I like that my feed right now is 100% lawyers going “legal expert here, judges only talk like this when they’re feeling a white-hot rage powerful enough to swallow a medium-size metropolitan area.”

If we ever get rid of the Trump regime, we're going to need to purge the entire DOJ and rebuild it from scratch. The following, long thread shows why.

The photographers in this Starter Pack only post their own real nature photos and sometimes videos. With Alt Text and absolutely no AI! (For some reason the preview won’t show up but hopefully the link takes you there 🤞) go.bsky.app/DknVNVG

This is an interesting linguistics story. Language is always political! @becauselanguage.com www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

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So if I’m understanding it the outlines of the prosecutorial misconduct in the Broadview Six case is this. They tried three times to get an indictment. After they failed the second time they simply booted the grand jurors who didn’t think the conduct was a crime. Then they told the remaining …

This is what is happening to #NIH and #NSF too: "... a fundamental transformation... structured by law to one where major decisions come down to ... the personal [views] of the president." And it is just not compatible with successful science and innovation

It seems fairly clear that they fully expect DJT to be running, unencumbered by the law or the Constitution, in 2028.

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

From universities to government, the Trump administration seems intent on driving highly qualified people of color out of positions of prestige, power, and influence, and it's sickening.

To be clear, these applicants are all off the charts in terms of test scores and grades, as the DoJ's data show. The vast majority of applicants who have qualifying test scores and grades will be turned away no matter how Yale does admissions.

The DoJ literally argues that because the racial content of the incoming classes at Yale Med School didn't change after the SCOTUS decision on racial preferences, Yale must be admitting too many racial minorities now.

Ironically, this only proves what actual intellectuals have long suspected—Harvard academics are themselves not the smartest bunch

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

Be prepared: subverting the Office of the House Clerk could provide a way for Trump and his followers to subvert the voters' decision if Democrats win the House this fall.

In the early days of social media a friend and I, Canute like, tried to point out that most of the stuff attributing the Buddha bore no relation to his teachings. The only good thing to come out of this futile exercise was my friend’s splendidly titled book, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buddha.

As a Terry Pratchett specialist, there is a surprising amount that has been attributed to him that, when checked, circles back to something written by a 15 year-old on a Reddit forum. Or what some person thinks based on “vibes”.

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

My colleagues in East Asian Studies at Sheffield produce world class research and so many of the UK’s leading experts in Asian Studies have gotten MAs or PhDs there. This is an incredibly shortsighted choice that will diminish this country’s knowledge exchange with a vital region of the globe.

"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

🚨BREAKING: Todd Blanche confirmed at a Senate panel Tuesday that top Department of Justice officials are working with other Trump administration agencies to implement President Donald Trump’s dangerous and restrictive executive order on mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Been training for this moment my whole life.

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

Received in the mail a used book that was evidently a review copy, fully annotated with words like "crap". Every endnote and bibliographic entry has been checked. I am cowering in my den as I work on my own project. Fortunately the eminent professor whose hand it seems to be is safely dead.

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

A useful-looking list. Flagged for future reference.

The Senate parliamentarian is about to be fired.

In 1977 Steven Harris wrote a book about the Cascade volcanoes with a fictional big Shasta eruption that kills no one due to effective public safety messaging and evacuations. After seeing how MSH played out for real, his revised edition had the same eruption kill hundreds.

Thanks to freight train delays in Montana this is now going to arrive in Seattle around 5pm, which means the trainspotting party at Carkeek Park should kick off around 4:30

Ladies and gentlemen! Lift. Your. Cameras! The first new Amtrak Cascades trainset arrives in Seattle tomorrow at 11:29 am! It will be coming south from Everett attached to the Empire Builder. Track Train #7 at asm.transitdocs.com for precise times. You can share pics/video here! #wsdot #trains #PNW

this is obviously stupid but also "i should not have to see a black person in a position of power or influence" is a guiding belief of the trump administration

When the Onion can no longer keep up with reality ...

Wonder if this will ever make it to the US www.nature.com/articles/d41...

France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.

Oops. Someone should tell Trump it might not be in his interest to piss Ukraine off.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Genre glitching: a new sign of AI-assisted writing? Thanks to @doremus-schafer.bsky.social and @srettberg.bsky.social who shared the two examples of this that I discuss in today's blog post. Please please please send me any other examples you see of this! jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...

When I was writing my concentration camp book, one challenging aspect was that the most extreme aspects of what I was writing about were, in many ways, beyond metaphor. In fact, this kind of suffering *was* the metaphor others looked to emphasize the horror of some other kind of event. [1/3]

*A swell opportunity here for me to blame genres others than science fiction. #genreglitches #generated #Delvish jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...

Really, I can’t see any problem with historians being replaced by AI. It’ll all be fi— . Oh.

Ahead of another brutally hot summer, a team of Japanese researchers has found that people who have suffered from heatstroke are twice as likely to develop cataracts. 👉 ebx.sh/ztD5yQ

Sculptor's model of the head of the god Bes and several hieroglyphics (human head, owl, quail) (Early Ptolemaic Period (4th century BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Chat, is this good?

JPP is pleased to invite paper proposals for a symposium hosted by its Premodern Japan Collaborative: "Rural Medieval: Tabihikitsuke & Sixteenth-century Japan," to be conducted bilingually in Japanese and English at UCLA on October 2–3, 2026. japanpastandpresent.org/en/news/call...

📜 Some of you may have heard about the desk-rejected papers from the ACL'26/ARR Jan 2026 or October 2025 cycles because of hallucinated references. These cases were detected post-commitment. ACL Program chairs have an official statement on this: 2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/ #ACL2026NLP #NLProc

Your reminder that everything on the web is ephemera.

Welp 3 people with Andes Hanta Virus went to a party and 34 people got sick and 11 died. Very interesting. abcnews.com/Health/argen...

a lot of people clearly think that the united states should have a "hukou" style system of controlled migration