40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.

Two years ago, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration approached the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and the original caretakers of the land, with an unheard of proposition: Would they like a piece of their land back? 19thnews.org/2025/11/cath...

BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.

So I've been going through another Bjork phase and it occurred to me that she's like the antithesis of tiktok music. Yeah she had singles but most of her music is album-length art pieces that make more sense in context than when separated out like that. (Even her singles.)

Dang, a BN membership is now $40/yr

The fact that they have intolerance set to warn, but rudeness set to hide just shows you their priorities. They would rather you see people say bad things about trans people than bad things to transphobes.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

"This is partially a story of my own cowardice and partially a cautionary tale about employee retention, but perhaps more importantly, it is a story of institutional cultural ineptitude."

Don't trust a New York Times reporter. Don't talk to a New York Times reporter. They are the most ambitious journalists on the planet and will do anything to get the story their editor wants. The truth doesn't matter to them, only getting the story their editor wants so they can move up.

BREAKING: In a 3-2 vote Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole board recommended clemency for Tremane Wood, a man sentenced to death for a killing his brother admitted to committing www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...

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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

I think my favorite part of people asking for book recs on social media is seeing people respond with like "I love these 4 authors they're so amazing!" and you recognize 3 of the 4 as authors whose work you really did not enjoy and now you can remove the 4th author from your over-long TBR list

And now I'm ready for a November full of novellas! (Inspired by a post I can no longer find about making this month focused on novellas)

Really loved this book, perfect mix of witty, gruesome, heartfelt, cynical

For reasons, I'm thinking that a lot of people were sold the lie that if they got a doctoral degree they'll be shoe-in for jobs and I want to give whoever has been telling people that a swirly

My students read this. They really don’t like the idea of their work going into an LLM and they want professors to be transparent about how AI will be used or not used in class.

JJ interviews @nnedi.bsky.social on her books Death of the Author, Space Cat, and LaGuardia. They talk about the challenges of explaining disability, the lack of age diversity in books, the magic of the creative process, and cats. [Audio recording and transcript available]

Homey literally said "touch mass"

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

BOSTON (AP) — Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

📚 I tried to contact someone, anyone, at Amazon Library Services. It did not go well.

I would like a party whose entire platform is "human rights and human dignity or gtfo" because I don't really feel like I care about the details of any policy more than I care about if the policy meets that standard.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

I think I canceled spotify after... the rogan thing? It's so hard to remember which gross decision caused me to stop using any given service. It's been years and I haven't missed it.

Do you use Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

I will vote for any candidate who promises to put every single ICE agent in jail

Another great thing about it: it shows that people who don’t really stand for anything, but love opposing everything, and love promoting themselves, inevitably slip into reactionary movements and worse. I feel like I’ve seen that happen over and over again.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

"UN refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic and politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee" this keeps getting worse www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

on an (un?)related note, today I learned that there were special camps within the Gulag where disabled WW2 war veterans were sent (Spasskaia among others)

I don't expect this to happen, but I was struck by the article author's comment that Copilot is valuable (is it?) and it made me wonder if we'll ever as a profession take the stance that database content is more valuable than participating in AI slop factories

WCK is in Jamaica ahead of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa’s landfall. The storm is expected to bring destructive winds, torrential rain & widespread flooding. We’re working with local partners to serve meals as quickly as possible. Read more: wck.org/news/hurricane-melissa #ChefsForJamaica

“There is evidence...to support the city’s determinations that [the officers] ordered and used excessive and indiscriminate force ... intentionally or recklessly failed to exercise due diligence in the performance of their official duties,” Judge Elizabeth Bentley wrote for the three-judge panel.

Link to the AI-imagery labeler bsky.app/profile/aimo...

I added an "AI userpic or banner" labeler and it is so fascinating how it doesn't seem to flag the people I follow, but it does flag a surprising percentage of the "hot takes" reposted into my timeline. And I check and it does seem to be quite accurate. Just so you know!!!

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

In the face of this messaging, it’s more critical than ever to call your senator and tell them you support the shutdown until the healthcare subsidies are restored. It’s really, really important.

We’ve already seen quite a few examples of ICE agents trying to kidnap someone and eventually giving up and running away because a crowd had gathered and shouted them down. That’s EFFECTIVE.

The strike authorization vote has begun! While voting commences, union baristas are holding 70 rallies and pickets through November 1st. It's time to get serious about finalizing fair contracts, Starbucks.

Hi everyone, we’ve posted an update on Fobazi here: gofund.me/ed95ca5c0 ❤️❤️❤️ -Elena

Your Halloween costume is "sexy" + the last thing you internet searched Sexy défunt mari (!)

apparently putting an n in from of a 95 in a post on here brings out multiple waves of bluebots (and real people too but it's sometimes hard to tell the difference) sharing this in case you, like me, write posts with the goal of avoiding keyword searching bots

In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools. AI is another version of colonial extraction.

Boycott Home Depot.

US measles cases top 1,600 as South Carolina outbreak grows The total represents the most US infections since 1992. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m... Photo: CDC/ Cynthia S. Goldsmith; William Bellini, Ph.D.

If the impending freeze of SNAP benefits is what has you particularly animated, these questions might help. You can really substitute any issue and ask the same questions of yourself.

Since we're all talking about ridiculous things people do that maybe they should not, I just ran across a book chapter arguing that disabled people are lonely because of diversity and the solution is AI. And the authors are German so this isn't an "anti DEI to keep my job" piece.