Chima Simone Benson
@chimasimone.bsky.social
Perpetual momming. Eventual writing. Respirator on. Prayers up. In my preservation of self — and family — era. Forever survivor. Never complier. (Can you do it?) I'm not gonna be able to do it! (8x) M.A., USC Annenberg ••• 💖💚
$10 to any reporter who asks Jeffries or any other anti-MFA politician: “Why do you think American people deserve worse healthcare than Israeli citizens?”
Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social · 18h ago🚮
“Obsessing over whether a person of color deserves a spot prevents everyone from noticing that white people get and keep positions without needing to be impressive at all.”
ProfKori@profkori.bsky.social · 2d agoThis summer, Black scholars in THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE ATLANTIC have become spectacles. Meanwhile, white mediocrity remains OUT of the spotlight. Notice that and save your sanity! www.korithamitchell.com/seeing-black...
Yes. How nice would it be to fcuk up & not become “proof” something is inherently wrong with an entirety of people. Behave, succeed… and you’re the exception. Not representative, but one of the “good ones.” Because when White preeminence is the feature, Black excellence must be a bug.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 2d agoThe only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.
According to Similarweb (the source cited for this data), ~27% of Threads' alleged half a billion monthly active users came from Taiwan (or ~135M people) Taiwan's actual population is ~23 million
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 5d agoSo I guess either Bluesky becomes a nonprofit or we all start sharing our Threads handles on here…?
"Why do Master Race people always look like shabby little freaks" is one of those questions which answers itself if you think about it for even a moment
Fifteen years ago, in the classroom, wikipedia was annoying because it was hard to describe to kids who relied on it why it wasn't a good source to cite in a paper. Now, it's the final remaining example of citational responsibility any of them have ever seen.
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2d agoLowkey excellent thing about Wikipedia: accurately describing the extremism and lies of right-wingers because its sole concern is provable truth, while the media tiptoes around accurately describing whats happening to avoid appearing “biased” against the extremists and liars
Cookie cooks. Cookie eats. Cookie leaves no crumbs.
The system is designed to reduce literacy, maintain a "working class," promote propaganda, and support capitalism.
There's actually research on this and it involves scrutiny. If you're Black people are going to look at your work looking for mistakes in a way they would never for white people.
Black Workers Really Do Need to Be Twice as Good
African American employees tend to receive more scrutiny from their bosses than their white colleagues, meaning that small mistakes are more likely to be caught, which over time leads to worse perform...
theatlantic.com
Gabriel S. Jacobs@gsjphd.bsky.social · 3d agolet's be real: plagiarism scandals in academia happen all the time (not because academics plagiarize a lot, but just because of how many millions of faculty there are around the world) and it is never general-public news unless the culprit is a member of a minority.
shouting into the void here, I know, but you are literally living in the thought experiment "Would you use an app owned by Adolf Hitler?"
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 4d ago14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead
Look, I like El-Sayed and I hope he wins. But I'm going to need him, I'm going to need the entire left wing and Democratic party, to do a LOT better on court reform. Because without it there *is no* progressive agenda. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Gaping Hole in El-Sayed’s Progressive Agenda
The Senate nominee has woefully undercooked ideas on Supreme Court reform—and that’s a problem.
thenation.com
i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
theguardian.com
America: Lets build the most successful magnet for drawing in the most brilliant minds from around the world to America. Trump administration: Huh, how do we fix that?
MagnoliaBouton@magnoliabouton.bsky.social · 6d agoNIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue: the K99/R00. Devastating news for the international research training community, who strongly contribute to US biomedical research. All will feel this great loss! www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/n...
Meanwhile, Canada just came off a record wheat harvest. Good thing our disastrous regime hasn’t alienated our bountiful neighbor.
