Call me old fashioned or just plain old but I do think students need to learn to read, write, edit, and think without gAI BEFORE they ever use the technology. It’s incredibly disheartening to see unions working with tech companies, too, that makes anything you say suspect to me.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

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Don't forget Gaza now, for it is now under the rubble. Gaza now wants you to keep your eyes on it. Gaza loves you, so love her.

Thank you SO SO much, everyone who helped out generously with the struggling folks. I took the ask down because you met the need<3.

I am terrible at promoting my stuff but I must keep trying: I am selling all my collage art for Palestine If you like, let me know

I can absolutely one thousand percent attest to Anne’s legitimacy on this. Help if you’re able.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

#CarsAreWeapons #TrucksAreWorse

Reading is thinking, and afterwards, writing is thinking. Doing an "AI" summary eliminates thinking in both steps. A doc told me some of her colleagues are using "AI" to write their case notes. Her take: oh hell no, because writing the case notes is when you think about the case.

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

Wedding Experts Say Engagement Ring Should Cost At Least Three Diamond Miners’ Lives https://theonion.com/wedding-experts-say-engagement-ring-should-cost-at-leas-1834915832/

It's your birthday, Duane.

A tow truck driver who towed an ICE SUV that was blocking a driveway while the agents kidnapped Angelanos back in September was just found NOT GUILTY on the only charge against him (theft of government property). THAT'S ANOTHER WIN FOR "FUCK YOU; MAKE ME"

Still searching for that elusive organizing niche that doesn't involve awkwardness or asking people to do things. WHY does justice involve so much human interaction🤣??

This is really heartening. We can, in fact, make collective decisions about how or whether we will allow new technologies to be incorporated into the things that we care about. It's not just a fact that we have to deal with.

A lot of people need to learn to do this very clear cut assessment

ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...

With AI systems deployed at schools misidentifying a bag of Doritos and a clarinet for weapons in recent months, I'm resharing my library Against School Surveillance Technologies in case anybody is looking for news stories, peer-reviewed articles, reports, and other media to teach.

ICE is back in marked vehicles. Hiding from us wasn’t working because we stayed on it. Now they want to intimidate us by putting it right out in the open. Don’t be scared of this shit. They are weak, soft, and they don’t know what they’re doing. Stay on it.

Yes. Yes. Yes. It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We don't know if she obstructed federal agents—but we know that doing so is more important than any law. Laws and courts are not inherently just. They simply reflect the balance of power within the state. Sometimes, even a judge has the backbone to do what is right. crimethinc.com/becomeananar...

Unless you are an ICE agent. You, sir, are an apex predator who isn’t a pussy. You don’t need to be careful on the roads or sidewalks at all

If you do not support trans people - by actively dedicating your time and money (if you have it) and voice to their cause - you are a failure of morality and humanity and you are not just a bystander but a culpable participant in one of the most violent attempts at eugenics of our time.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

"I can tell you that Melissa Hortman would be pissed off if her murder meant more to you than, say, the killing of a homeless vet in downtown Minneapolis. But the dead don’t get to make that call." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

5 $20 hola arepa gift cards cover a lot of people and gives hola arepa $100. If you want to give one person more than $20, pair it with another gift card to another place. Throw em out like Oprah!

Pick your favorite restaurant impacted by loss of workers or foot traffic because of ICE. Buy gift cards from them and give it to those people you don’t know what to give (preschool teacher, cleaner, neighbors who helped one time). Gives the biz $ today and customers later

The Egg & I restaurant in St Paul has a pop up store on its foyer with fun stocking stuffer items from local artists. Worth a visit!

Please Do Not Release Any More Epstein Files, They Are Not Important, by A Guy In The Epstein Files

CW/mute advice for today. I try not to share much unmitigated rage bait. But I have made rejecting David Brooks's whole insidious neoliberal fascism apologia thing part of my politics and personality for over half of my middle-aged life, so today I will not be following my own social media rules.

I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

Brooks wrote this column in 2011, the same year he was pictured with Epstein in the photos released today by Dems Let’s All Feel Superior www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/o...

Hey trans friends? Get off the Internet today. Truly. Go eat something yummy and do something that brings you joy

This headline is worse than misleading; it is actively false. No one is proposing to end gender-affirming health care for cisgender youth.

Not for everyone…maybe some children’s art encompassing a card or note explaining dollars were given to community in the gift recipient’s name. Community: Targeted Neighbors, Families, Businesses Unhoused Neighbors. GFMs & Venmos shared on social media. Disabled Folks (often on socials also). Etc.

OK, MPLS. Let's brainstorm about buying last-minute gifts (or all of theml It's been a busy 16 days!) in ways that support businesses that aren't getting customers...NOT looking for specific locations here (though if you know some, share them on Signal with me?). But more ways to approach this.

OK, MPLS. Let's brainstorm about buying last-minute gifts (or all of theml It's been a busy 16 days!) in ways that support businesses that aren't getting customers...NOT looking for specific locations here (though if you know some, share them on Signal with me?). But more ways to approach this.

Guy really gives away the game here that this isn't about "children" when he straight up says that trans adults aren't real.

Community is literally keeping community safe. Thank you all everyone who is a part of this work meant to keep our immigrant community safe. I see the way you show up, defend, and respond in the midst of this federal occupation of our city.

Now unlocked: @dreanyc123.bsky.social returns to discuss how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people they care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm @interruptcrim.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/6f5nCoDvSKOJ...

ICE voodoo doll found in New Orleans. Get those bastards by any means necessary! Get spirit on this!

To me the guiding question has to be: What is a politics that is directed and singularly focused at the source of people's pain and suffering? - That is not a question of interest to the abundance Dems or the fascists.

It feels like I've run out of things to say about the Democrats. When we're almost a full year into this and they're still voting for Trump's nominees, I'm not sure how you can make the case that the party is salvageable.

Yikes on bikes

all the articles you read about this will say it "would charge doctors" but there is nothing in the bill limiting the felony crime to medical providers. you could write "would charge parents" and be just as correct. news outlets downplay it because news outlets are transphobic.