nice piece on the Canvas ransomware hack (now paid off for an undisclosed sum by Instructure), its effects on new zealand higher ed, and why universities should skip enterprise businessware in favour of local expertise and open source (I'm not holding my breath) #nzpol

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What I intended to do: Put on my mask to enter the building What I actually did: Put on my sunglasses

Realized my hair matches my shirt today 😃

"Scientists don't want you to know-" Buddy there are so many things I, as a scientist, want you to know and the only thing stopping me from writing more papers and posts about it and then starting a podcast to tell you even MORE things is that I am limited by hours in the day

also humans making art is active resistance in the era of "AI art" being forced upon us. Humans making art is absolutely essential. It's the opposite of selfishness. It's survival. It's *becoming*.

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

"course work in the social sciences and the humanities actually pays for, or cross-subsidizes, STEM courses" www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/0...

some things you can really only do the once or they become rote but if I could relive one moment this here would be high on the list www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s67...

Accidentally consumed too much art this weekend and want to write again. This is why art is dangerous. It's a gateway drug designed to make even more art

This Mother’s Day, nearly 150,000 mothers will spend the day apart from their children. 58% of all women in U.S. prisons are mothers. 80% of women in jails, including many who are incarcerated awaiting trial simply bc they can’t afford bail. Read: www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/03...

This is science under fascism. Our institutions should be fighting for us, and with us. But instead, they are collaborators.

I'm offline for the next week, but I know we can stay focused. Two weeks ago, Euro-Med reported that 80% of international humanitarian projects have been forced to cease operations in Gaza. Direct aid saves lives. Hit "weekly/monthly" on a coffee as reliable help for 21 families to eat. Then act.

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

god bless a man who had the gift of true righteousness. also a man who looked absolutely goddamn crazy just truly one of the weirdest looking guys god ever made

When abusers aren’t held accountable there’s an obvious benefit to being abusive and terrorizing people to get what you want. The Trump administration is far from the only example. This is why stuff like deplatforming and removing abusers from power is important and not just a trend or a catchphrase

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... nice

Every time I get back from international travel I become convinced I can do a special Ultra Sleep where I go to sleep once, sleep for 12 hours, and wake up completely fixed. Tonight, once again, we will test whether the Ultra Sleep is real and possible

Are you looking for an alternative to overwhelming AGU or complicit LPSC? Try DPS! It's right-sized, inclusive, and backed by an active professional society who lobbies hard for planetary science. We'd love for you to join us in expanding our meeting scope to encompass your science!! 🔭🧪

After 10 hours of Posting Jail (airplane) I’m back in the US and ready to party (sleep for 12 hours)

Still the best film adaptation of The Odyssey

The UN adopted a declaration on the rights of Indigenous people almost 20 years ago. Today, Indigenous people are still pushing the member countries to live up to their promises. ictnews.org/news/nearly-...

My flight will allow me to text inflight but I cannot Post. This horrendous bias against Posters must be stopped, which is why I will be texting each of my posts during the flight to a trusted colleague for safekeeping

"I am forever resisting the false binary that says we are either all-in or absent, either useful or useless. Fascism thrives on abandonment, but burnout also produces abandonment. So does untreated pain. So does loneliness."

I see now what everyone was talking about with the UK trains

Managed to accidentally bring along my rainbow Mimas. Ah well, a Mimas full of pride usually comes in handy

Today we highlight Akram, his siblings, & their mom—orphans and widows he supports...alone. Sarah's lupus is extremely fragile, while the family is struggling to secure access to their home. Help them! Don't leave them alone! Give/find the Abdelwahed family's link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Update: UK train experience good! On time, even

If any student or scientist wants to chat (or have me speak!!)—imaging techniques for planetary exploration; immersive 3D geology; politics of space; tracking complicit companies; using satellite data to study genocide—around Milan next week, lmk!!! You can also email [email protected]

In the UK for the first time! Very excited to take trains 😊

At Rutgers our union proposed this article last week to stop the top down deployment of unproven and harmful technology. drive.google.com/file/d/1Q3cd...

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Despite everything, I will be playing the tunes on The Search for Planet 9, coming up at 9 am PT/12 pm ET! Listen here: 1190.radio

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Happy Star Wars Day! I'll be threading my favorite pieces of Star Wars writing I've done over the years ⬇️

Literally stop watch you’re doing and watch Star Wars 1977 right now. I love Empire as much as the next guy, but truly Star Wars 1977 is so ambitious and inventive that nothing else in the series can ever compare.

Happy Star Wars Day! I'll be threading my favorite pieces of Star Wars writing I've done over the years ⬇️

Exclusive: The Post reviewed hundreds of internal ICE emails, called the “Daily Detainee Assault Report,” which summarize every incident in which staff members reported using physical force against detainees at 98 ICE detention facilities.

My weekend has gone from stressful to ultra turbo stressful, please post cat pics

Lately I've been saying "The Mountain Goats will get me out of this," about things that The Mountain Goats absolutely definitely cannot help with. Try this at your workplace today!

Fearing repercussions from Texas Governor Greg Abbott, University of North Texas administrators shut down a school gallery art exhibition that criticized ICE. Now, UNT art students are choosing to show their work ... anywhere but on campus. And Dallas-area galleries are stepping up to help.

every era makes possible a range of different solutions to different problems, and every era promotes some of the solutions people actually come up with and discards or slow walks others. hence us in an era of multilevel ecological collapse with many of our brightest minds working on digital casinos

this is the precise sense in which "technology is political"

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Alright it's Saturday night, time to repost my tests of the Moon-forming collision set to My Chemical Romance

Alright it's Saturday night, time to repost my tests of the Moon-forming collision set to My Chemical Romance

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This is why it's Land Back

Idk man I feel like even if AI scraped from 100% ethical sources, had zero impact on the environment, and produced gorgeous work, I’d still think you were a bitch for using it