Questions to ask before sharing health content on social media. Does this post feature emotional language designed to make me outraged? Does this claim offer a simple solution to a complex problem? To the best of my knowledge, is this content accurate enough to share? Am I in an echo chamber?⬇️

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

I have been noisily against it to my bosses (fellow millennials and GenX), and every survey they send trying to test the water, I write in, "I will not use AI unless required in writing, and then I will seek other employment." Absolutely fucking not.

I’m a millennial who works in software. I’ve seen the quiet AI backlash and disdain from younger coworkers. It’s quiet because their leadership is wildly zealous about AI and openly objecting to AI would put those young people’s jobs at risk.

NEW: Graduating humanities students were told that AI is the “next industrial revolution” in a speech. It was met with thousands of booing graduates.

1 AI hype ignores serious deficiencies. Beware Mark Carney’s apparent ignorance, naivety, investments in it - and anyone else’s, until the tech is actually reliable. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

#OtD 11 May 1894 the Pullman railroad strike began in Chicago after the firing of 3 workers. The biggest strike in US history to date, it was only eventually broken by federal government troops and the killing of at least 24 strikers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8336...

We will likely now see redistricting battles each cycle for the foreseeable future: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/u... With ambitious partisanship, fewer constraints from national or state courts, & precision via shorter timelines, that likely means less seat responsiveness to vote shifts

The war is madness, and Iran’s leaders know Trump has 2 ugly options: 1. Give in to most of what Iran has proposed. 2. Escalate, which means a longer war in which more Americans may die and gasoline prices will rise. It didn’t have to be this way. Republicans did this.

A lawsuit says ChatGPT advised the alleged Florida State University shooter on using his guns, including warning that his Glock had no safety, and also told him it’s more likely for a shooting to become national news “if children are involved, even 2-3 victims can draw more attention.”

“The findings directly contradict the common assumption that because acute omicron illness is usually mild in children, reinfection is clinically inconsequential… Instead, … each successive infection adds to a child’s long-term health burden rather than being neutralized by prior immunity.”

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

if only the people running universities considered buying local rather than throwing millions of $ at edtech-enterprise companies

In doing so, he's handing this country on a plate to Reform UK. Of course the 2029 election is not a done deal, and we can still prevent disaster from happening. But to do so, we now not only have to fight Farage, but also Starmer and the toxic legacy he leaves (and please God, he will now leave).

He has prostrated himself before the far right in a futile attempt to attract its voters, as if the vast body of evidence which shows that this NEVER works - and only legitimises hate and racism - did not exist. In doing so he has lost his real voters, alienating his base in spectacular fashion.

BREAKING: Tennessee legislators just voted to further erode the rights of Black voters across the state by redrawing our congressional districts. Voting rights and representation are not up for debate. We’ll see Governor Lee in court.

MAGA will kill millions of Americans in an assortment of ways. Of course nothing happened when Trump caused up to 700K excess COVID deaths in 2020, so unlikely this kind of thing will be reckoned with ever. It is a worthy goal just to live through this term www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/h...

"While AI chatbots have rapidly become a go-to source for legal advice, medical diagnoses and therapy, those conversations are not legally protected the way they would be with a licensed lawyer, doctor or therapist." (Mind numbingly stupid times, volume 8,732).

UT Austin researchers find that the data center boom represents a significant threat to the state's water supplies, with a projected increase from 1% to 3-9% of the state's total available water. Reliance on fossil or nuclear power increases the impact dramatically.

We sold to a private equity firm 😜 and laid off workers ✌️ and now we’re using gen-ai for reasons we can’t actually explain 🤩 we’re a tech company in the fiber hardware space 🤭

This Hobbii post is some of the worst meaning-devouring, senseless bullshit I’ve ever seen.

I am wary of people who use the word "wellness."

I see that Matt Taibbi, who just lost the defamation case he filed against Eoin Higgins for criticism of his hackery, is one of the featured speakers at FIRE’s “Soapbox 2026” “celebrating free expression, fearless debate, and the courage to dissent.” Very free. Oh, no doubt.

if anyone uses an LLM at my funeral, you all have my blessing to fistfight them in the parking lot

That, however, does not mean progress is impossible. Even as the reactionary entrenchment won in the late nineteenth century, the fight was not over. Ultimately, courageous people achieved marvelous things: A Second Reconstruction, codified in the civil rights legislation of the 1960s.

The promise of Reconstruction was left unfulfilled. The experiment didn’t last. That is another painful implication: No right, no democratic achievement is ever safe. No progress is irrevocable. History is not destined to move in a progressive direction.

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

if ai ever works as it’s been sold to us, the most easily replaced employee of every company would be ceo and as far as i can tell theres never been a single article written about that

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

New report, same problem. 45.9% of creative freelancers say they do at least 5 hours of unpaid work a week, and more than half of that group say it is 10 hours or more. Fair pay has to mean paying for all the work, not just the visible part of it. buff.ly/YUyUvei #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

Our Library of Congress RPTF caucus, the HBCU Radio Preservation Project, featured by The Guardian today!

'“People are being shot in broad daylight. American citizens are being shot and killed,” 53-year-old Andrew Veitch told Reuters, referring to ICE’s attacks in Minneapolis and elsewhere. “I don’t want to live in a place like this.”'

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

Workers from Amazon, Whole Foods & Washington Post held the “Ball without Billionaires” to boycott the Jeff Bezos Met Gala. The show was walked by organizers who’ve fought for better working conditions, fair pay & rights for pregnant workers. All looks were designed by immigrant designers.

Yes. Yes, I like this.

Reform UK’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing Britain’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, argues Stuart Spray bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/n...

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

Suppression of science that doesn’t match the ideology they profit from.

University of Hertfordshire closes a swathe of Humanities courses, accelerating the sweeping tide against Human-centred disciples in the UK. Because understanding humans is so yesterday today. With such happy consequences, as we see when we look around us.

Just gonna keep saying it: Drastic SCOTUS reform should be a central part of the 2028 Democratic Party platform, and for Presidential candidates...I don't love litmus tests, but for me, this is becoming one.

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

My university started paying to use Canvas two years ago and it has done nothing to make my job easier or, IMO, to facilitate student learning. If anything it’s been a net negative. Now this.

I'm sorry, are teachers not citizens and residents of Nova Scotia whom this government serves? Are they not entitled to petition and query their representatives in government?

faculty and students need more of a say in edutech adoptions and admin need less to none

What the non-lawyers on here need to understand is that DOJ, until about a year ago, was considered HIGHLY prestigious and competitive, elite lawyering work

The HPV vaccine ALSO prevents throat cancer, and several others of the head and neck. If it had been available 20 years earlier, my beloved Grace might still be alive. Get vaccinated.

Two days ago, same outlet: JPMorgan choking on data center debt. I'm sure they're only offloading the very best primo stuff. It's a sure thing, you don't want to miss out. Haven't seen a deal like this since 2007! www.ft.com/content/08ab...

Kevin O'Leary's massive data center was approved by a county commission in Utah last night. At 40,000 acres, it would be 2.5x the size of Manhattan. The commission approved the proposal despite opposition from hundreds of locals.

We need to put our arms around Rep. Justin Jones as he seeks to fight the TN legislature’s new gerrymandering plan. @brotherjones.bsky.social