Doesn't feel too out there to say that every hour of work "saved" by AI just becomes someone else's hour of work.

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.

every time you use ai not only are you helping to train the model, but you're doing it for billionaires, and you're doing it for free. objectively a chump.

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Squirrel Girl!

Never in my life have I seen such a perfect depiction of this moment in our history

Paris has transformed more than 300 streets outside schools into pedestrian-only “garden streets,” replacing traffic and parking with trees, benches and light-coloured paving. Torched buff.ly/ILvaxmw #ShareGoodNewsToo

I will always click on a link about Paris greening and pedestrianizing streets! I love thinking about this and I wish every city would do it

I have not willingly gone beneath the burning rays of the sun for longer than necessary in many years, so folks might want to by stock in high SPF sunscreen because I'm about to cause a run on it. 😭 Why sun hot, dislike unsubscribe.

45 years ago Dolly Parton released "9 to 5" and we were all like omg she's so right about ALL of this, and then we just never did anything about it and now we all go to work at 8:00 and feel guilty for being sick that's on us

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

Cats. S m h

Dune Cat Budget Version

We really need to abolish the myth that education isn’t worth the investment. Universities and their students are an economic boon to their local areas and to the country as a whole, no matter what they study. And if anyone thinks humanities are a waste of resource, you’re proving why we need them

Don’t trust someone who doesn’t have VLC on their laptop.

Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.

To lace or not to lace? This magnificent red velvet gown comes with two bodices, one for daytime and the other lace trimmed affair for evening. It has all of the mid #1890s exuberant proportions and the grandness of Worth @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Is that Chekhov’s Gun in your pocket or will you just be pleased to see me later?

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

when u tax the rich

Just in case this isn't clear, there is no company running snorkeling trips to an underwater graveyard. He pushed for this. Multiple government agencies had to coordinate so that he could personally snorkel in the remains of over 900 dead people...for fun.

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

You: please act normal you need people to like you Me: OK! People: hi! Me:

I don't like the format in the first place but right now they are particularly useless. How about some strategy sessions? Skill building workshops? Networking events?

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

All scrolling is doomscrolling if the world sucks enough

I would like to submit: a tablespoon of quail.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

Every time I teach the MOVE bombing, students are shocked. And when I teach the aftermath involving an anthropologist who hoarded some of the remains and used them as teaching tools, they are even more shocked. And I teach in Pennsylvania. Even some students from Philly are unaware of this history

Universities are now the largest employers in many areas. If a University shuts it will decimate the local area as thousands of people lose their jobs and all the businesses that rely on students close. The University sector needs more money (and not through higher fees)

Maybe I was naive but I genuinely didn't realise we had (or would create) a system where the jobs that are predominantly teaching and research are precarious, fixed term and often part time, while the permanent jobs are mostly admin, fund raising & managing other people doing research and teaching.

Idk why everyone is freaking out just cuz we can't grow shit to eat in the US and what we can grow (sugar, chatbots that tell u to kill yourself) is siphoning off so much water that even the wettest place in the US is on fire

I have mentioned before that I am a big proponent of paying dignified wages for simple clean up. I think it serves multiple valuable functions. For one, it keeps things attended to. But also, it makes everyone safer. Improves behavior. Weakens arguments for automated surveillance or police presence.

One thing I’ve confirmed after multiple visits to Japan is that its reputation for having cleaner public spaces is not entirely because people are just littering less in public spaces. They litter less. But they still litter plenty. It’s primarily because someone is paying people to clean up.

there are not enough hours in the day or maybe there are the labor machine just robs us of them all

I reject austerity. There's enough for all of us. I reject the "commonsense" scarcity bullshit espoused sometimes even by people who call themselves Leftists. There's enough for every single person to live in dignity.

jailbreak tricorder

“Why don’t these people worship me? I pay my employees not quite enough money to survive.”

The fantasy of a university that is “cutting edge” without disciplinary basics and does football but not history and produces knowledge first but also profit first and makes expertise but improves nothing and saves the sector by cannibalizing it is incoherent, besides being a project of social harm

I need Hollywood to understand that no matter how badly you bait the nostalgia hook of my 80s childhood, I am not going to watch a movie with Jared Leto in it.

Abolish ICE in its entirety and deny everyone working for them any future government employment.

someone just told me sex scenes are always gratuitous and everyone looks at their phone during them so they should never be shown, and I blocked them because I'm a grown-up who doesn't have to read comments from people who don't even understand the conversation we're having.

I'm sick of not being able to afford rent but being vilified for owning multiple million-dollar properties is bad too I guess

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