Hahahahahahahaha hahahaha *breathes* Hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha Oh dear poor things *wipes tears*

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h ago

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Paging Dr. Freud.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19h ago

*warning: grossness ahead regrettably there is a whole influencer subculture devoted to eating only steak and then making deeply disturbing clearly fetishistic descriptions of their poop and their farts. And they're convinced theyre very special because according to them, neither smell.

Just knocked off after a long day of sorting and organizing facts. Anything interesting happen today?

The amount of ages gruyere we are going through in my household this summer. Thank goodness it's, for some reason, available at a discount at Lidl and Trader Joe's here

Applications are due by end-of-day ET this Friday, August 7! Please join us — and please share!

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 4w ago

Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/

It will depress you! Sorry about that but it’s kind of my jam. I selected well-written books, some of them are even wryly funny at times — if you come from a culture with macabre humor. Still, the issue is big, complex, and scary. All the more reason for us to face it together.

John Robinson@jrobin.bsky.social · 2d ago

A reading list that I know will depress me, but one that also seems vital to understand (and fight this version of) the future. From the brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

My takeaway when I go to interdisciplinary conferences is that anthropologists are actually ***really fucking good*** at scoping and framing research questions.

When disabled people/many people who work on disability/health pointed to the dangers of this kind of framing since COVID, they were usually mocked ("oh you think everything is eugenics") or ignored. But normalising the idea that the deaths of disabled people are desirable/reassuring is dangerous.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Just your regular reminder that: 1) Almost everyone has an underlying health issue if you look hard enough 2) People with underlying health issues don't deserve to die for eating lettuce 3) We should be strengthening, not weakening our regulatory processes. And properly funding them.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Reposting this because, as I've said many times before, the NYT’s phrase “incalculable loss” seems to have been prescient in grasping what would become a concerted unwillingness to consider the enormity & ongoingness of the loss, even in NYC. #IllnessPolitics

Lisa Diedrich@lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2y ago

The cover of the NYT from May 24, 2020 with the headline: US DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS

OOOHHHHHHH 📚📚📚

Kate Clancy@kateclancy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Turns out I fumbled the pre-order link, here you go!

*stares in STS*

Benjamin Tausig@burrata.bsky.social · 2d ago

The opposition to "postmodernism" (about as real and specific of a thing as "wokeness") is and always was misogynist, racist, and far right. This is about the starkest evidence you'll see, but that's how it's always been.

Sociology job here that looks good for digital tech, labour, automation, AI: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Sociology

Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Lancaster University (Full-time, indefinite post) The School of Social Sciences seeks to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Sociology.You will join the Sociology tea...

hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk

This is the kind of summer energy I'm here for 🐟🛶☀️

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d ago

As I sat down for a morning writing sprint, the power went out. Figure it’s time to go fishing … … ten seconds later it’s back but too late I’m gone!

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I'm on the train in New Jersey noticing Amazon now owns its own shipping containers?? Feel like this is a fact several folks on here would be interested in/could tell me more about 👀

A shocking thing for all the parents out there: NYC parents have SIX MORE WEEKS of summer to go 😅🏖️☀️🧉🎡

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

Then they have all the transcripts (and the ai token bill) but no sensemaking. so they make another app — a layer that will make sense of all the useless transcripts. But of course sensemaking isnt just pattern spotting. It’s interpretation. AI cannot do either because AI cannot be curious

So a masculinist understanding of notetaking would think a transcription app is the same as taking notes. That’s why they think an AI transcript is a time-saver. They think the notes are the thinking because when a human takes the notes, it is.

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

Summer break home with kid works when you scale back your expectations by half, then half again, and you're gonna want a second block of screen time, and schedule in a few naps, and then hope it doesn't rain but if it does half your expectations yet again

Do not miss this!!

Ben Wurgaft@benwurgaft.bsky.social · last wk.

On August 13th, in Brooklyn, in a garden, Rebecca Porte will speak on the subject of paradise and Hieronymus Bosch - people (starting with me) are calling it the literary-critical event of the summer. www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/sip...

I'm working in the office for the first time in a month, and it's impossible to overstate how much, and how fast, Computer Get Worse 🖥️ 🔨

Hardly the point, but it’s also clear he’s never ever read to the end a story about a mythological creature that offers you wishes.

“We are close to creating a genie” The level of hucksterism is nearly unfathomable. Real S tier shit.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.

“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.

These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last wk.

OPENAI, ANTHROPIC STAFF CIRCULATE PETITION URGING US TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO 'DELIBERATELY PACE' FRONTIER AI DEVELOPMENT, WARNING OF RISK IT ADVANCES FASTER THAN HUMANS CAN CONTROL; LETTER ALSO SHARED WITH GOOGLE DEEPMIND STAFF, EXPECTED PUBLIC THIS WEEK

filmforum.org/series/nyc-i... this film series is definitely the special interest of some sickos on here, but what the hell only one screening of THE WARRIORS and it's at 1pm on a Tuesday

Film Forum · NYC IN TRANSIT

NYC IN TRANSIT Select screenings starting Tuesday, July 28

filmforum.org

After three days of a cold, my daughter just said her tongue hurt. It's the end of July. Iykyk.

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

techcrunch.com