Notable that FIRE (@thefireorg.bsky.social) filed an amicus in support of bullying trans youth. This is why trans people don't trust your transphobic organization, @aricohn.com. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

„Biological sex“ was first used in the internal, classified documents of a defence taskforce on biological warfare.

Remember: Accounting fraud does not exist without a functional administrative state and courts willing to enforce existing law. Otherwise its just sparkling corruption. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)... hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

10/10 take. No notes.

This doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone looking into disinformation and scams on Meta's platforms but the scale is kind of incredible: "the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Once again, if bluesky actually wanted to stop real scams they would allow people to verify their fundraiser. Instead we are left with people who desperately need help and so will keep making accounts, but now they can more easily be impersonated since you are used to familiar faces on new accounts.

Can’t disagree.

the deaths Musk has caused have had no bearing on his personal standing. It is ghastly to contemplate that no one in the press interrupts his latest announcement about some new waifu robot to ask “what about the children you took food and medicine away from?”

The government has said repeatedly that it wants to use AI to replace up to 40,000 public sector jobs.

“The history of technology is that it always creates jobs,” says Liberal MP Evan Solomon of AI apprehension on 640 Toronto. Brother, I know you’re not a journalist anymore, but damn.

FIFA, the IOC, & essentially all world sports governing bodies are forever and irreparably shamed by their failure to ban Israel from international competition. They are complicit in the genocide by sportswashing it. Israeli Olympic Judoka literally wrote messages on artillery shells bound for Gaza.

Sources at the city tell CTV News that cuts to positions that review development permits, bylaws and rezoning applications could impact project timelines. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

„Biological sex“ was first used in the internal, classified documents of a defence taskforce on biological warfare.

The Economist Says We Need to Invent Phrenology Again.

This short thread (cloud-trail? bc bsky?) brings up something I've also been thinking abt recently as I work through analysing the texts @katjathieme.bsky.social & I have in our dataset re: AI + writing. Individualizing and privatizing 'choice' is a policy move, even if that policy is only de facto

The pope has signed on to the STS agenda.

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

BC's anti-SLAPP legislation was critical to keeping a meritless lawsuit @torimarlan.bsky.social and I faced to the "affordable" sum of ~$50k in legal fees. Journalists like Luke not protected by these laws have much higher exposure — even when, like us, they did nothing wrong.

"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"

this is the craziest thing I've read in a long time???? Meta projected that 10% of its revenue last year, $16 billion, came from scams. Meta intentionally charges the scammers MORE and knows that people who click on scams are more likely to see more of them www.reuters.com/investigatio...

"OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues. The lawsuits filed Thursday in California state courts allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter and negligence."

We have to talk more how transphobia has taken strong root among well-to-do journalists & politicians when in both the UK & US, the evidence is that voters do not share it. The demographics of transphobia are people least likely to suffer prejudice in their lives. Richer, maler, whiter, straighter.

It is hard to put into words how atrocious the paper is and how damning the way the authors preen about it in the pages of the Economist.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.

The Economist Says We Need to Invent Phrenology Again.

Reactions to the "debunking" of the original 1956 cognitive dissonance work baffles me. A whole area doesn't die just bec the first work is faulty. That's novelty bias & theory ownership in psych talking. Mendelian genetics did not die when Mendel's original results were found too good to be true.

Since Carole Hooven is coming up today, here’s a thread on why she might be listed as one of the biologists who has been lending support to transphobia.

Semi-regular reminder that it took less than one generation for women to outcompete men in degrees and home ownership once the legal barriers were removed. The problem we are faced with is that men would sooner burn down the world than admit they are not now, and never were, naturally superior.

Not impeaching and removing every official involved with this remains one of the biggest failures of constitutional governance ever, and there is a direct line from that to where we sit today.

It’s another podcast transcript, folks. Already, columnists didn’t do any legwork for their pieces. Now they don’t do anything at all—they just get a copy-editor to spruce up the transcript of one of their podcasts.

Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...

For most of my uni career, I could maintain the belief that in our teaching and research we, as a university collective, were generally using what means we had so as to improve our practices, advance our thinking, train ourselves more effectively, make lives better. AI hype corrodes that belief.

Orbán buys one of the best-read newspapers of the country. This is a major deterioration in a media environment that is already heavily politically controlled, as highlighted in my recently adopted report. This cannot go on - there are no fair elections without free information!

🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

I see the 2021 scandal around Kate Clanchy's book "Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me" is back in the news as Clanchy receives an apology from the publisher of that book. Here's a reminder of the racism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBT comments, and fat shaming from the book.

The nyt newsroom has tons of outstanding principled journos. I don’t know the reporter seeking the stories of young trans ppl denied care. I do know the newsroom leadership has a long record of spreading anti-trans disinformation and hate. The leaders will ensure any story furthers their bias

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

“Canada claws back the Child Benefit at household incomes above $81,000 – but allows OAS to flow freely until a couple makes $182,000. In effect, middle-income parents raising children are asked to tighten belts while retired couples with six-figure incomes continue to collect $18,000 subsidies.“

I had to look twice to see that this was not @thebeaverton.com. Headline was really from The Globe and Mail.

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

Best Pixies cover I’ve ever heard

Some off-beat classroom observations from asking science and applied science students to do a language analysis of an AI-related research paper in engineering. It is not evidently clear what researchers mean when they say AI, or surveillance, or privacy. Not clear to me, not clear to students. 1/

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