For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...

“She said he talked a lot about the 1980s pop star Paula Abdul and that he said he wanted programming that could ‘be like Paula Abdul.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

here's something cool: the son of the letter carrier on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (McFeely) is a real letter carrier for the USPS and he's our letter carrier and he's awesome

It'd been almost a year since I updated my "Breaking Into Civic Tech" guide (www.chriskuang.com/civictech/) because I couldn't bring myself to remove the likes of 18F and the legacy U.S. Digital Service for the longest time.

New book from @ucpress.bsky.social: An Independent Man: Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights by Scot Danforth www.ucpress.edu/books/an-ind...

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Not gonna tag, but this is an example of where the Will Stancil theory that propaganda drove everything breaks down. Propaganda is powerful and it can do a lot, but there's something like the rules of thermodynamics in communication. You can't make something from nothing or nothing from something.

Making hoshigaki is my current de-stressing activity

We have a new timeline up today on our Medical Research Funding page, documenting the onslaught of political, legal, and bureaucratic attacks on medical research since January: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Today at Flaming Hydra, I interviewed film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on her deeply-researched new book uncovering the role played by Kodak—the household brand that popularized the snapshot—and other film manufacturers in industrial warfare.

If you want to send your resume to the Mamdani team, their portal is now open. #civictech #PiTech #govtech www.transition2025.com/apply

Next in the AI sludge chronicles, LegalZoom somehow ate our will and POA documentation that I paid $159 for. Just disappeared. Tech support was of course an utterly useless AI chat.

so it turns out that fascism is unpopular

Cuomo Announces Plan To Govern New York City As Independent https://theonion.com/cuomo-announces-plan-to-govern-new-york-city-as-independent/

posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch

It's about shifting the frame, rather than playing into the existing one.

FIRST RESULTS IN (early voting ballots) MAMDANI 51.53% CUOMO 39.66% SLIWA 7.54%

Me to clients with ADHD: "Digest larger goals into doable tasks, then carefully planning them. Don't panic, plan!" MIRL with ADHD: "If I quickly finish spray painting this hand truck purple, I'll have time to check on the scallion focaccia bread rising before I go pick up my daughter..."

Don't worry everyone your biggest LA megaevent question has finally been answered

Hugely important academic paper repository arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received. This will radically change preprint and open access scientific research www.404media.co/arxiv-change...

The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do. Read the story: www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

In Furious Minds, @lkatfield.bsky.social tells the story of the thinkers of the New Right—and their powerful assault on American freedoms, values, and ideals. Now available (6 Jan UK pub). Learn more about this incisive and urgent book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #PoliSci

seeking contributors for an edited volume

My real concern is that AI, with its emphasis on skills development and aiding comprehension, undermines situational solidarity. If an AI can help me with a difficult concept, I'm less likely to rely on my classmates or the professor. (3/?)

I wish the history of Jewish/Black solidarity was more widely known and discussed. There are so many great stories like this where Jews refused to align themselves with racism, often because of their own experiences of antisemitism.

"Republicans re-up trans attacks on Dems that worked for Trump in 2024" — the thing about a frame is it works until it doesn't....

Stumbled on showtoolsai, who dissects AI videos to improve media literacies. (Including the bogus "retirement home costumes" video that's been making the rounds.) Good stuff. Shared with my teen daughter. www.instagram.com/showtoolsai/

"What is essential is invisible to the eyes." –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

This morning, I'm recording my "Academic Writing Talk" podcast for this week. In it, I'll talk about a new genre of academic writing problems introduced by AI. Subscribe now directly with an RSS feed or on Apple Podcasts! www.indeliblevoice.com/podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Sometimes i get sad at those “I wanted to look up what kind of horse pulled medieval wagons It’s three hours later and playtex bra sewers made spacesuits i have a problem” no. No, you don’t. Hydrate and get back in there

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly offers a high-profile venue for innovative research and scholarship that contest the objectification, pathologization, and exoticization of transgender lives. Issue 12:3 is now online: buff.ly/nZ24wUO Learn more and subscribe: buff.ly/ABkyDrb

A haunted house but every room has a zombie with a different type of stoma and you're really short on ostomy supplies

I can't think of a better resource today for those looking to learn about and/or break into civic tech than @kdyz.bsky.social's #PublicSectorJobBoard. I can't imagine it's at all a small lift—thank you Rebecca! publicsectorjobboard.substack.com/p/october-28...

Save 50% on #NewBook Indigenomicon by Jodi Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social, which brings video game studies and Indigenous studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. buff.ly/FBknSYW

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

You didn’t hear this from us, but the Old English word 'sibb' meant “related by blood.” This is where we get the 'sibling.' And 'godsibb' essentially meant “godparent.” Over time, it came to mean "close friend." Now it is something we share w/ close friends... 'gossip.'

How far she has fallen down the MAGA rabbit hole... www.thebulwark.com/p/a-breakdow...

If you're in the Seattle area, join us in stretching our collective imagination muscles.

Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”

I’m about to be in a hot pickle! End of the summer jalapeños.

"The mysterious rise of cancer among young adults in the Corn Belt" — gift article link wapo.st/3Le1yXo

If you work with me as a client, you don't have to be cooler than me, but it doesn't hurt!

I don't want to be an actor, I just want to jump to the post-retirement cooking show part

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

A frank essay on what sustainability (or lack thereof) looks like in AI research. What is described here by my friend @natolambert.bsky.social, a CS researcher, is true of social researchers of AI as well. Worth reading by anyone thinking about the human costs of the AI race, which are far reaching.

Fell into a right-wing rabbit hole about how "Cancel Culture" was really the result of toxic femininity (in a biologically existentialist sense) and now I feel covered in conservative ick