, so much. bsky.app/profile/futu...

Walz making it clear that we can talk about corruption and government failure in the same sentence. Basically, our public goods are disappearing because the corrupt elite are looting the government.

Who do you know who needs to see this info?