I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason? just a wild country

Everything you've been posting over the past 24 hours is completely ahistorical. 161 years after Emancipation, millions of lives have been damaged by the "reconciliation work" of the UDC. The UDC has had real-world material effects on Black Americans and this nation. www.vox.com/videos/2017/...

For those not following Aallyah's reporting, the railroad company, run by the white descendants of slaveowners, is now trying to seize a plot of land where enslaved Black people were forced to work but their descendants managed to buy out. capitalbnews.org/georgia-rail...

An AI bot created by Andon Labs is running its own retail store in San Francisco. The bot has hired a pair of human employees and “has a corporate card, a phone number, email, internet access and eyes through security cameras”. [andonlabs.com]

"I feel helpless."

Spaceman world, caveman problems

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An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US to marry her 1950s sweetheart is being held in a crowded detention centre in Louisiana after she was arrested by immigration agents and cuffed by her hands and feet. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

we need the experimental schools, the wacky places, the schools that don't care about grades or majors, the places that allow/empower students to create their own weird paths, to be weirdos. & yes, we need such education to occur outside/beyond the existing university structures.

As #TPM has progressed in #HigherEd from an acronym college presidents couldn’t even get right, to a staple of their conversations, this is applying to more people than you might think. See the thread 🧵 for a story link and more comments

This should be a no-brainer. For Christ's sake STOP Posting obvious AI-generated political cartoons! Bluesky is awash in this shit these days. There are tons of real live human political cartoonists here, posting terrific work. Repost those. If you're unclear, here's how to spot AI slop:

I've seen respected columnists using AI to add cartoons to their posts. Please stop- first of all, it's garbage. Secondly, most editorial cartoonists would be happy if you included their work with your posts. Just ask them for permission.

No surprise here. But we’re being governed by a nest of Internet trolls who don’t believe in public health, or public health research. So, we’re doomed to wasting resources and time countering specious arguments.

I won't suggest there are no pressures on higher ed, but I want to note this "forecast" comes from a consulting firm that "helps" struggling colleges. These firms don't just have an incentive to be alarmist, their consulting never actually works.

What our tax dollars are funding: a disgusting ICE facility in Arizona packing people “like sardines,” 40+ in rooms built for 21, sleeping on concrete floors, no showers, begging for medical help. Read for more…

We often hear that when you get misinformation from chatbots, there is something you should have/could have done to prompt it better, train it better, be skeptical, etc. But 1)that isn't the case of course; 2)That's not the way people most likely to be harmed are ever going to use these systems.

Could all you #Substack authors take a fresh look at why you’re there with your newsletters or blog posts or whatever they’re called these days I know we all have to choose our online poison, just asking for the periodic review

"AI on your resume" doesn't mean much in this environment, does it? The more you engage with AI, the better you can train it to eliminate your own job, or any job you might strive for. (Needs work, but from my perch in higher ed it sure looks like this for students & staff.) #AI #jobs #careers

We'll do almost anything to avoid building actual trains.

"Unfortunately, the types of people for whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—and whose career trajectories might be most dramatically shifted given freedom from their usual constraints—are infrequently their beneficiaries."

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

AI-driven online disinformation methods designed to create fear and mistrust were perfected by nation-states. Now, they're coming to the business world. www.machinesociety.ai/p/black-traf...

Yes, this. Might as well close the topic now 😏 #StarTrek #writers

People who mandate (as opposed to just advocating for) #AI usage do NOT want to discuss this.

The family's definitely got Lorna’s number… and Johnny’s. #NoirAlley #TCMParty #BadBlonde

As soon as the music got louder than the crickets Johnny was done for #NoirAlley #TCMParty #BadBlonde

Where’d she get all that breakfast in bed hair? Was it there the whole time? OK, possibly I was distracted. #NoirAlley #TCMParty #BadBlonde

Hey… Did she just blow in his ear?? I thought that was just a Laugh-In gag! #NoirAlley #TCMParty #BadBlonde

This excellent thread 🧵 on #disco belies the mythical claim of Bluesky users’ mean age of 38. There may be a few more Boomers and Gen X than people let on. For those who were born too late, my regrets, but check this recent PBS series: www.pbs.org/show/disco-s...

friends it is once again #shoegaze Saturday

Every time

The replies here acknowledge California gas prices, so I’m promoting the OP for that alone 🤨

It was all fun and games arguing about Data as an android with consciousness and self-determination, wasn't it...

Reminiscent of how corporations gained rights before most humans in this country. "By 1912, the court had heard only 28 cases on the 14th Amendment rights of African Americans — and an astonishing 312 cases on the 14th Amendment rights of corporations." Source: www.scotusblog.com/2018/05/ask-...

From here it looks like not even kind of a poll tax, but an actual poll tax. (A commenter at the OP also mentioned this so I'm not "first" but I want to emphasize the point.) #VotingRights #Kansas

I don't RP too many screenshots from other platforms, but hard to resist this one

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Most Saturday mornings, I listen to #SaturdayCinema at least for a while. Today is movie comedies and Lynne Warfel just played "You're the Top"—but I can only think of Little Ritchie singing it on The Dick Van Dyke Show. "You're the Mommy Lisa..." 😅😒😑 www.yourclassical.org/saturday-cin...

what an introductory paragraph!!

Literal decades later (US service academy gender integration began in 1976, ask me how I know) it’s good to have a little research to confirm what we saw and lived through

Not gonna try it till the yuppie gentrified folks get the initial explosions and poisonings out of their systems.

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

Here is what NASA’s Artemis II mission looked like from the trip to the launchpad through the journey around the moon and back.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Guys…

Guys…

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

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