A prominent narrative asks: Are skills keeping up with the speed of innovation? Sometimes I think we need to ask instead whether innovation is keeping up with the speed of skills and knowledge - including slow, hard-won wisdom.

Medical misinformation more likely to fool AI if source appears legitimate, study shows www.reuters.com/business/hea... If AI can be fooled, how trustworthy is it?

a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate' www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

1994 and 1995. Just saying.

“Scholarly attention has rightly focused on the forced reproduction of enslaved Black women, but that focus need not come at the expense of understanding the position of enslaved Black men, who were also denied sexual autonomy, including the ability to choose with whom they would have children.”

"This is not only about "data privatization." It is a struggle over who gets to know, in detail, how climate risks are distributed and changing—and therefore who gets to prepare, to profit, and to decide" #philsci 🧪

A spate of acquisitions were announced this week includes works by famed outsider artist William Hawkins and early 20th-century realist George Bellows.

📣Bookings now open! 👉Celebrating 50 years of the Social History Society with our 'Festival of Social History' @ihr.bsky.social Panels, zine-making stall, tours, lunch, a roundtable, & keynote by Naomi Tadmor 📅 24 Apr 2026 💷 from £10 for members All welcome! socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...

I heard about a killing of a Black man in DC by US marshals on a call from someone in the neighborhood then saw it confirmed by the organization @harrietsdreams.bsky.social & here. A Black man in DC was killed by the state today. Make the same noise for him as for anyone else when we have his name.

A US Marshal who is part of Trump's surge of feds in DC shot and killed someone in DC yesterday evening and there is barely any coverage and not a single post on here yet about it? wtop.com/dc/2026/02/u...

Long Covid has now surpassed asthma as the most common chronic health problem in children: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We’re treating COVID like a memory instead of a continuing risk. Data exists, governments aren’t translating it into clear guidance on ventilation, vaccination, or avoiding crowded indoor spaces. Public health messaging has drifted into silence just when we should be preparing for the next pandemic.

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

yall, Atlanta Community Press Collective is running out of $. we’ve sued for public records when no one else would. we covered Cop City from the ground for years. we train and pay local freelancers. we publish work other outlets wouldn’t touch. if this reporting means anything to you, PLEASE donate

Do you know how badly you have to fuck up to create a remote execution vulnerability in notepad.exe

About to start this if anyone is interested in joining.

The EPA release about the endangerment finding’s repeal is out: www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

"Inside of the detention center Wong says, captives work for $1 a day– a single 15-minute phone call is $5, according to Wong." lataco.com/captive-loti...

In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

it doesn't seem like its an accident that its a lot of cis men centrists/liberals are mostly the ones hoping that AI critics would be "calmer" and "more reasonable" about their criticisms, and saying people are "too angry/wrong" but maybe my misogyny-detection-systems are running sensitive

“As Donald Trump continues to closely scrutinize polling of his popularity, and publicly lambast media companies that report on unfavorable numbers, Gallup insisted its decision was “solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities.” And 100% of those surveyed declared it bullshit.

“like a bad lobster in a dark cellar”

Spend FIVE MINUTES protesting the genocide of Palestinians, and 1) be forced into hiding 2) have Google share your bank and credit card info due to a secret subpoena with ICE

@olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social have a lot of work on AI, and some of it relating to consent. For example: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Oh hey.

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

And even when we move at warp speed and outpace this regime, DHS doesn’t care. They’ve moved people to Texas hours or days after being enjoined. When ordered to return them, DHS just… doesn’t. The AUSAs let them: when we notify them of a violation, they send the email equivalent of a shrug. 19/

So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas? It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death. 18/

From @wired.com: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔

In a moment that calls for courage, we get this:

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

How severe flu kills heart cells @reuters.com   Researchers believe they now understand how severe cases of influenza damage the heart, providing an explanation for the annual uptick in heart attacks during flu season.

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

Rockwell would have painted this.

Approved curriculum for future Minnesota History classes is gonna be complicated.

This is bleak as hell. Who cares about literature when you’ve got computers? Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Our tech oligarchs will not reward your loyalty the-tartan.org/2026/02/09/l...

The theatre department at the university I work at is partnering with a local animal shelter to get some kittens adopted, and I got to make some portraits of them tonight. 📷 - Fuji GFX 100s II #Photography #Portrait #Cats #Fujifilm

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

folks today don't know the abject fear of inadvertently downloading, for the first (and only lol) time, a .exe file from kazaa or limewire and it shows def one of those "it only takes one time to learn" but oooo boy at what cost for that single instance

If you can get enough people to pretend that human life and human death are not real and do not matter, you can get them to pretend anything.

One thing that’s cool about our current system is how it creates things that people don’t want or need, and also those things are bad for us.

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

These men out here sending emails from their university accounts being like “hello mr sex crimes I’ve been thinking about it and we should bring back the word shrew ok gotta go to my disciplinary hearing byeee”

Hi, my arm won't raise without blinding pain. I don't know how to beg without acting like a sick animal hiding under your porch. I can't cook, or type on a keyboard, im on my stomach using my left hand on my phone. Shits bad

“Kimberly & the children are facing an uncertain future. The costs of James’s medical care & extended fight against cancer have left the family out of funds. They are working hard to stay in their home” Even people with more than most can’t survive US healthcare costs. variety.com/2026/tv/news...