Be the cringe you wish to see in the world

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

My wish for this weekend is for everyone (myself included) to refrain from amplifying what they do not want to see more of in the world.

Growing food crops under solar panels is called Agrivoltaics. Lots of crops benefit from growing underneath them. I know in Maine they were piloting wild blueberries, and in Massachusetts cranberries. You can also graze animals like sheep or if you mount them high cows (not goats - they climb)

This is so brilliant. It's a concrete action with immediate benefits that can be performed incrementally

any news room not running all of their stories on these topics by a Xennial who browsed rotten dot com is doing journalistic malpractice

Wrote this for all my Gen-X broken-brained ladies 💜

"you are the ones with the most to lose. My colleagues & I may have to leave this cherished institution & that would be a great loss for us. But we have already lived lives of consequence and can find other pursuits. You, however, would lose the education you deserve." 🔥 thebatt.com/news/anonymo...

boosting a recent post that people have said they found helpful for navigating what's going on -- "The practice placing one’s anxieties into circles of concern, influence, and control... is a means of cultivating agency and preventing needless rumination."

It learned our travel patterns as we were staying with my dad in the hospital last week. It helpfully reminded Mom that it was time to go to the hospital yesterday—five days after Dad died.

One of the truly underappreciated befuckenings begetting enshittification via monopoly. [clear channel has attempted to sidle out of the chat] I'M TALKING TO YOU, TOO, ASSHOLE.

the relaxation of the ownership cap in the 1996 telecommunications act and its consequences have been disastrous for modernity

IT IS TIME.

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

Part of me wants to blame the curators of "the English canon," who tend to look down their noses at genre novels. More science fiction and fantasy should be taught in schools Fantasy/sci-fi is about grappling with bizarre hypotheticals, a skill that is only getting more useful as reality weirds

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Wow -- it really IS like a real doctor!

Do you have a lot of annoying admin tasks or household chores you need to accomplish, but never seem to find the time for? Then may I suggest: setting aside a day to do nothing but write, you will be amazed at how many such tasks you can accomplish.

Alan Bennett has a lovely story about spending time finding the right sized pin to rigorously clean the pump action liquid soap dispenser in a rarely used bathroom all in order to avoid writing.

Every time I feel like I know a lot about the rise of fascism in Germany, I learn something new.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

❤️❤️❤️ to the AO3 writers who have kept me going while I’ve been spending nights with my dad in the ICU. I couldn’t have asked for anything better than fluff vignettes and silly heist AUs to get through this week.

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Going through my phone looking for something I wanted to send to @bamawriter.bsky.social and I came across this from 2022. Still true.

In a mutual vendetta with the recliner in my dad’s ICU room.

My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.

Night shift ICU nurses should get an annual parade.

There’s such a bizarre cognitive dissonance about the TVs in the ER. Like, your relative is in dire circumstances! Here’s Corey Feldman in sequins on Dancing with the Stars!

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

you’re welcome - archive.org/details/the-...

millennials are band directors now and I think that’s terrific

if I was still teaching journalism, we'd be opening tomorrow's class with a dissection of how in the fuck they printed this in the first place

so what I'm hearing is, The Art of War was the original 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

another day and another professor in Texas is fired. This time it is a historian from Texas State fired for comments he made at a conference. If you are a faculty member protect yourself. Join @texasaaup.bsky.social in Texas and @aaup.org nationwide www.president.txst.edu/communicatio...

[superficially opposed to political violence] don't post any jokes about charlie kirk [seriously opposed to political violence] dismantle Turning Point completely and get rid of the heritage foundation root and branch

Michael Peluso’s team at UCSF is looking for pre-Covid #pwME in the SF Bay Area. I've heard great things about their Long Covid work and suspect this study will be fruitful!

Oh, one more Bluesky specific: I don't know how perfectly the automod is catching the video/stills, but go to Settings, Moderation, scroll down to Content Filters, and set "Graphic Media" to warn or hide if you had it on "show". (It's gotten quite a few for me.)

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Lost in the Texas A&M news is that the entire crusade is the product of a former labradoodle breeder turned State Rep whose stunts and grandstanding are so insufferably transparent that even his Republican colleagues despise him. Meet Brian Harrison, winner of Texas Monthly’s 2025 Cockroach award:

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

“Menstrual blood was messy, it was imprecise, it was difficult to collect, OB-GYNs told the pair. Why bother when the disease could be diagnosed with surgery?”

The focus of this story has (rightly) been on the firing of a colleague at TAMU for doing her job, but also I can’t help but think of all the LGBTQ+, and particularly trans students faculty and staff in College Station and how this abandonment of basic decency must be impacting them.

One of the coolest video game preservation stories I have ever covered arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...