NYT: "no one has ever thought of teaching ranching at university" Every ag school: um, would you like to meet our cows NYT: "No, not like that. More romantic. More dilletante. Ugh, we're not /farmers/."

I just want to read words. It's a very efficient information delivery system, reading words!

So, here's the deal and why Republicans are trying to destroy higher education. When young people are taught accurate history and also taught to think, a great many come away understanding that conservatism is just racist, misogynist trash.

The Woz said I will not be booed lol I also love the lull of the crowd as they’re trying to figure out where he’s going hahaha (Via: www.instagram.com/reel/DYfgIwo...)

I’m getting news that short sleeve button-up shirts are now sold out across the country

Is AI better at coding than a junior engineer? Maybe! Will we ever have senior engineers if we replace all junior engineers with AI? We will not Is AI better at writing then a 6th grader? Maybe! Will anyone learn to write of all 6th graders use AI? They will not

The evolution of going blind into a @tkingfisher.com book: •Oh, okay period piece…mystery? •Hmm, spooky stuff in the woods? •Uhh •Good LORD ALMIGHTY WHAT THE HELL Anyway, this has been my 5⭐️ review of Wolf Worm - read it

This will be great! Doug Jones is iconic.

A big work call once asked us how likely we were to use the AI tools they had just presented, and then encouraged me to comment on my “not at all” selection. Five minutes of me talking, then “… ok, let’s move on…” Still one of my proudest moments of using my work street cred for good.

Also? If you're freaking out about a virus you actually have to have shit luck to get in most of the world & have to try pretty hard to get where it's endemic, you may want to consider your level of concern about the highly contagious virus that does cumulative damage to every blood vessel you have.

a lot of us learned the hard way that BLUESKY DOES NOT REMOVE YOU FROM THEIR FOLLOWERS IF YOU BLOCK SOMEONE YOU WERE FOLLOWING, it's a two-step process and if you're used to Twitter's soft-block you may not always remember

My checkup today started with my doctor going “I was looking at your chart and saw that you mentioned this one thing at your appointment with someone else” and the way I would suddenly go to war for this woman… (we have an idea and are testing out a solution)

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

A whole university can’t even write a fucking horrible tweet about AI without AI.

I noticed during the pandemic that people most likely to mask, distance, etc. were those people who were already comfortable with discomfort. They'd learned to grieve, or live with a disability, or been marginalised in some way. The people who didn't know how to process discomfort screamed.

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If humanity ends because of a reduction in rape and an increase in women's autonomy then let it fucking choke in the dirt for all I care.

As a Costco aficionado, I would like to share that a * on the top right of a Costco price display indicates the item will no longer be sold there once current stock runs out. The * is your secret cue to buy all of that thing if you love it/need it/want it.

I hate "raising awareness" as a communications strategy because most campaigns stop at that. You have to include action. So now that I know, what do you need me to do and what are you doing? If you stop at "hey this is a problem", that's pointless.

Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Since its been removed, here is the post, because I am not letting people talk about people taking precautions as fun-hating misanthropes

"The universe is stranger and more queer and more wonderful and more full of possibility than whatever limitations you might be experiencing right now" @chanda.blacksky.app www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...

We desperately need to get away from arguments for the humanities that elevate them because of what they do for technology. The humanities should not be understood as service disciplines. They are an extension of us, and that is enough.

‘We aren’t socialists, we’re just better at accounting’ is a killer line.

Stable ecology jobs are few and far between at the moment, but the team I'm on is actually hiring! Come coordinate the third Ohio Bird Atlas! This'll be a 5+ year role, based at Ohio State. Bachelor's degree required (Master's preferred). Please share! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Hear me out: trains

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

For anyone who has a pang at the word “mother”, I send abundant love. Your experience is absolutely valid and you aren’t wrong for feeling it.

Not me, laughing at this for 10 minutes straight.

Personally? I’m gonna make a better world so help me god

Hey. Heyyyy.

My brother in law sent me an article about the hantavirus outbreak along with the message “this is bullshit,” and as I wanted him to have the facts I gently informed him that in actuality hantavirus has much more to do with rat shit.

Happy 9th anniversary to Tom Holland's performance of Umbrella on Lip Sync Battle, a pivotal pop culture moment in history! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

The problem isn't the phones. The problem was never the phones. The problem is that we spent the last six years ignoring Covid in schools, letting kids get infected repeatedly, damaging their brains permanently. We've screwed an entire generation through deadly indifference and can't admit it.

No piece will be over $200. Most won't come close to that.

So, welcome to a thread of stuff that happens at the OB/GYN office that they don’t necessarily provide any pain management for, beyond maybe take a Tylenol or ibuprofen before you come.

I'm not sure why this post is popping off again but the idea that we all like big muscle men who just want to punch misogynists & racists and be competent feels increasingly relevant given the model of ~STRONG MASCULINITY~ this admin favors.

Mask aversion needs to be studied like a clinical phobia.

Started reading @chucktingle.bsky.social's Bury Your Gays this afternoon, and in the first chapter it is established that an enemy of art is AI and then a dude dies a grisly death. A++, excited to continue.

Your AI cover sucks. Hope that helps.

Hollywood has developed a collective eating disorder based around a particular set of medications that almost no one in Hollywood needs, and the result is that a lot of beautiful people now look like they're dying, and culturally, this is going to be so phenomenally destructive, esp for young ppl.

Not sure what universities are supposed to do to win the respect of the right when we’re 3 years into the SCOTUS ban on affirmative action in college admissions and there are still all these viral stories of “this kid with a 1560 SAT score was forced to go to Duke instead of Harvard because of woke”

I'm gonna start mentally replacing "I asked chatgpt" with "I asked grima wormtongue"

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

@greenw77.bsky.social the ducks are back 🦆 👀