danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

We need a left party in which doing any bigoted shit like this would eject someone from it

New — NY AG James spox to me on NYU's message to patients about TX subpoena for youth gender-affirming care records: “New York has strong protections in place to protect the privacy of patient records. Every health care institution in New York should seek to protect both patients and providers.”

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Today, after the Alabama House voted in favor of new primary elections using racist gerrymandered maps, there was some loud, strong singing of "Ain’t Nobody Going To Turn Me Around.” Video by @brianlyman.bsky.social shows civil rights veteran Mildred Bennett coming thru singing.

A propos of nothing: In 2017, Merriam-Webster instituted a new style guide rule that no M-W employee's writings could be quoted as an illustration at an entry. Alas for my truly excellent use of "English" as a verb in "Word by Word" (released in 2017).

oh no

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...

Someone sent me this.

It’s fun—a macabre sort of fun—this parlor game of “Who Goes AI?” And it simplifies things—asking the question in regard to specific journalists. www.todayintabs.com/p/who-goes-ai

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

If you're wondering how the massive No Kings rallies are playing on Twitter, here are the top news stories over there. That site definitely has its finger on the pulse, absolutely a must-read for breaking news events, I get why you stay there

This is so important.

I did a follow up interview with @rhavote.bsky.social in 2022 shortly after the Dobbs leak. Erika has learned so much and spread that knowledge to so many www.jezebel.com/2022-intervi...

"But a job is just a job: it will not love you back." I am so glad that @korystamper.bsky.social is writing books, and I am so excited for her new one.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. These first 2 months have seen so many heavy developments. But making art helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 10 more.

For The New York Times to choose to publish Jesse Singal today, of all times, is a choice to attack trans people, to make them even more vulnerable while they are already under attack. It is an appalling abdication of the Times’s journalistic duties.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

The two topics in my feed right now: 1) the gutting of the Washington Post 2) a Washington Post article describing Trump's plan to build a Columbus statue outside the White House

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

In addition to everything else disgusting and dehumanizing and about this bill, it makes it impossible for trans people to participate in Election Day in person in Kansas, a state where *photo ID is required to vote*, without threat of having their drivers licenses stripped from them on the spot.

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

There are a lot of men out there who do not see any of the logistics happening around them and they're like "wait, where the fuck did these hand warmers come from?" Look at every kid wearing mittens, and that's your answer. From the people who have been silently keeping hands warm for centuries.

No words “As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car…he heard what sounded like “100s of children” shouting, with voices he described as "high-pitched" and "urgent.”…he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad." shorturl.at/yOXfh

i hate living in the second act of CABARET. i miss living in the first act of CABARET

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

the "and you're surprised by this?" guys have never been less vital than they are right now

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

Wrote about what it takes for grown men in tactical gear, working under the blessing of the federal government, to ambush a 5-year-old kid in a bunny hat and a Spidey backpack who only wanted to come home from school defector.com/how-do-you-j...

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

sorry I cannot hear the original imperialists chastising me I am standing watch outside a middle school

Wow. That's very insightful. It *is* a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of something—a wife. If you'd like, I could help you draft a "Wife Marriage Acquisition Plan" or a "Good Fortune Business Plan."

He opened his mouth and the Dow fell 900 points.

My Italian-American grandmother was horrified when polenta became popular because “that’s what peasants eat” and anyway I just bought a two-pound bag of polenta.

This kind of messaging is intended to drown moms in research, risk, and responsibility. The goal is to keep them so anxious and so busy that they can't work for pay--especially not in high-powered "mens" jobs--or get involved in any kind of efforts to push for progressive change.

This is important and, also, not not new. There were reports of this in LA, Portland, and Chicago, at least, as well.

I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

They're targeting Renee Good's widow because they don't want her talking. If they can manufacture charges, most defense attorneys will tell her not to speak with media even if she did nothing wrong

of all the things going around today i do keep coming back to this one, in the sense of: how must one live their life such that everyone involved in an official my little pony comic agrees there's adequate gas in a joke at your expense that's not even a silly pun but just about how you're an asshole

I think about the apartment-cleaning scene in Can You Ever Forgive Me on a weekly basis.

Seems like time to re-up: There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not only describe but shape reality....

my mom got tear gassed outside the 1968 democratic national convention only for guys like this to call her a "boomer resistance lib" for the last decade. she's been in the streets this whole time, what the fuck have you been doing

Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent...

She’s getting good at this.