NEW: citing our reporting, a group of lawmakers are demanding answers from tech companies on how many administrative subpoenas they have received from the Homeland Security Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/t...

NPR tells us what we already know. Price Stickiness is a real thing. The Republican Party has pushed the price up of everything from a pickup truck to an avocado sky-high. Those prices aren't going down ever. The Golden Age for the rich has arrived. www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...

*raises hand* who's taking the ubers and where are they going

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

We recorded 365 videos, 1 for each day of the year, showing the making of our graphic novel Wilomina: The Land of Dreams and Nightmares. We’ll show you each step from script to layout, pencils, inks, colour flats and final colours. Daily reels in Insta & TikTok and snapshots here. #KidLitUK #comics

Whoa, i learned something new. Source: nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

Action item: The Department of Education proposed a rule that would limit who counts as a professional degree. This affects loans students can get. Under the new definition, nurses and educational degrees are not professional degree. Please comment! Link: www.regulations.gov/document/ED-...

Only have about a week left to comment on this--DoE trying to remove many areas from being classified as a "professional" degree, including nursing and public health. This will limit access to student loans and ultimately drive students from the fields.

Oral exams and live presentations are making a comeback in college classrooms. Instead of trying futilely to figure out if AI has been used, professors are redesigning assessments so students must defend their own thinking and reasoning. buff.ly/u6lqgrS

I've also noticed "surely AI can just do the data analysis on the cheap?" creeping into grant reviews. This creates a big risk that researchers will collect valuable data – then throw away most of that value with a conceptually flawed or misrepresented AI analysis.

wrote about the decline in people seeking careers in public service for @newrepublic.com -- a detrimental trend that existed before this administration but it is almost certainly going to accelerate during it. newrepublic.com/article/2066...

Last night I watched two different Youtube videos that were objectively wrong - which I knew because I had been present at the events in question - and it really highlights the old saying: The more I read online about things I'm an expert in, the less I trust anything I read on the internet at all.

The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

The irony, of course, is that no one in the modern era has cared as much about what other people think of them as Epstein and the men around him. Also, I'm again struck by these men- who are *obsessed* with human intelligence- not seeming to have any idea what it is.

"Algorithmic management is 'a way of organising work in which workers are directed, tracked and assessed—all at once, in real time—by a computer system[.]' Tendrils of this managerial regime are now creeping into offices, universities, even hospitals." –Shane Boyle proteanmag.com/2025/12/23/t...

Palestinian poet @mosababutoha.bsky.social, who fled Gaza in late 2023, says "it's still a genocide" as Israel continues to block most humanitarian aid from entering the territory while also killing hundreds of people since the start of the U.S.-backed ceasefire.

This piece by @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social is one for the ages. The damage Donald Trump (under the guidance of Russell Vought) has done to biomedical research is profound and will be long-lasting. It is a national tragedy to be measured in the sick and the dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Snow is nature's urban planner: It can show us what parts of the roadway drivers don't use — and what can be reclaimed for pedestrians. Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!

Don't worry about AI replacing you. When robots can do all the jobs, no one will have to work, and the eight guys who own everything will share the wealth, as they are famous for doing

Logan Crowley is back for a spirited debate over 2006’s Ultimate Avengers: The Movie, the animated adaptation of the first arc of Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch’s infamous comic, The Ultimates. superherocinephiles.com/ultimateaven...

Corporations: We are collections of people & therefore deserve the civic rights afforded all people. Me: Ok. May I talk to a person? Corporation: No. Never again.

Gaza is under shelling at this moment. Right now, we are being hit by heavy bombardment!!

After I heard about the incident a few hours ago, I spent some time reading about N-word tics and intrusive thoughts and what I came away with was a feeling of deepened anger about the way white supremacist society has associated “Black person” with this word so it’s there, in people’s brains

if only there could’ve been a way for them to have learned this a year before the election. like the voters and youth organizing groups who said that would happen without a change in Gaza policy back in November 2023

A number of months ago, many Americans online—myself included—began telling foreign nationals to stop coming to the United States (for now) for their own safety. The events described below are exactly why. Stay away from America, friends. Don't come here.

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If you're in and around Los Angeles now through March 1st, this is your last week to see JACK KIRBY: HEROES AND HUMANITY at the Skirball Cultural Center, which, according to @boryskit.bsky.social at The Hollywood Reporter, "[T]here has never been anything as cool and awesome" ...so go if you can! ✨

"El Paso's airport is closed for ten days." "No, wait, it's open now." "TSA PreCheck is suspended." "No, wait, it's back up now."

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

If you see this post a character that starts with the letter D

JD Vance's online buddies are using data from NIH studies to advance and normalize race science and no one seems to care. I'm losing my mind. badfaithtimes.com/jd-vance-is-...

He doesn’t see humans as people, he sees them as property.

Scientists discover why high altitude protects against diabetes | ScienceDaily - goo.gl/alerts/bjpE31 #GoogleAlerts

“Peer review is imperfect, sometimes exclusionary, occasionally petty. We have all seen nonsensical reports and capricious delays. But the answer to those failings is to invest more in the human practice – through training, recognition and realistic expectation – not to hollow it out.”

Academic research is at best a challenging discipline with uncertain funding and short term contracts dominating for early career scientists but coupled that with Trumps attacks on science and US funding is leaving the US with a potential void of future talent

Cut this shit off. No subsidies for “A.i.”

The best part is that at the very top is an update that this happened again: “Updated February 19 with details of a second AI-related data leak, this one adding 2 million photos and videos to the 1 billion IDs, email and phone numbers already exposed by an AI-powered identity verification service.”

“The more people know about what RFK Jr. is up to, the less they trust the services he oversees. People who have heard about the vaccine schedule changes are about twice as likely to say they will have a negative impact on kids rather than a positive impact.”

Three months ago I bought an old Superman comic and found an oddly familiar looking space telescope inside. Today, I've just had an article about it published by Scientific American! www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

The Politics of Love in Kabul: Shahrbanoo Sadat’s Afghan rom-com “No Good Men” balances fiction and reality with incredible deftness. #Berlinale2026 www.truthdig.com/articles/the...

“Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm.”

‘Wonder Man’ renders the rest of Marvel moot joysauce.com/wonder-man-r...

Today is the birthday of writer, producer, and editor Dwayne McDuffie (Feb. 20, 1962-Feb. 21, 2011). #BlackHistoryMonth

Akhil Amar on birthright citizenship: ”Unless and until our Constitution is amended, our government is simply not allowed to punish innocent babies guaranteed full and equal citizenship by the Constitution itself.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors