For context on the timing of this stuff, I graduated from my masters program in 2019; during that program we had a group project on a special population in our peds course in 2018, which, at my urging, our group did on treating gender dysphoria and transgender for pediatric patients. YEARS earlier.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

Serious question: why do Amber alerts still link to a post on X???

Just read this in an instagram post and I love it (I mean, I hate the reality but it is a perfect analogy): "Al is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." - Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net

14th Amendment Section 4.

Maybe I'm just old and stupid but I just want a thingie that returns a list of results containing the specific arrangement of letters I'm looking for, preferably ordered using some kind of basic, quick assessment of statistical frequency weighted against publication time.

Google is turning itself into the recipe blog that won’t just give you the f*cking recipe

a common feature in this emerging genre is the thinly veiled contempt that the administrative classes of institutions have toward their own students, and there's a simple explanation for this: those administrators see students chiefly as revenue streams rather than fully participating humans

People have GOT to start researching their judge races!!! I read every time to know who I’m voting for on them. Judges never list parties because in theory they are neutral and not connected to a political party. Judge races are SO important, please please research your ballots before voting!!!

I just learned that along with phishing, “vishing” and “smishing” are now words, and I would just like to talk to whoever approved these terms for mainstream use…

There is no reason to surrender the announcers role to AI. They’re not paid jobs! College / university officials call the names based off a card the graduate hands them. How hard is that ?!?

One of the many ways in which AI is destroying our critical social institutions is eviscerating the hard-earned (and easy to lose) trust necessary for cooperation and commitment to a common purpose. In this sense, use of AI is a betrayal.

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

there are only, like, 30 people tops in a given class year at Yale Med who identify as a member of *any* group underrepresented in medicine so please understand that the Trump admin is losing its shit about the tiniest handful of elite Black and Latino students ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The best doctor I've ever had BY FAR (and I'm white) is a Black woman and I do not think it's coincidental.

this is a masterpiece

Not to brag, but my 16-month-old’s friends at daycare miss him when he’s out sick

Iiiiiiiiiinteresting

Never forget: They made Carter put his peanut farm in trust. And that was the right thing to do.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

Everyone involved in posting this should be fired and everyone in the chain of command whose office is subject to impeachment, including the president, should be impeached. Just for this. I am not kidding in the least, and Democrats who let this go by without comment are putting us all in danger.

This is what will kill AI. As soon as the AI companies stop subsidising themselves with spec money, and it becomes clear what doing mundane office tasks badly really costs, nobody will want to use it. And then the servers switch off. And it goes away. Lovely. BYE!

It's quite shocking how many more satellites are visible by eye now than just a few years ago, especially as Starlinks are in much more light-polluting orbits. 🔭 You can now usually see a few in the sky at the same time, and it's only going to get worse. 🫤

My first day of a new job is tomorrow and of course my toddler has a fever for the first time in like 3 months (my wife is staying home with him, it’s just that I literally just had 4 weeks off where neither of us would have to take sick days, so naturally he chose the night before I’m on the clock

One of my house rules for crosswords is that if I look it up on Wikipedia it’s not cheating, it’s learning.

When trying to describe what it feels like under this administration, I just keep coming back to gaslighting. They’re openly actually doing the thing they are also punishing other people for “doing” (who aren’t actually doing that thing at all) and you feel literally insane because there’s no logic.

These are my questions every time I see this claptrap. DOJ is on the rampage against alleged antiSemitism in universities, attempting to extort hundreds of millions from them. Meanwhile, we see a constant stream of exclusionary rhetoric from DHS and the Pentagon. Make it make sense!

Rosie Cotton hive rise up

We do not need panel discussions about the "dismantling of Black Studies." Cross the street and ask the local church if you can run a Black Studies Saturday school in their basement for interested community members.

Spoke recently to a friend of mine who runs a lab. This administration is profoundly, maybe irreversibly, undermining the foundations of scientific research in the US. We won't feel the effects right away but they're coming

Genuinely even people who can’t stand him keep assembling stories about why he does and says the things he does and says as if there’s any plan behind them. In fact he’s just incredibly stupid and lies a lot.

I am a very serious economist with very serious thoughts about the future of the United States.

I’m old enough to remember the PSA before movies saying “would you download a car?” And now, this…

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Vital thread for historians, other researchers who use digitized historical archives, and teachers. AI is altering docs via transcript and summary, and it’s radically changing them in dangerous ways:

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

I held a fresh baby tonight and for a brief moment everything was perfect

In honor of Mother’s Day two day ago, one of my good friend’s who’s in labor with her second kid today, and my birthday in 2 days, here are some playlists I made for labor and golden hour, which I love… (4 total):

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

It is kind of a tell when they're like "we're trying to reduce your access to SSRIs and family-planning medications and also food and the vote"

Oscar is having one of those nights where he woke up and every time he realized he’s falling back asleep again he gets super angry and starts saying “no, no, no” and crying and shaking his head and kicking his feet to keep himself from falling asleep.

People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups And we are but human & we want tiny cup

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

Louisiana is 33% Black and has six congressional districts. Yet in the past 149 years, they've just had 4 Black congressmen. All of whom are still alive. And that's too many for Louisiana's white Republican leaders.