"I said, 'Why don't we just capture the ship? Why did we sink them?' He said, 'it's more fun to sink them.'" Oh, no biggie. Just the president of the United States out there boasting about the commission of war crimes, to the uproarious laughter of his Nazi cohort.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor”—Tupac

"This bill doesn't make us safer. It makes our campus an unpredictable space where the threat of violence is always part of the curriculum."

The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

My wife says I like The Pitt because "where else do you see competent people in positions of authority trying to help?"

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The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Unfortunately I'm being proven right

Gemini told him to commit an act of terrorism at the Miami airport to intercept a delivery of a large humanoid robot body for it, telling him to "to stage a “catastrophic accident”, with the goal of “ensuring complete destruction of the transport vehicle … all digital records and witnesses"

The fundamental problem with genAI is EVERYTHING it does is role play Ask it to add numbers and it acts like how it thinks a calculator acts Tell it to write u a CV and it acts like how it thinks LinkedIn acts Tell it you're going to blow up an airport to get it a body & guess what it says good

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings. This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

Stay focused. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Seems worth noting that ChatGPT Health failed to identify medical emergencies more than half the time in a recent study. The company that made that product just signed a deal with the "Department of War" and said trust us, it's all very safe and ethical.

Students feel like they can’t enroll in majors like Af-Am Studies and WGSS because they’re getting messages from all sides that they’re not remunerative. And yet they desperately want the knowledge, so classes are full. That seems to be the situation everywhere.

Wow. This is so unhinged that this is necessary.

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2070...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

holding a press conference to announce an illegal shakedown intended to punish a state who has refused to bow to them i think they lose this, and probably quickly, fwiw

They lie about the fraud they are doing, and then lie about the fraud everyone else is (not) doing. They want to destroy the civil service to make it easier for their buddies to steal those funds and get tax cuts. While our neighbors lose housing and go hungry.

Way too many people think explaining that being against AI alt text is about having too high of standards for alt text and it's not because they're not high standards. They're normal standards.

I am so fucking sick of explaining to people why AI alt text is not actually a solution to promote. It's because it's a machine and doesn't actually understand things.

“Insisting on technical precision when it matters can help us resist the easy idea that AI is a helper, ready to assist. Instead we must keep our focus on the uncomfortable thought that these systems partly and covertly structure what we say, think and learn.”

There's no reason at all to watch the *state of the union* tomorrow unless it's your job to do so.

Might be a good time to remember that each of us is profoundly annoying to someone.

I need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.

I guess we weren't clear when we told the DOJ to release ALL of the Epstein files. So, let's try this again:

No food, no fuel, no tourists: Under US pressure, life in Cuba grinds to a halt www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/a...

There's been a decline in known serial killers over the last 30 years and I've long suspected they joined law enforcement and, uh.... well...

White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Why wouldn't they, he fits all qualifications and job requirements in this administration.

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans used to get big mad when social media companies censored users' posts. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

In case you were wondering what one of the major lines of attack on AOC will be in 2028, it won't be about Taiwan or populism but about her belief that Israel isn't entitled to free and unlimited military assistance from the US

I have a paper coming out soon that (among other things) details how SSA has become more hostile to immigrant claimants and those in mixed status families. But this is several steps more horrifying. Like, honestly kinda shocked, and I’m hard to shock.

NEW: SSA has been told to tell ICE the "date and time" when certain people have appointments, likely subjecting those people to ICE enforcement actions when they come in. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, & @leahfeiger.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/social...

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party supported by JD Vance and Elon Musk, are now looking to ICE in the US for inspiration and saying Germany needs an ICE of its own. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

‪Job! Technician for the Book Arts & Letterpress Lab with Karen Zimmerman and the School of Art's 2D Print Studio at the University of Arizona arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Your regular reminder that almost every single poll of the self-ID'd Democratic electorate since Jan 2025 has shown that the maximum bloc of Dem voters who support an increase to US military aid to Israel is <10%. Oftentimes it is literally below 5%.

A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

First Aid For ICE Response [February 22, 12-4pm, Long Island City, NYC] - a micro street medic training (4 hours instead of the traditional 20) for anyone who might encounter state violence, incl people showing up on the ground in response to ICE kidnappings. RSVP for address at bit.ly/FAFIR0222.

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.

Geospatial mapping 🗺️ is incredibly useful for public health We can see where disease is (and isn't), then dig deeper into why For example, if we don't see 🧊 activity in one part of the map - is it truly ☀️ or do people care less about reporting: www.icemap.dev/

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

An amazing critique of Bowen and Watson's "Teaching with AI"

A great opportunity to gather with like-minded folks focused on active learning!