the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast. They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

[neigh] [whinny]

On days like this, I’ll bet Claire Shipman wishes she’d stayed at the news desk

NYT with these, as reliable as the annual April 14 stories about filing your taxes. Change one detail and go to press

Jen Psaki and Gavin Newsom just danced all the way around his remarks in Atlanta the other day, without actually talking about what he meant by the remarks. They got a couple of digs in about the GOP’s take, though. Is that good enough?

My department colleague Todd Shaw on how rare it is for a Black American to lie in state at the South Carolina State House, as the Reverend Jesse Jackson will be on Monday.

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Remember when Trump yanked funds from Mississippi after learning that the state's welfare chief had directed millions in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to sports celebrities, including not only Brett Favre, but the Million Dollar man and his two pro-wrestler sons? Wait. He didn't.

Democrat Scott Harriman just won a special election in Lewiston to fill a vacant seat in the Maine House. Harriman defeated Republican Janet Beaudoin by a vote margin of 572 to 503. Harriman's victory means that Democrats will have a narrow, three-seat advantage over Republicans in the House.

Adored this conversation with @cyberthread.bsky.social and @johnkane.bsky.social on their Tea for Teaching podcast, about my NSF-funded work with @michelellemons.bsky.social aimed at improving learning & equity in biology edu (and beyond) www.podbean.com/media/share/...

All your bots are belong to US if you don't play ball, DoD tells Anthropic

“As tech giants force-feed AI inevitability marketing and trumpet the technology’s supposed benefits to society, a robust AI-resistance movement has emerged in response.”

I’ve come to realize people think slurs are just words that hurt our feelings. No. Slurs, particularly the N-word, F-word, antisemitic terms etc. aren’t taboo because of that. It’s because historically when these terms are said they precede or pair with pitchforks, torches, lynchings & gas chambers.

Commending @posters-madness.bsky.social and all involved in Tuesday night’s alternative #SOTU (I was doing caregiving and couldn’t divert attention, but the nation turns its lonely eyes to you! And I’ll seek out the recording)

I’m not looking forward to the “Nobody warned us“ hand-wringing to come, either

While there's some o' that well-known #SCOTUS nuance and complexity beneath the ruling, the gist of it is USPS not having to deliver mail based on race. There MIGHT be a #CivilRights pathway for relief, but probably not till 2029, I imagine. #BlackHistoryMonth continues apace! sigh...

This is a really key thing that people are just not getting: "VC" is simply *not venture capital* anymore. There is ZERO risk for A16Z and peers. They do not resemble the thing that regulators described when creating the category of venture capital. A cartel of ~4 firms runs the whole industry.

That'll work.

In the not-so-distant future I foresee such a monumental backlash about invasive tech like this. I reckon we'll get to a point where recording devices of any kind will be prohibited in various private and public locations. Maybe even Faraday cage type devices to prevent any network comms.

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Tonight is gonna be fun indeed, if this is the morning

Watching AI influencers and marketing consultants destroy themselves is the craziest thing youtube.com/shorts/SUF_I...

@maddow.bsky.social has spent half her first segment on who the #DesignatedSurvivor might be for Tuesday’s #SOTU, but I wonder if Kiefer Sutherland is really available

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

“Hard work” and “constant work” are not the same thing, and it’s a social sickness that we exist in a system that has deliberately conflated them to convince us to reject our own humanity

Been reading Rest Is Resistance, and it’s important for people to understand that extreme work environments are actively evil and not merely exhausting

Sheesh of the Day, maybe not for the whole week, it’s early yet 🤨

LLM devs are replicating the same Fatal mistake that sm devs made, only a WORSE outcomes: “The rush to put out autonomous [AI] agents w/out thinking too hard about the potential downside is entirely consistent with technology industry norms.” — @espiers.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

If only we treated racism as an indication of unfitness for ANY law enforcement position.

US stocks fall as software sell-off reignites ft.trib.al/y3h8FJO

“Sell it to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?” is the most important economic text of any of our lifetimes

How safe are autonomous vehicles, really? In @bloomberg.com, I got into the weeds with David Kidd of the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (@iihs-hldi.bsky.social) His conclusion: “It’s still too early to say with any kind of confidence that they are safer than human drivers overall.” 🧵

With #NoirAlley on hiatus for a few Saturdays while TCM fawns over the Oscars®, I should get my live-posting fix on Sunday with #monsterdon (yes, one of the few known good uses of the fediverse) This week's entry is the oddball #DoctorWho entry starring Peter Cushing: Dr. Who and the Daleks!

The hind legs look like long-necked critters staring at us and… that is disturbingly OK

Simply an amazing article on a frustrating and dehumanizing period in the US military. Thank you @npr.org for this stellar reporting. www.npr.org/2026/02/21/n...

When I was like 23 I had a coworker who told me, "would you rather be right or effective" and it rewrote my brain. And a lot of people on here would rather the moral victory than the practical one. And frankly, it's gross.

Started wondering about #NoirAlley #TCMParty and just realized it’s on hiatus for Oscars month. See y’all when we recommence! 🫠🙃

Going after Susan Rice is really just one more instance of going after Black women during Black History Month. See also: Public universities dropping their relationships with The Links, Inc. #BHM #misogynoir

Watch your local & county backs

New Hampshire doing a big #HoldMyBeer to prove they can be harder on kids than Florida, Texas, et al. #K12

Metaphor of the Week right here

Definitely a fitting and proper use of Bluesky 😅😅😅😅

[before clicking through] Because a well-placed blog post accelerates & redirects an entire AI into an iceberg when you do it right?

Phrase of the moment: "the end of thinking" harpers.org/archive/2026...

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Don’t mind me, I’m just a retired veteran looking ahead to see what’s up on our 250th

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