I’m a researcher. I write a great deal. I have never used LLMs for any purpose, and I have no reason to think I ever will. The hard parts of research and writing aren’t the reading or the typing, they are the thinking. A machine that plagiaries and bullshits won’t help with that.

I’m so hurt, frustrated, threatened, and angry all the time now that it’s difficult to *not* lash out in ways that would be unhelpful. And if the driving I’m seeing lately is any indication, a lot of people are well past give a fuck, for a lot of different reasons. Shit’s getting ugly.

This will end the careers of some staffers and keep some queer careers from ever getting started. You cannot get fairness in civil service if you force people to work under state laws that disadvantage some minorities.

Are we sure he’s from New York? I could have sworn only a Texan would build an outhouse that big.

I’m visible because no one should have to hide … except Nazis.

Given the evil done by christian nationalists, I wonder whether later generations will come to view the cross like many modern folks view the swastika: as a symbol once used by many good people but also so used as a rallying symbol for evil that no one of good intent would use it in their time.

This is a license for bigoted parents to torture children. That is the point.

It isn’t just punishment. Holding a meeting in a place that denies visas for racist reasons or has laws targeting minorities restricts who can participate in the meeting and, ultimately, in the field. Even conferences on domestic matters need to think on this and, eg, not meet in Florida.

I am sure someone, somewhere at Enshittification Inc. has realized that a super tiny black-on-dark-grey close ad button is so 2020 as is working on one that uses the phone camera to track your finger an move out of the way as you try to tap it.

If you think the NYT was ever on your side just because the conservatives whine about it being a liberal rag, you’re not paying attention. It has long been a cheerleader of power, from flattering coverage of Nazis in the 30 to promoting Bush the Lesser’s illegal war to demonizing trans folks.

If you make a drink by mixing a lot of different bottom-shelf liquors, is the result a spectacle island iced tea?

The Times pretending they know the AMA better than the AMA knows themselves. I've heard this dynamic before.

I don't think trans people should be imprisoned for 5 years because they have to pee

Not only is Mike Johnson a walking pile of prutrescent cristofascist diarrhea, he is the reason why the US Coast Guard and all the contractors that enable its rescue efforts haven’t been paid in a month.

You’re not hiding, y’know

No, @markwarner.bsky.social, you’re the idiot (or the fascist). Hyperacaling isn’t going to produce AGI or even anything useful. It’s a waste of our collective resources in pursuit of technologies that will not benefit us. We don’t want slop, technofascist control over us, or higher power bills.

Must be nice to pay someone off with other people’s money

To the sound of bubbles popping and the febrile dreams of relentlessly mid technofascist failsons collapsing into tepid sweat-soaked sheets and the cold light of day, I say this: £€%¥ off and die, mother£€%¥er.

I hear that if you repost Anthony Moser's "I Am an AI Hater" essay, the AI lovers will put you on a list of AI haters, so: anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

The kleptocrat was to enrich himself. In other news, water is wet.

The US and UK political parties are a kind of Oops! All Fascists! novelty edition of representative “democracy”.

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

I wonder if/when we’ll get the news that the orange kleptocrat and his cronies bought a shit tonne of oil options a month or two ago.

I have never held a protest sign reading “bring back AltaVista” but the urge is strong

The USA is pushing its air traffic controllers beyond the limits of human performance and more people will be killed. RIP the Jazz Pilots who died at LaGuardia.

Just saw a bumper sticker reading “no airbags: we die like real men.” Who on earth wants a masculinity defined by willingness to die pointlessly in a preventable way?!?

The lead-brain some people have is astounding. Here, some cis guy, afraid a trans woman might have gone into a women’s restroom … went into the women’s restroom to check.

Okay, here’s the colour roll. #CatLabs 100 color in a #RealitySoSubtle 6f #pinhole. First up, a blooming redbud. #photography

Fur con snacks: made

I think this one is my favourite from the roll. The overcast sky, the vignetting, the smallness and indistinctness of the human form … there’s emotion here. It’s bleak, but doesn’t that just fit the times?

And here we go with the first roll. All of this is shot on Ilford HP4+ with a 1-stop pull and developed in Rodinal. I am using a #RealitySoSubtle 6f #pinhole camera

Developing a bunch of pinholes. I’ll share when I can.

Pinhole photography is kinda like the Impressionism of photography: all gesture and feeling, at the cost of detail.

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:

When do we storm the bastille

Never let a vegetarian post about meat

If a vendor is selling creamed chipped beef in a bag—the stuff that, on toast, is “shit on a shingle”—do you call that a colostomy bag?

There’s something about this framing most of us could take a lesson from: isn’t Rowling’s ‘views’ that I object to, it is her genocidal action. One person’s views don’t matter much. One rich person’s spending and propagandizing can matter a great deal.

Hey @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social absolutely not a dime for this illegal war. If Trump wants to do this, tell him to hold a €£#%ing bake sale at Mar-a-Lago.

Truly a worthy target for the Zitron treatment.

Heyyyy … the tiller that was given to me ‘cos it wouldn’t start … runs fine. The fuel’s a tad skonky, but it’s burnin’. The main issues I can see with this thing is that the belt clutch mechanism needs cleaned and greased and there’s something to investigate with the starter pawl.

I wrote up what the Iran War and crisis in the Strait of Hormuz means for the world. If this continues to spiral, we may be heading for a very different world than the one we currently inhabit. The last bit of normal may be gone for a generation. www.thedissident.news/the-last/

I now own a “broken” rototiller. Do I have a garden? No. But somehow loads of sick power equipment makes its way to my house anyway. It’s not locked up. Further investigation will have to wait for the weekend.

A second iOS exploit has been found in the wild, again used by Russian spies to infect websites and hack visitors' iPhones. This one works on iOS 18, and appeared in a very reusable form, so will likely proliferate. If you haven't updated your iPhone, now's the time. www.wired.com/story/hundre...

...given the topic, here's my most current & comprehensive essay chronicling every study that contradicts "social contagion/ROGD" (plus how anti-trans activists manipulate transgender statistics): on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-... & Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

1. The scientists behind the infamous ROGD/Social Contagion myth have released a new study called AYAGDOS, and are recruiting unsuspecting trans youth. They're operating under Northwestern. Community leaders need help spreading the word to avoid the study. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The LA Times has a piece up about Cesar Chavez having raped girls. One thing that is so rarely observed alongside these and so many other crimes is that they both reflect and are enabled by power over others. Without identifying the role of power, you can’t halt the carnage.

Missouri Republicans tacked on a gender affirming care ban to their abortion ban referendum to get voters to support the abortion ban. It's the same fight, the government overriding personal medical decisions to impose its ideological beliefs. missouriindependent.com/2026/03/17/m...

Shocking: researchers discover that water is wet! Who knew??? Why the €#%¥ did anyone think the world’s richest sack of festering pus would spend billions to own Twitter? Of course he wants to push his fascist dogma on people!