Recently had the chance to hear @carlbergstrom.com on information foraging in the current space of LLMs. He and @jevinwest.bsky.social have crafted a course that touches various facets of LLMs. Just finished reading through its 18 modules. Absolutely loved it! thebullshitmachines.com

In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests. Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here." It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...

"Our working conditions are their learning conditions and both right now are unacceptable. We're here to change that," says UTR President Francisco Ortiz. We will continue to show up and make it clear that we won’t stop until we secure the contract we and our students deserve. #WeCantWaitCA

🧊 Dec, 1st.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

The University of Oklahoma faculty senate needs to take a strong position in defense of the right of instructors to evaluate student performance along the metrics set out in the syllabus.

When Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern send material asking for donations, do they include links to a Trump SuperPAC so donors don't have to bother with a middle man?

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Wild! Ppl throw away 80% of items purchased on Black Friday after few uses Black Friday deliveries also generate 429,000 tonnes of emissions Black Friday is built on exploited retail workers, migrant warehouse workers, garment workers in Bangladesh, forced labour in Congo Community > capitalism!!

Why the Number Keeps Rising: New, non-recycled plastic production continues to climb, projected to more than double by 2050. Waste infrastructure gaps in urbanizing regions allow huge amounts of plastic to enter waterways. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #FridayFieldUpdate

Happy Thanksgiving from America’s unions! We’re so thankful for our unions and for working people everywhere, and we’re grateful for your solidarity. We hope that you have a fun, safe and meaningful day.

Probably the worst of them all is the Ring doorbell. It’s sold as safety, but it’s much more about fear and paranoia in a box that turns you against your community. The more of them in the world, the worse our neighborhoods get. Don’t help the spiral continue. disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season. When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

The problem isn’t just historic inequality and how it creates imbalanced systems or destroys capitalism through contradictions. It’s also what intentional precarity as a weapon does to people mentally and emotionally.

Next week, we can make the midterms even scarier for Republicans by flipping a deep-red district that Trump won by double digits. Please make some calls to help us elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social (a state representative, social worker, and former Indivisible organizer): www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

80% of people want AI safety laws in place--but tech billionaires are trying to buy a federal ban on state-level AI safety laws. America's unions won't back down from the fight to protect workers' jobs, rights, and freedoms from Big Tech. Read our letter to Congress below.

A stunning conclusion to a stunning book @haymarketbooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-p...

Set your table with union-made products this Thanksgiving! 🦃 Buying union-made this Thanksgiving season supports dignified jobs that offer workers good wages, healthcare, and a voice on the job. ✊ View more union-made products: aflcio.org/union-thanksgiving #WeAreCTA #Solidarity

As I always say when some right-winger starts going on about "red tape that slows innovation", every regulation on the books represents a lesson we as a society learned the hard way, and then encoded so we wouldn't forget. It's someone's blood & pain.

MSF denounces yet more bloodshed in #Gaza. Our teams continue to treat critically wounded Palestinians caused by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on Nov. 19, which have left dozens dead and scores more injured. Read the full update: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-teams-tr...

Seen in Washington DC, capital of the land of the free

The Protect America’s Workforce Act, our bipartisan bill to restore union rights to 1 million federal workers, is getting a vote in Congress! Call your reps NOW and tell them to pass this bill and reverse the Trump admin’s union-busting executive order. https://bit.ly/4r6Ep9M

if you're wondering why we don't see as much gaza despite the steady trickle of reports that israel continued strikes throughout the "ceasefire," it's because they deliberately killed most of the journalists in palestine

Loser throws up a white power symbol while talking to the Vice President, who chuckles and responds, "I like this guy!" Share far and wide, since the media refuse to call out the reality of what this administration represents.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

#tdih 1989, six Jesuit scholars/priests & two women were murdered by U.S. backed military in El Salvador. 💔 Priests were internationally recognized scholars who wrote & spoke extensively about need for peace and the root causes of the war in El Salvador. ➡️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sc...

❤️❤️❤️ Charlotte!

Also in here: DHS responded to the faith-led protest yesterday, calling participants “violent rioters” and “imbecilic morons” who need to “get a job.” Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

The people who choose to spend their lives in an idealistic pursuit of knowledge--and the social mission of disseminating it--will fight for those ideals. The assdeans in suits, appointed by a board of ex-CEOs and lawyers who were appointed by centrist democrats and republican fascists, will not.

One of the most important lessons you have to learn about what a university "is" is a very vulgar marxist distinction between its *managers* (directly or indirectly appointed by capital and/or state government) and its *labor,* who come to the university out of love and idealism.

"21 labor unions and faculty associations sued Trump and 15 agencies, including the top providers of science research funding…that together award the UC more than $4 billion annually. The UC system itself is not part of this suit" calmatters.org/education/hi...

#tdih 1969 2nd anti-war Moratorium with 500,000+ in D.C. & demonstrations throughout U.S. & world. Marchers carried signs with names of dead U.S. soldiers & of destroyed Vietnamese towns. Among marchers were Vietnam War veterans. See lessons & more 📷 ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/se...

Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t. There’s some kind of lesson here

“Standing for our neighbors, we shall not be moved”

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Devastating news from Laney College. This really hits home in so many ways. Coach Beam’s family and the Laney community will be in my prayers in the days, months and years to come. The pain from gun violence never goes away. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/j...

Congratulations to CCA Ranked Faculty United on winning and ratifying your first contract! When we organize, we win! (Tho I don’t think they are on Bluesky!) CCA=California College of the Arts @cftunion.bsky.social

Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center. This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.

📅 Saturday, Nov 29 | 2–4 PM 📍 Meet at Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St., SF 💵 Admission includes entry to the museum 🎟️ TICKETS: events.humanitix.com/unspeakable-... Join historian Shawn Sprockett and explore the triumphs, struggles, and enduring legacies of queer San Francisco.

NOW: Anaheim 🎡🎢 @SBWorkersUnited are ON STRIKE in Downtown Disney! Say NO to Starbucks and don’t cross the picket line! #NoContractNoCoffee Take action now: seiu.co/NoStarbucks

Let’s fight for a Democratic Party that will actually fight for us: indivisible2026.org/?utm_source=bluesky

Starbucks baristas are on strike and the No Kings Alliance stands with them. Don’t shop at Starbucks while workers fight for fair pay, better staffing, and an end to union-busting. Power belongs to the people who make this country run: nocontractnocoffee.org/#pledge #NoContractNoCoffee #NoKings

Don't buy Starbucks at any location until the workers end their ULP strike.

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.

Not to be nitpicky but these (Wapo/ WSJ) are bad headlines. Is the important news here "The Democrats released emails"? Or is the important news, you know, "Epstein says Trump spent hours with underage girl"? Put the important news in the headline!

Getting annoyed listening to charter school activists lie again and again that charter schools are public schools. They are not. They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.

ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web" bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first