Canada's crops in best shape in a decade despite extreme weather, monitoring firm says
Even as floods, tornadoes and hailstorms hammer the Canadian Prairies, farmers are seeing the best crop conditions in a decade halfway through the growing season, according to EarthDaily's analysis ...
reuters.com
Dale @dalejohn.bsky.social · last wk.The USDA is projecting the wheat harvest to be cut by almost half in the US. The state of Kansas is the largest producer of wheat and it is projected to harvest 44% less than from 2025. The American Farm Bureau sees a continued increase of Chapter 12 bankruptcies from 2025 as well.
I long for the good ol’ days when journalism used to watch power, not us. Now surveillance creep has made readers into “actionable intelligence.” And with a defense & intelligence contractor, those actions will surely include monitoring & profiling people to turn them into actual targets.
Bucks County Beacon@buckscountybeacon.com · last wk.“USA TODAY is partnering w/Palantir to de-anonymize & ID readers...& turn them into ‘actionable intelligence.’ That spy language from USA TODAY is a huge red flag...media exists to hold power accountable. Not to partner w/defense intelligence contractors. Or treat readers like intelligence targets”
Mamdani was nine years old on that day by the way. There is no other explanation but this.
Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · last wk.the argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism
Immediately skipping Gen X as a bit is absolutely nailing it.
He cooks. He eats. He drags. I can’t wait to see him in the Senate. We absolutely NEED this energy at the Capitol.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last wk.SKY NEWS: “Trump says you’re a gift to the Republican Party.” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “I’m a gift to the state of Michigan, God-willing.” SKY NEWS: “He says you’re full of shit.” ABDUL: “At least I don’t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office.” 🔥 🔥 👀
Todd Blanche having his conformation vote at 4:00 AM tells you everything you need to know about how Republicans in Congress operate. They reserve their most toxic moves for the dead of night.
“Drop them because they’re Black.” Hegseth, probably.
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · last wk.After 43 years, the Defense Department dropped The Sewing Box—a Black-owned business tailoring Blue Angels uniforms for $127k a year—for a $1.69M corporate contract, erasing a local legacy to enrich insiders at taxpayer expense.
We had a human vaccine for Lyme disease in the 90's that was 80% effective. It got pulled after attacks by anti-vaccine pushback. But your dog can get one.
Ian Weissman, DO@drianweissman.bsky.social · last wk.LymeAlert is the first at-home test for ticks that can detect whether the tick carries the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. time.com/article/2026...
people with chronic pain warned us at the time but the criminalization of women and minority people’s pain after the opioid crisis is a public health disaster. I’ve had friends denied pain management after hysterectomies, dental extractions and broken bones.
Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 2w agoAfter my c-section, I asked my ObGYN what care at home would look like and what sort of painkiller I'd be prescribed (so my husband could pick it up) and he said OTC Tylenol because by asking, I was "exhibiting drug seeking behavior."
democrats and republicans looking at each other when the data center comes to town
This is the way. Also, where do you get a guillotine? Seems we need to stock up.
Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · last wk.thinking about what happened in Salem this week as well
Joe Biden had a bad debate in 2024. Hundreds of news stories about it. Trump has had hundreds of bank accounts closed due to evidence of money laundering. Nary a peep. Why?
I think they’re coming. A parent will forgo a meal for their child, but when they see their kids starving (because that’s not even enough), you get a powerful catalyst for an uprising.
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2w agoIn Arizona alone, a staggering 450,000 people—including more than 100,000 kids—have lost food assistance since Trump's "big beautiful bill" passed. Nationwide, 4.5 million have been pushed off SNAP to fund tax cuts for the rich. That there aren't uprisings in every city, every day, is incredible.
Every time we use an LLM, see something very wrong in an answer and make it public, we are helping the LLM companies. There are several examples, such as the r's in strawberry one.
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳@aeporreca.org · 2w agoIs it a good or a bad thing to show (1st year) students how LLMs fail, like by doing a live demo? I’m worried that simply using them (even for criticism) might give the wrong impression (like, normalising their use) but I’m also worried about what the colleagues might tell them (“ethical” use & co).