I knew almost everything in the interracial cuck porn article already because of my profoundly misspent youth but it's one thing to be vaguely aware of it and another to see someone lay it all out in black and white.

That’s actually a wonderful analogy for it. There’s social dark matter and we know this because we can see it pulling on public opinion in ways our models don’t predict. What it is, how it works, how it changes - well, that’s a matter of speculation and debate.

"Leaving a group needs to be as normalized as joining a group is. It rounds out the lifecycle and creates an opening for new people and new eras." open.substack.com/pub/grouphug...

i am now the proud owner of a Scots grammar WRITTEN IN SCOTS

The charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia are dismissed on vindictive prosecution grounds. The Trump regime portrayed him as gang mastermind. In the process, the government violated his constitutional rights in at least four ways. Three here: www.justsecurity.org/110658/three... Fourth here:

Another reason why some prefer public policy centred around cars over public transport and bicycle infrastructure. Citizens in cars are easier to surveil.

I write about one of the most obscure printing history topics, flong, and there is a guy who was head of a flong company and amateur historian who published two extremely inaccurate and poor histories in the 1920s and 1940s that have become the definitive secondary source of truth.

And that's that. Judge Reed O' Connor now has in his possession the medical records of countless trans youth in Rhode Island that includes everything from private therapy notes detailing every aspect of their lives to their prescriptions and diagnoses.

This one took a while to write. Put out an essay about the links between fandom and consumerism, and its effect on how we interpret fiction. Hope y'all enjoy!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a journal retraction with so much detail, including about the authors pushback. H/T dynamic ecology. 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

‼️On Monday, the U.S. EPA proposed repealing landmark limits on cancer-causing “forever chemicals” in drinking water. The federal rule for water suppliers was passed in April 2024, but the EPA has known about PFAS in drinking water for almost two decades, Rebecca Barglowski previously reported.

Chives are delicious and all, but those flowers! 😍 #gardening #flowers #gardensky #nature #smallbusiness 🌱💚🌸

A commentary I wrote on new research by Arun Hendi & Veronica Clevenstine showing that Black immigrant life expectancy in the US is extremely high -- high enough that increased immigration accounts for almost 15% of declining Black/White life exp gaps, 1994-2019 (pdf should be ungated at this link)

Kickstarter has reverted their policy changes on Adult Content! They issued an apology, siting Stripe as the reason. The pressure we put on them worked. This is a step in the right direction. But the threat of Stripe remains. It’d be great to see KS end ties with them & process payments elsewhere.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

but of course the NYT is not ignorant. I'm confident no one involved in writing, editing, or publishing that article sincerely believes "if everyone would just not discriminate" is a legitimate possibility; the point of publishing it is to lie to their readers that it's fine that the VRA is dead.

Once Frank dies, people are going to insist that you can't say bad things about him, which is why it's more important than ever that you say all the bad things about him right now. Time's running out!

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

I moved to New York City to be able to have a job and live a full life. In there too encountered this "if you didn't grow up here you don't belong," attitude. It usually had to do a sharing public space.

Almost everyone in the US has seen these photos at some point: Nazi book burnings, seared into our national psyche as the quintessential expression of fascist tyranny. But few people know what books they were burning, beyond the fact that many of the books’ authors were Jewish.

Today is a good day to read this essay on rewilding the internet by Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon if you haven't already: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

Local folks: If you’re interested in participating in fire-eating with us, we’re hosting a training tomorrow May 12th at 7pm in Nathan Tufts Park. We’ll teach you the history, show you how to fire eat safely, and maybe even make a few torches with you

Animals don’t like them or their attempts at empathy simply center themselves without recognizing your emotions.

hmmm that doesn't bode well

If there's one thing I care about more than trans rights its that people at the lowest rungs of society have gifts and talents that equal that at the highest, and their gifts are being squandered, and no one really internalizes that or cares.

This hangs with the other statements in fig 1: 1️⃣ ANNs (artificial neural networks) are inspired by human organism 2️⃣ ANNs are a black box we don't understand 3️⃣ We understand neither ANNs nor cognition therefore they are similar All 3 are misplaced! We unpack this... doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 3/

man, y'all Brits keep giving yourselves away when writing Americans we don't say "back garden" EVER unless we mean "I have a cultivated garden of things other than grass in both the front yard and the back yard and I'm specifying the one behind the house" in the US, the outdoor spaces around a…

oh it's "so hard" to use new pronouns for your kid?? wait til you hear about literally any other facet of parenting. talk to me after you've put shin guards on a 7yo who is not in the mood to wear shin guards

”An engineering team at a large AI vendor decided that the user's machine is a deployment surface to be optimised for the vendor's product roadmap, not a personal device whose owner is the legal authority on what runs there.”

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Yeah that’s a no from me dawg. Please use Firefox at a bare minimum. Mozilla has been kinda questionable around AI but there are Firefox forks out there as well. Waterfox strips out all the ai bits, but is still compatible with all the plugins.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

This is one of those deep cultural things that people don't see can cause incredible tension. And funnily enough unique to Anglos in Imperial core. Some pretty cool places that respect individuals without being Anglo or capitalist exist, but it's totally opposite in most of mainland Western EU. 1/2

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

Insert this is fine gif here: Bitwarden, a widely-used open source password manager, has been compromised via its CLI tool. socket.dev/blog/bitward...

Have a nice whatever this is.

Reading this makes me SO incredibly happy. I feel like the spirit of Black and Brown punk fest and Black Dot Fest is living on in the city. southsideweekly.com/the-black-pu...

CARE WORK IS HIGHLY SKILLED WORK and only paid so poorly because of the failure of successive governments to value it properly

We (humanity; not white ppl) need more Black joy. Cuz Black folks are amazing and deserve so much more joy than they get

It's important to read strong critiques of AI and @olivia.science writes some of the strongest. In this one, she re-centers the humans who create #GenAI systems & proposes a way to demystify AI, showing its similarities to other technologies (and its problematic differences). doi.org/10.3390/bs16...

TIL in German you can colloquially say _zwote_ instead of _zweite_ for "2nd" (based on eins, zwo, drei, ... where zwei "2" can take this other form _zwo_ in contexts where you need to distinguish it clearly from other numbers)

..what is, in fact, "an obfuscation of labour so complete the user believes the machine thinks for itself". Pressures are such that a "next step in this devolution and devaluation of cognitive labour is that now the user too, deskilled and displaced, also disappears from view".

We are pressured to develop "a non-skill, because ‘prompt engineering’ is indeed not a skill, to enable us to use these opaque corporate-owned stochastic context-addressable systems” whose "proverbial ghost in the machine is the literal human-in-the-loop"...

”given the Cartesian legacy of the cognitive sciences, computers are looked at with veneration as soon as they produce well-formed output (Weizenbaum, 1976)”

Yeah, this obsession with language is a trick to stymie so-called nonnative speakers. Make them feel less confident and waste money on proof readers or other non-issue solutions. If your English is not understandable your colleagues should help anyway and it would have been caught years before.

Maryland! Measles exposure: health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...

Super minor but they are part of the erosion of our understanding of our own processes which is a core trick AI performs. Processes like learning or doing slow good work are forgotten about and all we care about are numbers (how much, when) and output (is it manuscript shaped). Pathetic really.

These little drip drips of destroying our self understanding are tiny. But they are part of why phrases like agentic AI, generative AI and AI itself — as well as its component words artificial and intelligence — are vacuous semantically. If you're interested, see: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

"This Court is not persuaded by Defendants’ attempts to gaslight it into believing that the Kennedy Declaration does anything other than what it says." www.erininthemorning.com/p/federal-ju...

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats • The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.