Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

It’s true that social media ‘isn’t real life’ but it’s also to true that a lot of people are using social media to be who they really are

they ran on no more wars and are now pitching global conquest. they ran on protecting kids and are now paid subscribers to a deep fake kiddie porn generator. a competent opposition party would find a way to use this to their advantage

Generative AI is an engine for churning out contaminated information faster than people can produce safe information, let alone fact check and correct it. And corrections never remove the original contamination, it's an attempt to stem the metaphorical bleeding and hope for the best. 11/

Philadelphia! Where can I go acquire a notebook that will fix my whole life, perhaps by overpaying??

The future of America is everyone’s problem, but mainly Ireland’s, because we have the largest natural surplus of annoying people who legally qualify for citizenship due to having a grandparent who got the fuck out of there.

I spend so much time reading ingredient lists now because it keeps getting introduced to foods/brands that I'm used to eating safely

good news: every professor on bluesky is about to make you a syllabus

so fun fact I learned tonight the US produces 10-15 million barrels of oil a day

If there is one lesson that history has taught us, it's that invading a country with a lot of ice and an entire culture built around living in snow always goes well for the invading force

imagine telling yourself on january 6, 2021 that five years from now things would be so much worse

This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.

It's important to remember that Donald Trump lies constantly, but this is Donald Trump declaring that he has used the United States military to extort Venezuela into giving him $1.7-2.7 billion for his personal use.

Yeah. This stuff is about as unconstitutional as it is possible for a thing to be

Precedents like this render him immune from future gov’t shutdowns. He doesn’t need the legislature’s funds if he can create massive slush funds for himself by looting foreign nations and extorting US companies. He’s achieving escape velocity from our system & Congress is just watching.

not to go all identity politics but I think it’s also because the victims are women

Dismantling USAID was probably the biggest and most successful attack on American intelligence apparatus in history.

"to the neoliberal university, a tenured professor is just some jerk taking up a valuable adjunct line" (I regret that I didn't say lineS but what can you do) contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a...

Every AI idea is either "make it nonconsensual" or "own a little human of your own"

I know that this is about the sciences and maybe things are different there but this sure did not pan out for the humanities.

I think it is easy to say that the restraint shown by Capitol police that day was one of the most impressive feats of policing ever and also that if that crowd had been any other group of people it would in fact have been a massacre.

Need recommendations for gentle shows like Detectorists and All Creatures, please and thank

Today is one of those days where I’m struck anew by how *bad* the internet has gotten. It’s almost unusable. Clouds, apps, advertising — nothing is where it should be and it’s nigh impossible sometimes to do basic tasks online.

Heer is yore regular remindor to remembor to drenk yore wottors! !!

From my lab notebook on this day 5 years ago. A 5 minute wash got a little extended thanks to insurrection. #Jan6 #NeverTrump #science

In the wake of all the news coming out of the US and the amount of shouting at the TV I've done, I thought everyone else might benefit from one of my favourite photos from 2017 to break up the doom scrolling. I cannot fix the big things, so here's a small thing.

lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"

Pajamas are underrated. It's nice to put on a little outfit just for going to bed.

my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.

The levels of grift in the hate-your-body economy continue to reach for new levels of creative destruction with the onset of GLP-1s. I’m watching them spin up a “loose skin” panic in real time. I’m not sure America can exist without the idea that bodies must be punished.

"did you try to bribe the president of the united states by giving him your nobel peace prize so he will declare that you are in charge of venezuela after abducting its leader by military force" is just a thing that someone can be asked in an interview now and we all have to deal with that

lol when women challenge the indignity of sexualization even in the most trivial or gentle ways, men absolutely piss themselves.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Bro all I wanted was a small backyard

Five years ago.

this is the second most insulting package i have ever read in my life. fuck you, ritz. who do you take me for? i will house a sleeve in one sitting or not at all

When you uncheck Smart Features, all email sorting ends. Google changing Gmail’s BASIC sort functions just to force everyone to let Google train off your emails is insane levels of corporate self harm, rivaled only by Microslop This however is the kick I need to get off gmail l, because screw this!

can't wait for the customary wednesday and thursday break for the third week in a row

all i'm saying is if I was the EU and I had a dozen highly competent intelligence agencies I would be having those bastards leak every horrible piece of shit they have on everyone in trump world 24/7 right now

No, this cannot possibly be. I was told that we were not allowed to do large-scale, non-universal redistribution, because it was unaffordable, unfair, un-American, fraught with moral hazard, & fiscally irresponsible. Oh, so that only applies to student loan debt relief? 🤔 bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Starting to understand how he bankrupted those casinos

The lesson that we are being taught here (among others) is that borders are only for some people and not others

If the biggest donor to the DCCC/DNC ran a website where you could use AI to take women's clothes off I feel like there'd be a demand for Dems to give the money back.

100% thought this said "librarians" and that was a whole different scenario

probably bc it looked sick as hell

Parent and pediatrician here. All vaccines are still available & recommended. Talk to your pediatrician for more info. Know this: Even as our government shifts its recommendation language, I would never forgo the RSV, hepatitis A & B, or meningitis vaccines for my own kids.

neither pro-Stancil nor anti-Stancil, but a secret pro-third thing (going outside)

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

But the scariest was coming across images taken of women in the street, digitally stripped by Grok. Thought you could keep yourself safe by never, ever posting a picture online? Forget it. Anyone with a phone who walks or drives past you can create pornography of you now.