“Editors were being overwhelmed.”

Since when does he go to Arlington? This IS gutter racism, yes, but also: the racist reason given for it is false. But it’s productive: It puts him at the (empty) center of the story.

Belle enquête. Ça confirme ce dont on se doutait, mais disons que le machin était (est) plus structuré et moins improvisé qu'on l'imaginait. Au passage, crédit à TLP d'avoir géré avec intégrité le cas Maikoul Zodi au Niger

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"Trump has stained the US, but it isn’t really clear to anyone yet if he’s permanently altered its character. Clarity will come from future elections." Good @brianbeutler.bsky.social case for making Trump/war profiteering/corruption big issue in coming elections: www.offmessage.net/p/expose-all...

I am here for bathymetry art. (These are old installations by Maya Lin, most famous of course for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. 2x4 Landscape is not technically bathymetry, I believe.)

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Worldwide ... attempting to roll back and tighten the screws. One cannot help but wonder at some kind of direct - or indirect - cooperation or at least contamination.

This is terrible, and it's been attached to a budget meaning it's harder to fight on the merits (or, more properly, the lacks thereof). Folks have worked so hard for the gains they've achieved. The labors never cease.

Activists have called the bill ‘unconstitutional’ and ‘dangerous’

The update, which was added to Wikipedia’s guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for AI-written articles to violate “several of Wikipedia’s core content policies” as the reason for the ban.

A new bill to tax the rich's wealth isn't that interesting. Here's what's interesting: the same bill was introduced 5 years ago, & since then the revenue estimate has *doubled*. Yes, billionaires have twice as much money as they did at the beginning of the 2020s. prospect.org/2026/03/27/b...

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'New starters joining the university will also be employed via a subsidiary firm and prevented from being able to access the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, UCU said, adding that teaching-only staff also face losing the union’s current bargaining rights.' 2/2

Well this article about hermit crabs has made me sad this morning. I do feel that when you get to know any animal, no matter how humble, you will start to see it as interesting and special. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m...

Waistcoat https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/99022

Can we stop framing the #EPDB solely in the context of heating? It introduces a life-cycle perspective and threshold values that may finally drive the construction industry toward sustainable materials. 50 to 💯 % emissions are now upfront emissions in construction of new efficient buildings.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

One of the things @michaelwaters.bsky.social's stellar OTHER OLYMPIANS makes clear is that sex testing at the Olympics is a fascist undertaking. And that the IOC has a history of siding with fascists.

reminds me of belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten

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I'm delighted to share this contest that I've been working on, and for which I'll be a judge! We're looking for stories about positive futures and how to get there.

A Texas school district has banned HOW LONG TIL BLACK FUTURE MONTH, along with over 1500 other books. Mine was kicked bc it's labeled for adults, which is true. But so are every one of my books, which are available in most schools. That's the only one with "Black" in the title, tho.

still waiting for someone to pick up my pitch for anti-cop academic procedural comedy SUSSEX DETECTIVES. As part of austerity and redundancy fallout, a ragtag group is thrown together as the new department of "interdisciplinary studies." The dean makes them solve crimes for the REF impact.

Well I just got the OK so I am doing MY OWN DANG COVER REVEAL WICKHILLS has a cover now! Illustrated by Tom Roberts and designed by Russell Trakhtenberg! Which I copied and pasted so I would not make a typo! Anyway, BEHOLD! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Pilot on my flight: “Air travel is not fun right now. Please be nice to each other. I don’t want to be on CNN. Let’s just go home.”

Will note that the largest blue accounts are a) former president Obama and b) two guys who mostly just post videos of Republican leaders saying things. The top red account, which dwarfs them, posts conspiracy theories.

just so disrespectful to the people who have to work so hard and jump through so many hoops on their applications - note she submitted it A YEAR AGO. and they hand it over to the machine, claim it's being screened and don't bother. comemierdas.

think about this all the time in relation to eg cars named after animals

Probably no point telling the clip's many apologists that the exploitative tech that delivered this slop is endangering actual animals here in the real world

this animal rehab person and another woman were literally just talking about this in my art studio this morning! how these videos that show false interactions with animals can cause real danger to them

omg i'm so glad you asked!!! i have a bunch of ideas!! they all start with "fuck off and"

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

FWIW, the first time I applied for my job, the algorithm that processed applications determined that there were *no qualified applicants*. Including me. The only reason this error was detected was because I mentioned it to someone I knew in the agency. She said, "That can't be right..."

I am tabling and doing other outreach this weekend and one of my goals is to get at least 75 people to sign a letter to the City Council in support of funding our libraries at 0.5% of the city expense budget. actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - I'll report back on Monday, lol.

#Recall: About 110,000 AirClub Convertible Bassinets; The recalled convertible bassinets violate the mandatory standard, posing a deadly fall hazard to infants. Get replacement attachment mechanism. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...

Via this post from @thebloggess.bsky.social, I learn that my book Lock In has been banned from schools in New Braunfels, TX. There is irony here in that Lock In won the Alex Award from the ALA, given for "adult books suitable for teens." thebloggess.com/2026/03/25/t...

And there’s my train, the 08:21 TER to Paris from Nuits-sous-Ravières. Trip time: just over 2 hours The next direct one? 18:21 Yes 10 HOURS LATER There are ones with changes at 09:10 and 17:21, but that’s still 8 hours with nothing France, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, SNCF 🤷‍♂️

Femme Auprès De La Fenêtre, 1919 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/834800

Here’s my take on the Ko sentencing. Ko can still appeal and, as we also saw with Ann Kao, could still avoid jail time. But the most significant implication may be that law prevents those with sentences of over ten years in the first ruling from running for president

Just like in Australia: the households that benefit the most from generous tax cuts for vehicle fossil fuels are the richest households, because they drive the most. (Norway's debating a huge tax cut on this)

I'm currently working on a piece of research to understand the limits of assurance for LLMs while also working with a public body to help them write best practice guidelines for implementing LLMs, and it is *shocking* to me how little is communicated to corporate purchasers about reliability

There's a third Mossa book!

Y'all, please share your best modern murder mysteries set in space. Murder by Memory by @oliviawaite.com was short with a great concept, lovely writing, and a pretty good mystery. I really liked @older.bsky.social two books set on Jupiter with detective Mossa. Help me escape reality.

That has been going on since the beginning of the Criminal in Chief's first term, but the sums are getting larger, and they don't even care to hide their corruption. $580 million in a few minutes...

I appreciate the typewriter use but y'know, many colleges have letterpress studios.

“Mistakenly”

Been working on this for a while and I'm finally pulling the trigger and starting to actually publish a long series of blog posts: Why AI Sucks and You Shouldn't Use It Wheeeeeeee! secret.works/blog/njfjvrf...