She's correct that an effective formal "poster's strike" is highly unlikely, but she fails to recognize that the lightning bottles here is a culturally influential user base that came here to escape unchecked hatemongers and aren't going to stay on a site that allows them for long.

The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.

Every blue state governor should be maxing out the size and resources of armed agencies that they have reason to believe they will be more loyal to them. Maybe they are (it’s not the kind of thing you publicize), but if they aren’t they need to be. State DOJ agents, IG office agents, etc etc

And yes these means nuking the filibuster. 10 min in: 💣 filibuster 12 in: expand Court 15 in: confirm slate of Justices w/o hearings 20 in: expand House, John Lewis Act 22 in: DC statehood 25 in: strip Trump hires of civil service protections. 30 in: break up DHS

Probably dumb as hell to publish this on a Friday afternoon, but the clock is ticking to get @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to sign SB 79. Please share — and, if you're a Californian, please call the governor's office at (916) 445-2841 to ask for his signature. publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

I think the laundering of right wing claims has been extremely important and useful to the people who are now imposing mass censorship.

That the right wing free speech people are liars has always been clear. The American right wing depends on censorship, as @pastpunditry.bsky.social recently wrote. What pisses me off is the way the establishment left and center laundered right wing claims. Like the Harper’s Letter.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Protesters pleaded "be gentle, she's disabled." One agent sneered: "She'll be disabled now." State violence, cruelty, and silencing dissent. Siebe, who uses a wheelchair, was filming in a bike lane when an agent body-checked her face-first into the pavement. #portland #ice #dhs #news #resist

Kristi Noem's on the roof at Broadview surrounded by snipers and Kat is still out there demanding to see what horrific conditions are going on inside.

This is his repeated attacks on what he calls the "lanyard class". Who are the terrible people who wear lanyards? Doctors & nurses, care workers, teachers, managers, administrators, secretaries. The people who hold society together, who keep everything running, who do the jobs he wouldn't stoop to.

If Dems ever hold power again, they need to create a Bureau of Federal Accountability, tasked with resources to not just investigate individual malfeasance, but conduct huge audits of entire agencies, top to bottom, with resources to bring sweeping legal actions. And then feed DHS into it

These people hate our country. They hate Americans and have declared war on our constitution and freedoms. They should repent and resign

Reminder: It is possible for Congress to pass a law ending qualified immunity for federal law enforcement officials.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

🚨 #PlowTheSidewalks Action Alert! 🚨 After MONTHS of political games, a hearing has finally been scheduled for Friday about the pilot program – and to vote whether to give it the green light. We urgently need you to take action! ⬇️

So, here's our vision for the 'New Vancouver Special': Existing owners redevelop their lot, building 6 "family size" flats, and keeping 2 for themselves 4 additional families buy in as co-developers City provides "outright" zoning so the permit can be had in the same timeline as a house

The war on wikipedia by the fascists will only intensify as they seek to entrench their power in every information ecosystem. I believe we ought to support and protect wikipedia, its community and mission, as one of humanity's greatest libraries of knowledge.

RIP Jane Goodall. There's so much to say about her career, her activism, her science. Primatology was the home of so many bigoted approaches to race, gender, and animality when she arrived and the field became more humane because of her. A truly transformative figure.

RIP to an absolute legend.

One of my favourite lines from "Headlines from Academia", Volume 9, by @shomir.bsky.social - Trace Amounts of Eduroam Detected on Moon #headlinesfromacademia

Cities make America great

In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo stops talking about Jean Valjean's escape during an attempted revolution to GUSH about the Paris sewers--past, pressnt, & future--for 15 pages. He considered improving it in his day to be like curing "the disease of Paris" and it's workers civic heroes.

Due to its inability to build housing, California is on track to lose at least 3 congressional at a time where control of congress rests on a knife's edge. That can at least be partially averted if Governor Newsom signs SB79 into law. Call him and urged him to sign it. (916) 445-2841

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

“generals gathered in their masses to listen to gigantic asses“ headline is sitting right there, which outlet is going to step up

I'll start sounding like a broken record, but we're getting to a point where anything that went through a computer at some point is suspect. Analog is back baby!

How come every time someone proposes a multi-unit building we have to hear about the nimby crusade against it for ten years but when some rich asshole wants to erase 8 homes for one mansion it’s crickets until the demolition fence is up

This Day in Labor History: September 30, 1919. A shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor ordered the military to massacre the workers!!! This is the Elaine Massacre!

If this piece doesn't mention that correcting fluid has been known since the 9th century at least (I have receipts, literally), then yawn.

I mean beech please. This is al-Razi, late 9th-early 10th century, written in his spare time as his day job was to be "greatest physician of Islam and the Medieval Ages".

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

jstor essentially going open access makes the decisions of the prosecutor, Carmen Ortiz, on Swartz's case even more absurd and pointless.

If anything helped democratize literacy (not knowledge, obviously) it was the medieval diffusion of paper. Paper let more people not just access to books but put their own unique voices in writing. Early printing meant mass replication of fewer voices. 1/-

An excellent true thing is that I gave unequivocally anti-“AI” talks at Wesleyan and Tufts this month where the computer scientists and engineers in attendance have no interest in allowing this industry to hijack education and asked me “how can we get our students to take your classes?”

I'm not convinced this is 'feckless', Jeffries isn't senile and I doubt he's just checked out. It has to be a reflection of his political goals and/or convictions that a charismatic South Asian Muslim New Deal Democrat with what are now mainstream views on Palestine is a worse threat than Trump. 1/-

Does the Chicago Sun-Times describe itself as a newspaper these days?

Fukuyamaists…trust the plan.

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Speaking to my students, they don't on the whole _want_ to use LLMs, even if they can get away with it. What tips the behaviour is when they get the impression that everybody else is doing it already. That's what the ads are for.

I’d bet many college/uni admins think of Covid as their biggest “leadership test,” one they may pat themselves on the back for. But I’m convinced that history will judge the aggressive imposition of GenAI across the educational sector as a test *many* magnitudes greater. So far… 1/

Labels can impact politics. My paper @apsrjournal.bsky.social "What Happens When You Can't Check the Box?" shows when Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Americans are excluded from identity categories, they assert MENA identity when answering relevant political questions. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

this is nuts

Yf a creature yn the *Alien* franchise ys meditatinge it ys a Zenomorph

...killed by what, exactly?