I just tried to think of a gender neutral word for “king” and my brain forgot the words ‘ruler’ or ‘monarch’ and decided on “thing”

🆕 The Pursuit Of Smartfulness #swordscomic

oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.

Absolutely inexcusable.

why do nerds suddenly appear every time I post here

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

So. We had a drippy tap and the spindle was broken so I couldn't just fix it. My partner suggested we get a new vanity if we are getting a plumber in, because we hated the old giant vanity. Let's do it I said feeling brave and clever. 🧵

Alysa Liu ❤️ trans rights

1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people. This time, it comes from Jesse Singal. I fact check it in my latest piece. End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Breaking MS NOW: An ICE whistleblower is expected to testify at a congressional forum today that the agency is "lying to Congress and the American people" about its training of new recruits. Ryan Schwank was an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month.

FUCK. GAVIN. NEWSOM. Bookmark this video 🔖 He’s even regretting the most progressive thing he’s done! He’s always been a Republican. Now he’s a far right one. Believe him when he tells you who he is, over & over. He wants to roll back everyone’s rights. Hence his Nazi guest’s on his podcast.

Just hand over your net ID and password....you know, the same log in information that accesses everything else on campus. No potential security issues there.

wait this rocks thanks bluesky

Cries in lecturer. What is going to happen here is that this is going to force attendance and videos and slides won't be put on canvas anymore. Severely disadvantaging disabled students and students and lecturers with immune problems. Hopefully IT departments will ban it.

what even is the fucking point

Anthropic was supposed to be the "good" one, right?

On anthropomorphizing language about AI, I'm pleased to say that this paper with @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman is finally out in the world! firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... >>

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

I really like that he said this made me tear up a little.

Just got this from a record swap and I’m having the time of my LIFE

Let’s play a game. Which of these are data centers, and which are ICE detention centers?

The Gen X urge to wonder: Did I whip it good?

hey yo i wrote a reported culture essay for @motherjones.com about solarpunk it was incredibly fun talking to a bunch of solarpunk thinkers and artists! the magazine commissioned some lovely art for it too le voila: www.motherjones.com/environment/...

A lesson in how RCTs can be gamed to get them to say what you want🥴

I could write for days, months, years. I could read decades of sci-fi from the most annoying Golden Age authors. I could peruse the most cringe things on TikTok. And still, I could never come up with the deeply embarrassing things Sam Altman says on any given Tuesday

18/20 on my phone doing it quickly. But in my defense fact checking is what I do, and I think I am already on this registry and in this study. Both as a faceblind person and a “super matcher” The AI is styleGAN2, I am 90% sure.

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

This is good, but I'm still requesting that he excommunicate Vance

Perdue banning all Chinese students just for national origin. No other reason. The Harper's Letter crowd must be crafting a humdinger of a new letter over this one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

question: is the editor who signed off on this digital art a homophobic middle schooler

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I guess I'm changing my class on computer vision again to talk even more about the state of surveillance. wheee. Last year I had them all check their faces against an age verification system (that doesn't store data) and they were shocked, can't wait to show them what persona and flock are doing.

"IP addresses, browser fingerprints, device fingerprints, government ID numbers, phone numbers, names, faces, and even selfie backgrounds are analyzed and retained for up to three years." I'm so glad all this technology is keeping our children safe (heavy sarcasm)

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning. www.therage.co/persona-age-...

"No one could have predicted such a thing!, said the executives of a university with a world-class public health school, whose faculty had spent years predicting just such a thing." This is beautifully written and cuttingly acerbic.

GOOD FOR HIM people.com/farmer-86-re...

Just remember, death is more scared of you than you are of it.

they're literally selling indulgences

My mentor, hero and friend.

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

One of the things that drives me crazy is everyone thinking that all AI is the same and therefore all AI is terrible. Generative AI is the enemy. We have many AI models that do what they do well. Ai moderation, medical AI systems that are running predictions, finding early cancers and vaccines.

Amplifying this. AI is a very large field encompassing many technologies and areas of research, many of which are very practical. Generative AI is absolute, undeniable garbage that's destroying the environment in order to distort reality.

Maybe this will be my next area of exploration. This year I am exploring the death of AI, maybe next year I can explore what happens next. Small, ethical models trained to do one thing well, running efficiently. Open source. Full fairness, accountability and transparency. What does that look like?