#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive. She's never captured. She died in 2023, in New Zealand. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 🗃️ 1/2

If this is what SCOTUS says OMB can do, then not only do we need to completely reform SCOTUS (👇), but we also need to abolish OMB & close every single aircraft carrier-sized loophole in every law allowing the president to invoke magic words like "national security" & act like a dictator.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last mo.

- No clerks - No building - No shadow docket - No docket control at all in fact - No pay raises - 25 justices - 47 justices - 101 justices - Riding the circuit, preferably on horseback

This change (back) means COVID vaccines are covered by insurance.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 6d ago

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

In 1848 Boston attorney Robert Morris challenged school segregation in court a century before Brown v Board of Ed. In 1787 Black Bostonians had petitioned for equal education as well. Morris fought for the rights of his Black & Irish American clients & was appointed a magistrate by the governor.

Trump's Iran War has sent mortgage rates skyrocketing. His trade wars have increased the cost of construction. His mass deportations have decimated the home-building workforce. And his HUD cuts have devastated affordable housing programs. "Make America Affordable Again."

Literacy is load-bearing, y'all. Not AI literacy, not digital literacy, not media literacy. Literacy literacy.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d ago

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

For the third time, the Supreme Court has blocked Trump-backed Missouri congressional maps from being used in the 2026 election. Missouri will use its 2022 congressional map in November.

Supreme Court Once Again Blocks Republican-Backed Voting Map in Missouri

A federal appeals court had sided with Republicans seeking to use redrawn congressional district boundaries to give their party an advantage in the midterms elections.

nytimes.com

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans.

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · last wk.

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Humaning.

I'm going to hell. 🤣

This is one of my favorite types of stories. Get an expert who is a Good Sport to talk about something that's popping in pop culture & explain what we know about history / science / murder / etc. and have a fun conversation:

Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · last wk.

Today in Every Story Is a Science Story: "Was it a common thing in the 1890s for people in one smallish city to experience this many ax murders?" "The Bessemer process made it much easier to make steel, so there was an explosion of steel tools in the second half of the 19th century."

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

There's still time to register for “Hashtag Humanities: Scholars, Social Media, and Knowledge for the Public Good,” on Thursday 10/1, 2-3 PM ET with Dr. Xavier Buck (@historyin3), PhD student Heather Colley (@heathercolleyauthor), and Dr. Dan McClellan (@maklelan). Register at https://bit.ly/4AciCCo

Eight U.S. Navy sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during its extended deployment, according to a letter from acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao obtained by CNN. None died.

i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”

Meredith Shiner@meredithshiner.com · last wk.

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

Murder is also the #1 cause of death of pregnant and postpartum women. Related: Denying people access to abortion care forces them to remain trapped in abusive relationships they often would otherwise leave. (among other harms)

Ms. Magazine@msmagazine.com · last wk.

In 2024, nearly 2,400 women were killed by men, according to the Violence Policy Center. Of these, 86.9 percent knew their killer—nearly nine out of 10.

indexing your book? #FeedingtheElephant's @emily-elliott.bsky.social has tips! networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

So you have signed a book contract, and you realized that you are on the hook for indexing your work. @emily-elliott.bsky.social provides our #FeedingTheElephant readers with advice on indexing their work baed on her experience indexing a co-edited volume. 🔗 networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

But speaking of staying in one's lane, can we PLEASE switch the default position from "It's fine to use 'AI' for this thing I'm not an expert in" to "Yeah, I'd be really skeptical of any use cases and need to see strong evidence that it's okay, but I'm not the one who can produce that evidence"?

This is my favorite vaccine poster. Make your flu shot appointment before Halloween. It's sPoOkY to not get your flu shot!

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

opb.org

“Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time. It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created.” Obvs, but thanks.

Microsoft Director Admitted in Internal Document That AI Is Creating a "Doom Loop" That Destroys the News Media by Stealing Its Content Without Providing Anything in Return, in Turn Making the AI Usel...

A Microsoft executive admitted that AI companies like itself were plundering websites without giving them in return.

futurism.com

What an incredible statement for the fucking US to make about SOUTH AFRICA, my country. I'd be annoyed if anyone said this BUT FOR THE FUCKING UNITED STATES - with it's literal concentration camps, Gulag gathering thugs, abortion bans and hatred of Black and Brown folk, while funding a genocide...

Don't be fooled into thinking that a "free market" only exists when corporations get to "self-regulate" and do whatever they want. And don't be led to think that the government is "intruding" into the market when it crafts laws to protect the public. The real issue is power — and who has it.

“We don’t actually know if [automated license plate readers are] functioning in the way that they’re supposed to in terms of helping public safety, but we do know that they are definitely invading people’s privacy,” EFF’s @sairahussain.bsky.social told @lancasteronline.bsky.social.

Lancaster County lawmakers support regulating Flock cameras

Across Lancaster County, video cameras are recording the license plates of passing cars, along with their vehicle make, model and paint color, and storing that information in searchable databases.

lancasteronline.com

It's so cool to see a seminar come out of one of our books! "Across Continents" author R. Benedito Ferrao is teaching a class based transnational Asian/American perspectives at CUNY this fall! Read more: aaari.info/2026-2027-cu...

2026-2027 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor – Asian American / Asian Research Institute

Asian American / Asian Research Institute

aaari.info

Btw this is also why the “humanities are cheap” argument for funding never works. It has never worked. We need to stop using it. Nobody you’re trying to convince cares.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2w ago

If you are willing to drop $47 million on AI services but unwilling to invest in research support & infrastructure for humanities faculty & students, you show that austerity is a choice. It’s not “too expensive” to give people the resources they need; you just don’t want to. bsky.app/profile/ashe...