ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful. Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least. It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people. And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.

House would've solved this in 10 minutes tops. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

There are many reasons the Blue Jays lost, but to me the most memorable will be Vlad swinging for the fences on a 3-0 pitch trying to be Joe Carter.

Blackface that exists without any actual human behind the makeup is a special kind of dystopian phenomenon

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

Also, a lot of the hypothetical use cases people bring up about LLMs and writing assume that creative writing can be compartmentalized into high-level conceptual tasks and more rote tasks that you can farm out without losing anything substantial. This is absolutely not how writing works.

Hey #comics fans, ever wondered why the #X-men were so insistent on creating a mutant language after founding Krakoa? Take a look at this brilliant new essay from @erikas.online: campanthropology.org

ICE has fired tear gas and pepper balls at protesters outside their Broadview facility. They are terrorizing immigrants across Chicagoland. The time to resist is now. It will only get harder as authoritarianism tightens its grip. Please pay attention to this struggle.

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

My latest newsletter is all about how to be a resilient writer in the face of career setbacks, ego death and creeping fascism. I offer 17 handy tips on how to hang onto yourself and keep going when the challenging times just don't seem to stop. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Were I not already married (or way more polyamorous than I am), I would MARRY this author for saying the world's most sensible things about fertility policy. What if we focused on unsustainable consumption rather than population numbers? What if we talked about migration more? THANK YOU.

Home Run Derby now feels like a 1920s time-motion study. It's Taylorism: players forced to maximize efficiency so much they can barely breathe between swings. As a result they're totally alienated from the products of their labor -- can't even admire the homers they send sailing into the night sky.

Target is doubling down on the dipshittery for some reason.

Not only is it more energy efficient to simply not use AI, but it's also better to not use AI for literally every other reason, too! Critical thinking skills are down, reading and writing capabilities are down, AND the earth is on fire because you wanted a picture of yourself in studio ghibli style.

It’s Framing Friday! Wherein I give the internet a little 101 lecture on “framing”—the kind of word people love to throw around in analyses of media, but that actually has an important and specific meaning in social science that you should know about! So have a thread 🧵1/

The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:o552q7al7o5fxdy54y4pk2hz/post/3lo734wttc22s. Powered by @skywriter.blue

One thing I'm deducing from the whole "eat like great-grandma did" discourse is that The Jungle fell off the high school syllabus at some point and we should put it back.

let us not lose sight of the fact that, having just become the first American president to lose a Canadian election, Donald Trump has a good chance on Saturday to become the first American president to lose an Australian election

We live super close to a Target and it used to be our destination of choice for things like toilet paper and cleaning supplies, but there are other places.

ultimately the question is not is Donald Trump popular but can you organize the anger against him in a way that matters

ICE did this to US citizens: “I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” she said. “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️

Hey everyone take a look at this awesome piece on what the US would need to do if it actually wants to increase its population, courtesy of my partner, the inestimable @erikas.online: www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-cant-b...

Here's the thing: Wikipedia is basically a bunch of community written synthesis papers. It requires reputable sources to back up every single claim. LLMs often hallucinate and misinterpret data because it is incapable of recognizing context. To it, The Onion and peer reviewed docs are both valid.

"Doesn't he have anything better to do than talk about trans people?" is the funniest fucking reaction Singal could have had

Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

this is awesome and Equity Arc sounds like a terrific org

do you remember five years ago when a decent chunk of the populace was like “hey we should build a society where Black people are not murdered with impunity by police, we should pay nurses more, and we should care for our sick?” This is the punishment for having dared to think those things

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

Fed friends: we are aware that some HHS employees are being targeted for their public service in DEI and health equity. Now is a good time to ensure you are comfortable with the privacy status of your public profiles, including LinkedIn.

The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Along with physically going to the Treasury, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee (Durbin) should refer the matter to the DOJ for investigation and formally request that the FBI arrest Musk. When DOJ declines on orders from Trump, explain the gravity of this to the American people.

Princeton-area scientists, there will be a teach-in, Tuesday February 4, 4:30-6:30pm, to give everyone basic knowledge on what is happening to science, to individual rights, and to the federal government. Target audience: faculty, graduate students, postdocs, staff. In-person only. Ask around.

Every month we hold a Zoom to discuss David Graeber's ideas. The next one will be on February 12th and discuss Anarchism & anthropology! For those interested, you can register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I have so many other things I want to scream about how fucking useless the Democrats are and how they’re frankly knowing collaborators because they just want to hang on to their money and power and how THERE IS NO OPPOSITION PARTY but what even is the fucking point anymore.

Here’s President Petro’s response to Trump (in English). It’s wild! “I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength & your arrogance…But I will die in my law, I resisted torture & I resist you.”

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

Freezing scientific funding isn’t abstract. In medicine, life or death is often dictated by time. Temporary delays can cause great harm.

Of course they did. publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/bird-fl...

My new article on VD destigmatization campaigns is out! Give it a read for some insights into how early twentieth century US doctors tried (and largely failed) to combat the idea that syphilis was the "wages of sin." doi.org/10.1017/mdh....

We work w/ orgs that foster opportunities for inclusive #storytelling. As evaluators of @filmindependent.org's “Global Media Makers” project, we’re learning how cultural exchange programs help filmmakers from across the world tell their stories to domestic + international audiences. bit.ly/3ZFuc7v

Hi, we're Knology, a non-profit #socialscience #research org that works w/ #media creators, #libraries, #museums, #community groups, and others to create tools + resources professionals can use to deepen their impacts, advance public conversation, and open new pathways to action. www.knology.org

Kim A. Keck is the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, a $1.75 billion company. She received a $1.2 million bonus in 2020, up 47% from her 2019 bonus of $827,000.

literally everyone i know is getting covid rn and there's a massive covid surge sweeping the nation. PLEASE MASK