NEW: Warrantless spying on Americans under a program known as Section 702 was already a major problem. As a congressional hearing today showed, now all those "safeguards" against Fourth Amendment violations are looking flimsier than ever. @dell.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/warnin...

personally I cannot imagine the ghoulishness required to make this argument but Alabama's attorney general office certainly found the ghoul within

Yall aint seen Black Texans flex they muscle yet and thats because they do not fuck with outsiders under any circumstances. You gotta have SKIN in the game in this state. These folks wont tell you a fuck ass thing if they dont know you.

So I say this to say, you do not know Texas if you dont live here. If you not from here and know nobody here you’re not going to get it at all. Jasmine knows exactly how to speak the language of this state. We must do our part to ensure she can. #InJasmineWeTrust

A bunch of assholes walk into a room and go, “We’re making an AI powered publishing house, we’ll put out more books faster than anyone else!“ And the investors go “Oh wow!“ and give them millions of dollars. It now no longer matters to the assholes if their plan works. They already got paid.

Their paychecks don’t come from the end users, they come from the rounds of funding pumped into them. And the money keeps coming as long as they can keep the grift going. Not in drips and drops from actual consumers buying stuff, but in big fat chunks from investment groups and accelerators.

So much of the hideous bullshit of modern business makes a lot more sense after you realize that the “customer“ for the products being peddled aren’t actual human beings that go “Oh, that looks good, I’ll buy that,” but the investors shoveling money into the burn pits of these go-nowhere companies.

People want to control how we see Black women more than they like to win. And yes that includes the left and especially in the digital age it started there . And until everyone deals with that we will continue to fail

The culture lies in the lack thereof. It is a culture beholden towards assimilation and the conformity to nothing beyond having money and letting others know you have money. To be rich is to wallow in the high-horse cultural ooze of zero. Your shit can’t stink if you don’t believe that shit exists.

This is a classic example of the need to reclaim the means of production. Academic publishing should be a workers’ cooperative that pays all its contributors and re-invests any ‘profit’.

it's me, I'm part of a loose coalition of 3D print enthusiasts!! while discord & y'all have got me pretty well handled for shipping money & filament, there are lots of folks who are doing a TON of work without as much support, so donating here will help all of them!

"[The US military's] history here has not been a very good history ... They bombed and broke the water table on Kaho'olawe. It's uninhabitable. They bombed Waiāhole. They bombed Makua Valley. They have done so much damage environmentally to Hawai'i and also to our communities."

More than 700 registered nurses at St. Joseph Health Hospital in Bryan-College Station, northwest of Houston, voted Wednesday to join one of the nation's largest nurses' unions. 

Oh you broke ranks and squandered your politically advantageous position on the government shutdown, and the audacious gambit resulted in the most obvious outcome imaginable? You really are a Democrat.

Y'all pray for me, I'm still dreaming about applying to divinity school next year.

We probably do.

When my spine worked, I used to do 7+ hours of MMA and eskrima drills every week. Now it's daily qi gong, ginger tea, and shaking ass whenever the spirit moves me. Still a close call.

Green palmolive soap and bacon grease will always remind me of cooking with my gramma sammy in her Pasadena kitchen.

Somewhere between Strega Nona and Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

My life got a lot more peace-filled when I started calling in the fighters 😂 I have too many Sagittarian grandmothers on the other side

Periodic public service announcement that Deacons for Defense (2003) is streaming on Tubi.

“Ring’s privacy protections are limited to device owners, leaving the general public without consent or control over their biometric data. Amazon disclosed that device owners could retain biometric data indefinitely, and individuals must request data deletion from each device owner separately.”

I don't have the range or cognitive endurance to give Tom Hardy's Taboo the critical take it's due, but I can say I'm intrigued to see white British creators engaging broader themes of complicity in large-scale human trafficking and the moral costs borne by those who commit vs order atrocities.

AI is their way out of DEI

“Having each state decide for themselves who is a citizen & who is not, is what led to civil war. So the 14th Amendment…says…If you're born here, you're a citizen of this place, we call United States of America…and that is the fundamental principle that they want to take away”- @elienyc.bsky.social

Not an original thought but it really is something that the United States federal government can raid your home with helicopters, molest your children in the middle of the night, destroy your home and render you homeless…and YOU’RE on the hook thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...

Good work from @aaup.org on the uncritical infiltration of LLM/AI into ed tech www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

Hahaha

TBH… I’m gonna be MORE considerate of kids

The American slaveocracy built everything on pedophilia and familial rape. These behaviors remain rampant among would-be gentry in the evangelical south. Generational wounds from systemized sexual predation will keep on festering until we really clean them out and look at them in the sunlight.

Right behind my teeth, unfortunately

Lowkey I have a handful of Salieris but instead of thinking I am vulgar, dissolute boor they think I am a corny basic bitch

Shutting up

The big archival question My other concern is that venture capitalism already has a helluva track record (trying to) enclose and paywall cultural heritage. Institutional archives are already elitist by nature. Techno-archives will be a privacy and authenticity nightmare.

I tend to be a night owl, but adapt to wherever I'm living. These days, I'm up by 5:30

Cool. Now the videos of Buzz Lightyear cooking meth can stream on Disney plus too.

Biblically

This story makes me shake with rage. They really want to take everything from us. This is in Bed Stuy, aided and abetted by the police. I guess cops only protect SOME people’s property.

I teach these (and other naturalization cases) in my Intro to AfAm Studies class. It’s all BANANAS, but it really helps drive home that race is a thing that is *made*. (Why, yes, I do teach this alongside Barbara Fields’s work)

Where to Shop South Seattle BIPOC Makers and Businesses for the Holidays

The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

I love her delivery so much

THIS.

Because it shows people that they aren’t alone. I share my struggles with OCD and anxiety and I’ve gotten DMs from people saying that it helps them. So guess what? If you’re comfortable sharing, do it. You’re venting which is cathartic and you could be helping someone as well. #HugsFromTexas 🫂

Y'all wanna warn your friends before you get on the "AI companion" bandwagon and warn your friends, help them get informed.

My dear friend www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...

My 2025 in a reel

I think about how data annotators have to go through so much traumatic data. caseworkers do as well. they sit through lengthy descriptions of child sexual abuse etc and are then responsible for fixing it. i dont think we sit with that enough and my argument is that caseworkers are data laborers too

how often do we ask those responsible for collecting data how that process is? it is really revealing and you can see the lightbulbs go off in their head too when u ask them. i also asked them to differentiate data collection from surveillance and that was interesting too!

One time my nephew asked me why my car was "soooo old." I told him I don't like spending money when I don't need to, he looked me dead in the eye and said, "that's not true Mimi, you have SO many Legos."