New favourite example of Grice's Maxim of Relevance

one of the many reasons why it is necessary for Jews and Muslims to work together to oppose religious hatred is that the deus-vulters are way ahead of us on that front

ProPublica’s board and senior management hide when asked to engage with bargaining. The board meets today, but they won’t meet with us. We will make our voices unavoidable until they agree to a fair contract, so, today, we welcomed folks to our office with flyers about our fight.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.

"Turns out students aren't great at asking questions well." No fucking shit. Literally any educator could tell you that. 90% of my job as a high school librarian is trying to figure out what kids actually want versus what question they asked.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

If you are freaking out and need help doing this, TELL BLUESKY. One of us will help you! DO IT!

When you love a quote so much you gotta immediately open up the canva @prisonculture.bsky.social

Running Toward ICE: A record of resistance in Chicagoland. I did the writing and reporting for this comic, which was illustrated by the amazing @soljbrager.bsky.social. Most of this was reported last fall, and a lot has happened since, but I hope the lessons and stories are useful.

This contains broad vague language that would ban any book for readers under 18 that has LGBTQIA+ characters or themes (like my Dotty Morgan books).

This week, participants in the resistance to ICE in Minnesota will begin speaking tours around the country to discuss what they learned in the process of confronting Operation Metro Surge. You can find the details about the events here: crimethinc.com/breakicetour Help us get the word out!

As #transrightsreadathon continues, what’re everyone’s favorite fantasy books by trans women? My tbr list always needs more books.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

☀️ My morning routine is coffee, bagel, and the brain teaser Wordle minigame that funds the islamophobic editors at the most successful propaganda outlet in america

I haven't bought from Amazon for a long, long while, but I still had public wishlists on there. I just logged on and deleted them. Super not safe.

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

"Enemies to lovers" should mean "we have been drawn into a conflict that is bigger than either of us that has alienated us from society to the point where my enemy is the only one who understands me" and should involve at least one murder attempt. Not: "my new co-worker is meant to me :( but hot?"

Oh, and my hottest take: Bad Boy Romances are just Horse Girl stories. (He is wild and dangerous and everyone has given up on him except for her; she is able to break through to his wounded exterior and gain his trust and now has all his strength and power under her command.)

This guy gets it.

she's in a head to toe spangled bodysuit with mesh panels why are you in black pants and a t-shirt with three (3) rhinestones

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

Like, as depressing as it would be for appropriate support for universities to be a fully partisanized issue, it would be quite a bit LESS depressing than the status quo, where an idea like creating institutions à la the UC system of the 1960s and 70s is fully outside the two-party Overton window

Reminds me of the dynamic where R's say all their nonsense about the radical Marxist indoctrination in universities and then Dems very nervously say "um we believe that higher education plays an important role in training our nation's future workforce, btw we can no longer afford the English dept"

If you RTd the news of Fobazi's passing, work in LIS, or have ever uttered the phrase "vocational awe", it's time to put your money where your mouth is. We owe her that much at least. Please donate.

Children's librarianship suffered a grievous blow when this man decided his calling was politics

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

"Last summer, the city of Portland paid millions to descendants of Black families forced from their homes by racist urban renewal projects." "It was an effort decades in the making." "And one of the driving forces was a local librarian." #Oregon #USA #Housing #Courts #Slavery

🎶 Anthem thread! Anti ICE, general anti establishment, inspiration to resist, whatever helps you in the struggle. "10,000 fists" is great for getting energized before a protest or other resistance action. m.youtube.com/watch?v=kKl_... #MusicSky #BardSky #FuckICE #MeltICE #ChingaLaMigra

So, librarians, do you have a contingency plan for when these goons enter your facility? You might not be able to block access to a public building, but how are you alerting your patrons? Do you have a plan to get them out safely? Because you should.

this is literally happening because someone called Wu beat a failson named Kraft with 71% of the vote

This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs

[KO/JA] 📽 The International Degrowth Network's Asia circle is organising a screening of the film ‘The Cost of Growth’! 1️⃣ Stream the film on Kinema before 18 Dec for $1: kinema.com/events/The-C... 2️⃣ Join a free, virtual commentary on 18 Dec, 7-8:30pm (UCT+8): tinyurl.com/cogdiscussio...

I saw this one today! These are so great.

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros would be the latest in this harmful trend — and could kill the movie theater industry. If Netflix gets their way, their increased domination would make things worse for viewers and artists. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies. Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market. This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

The positive outcome of this story is that in frantically googling around trying to figure out what happened and how I could at least see the end of the episode, I discovered that the show is available at my local library and actually can be streamed thence via Hoopla 🎉

The other night I was idly watching the sixth episode in a new-to-me TV series on Netflix and about 10 minutes before the end of the episode the playback froze. After trying to restart it for a bit I exited and re-opened Netflix and the entire series had disappeared, apparently deleted from the app.

Breaking: Second wave of strikes at British Library announced Union says lack of stable leadership after chief executive’s departure has “undoubtedly undermined staff confidence” www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

this is the first i'm hearing of it and it looks AMAZING what the heck

EMPLOYEE? EMPLOYEE!! This was one of our lofty goals for last year's campaign and we did it!! 🥳🥳🥳

#Boston tabletop gamers: It's time to get planting 🎲 Come join us for some plant-themed board games and community fun at Pandemonium Books & Games in Cambridge, MA on December 13, from 1-5 PM. This event is FREE but space is limited so make sure to register early 👉https://loom.ly/e4h9xYM

It's the last month of 2025 and there are still a lot of ways to support the QT Library, including one if you're looking to shop local tomorrow. Check out the 🧵~

On World AIDS Day, I’m reminded of all the positive folks who have fought, and continue to fight, secrecy, stigma, and shame. HIV is a chronic illness conditioned by state violence, poverty, inequality, and discrimination. We can end HIV by cultivating better healthcare and more inclusive societies.

New calligraphic work: "On Resisting ICE and the DHS" This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.

It's easy to see shoddy research as a bad actor problem. But if AI slop like this can make it through editors and peer reviewers, it means there are systemic problems at work. And I'd argue that at least part of the problem is the overwork culture in academia-- pressure to do more while caring less.

we are just over a week out from publication of WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about collective action I co-edited with @annaleen.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social which means THERE'S STILL TIME TO PREORDER!