This is, in a very real way, a projection of the way white people stole wealth from Black people during the first Redemption. Many of these targets for lynchings were successful or even just surviving businessmen and farmers with property coveted by local whites.

Pretty excited by Wu et al.'s study (only out as a preprint) on potential iridescence in the tapejarid Sinopterus. Looks reasonable based on their data. If tajeparids are ecomorphological analogues of extant birds like hornbills (which I think they were), this is consistent with what we might guess.

we need to return to our noble roots and teach people how to pirate photoshop cc 2015 again

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Terracotta Pig, East Java, 15th century

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

She's feeling cunt

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if i had a nickel for every time i was asked to do a shrimp custom, i’d have 2 nickels. which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice 🦐❤️🏳️‍⚧️ #art #SciArt #marinelife #shrimp #jewelry

Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

A British couple traveled to China and complimented the Northeastern regional cuisine, comparing it to British food. Chinese Internet:

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

Cleaning up/violating human rights so fifa can use Vancouver like a giant sanitized tax shelter for a few weeks, a thread

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Repeating my old Twitter adage: Is it "discourse" or is it one very loud wrong man we can all block?

mom (pregnant): do you have any questions me (a 6 year old in the library with a gestational anatomy book): only one. how do they do that with their clothes on mom: well they take them off me (scandalized): but those are your private parts??????

"Anthropic is the clean coal of AI. And clean coal doesn't exist" - Karen Hao speaking at Hay yesterday.

Heard it’s hot outside

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

I do not want GenAI in fanart. I do not want GenAI in character design. I do not want GenAI in world design. I do not want GenAI in writing. I do not want GenAI in storyboarding. I do not want GenAI in voice acting. I do not want GenAI, period. If any piece of media uses GenAI, I don't want it.

your late 20s are genuinely hilarious because you start them feeling the dread of your "20s reaching an end" and then you end up realizing the whole concept of the 20s/30s distinction is meaningless and your 30s are a kind of freedom

actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

This needs too be normalized at conventions.

I mean it when I have a zero tolerance policy about the r slur. You throw that shit around with me within earshot? If I'm feeling generous I'll politely tell you not to use that word, but otherwise I'm dipping cuz I don't wanna hang with people who think that's a fine or funny thing to say.

Strawberry economics

why does no one lurk moar nowadays when jumping into an established community with a lot of info already in there

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

@banditelli.org @hardlikearmour.bsky.social @socialistpuffin.bsky.social A portion of the jumping from the chicks' perspective. It's a lot of hard work!

Photos of Polynesian trans women in Auckland, circa 1976. All taken by Murray Cammick. Via Te Papa.

The culprit cooked biscuits, shrimp and fries, police say

Peck’s presenting this as sleight of hand, a creative technicality that you can imagine Oxbridge twats thinking is very clever, but then you get to “a spin doctor will be quoted as a cabinet minister” which is just straight-up fraud

I'm heartbroken and angry to be losing so many #GenX Black men. In March, a panel led by Boston's Mayor Wu shared the results of a study to understand lower lifespan of Black residents, esp. Black Men. The average Black man has a life expectancy 9.3 yrs less than that of other men. 1/ #BlackSky 🌱

At first Turtle Pond in Central Park seemed like false advertising, but then a turtle came out of the water and yawned rather dramatically, or at least that’s what it looked like (it made no audible-to-me noise). #TinyJoys

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

jesus fucking christ lmao

Meanwhile, at the adventurous puppies' bar, the bard is getting ready to sing another song for the crowd while his little witch friend offers emotional support!

if you cowardly try to sacrifice your friend, NPS will simply send a second bear

Ever wondered how simultaneous interpreters do such an amazing job and what goes on in their brains as they listen in one language and speak in another? New post on Language-on-the-Move has the answer 😃 languageonthemove.com/the-cost-of-...

This is true for translation, but more broadly it applies for writing in general. Read your work out loud. How does it sound? Does it flow well? It’s basic but pretty dang important!

America is a continental landmass. USA is a country. America has no President. Signed, The rest of America

Old men rushing to criticise a woman having a baby while simultaneously complaining that not enough women are having babies.

Logging on

if you are wondering why: it's specifically a nazi term used to punch down

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My old person hill to die on is you need to say “hello” and “thank you” to people working in any service industry. Treat people like people, you have to

some dope earlier this week tried to gaslight people by saying the pushback on AI mirrors the pushback when the internet went mainstream and no it fucking does not! people were excited about the internet! ffs it wasn’t 100 years ago, a lot of us were THERE

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