123 states voted for 52 states abstained, including most of Europe 3 states voted against: the US, Israel, and Argentina They're outright flaunting the sort of racist supremacism that gave rise to the Nazis. share.google/idntJsZKOhis...

babes I was reading Cyteen & Earthsea when I was twelve, those were the books that made me and you will not see me talking shit about them BUT if either Le Guin or Cherryh were out there funding genocide I'd be dropping them like a hot potato

The city lawyers are unfortunately correct here. In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that police do not have a duty to protect people. That ruling was later applied to the specific case of the NYPD in Lozito vs. City of New York in 2013. NYPD does not exist to protect you and has no duty to do so.

This is the only Harry Potter argument worth making It wouldn't matter if Harry Potter was a singular, unmatched work of genius. Giving Rowling money is actively making the world a worse place and killing trans folks. There's no book good enough or nostalgic enough for that to be worth it.

it’s the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the site of which — it’s easy to forget — is an active classroom building our Lilly Sabella went there to talk to professors and students about what it means to study on the same floors where the fire took place

We need to bring back the ideal of masculinity focused on quiet self-sacrifice for the sake of others. Alpha shit is for losers. Be a man and humbly forgo the shit you want for years so you can provide for your family, you indulgent little wuss

In the ongoing battle to save one of the last remaining single-room occupancy buildings in the East Village, tenants have won a three-year reprieve thanks to an unusual move by the City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development. hellgatenyc.com/rare-victory...

A Japanese company has received the green light to mass-manufacture a treatment for Parkinson’s that transplants stem cells directly into the brain. A 7-person study no adverse effects were observed and more than half the participants showed some signs of recovery buff.ly/JdSnIAx #ShareGoodNewsToo

This tragedy helped lead to the rise of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU). Workers still have a long way to go to secure the rights that they deserve, but we should all thank a union for the ones that we do have.

On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 workers and injured another 78. 123 women and girls and 23 men. Because the doors were locked (standard practice at the time to keep workers from taking breaks) there was no escape.

On this day in 1931, nine Black teenagers were arrested and falsely accused of raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. They spent 6-17 years in prison despite evidence that exonerated them.

This is what all medical providers who give a fuck about science and also human rights should be doing, in the face of pressure to abandon ethics and reason when it comes to treating trans people. Good on her.

I think with the level of venom with which AI proponents have treated artists, writers, musicians, whole creative industries, they deserve at the very least to have that venom met in kind, and I hope it stings. I'm only sorry it hasn't happened sooner. Party's over, enjoy the hangover.

The mask is completely off. You can’t meet these people in the middle. We’re not working toward the same goals. They hate America. They hate democracy. They hate freedom. And they hate you.

"When Guy Partnerman and Lady Millionaire purchased a brownstone in the most Brooklyn-themed neighborhood of Brooklyn, there was only one drawback: the home was too beautiful." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tra...

Someone in my mentions is asking me not to be so hard on Mamdani about fulfilling the 0.5% budget promise he made to our libraries 🤦🏾‍♀️ I’m begging constituents to have more of a backbone. I promise you, Zohran can take it! That man will be alright!

Ideas seem infinitely precious if you've only ever had one.

"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?

•I don’t know what’s for dinner •Work sucked •I’m physically & spiritually exhausted from fighting to get kids to care about another test •I’m physically & spiritually exhausted from fighting to get myself to care about another test •Huh •Probably •No •A little •Tacos

I was literally just talking to my therapist on Monday about how I’ve accidentally become nocturnal because night is the only time nobody is ever asking me for anything

Can somebody tell NYC Public Schools this?! bsky.app/profile/chal...

Here’s my modest proposal a la swift: when a billionaire turns 60, if they have not reduced their total assets to under a billion dollars (and not by hiding it off shore or giving it to their kids) we seize all of their assets. If they do it voluntarily they can stay a nine hundred millionaire.

Remember, if you’re interested in what REALLY “drives” a lot of regional growth & infrastructure politics, it’s pretty much this. Great drawing via Ian Lockwood.

