I think about this quote from Paul Jaeger pretty regularly, especially when I’m trying to do things in Canvas and Teams.

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · 23h ago

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

Getting HIV in 1986 was a death sentence. It's now a manageable, preventable condition. It can be made undetectable and untransmissible. We can take a pill or shot and not catch it. That is straight-up miraculous.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

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Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 19h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

My possibly much more boring version of this is any film or TV show set in a college/university. They act like the dean is the highest position when they're basically middle managers.

Starfleet Headquarters is actually a sewage treatment plant that has also appeared on Murder She Wrote

Another version of this: My Special Interest is historical sewer systems, and during the most explosive scene in Guillermo Del Toro's new Frankenstein, when everything's blowing up, James hears me go, "is that a 45-degree sluice with a basket-handle profile??? Give me a BREAK"

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 4mo ago

if you ever want to see something really really funny, watch any hacking scene in a Hollywood movie while sitting next to an IT security person

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚🚨 "While he was detained, he lost 30 lbs. He had high blood pressure-he had diabetes. They refused him his medication...& I'm going to grow up without a father.. #ICE tried to cover up the fact that they killed him...They're just Heartless monsters." —preteen daughter of Edwin Lopez-Cornejo

A second man, Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, has died at Delaney Hall, the inhumane ICE detention center run by private prison contractor GEO Group. GEO Group’s profits have soared by over 700% since Trump has been back in office. Imagine profiting from death and suffering. Deplorable.

"We live in an era of historical inequality." This is such a clear descriptive statement of our current reality.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 12h ago

El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

If you'd like something even more dangerous, our archive is so old that we don't use these fancy modern rolling stacks. Ours are attached to a motorised chain that runs the length of the room. This means sometimes they like to move by themselves just a little, enough to keep you on edge.

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 19h ago

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n

No AI Gods, No AI Masters — Civics of Technology

More on their open letter, Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia  , and position piece, Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia , by Guest et al.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo ago

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...

If you haven't read his work, you should! I've never been disappointed with a story by him. They're both fun and beautifully written.

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I am in analytics and this is every day. None of the models work. They all generate bad data. And yet everyone is pushing us violently to use them, making plans that everyone will have the word ‘ai’ in their titles by 2028. None of this makes sense!

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I hope Hank takes things to heart and changes his behavior, because I suspect he's strong enough to do so, but I'm terrified what this shows about everyone from middle management to CEO who thrives on sycophantic chatter and won't ever see the negative … and what that means for the rest of us. 2/2

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Fastest July on record. Where did all my research time go?

SARS-CoV-2 did not come from a lab. There is no evidence pointing to laboratory origins. There’s been a massive disinformation campaign to convince the public otherwise. It’s scary how effective that campaign has been.

I feel like the writer here only uses LinkedIn, TikTok, or Insta. Us text based posters are misery personified.

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 23h ago

On social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?

What I love about Bluesky is what I loved about old Twitter: if I want to find out about something (however recondite) there will be someone here (often with a PhD in it) and the time and patience to share their knowledge. /1

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...

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This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

I mean, it's both, right? They both hate and want to destroy trans people *and* will use the same policies to further subjugate cis women. We should defend trans people's rights because it's the right thing to do, but it sure doesn't hurt to remember that *everyone else* will be next.

Those stupid bathroom bans are sickening. They would seriously imprison someone for needing to use a bathroom?

I'm always dumbfounded when people are like "a trans player could take away a scholarship and an opportunity for a cis girl to go to college" because, basing educational opportunity on how good someone is at a game seems like the bigger problem to me.

I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Maddow asked #JamesTalarico about attacks on #trans people and those who think that to win, Dems must "moderate" on trans rights. Talarico answered, "I don't believe we win by selling people out." #Texas