This was precious. Oh Happy Day on the 30th anniversary of Sister Act 2

this reminds me check on your elders and see about the misinformation they are absorbing/believing and may be repeating.

This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!

if you want a vent or wheelchair or oxygen or shower chair, you have to use one of the approved medicare DME providers. they're freezing the ability of new DME companies to join

The AI critics have, once again, been right about everything www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/t...

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

"they won't actually ban birth control" "they won't actually murder trans people" "they won't actually end abortion" "they won't actually try to overthrow the government" I am so sick of people treating these folks as rational actors with rules from the previous century expecting norms to save them

Lenacapavir for PrEP was the big "star" of #CROI2026 after showing almost 100% effectiveness in preventing HIV in 2 large RCTs. Unfortunately at a pricing point of 28000$ a year it remains inaccessible to most. A drug is only as great as the number of people who can access and benefit from it.

Blockbuster has the chance to do the funniest thing to Netflix….

“The system error didn’t involve ai” I DONT BELIEVE YOU.

I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this. I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it. I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.

I’m a women’s size 7 (US) in shoes, and the prosthetic foot my prosthetist was hyping to me (and that I was excited to try) apparently doesn’t come in a size “that small” to match my very normal sized women’s foot. This isn’t the first time, and it fills me with rage.

Do you find the sound of peeling tape annoying? Or oddly satisfying? 📦🧪 ✍🏽 For @science.org, I wrote about a new study where scientists have figured out why it makes that distinctive screechy sound. www.science.org/content/arti...

I've found that medical professionals often lie (esp. to women?) about whether something is going to cause pain (a pinch! Pressure! A little discomfort!) so I really appreciate that the pharmacist who gave me my TDap shot today was like, "bro your arm's gonna hurrtttttt"

Remembering all those “Has #MeToo Gone Too Far?” thinkpieces.

Sweet Jesus, he’s an anesthesiologist!!!!!!

Here, anti lobbying and anti bribery laws are used for why federal employees have to pay for their own food. Meanwhile, if you make it small enough, and stick a toothpick in it, then Congress members can be bribed by it all they want.

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

it's hard to see someone else live your dream

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

just used chatgpt to tell me how to circumvent claude's programming so i could use claude to tell me how to hack into grok which i then used to find everyone's credit card details on twitter which i will now collectively use to buy a home

A find-and-replace copyedit of 'nondisabled people' to 'people without disabilities' and ‘disabled people’ to ‘people with disabilities’ on a paper about ableism. Somedays I can truly appreciate that scene in Office Space where they beat up a printer.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Looks like Ring cancelling the Flock partnership is helping alter the narrative. Headline after headline reads “Amazon cancels partnership with surveillance company” when a more accurate read is that 2 surveillance companies pause proposed partnership.

In yesteryears, corporate media would have run with this until firing or resignation. Don't forget.

*joyful wiggles*

For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism bookshop.org/p/books/swee...

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

Reporting this story in Cameroon, I met people who were blind because larval worms died in their eyeballs: NTDs cause immense suffering and disability. But they're preventable! And treatable! And eliminatable!

I have what my audiologist now terms "profound" hearing loss. I am basically deaf without my hearing aids. I still play guitar and write music and mix tracks and study every day engineering, and it is immensely fulfilling despite my "disability." I have never wanted or "needed" to use AI. fuck you

This goes to my longstanding soapbox: everything is a disability policy from housing to health care to urban planning to mass transit.

Neurodiversity doesn’t mean autism isn’t a disability. It means the disability doesn’t live inside us as a defect. It lives in the friction between our bodyminds and systems built for someone else. Difference and disability aren’t opposites - they’re inherently entangled.

we really need to talk about how AI is being used to provide cover for government policy based on deadly misinformation — and how every one of us who writes about AI in health, but doesn't center that fact, is lending credence to the enterprise.

so we don’t actually need ACLs. the anatomical establishment has lied to us for the last time

"space data centers" continues to be quite the scam. Here @zachweinersmith.bsky.social focuses on heat sinking in vacuum. But there is also radiation hardening, power limits, unavoidable light travel time lag, and that nobody can launch the mass they would require. Hype is unconstrained by facts.

Like we have so many stories about the dangers of AI and everyone was like yup sounds good and uses it as their master plan, like skynet

I’d much rather you make sincere and embodied “bad art” than make insincere and hollowed out “good art”

*notices ‘racist’ being in quotes* *sighs*

some folks from the long term care facility across the street turned out (they lead weekly protests in the neighborhood)

“The full impact of the executive order will take decades to realize, since already-tenured faculty are not affected by the new policy. But its scope is significant: Oklahoma’s regional and community colleges employed more than 900 tenured professors in 2024, according to federal data.“

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.