I just found out that my kid's ELA teacher has his students do all of their writing assignments during class time. The bulk of writing has to be done live to make sure the students are actually doing the writing. The mere existence of AI is taking away from time they could use for class discussion.

Every time I hear about a luxury no-work future, it seems to come from someone trying to hoard billions for themselves 🙄

I was just on the bus where this guy was very loudly talking to his lawyer about trying to get back with his estranged wife who clearly has had a restraining order against him for the past four months, and I just want to say, ma’am, if you’re out there, stay strong. There’s a reason he hasn’t seen

So everybody shitting on this verdict because “it’s a slap on the wrist” can go suck an egg. NM is a tiny state with fewer people than Brooklyn, and a jury here heard the evidence and ruled in favor of protecting kids from a giant corporation. It’s a precedent. It’s meaningful. TAKE THE WIN

“We know that if you want to show solidarity, there is only one way to do it: you got to do it with your feet. You’ve got to walk on the picket line with your colleagues.” —Zach Samalin, New York University AAUP AAUP stands with Contract Faculty United - UAW on strike at NYU!

I love that they put that weird ballet in the middle of the movie basically as an excuse to add Cyd Charisse

So, to sum up, approximately eleventy skillion dollars were sunk into a tool that disrupted a whole industry based on nothing but hype and vibes despite having absolutely no path to profitability. And now it's just, like, done. Cool.

"AI cannot coexist with education--it can only degrade it" YES OMG YES

Still held in Dilley, TX. "ICE officials said “she overstayed her visa,” though he provided the paper with a copy of a US “employment authorization” card issued to his wife last year, and it had an expiry date of 8 June 2030."

I genuinely think it should be illegal to use hostile architecture at a designated public transit spot. Put in benches, you cowards. If you don't want people sleeping on them, push for UBI and better services for unhoused folks.

Awful: Stephen Miller is privately urging Texas lawmakers to restrict funding for the public education of undocumented kids. This has long been a right-wing dream: They want to get SCOTUS to reverse Plyler v Doe and further chip away at 14th Amendment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2081...

Withholding HIV, tuberculosis and malaria medications from Zambia in order to force the country to open its copper, cobalt and lithium reserves to U.S. companies is monstrous, diabolical. And the aid would still be half what it was before. This is evil.

because I will always be the "I have a skilled trades/labour background, not an education" person, I will tell you that a big part of becoming skilled in anything is trying, failing, and being willing to try again despite how much it hurt. That's key labour, and without it, it's all an illusion

This is a really insightful point, and gets at something I'd not realized before: the widespread but deeply mistaken assumption that empiricism as a method can't be misused (and is the only way to produce real knowledge) (this might be the core belief of what I refer to as STEM fundamentalism)

as a subscriber and someone who has known you guys forever, why are we treating a known nazi as someone whose inane ramblings about jewish control are worthy of debate, @jewishcurrents.bsky.social and @peterbeinart.bsky.social? this whole framing is bad.

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

second: there's stuff NYC mayor mamdani could be doing now to backstop care for all the trans teens cut off by the sudden stoppage. in fact, he campaigned on it. afaik, he hasn't even properly addressed it. you can't call NYC a fucking “refuge" if it's institutions don't provide essential care!🧵

It truly is a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world.

Google is going to rewrite your website whether you like it or not. www.forbes.com/sites/joetos...

It bothers me that they usually aren’t.

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

It breaks my heart to repost this, since I love many things 92NY has done over the years, but they are deeply morally wrong here.

Of course REFUK don’t want kids to grow up bilingual. It has distinct cognitive benefits: more able to concentrate, more working memory, multi-tasking, more creative, better problem solving skills. REFUK can’t afford voters to be critical, independent thinkers.

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

When I wrote the post below, I was not allowed to say much about the book project I was helping Brian & Wendy Froud put together . . . but now the secret is out! It's been a joy to work with Brian, Wendy, and many fine authors on the theme of the mythic Green Women. More info here: bit.ly/4cOoxUT