*** NEW RESEARCH *** Images of ICE targeting US cities have been commonplace in since January 2025. What's the economic effect of this new immigration enforcement regime on businesses, both workplaces and retailers, in targeted areas? Thread... 🧵

I remember fights on Twitter where so many journalists told us there was simply no way for them to cite scholars when they were reproducing their research. The tech didn't exist/readers wouldn't like it. I knew it was BS but it's been grim to see how much "credit is for suckers" drives some people.

Author of over 80 novels, Michael Moorcock is perhaps best known for his creation Elric of Melniboné, one facet of the Eternal Champion... Read more: goodman-games.com/michael-moor...

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

Wrote about the proliferation of metaphors of "empire" and "colonialism" to describe digital capitalism and what it might get wrong about both empires and digital capitalism. I suggest there are three missing Cs: comprador, creole, counter-colonization. www.theideasletter.org/essay/digita...

👇🎯💯 America's public universities are the Freaking Wonders Of The Modern World. Literally, the single greatest institutions in the entire country. Maybe the NYT could write about that once in a while. And we should <all together now> Fund. Them. Like. We. Used. To. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Thursday afternoon, millions of students at thousands of universities and K-12 schools were locked out of Canvas, a piece of catch-all education technology software that has become the de facto core of many classes. www.404media.co/the-biggest-...

All of these things--casualization of academic labor, censorship, the insistence that academic research of any kind can be done by AI--are part of a longer project of devaluing academic work, especially in the humanities. You only work this hard to DEvalue something if it's valuable--and a threat.

Libraries have been in this shitty position for a long time (go read the Wikipedia article on LexisNexis). It’s been a not insignificant factor in our push for OER/open access publishing (green/gold/diamond)

👀 “Article VI, Section 9, of the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature unlimited authority to set the retirement age for judges.” Virginia law provides VA Dems a simple solution to overturn the state’s rogue scotus’s redistricting ruling - retire it - and then appoint a new one.

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

If you're about to come into my mentions to say "they voted for this" go fuck yourself instead. Iowa farmland was shockingly full of Harris signs last election. You're mad at smalltown white voters who are farm-adjacent, not the people who Trump fucked in his first term and voted against him.

"NOW who has the high ground?!" Happy #RevengeOfThe5th !

the biggest tech companies in the world are endorsing a new bill that would shove AI onto kids in school www.404media.co/literacy-in-...

Bert and Ernie should have their own show. I don't want to have to watch Sesame Street to see what they're up to. I'm not 5

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

wait has one guy in nebraska been thanklessly maintaining the strait since 2003?

Its so sad that politicians seem either intent on ignoring or pretending they don't understand what the educational sector needs as students have to contend with the impact of gAI on their futures. Learning to type prompts into the LLM or editing the LLM's outputs are not serious educational goals.

I guess I should explain this. Some animals glow. Some other animals glow, but only under certain light. Here a wild Eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus) is glowing under UV light in this case. This is the first imagery of its kind in the wild.

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

In January, when the U.S. removed Maduro from power, a new freer future become possible. But 4 months later, Venezuela's political prisoners are still waiting behind bars. Gloria traveled 200 miles to protest outside the prison where her son has been held for six years.

I don't know if any graphic designers, game devs, or whomever are really needing fonts right now but what about over $1200 fonts you can use for whatever, available for $19 this month of May? Not my project, but boosting because SO USEFUL

It feels like the Washington Post might've wanted this post to make people angry, but the response, even on FB, was overwhelmingly positive.

I think it was an open secret that Russia laundered conservative propaganda cash through Hungary to Euro and US conservative groups and media.

Chicago made it so every public school student can use their school ID as a #LibraryCard 📚. No forms, no extra steps. It gives over 300k students instant access to #books, #tutoring, and online resources 🙌

I actually don't! I just decided I was going to see this one through no matter what it did to my brain. I was tired of this specific fuckery.

"... heavy AI use in manuscripts is not random, but tracks institutional incentives. Authors at schools where counting publications matters most are the ones leaning hardest on the machines." www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

So @brianbeutler.bsky.social's stuff is always good but this is a proposal I legit really wish party leadership would act on. Good for the goose, gander, etc. open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

"Tolkien can write about his characters exploring the Mines of Moria, and it’s thrilling, surprising, entertaining, and more. But it’s not the same kind of narrative an RPG group creates if they explore a dungeon..." Monte Cook talks about Dungeon Design! montecook.substack.c...

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.

Happy #WorldTapirDay 🏵️ fey edition 🏵️

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Earnestly for one second. Journos in that room should spend today contemplating what it’s like for American schoolchildren who deal with much much much more dangerous incidents and threats of incidents and write about THAT. And Republican inaction on THAT.

Monte Cook on dungeon design, Gygaxian feedback, and shaping the $5 PDF www.rascal.news/monte-cook-o...

Sigh, every time I go to Costco with my wife for one or two things I end up with some new project like a raised bed or a pergola or having to massacre all the Jedi.

"A lot of people who kind of know what masking means but are neurotypical don’t understand how not voluntary or even conscious masking is most of the time. " Article: buff.ly/0kMx3bs

Hi I’m Alex goldman and I host a podcast called @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social that is like long form documentary journalism. If you’ve ever listened to Reply All before it’s sorta like that cuz I used to host that too. I’m asking you if you like the show to please share with your friends.

I've been busy painting on Magic the Gathering artist proofs for the upcoming Magic Con in Las Vegas. These are rendered at a level of finish I've never offered before and are painted in the same medium (acryla gouache) that the original illustrations were done. More details and images to come!🎨

I too aspire to have an API limit and for you to either pay me more to keep working, or wait until after I've had a nap

Trump is *an* antichrist, if not the eschatological one. He basically propose to Christians is political/military dominance over the world they’ll bow down to him

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2090...

As an Illinois resident, I say hell no. "OpenAI is throwing its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious societal harms."

Women over 45 are having *more* babies. Women over 40 are having *more* babies. Women over 35 are having *more* babies. Stop letting racists tell you that this is a bad thing. Pay women aged 21 to 34 if you want them to have more babies. Don't say "We tried that!🤡" No you didn't. Pay more.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Another fun spot I got to visit in Lake Geneva is the public library which recently installed an Appendix N section, with many books that inspired D&D or were based on the game. The Reading Throne was very comfy while reading some Jack Vecna I MEAN VANCE! :) #lakegenevawisconsin

One of the fun goodies you can get at the museum is the Adventurer’s Map of Lake Geneva, which gives you some of the town’s historical spots in a familiar RPG format. I tracked down the Gygax memorial bench and got a great view of the Stone Manor across the frozen lake. #lakegenevawisconsin

I recently had a chance to visit Lake Geneva and I got to see the newest exhibit at the museum, ‘The Wizard of Lake Geneva’ about Gary Gygax and the history of D&D. #lakegenevawisconsin