As always: if there's any class of people who do not have due process rights, then *nobody* has due process rights, because the government can just claim someone is in that class and there's no process to establish otherwise.

20 years ago we just thought it would be a neat idea to play D&D in front of people. Had no idea.

i bet its great news for the world economy when yet another middle eastern strait essential to global shipping suddenly starts trending

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!" but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

28 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration.

When someone responds to a question with "this is what Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT/MarginallyDistinctFromPaulieTheParrot says ..." If I ask you something I am not using you as an intermediary between me and a search engine.

If they want to build a data center, they should have to buy the worst land possible for the highest price and then be forced to create a way to power all of that independently and without harming the environment I mean, they are supposed to be geniuses Figure it out

All of these new big name accounts launching on Substack go mysteriously mute if you ask them why they ignored three years of scandal and decided to build new media companies on the back of a company whose executives enthusiastically coddle anti-trans, fascist, racist dogshit

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

At Develop I heard quite a few people deflecting AI criticism with "it can only get cheaper" etc etc. As everything with AI, all the good bits are always somewhere in a never-coming future

A couple of astonishing stats that really show how England bizarrely shat the bed last night. www.football365.com/news/16-conc...

Electric buses have helped Oxford to hit its air quality target for the first time. Only three out of 118 monitoring sites – none considered “sites of relevant public exposure” – were over the local NO₂ target level of 30 µg/m³. None of the 118 exceeded the UK limit of 40 µg/m³.

Ok that's quite funny.

"if we make it a white male maybe nobody will notice that we are doing all of this because we still can't get over not being able to personally own slaves. I'm so mad that only the state and private prisons get to own slaves now."

Im increasingly realizing that simply stating the fact that I exist just enrages some people, let alone the fact that I might have something to say that is the result of my training and years of working on something. Not going to apologize for my expertise, so seethe more, fellas.

“I think people who live outside of urban centers deserve to die or starvation or childbirth because they’re lesser than me, a Refined City Dweller” is a ghoulish fucking mindset and people who espouse it should be ostracized from progressive circles.

Teasing out the nuances in the different meanings the Greeks had for "virgin," because people need to understand the differences between virgin goddess Athena and virgin goddess Hestia and virgin goddess Artemis.

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

"Everyone wants a revolution but no one wants to do the dishes" In my experience lots of people are ok to do the dishes and they're heroes and usually they are women, because women don't see that work as shameful. But men do not see that leadership as leadership and so women get fed up and leave.

The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

This about a robot that costs more than it would to hire an actual teaching assistant nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n...

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

If ICE and DHS end vehicle stops, good. But Alex Pretti wasn't in a vehicle when they shot him. Neither was Julio Cesar Sosa Celis. Nor Keith Porter Jr. The issue is this armed paramilitary that's been shooting and kidnapping people, not the fact that so many of their victims are driving.

I am not outright anti-capitalism, but i do quite firmly believe that public goods and services should be nationalised because it should not be legal for individuals to profit off the provision of clean water to households

so thames water raised customer bills by 40%, finally managed a year on year net profit of £100 million, has a debt of about £18 BILLION… and has immediately given execs a pay rise. obviously

The idea that pursuing a restrictionist/illiberal migration policy makes you 'rightwing' economically and therefore more likely to be a fiscal conservative is just such a basic fail on every level.

Now do universities

This is exactly why they need to do it, I think. As a lesson that you can't just fuck with the British state, which everyone currently assumes that they can. I simply do not believe that all investment dries up because a couple of execs are denied a paycheck. Financial people do not have solidarity.

YOU PASS LAWS TO FORCE KIDS OFF THE INTERNET AND THEN CREATE TASK FORCES TO PUNISH THEM FOR GOING OUTSIDE, WHERE THE FUCK ARE CHILDREN ALLOWED TO EXIST???

I often say the rise in students coming to our dept with diagnoses of various kinds of neurodivergence has been matched with a corresponding fall of students coming with generalised depression. Because, you know. They're getting a diagnosis of the actual problem rather than feeling they don't fit.

google's "why don't you want to use our documentation chatbot" survey offers a pretty good list of reasons not to use their documentation chatbot

I also don't think it's a total coincidence that the apex promoter of the Mars colonization grew up in apartheid South Africa: Mars colonization fantasies always include the idea of escape from the terrestrial political reality of having to share space with one's lessers.

Not sure I am comfortable in a society which cannot choose correctly between the freedom to spy on people (meta pervert glasses) versus the freedom to be free of weird creeps spying on you.

Listening to yet more social media restrictions debate and it’s always more victim shaming. If you want kids to not be exposed to relentless highly addictive content, regulate the companies not the kids. If you want cyclists not to die, regulate the drivers not the cyclists. Etc etc

Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions

I've gotten a bit...overenthusiastic...and posted a tweet or two that in the harsh light of dawn I have decided were ill-advised. But I've never sent my local newspaper three thousand words about how when I try to date in a college town my weirdo MAGA boomer ass got cockblocked by Joe Biden.

I dunno man. If I were a law student of Prof. Wurman's at UMinn Law... I'd be asking for my money back. What happened wasn't "sue and settle." It was "sue an agency you control & have them provide you a massive economic win as a 'settlement.'" If I can figure that out, so can Wurman

Frog put Claude in a harness. "There," he said, "now Claude can no longer delete files." "But Claude can edit the files" said Toad. "That is true," said Frog.

Benefitting from theft is immoral. Gen AI is based on theft. Therefore, there’s a moral argument against using it. Not to mention the environmental arguments re pollution of the air and the use of scarce water in dry rural communities.

And yes of course it’s going be an enormously complex and super expensive pain in the ass to expand access to air conditioning in certain countries, but literally the only alternative is “hugely increasing numbers of horrific deaths” sorry! those are the two choices!

Hi as a queer trans man who has never left rural areas and spent a third of his life as a political and community organizer in the rural south you do not take food from the mouths of children because of the sins of the parents unless you're a fucking fascist.

In this thread, I have cast the Princess Bride in a Muppets remake. First, let's get the obvious out of the way. Westley and Buttercup

In some ways not the most important thing right now but scientific societies had almost a decade to prepare for this moment, and they didn’t And at some point, that will need to be confronted Lessons need to be learned

“We had no way of seeing this coming” The fuck you didn’t! Several of us tried to warn you and you treated us like overly sensitive leftist freaks 🤷🏽‍♀️

in the name of *innovation*, our course evaluations system has implemented word clouds to go with our feedback. This is for my Phil of Sport class. The left one is for the "what was beneficial in the course?" question; the right is for "what needs improvement?" Neither is in any way useful lol

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

I have to assume Substack is throwing some fat stacks of cash at prominent authors to launch on the platform in 2026, in exchange for ignoring the fact the company openly embrace nazis and white supremacists for engagement

this is why "and you're surprised?" is one of the top 5 most infuriating online responses to sharing upsetting news. surprise is not the only emotion, and it's not the only factor that makes something worth drawing attention to. it's weird to pretend being blasé about horror equals moral superiority

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.