"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2w ago

way to go, you fucking morons. I hope you're happy with how things are going

"Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading."

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · last mo.

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

no amnesty

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · last mo.

“The youngest person aboard the ICE Air flight was a 3-year-old born in the U.S., according to information shared with the Miami Herald after the passenger arrived.” #AbuseofPowerWatch www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

We need to bring back the hatchback. The people don't want sedans. They don't want stationwagons. They don't want SUVs and crossovers. They want indestructible sporty little hatchbacks with carrying capacity that feels like a bag of holding.

Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce

Reuters@reuters.com · 2mo ago

Michigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E

Anyone else notice an uptick in ads from AI companies taking a “no really! We love people. go humanity! We’re not trying to do evil. All in this together” tone? I’ve heard commercials to that effect from two different companies in less than 24 hours.

So @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I wrote a paper about changing patterns in online science communication It's been shared 300-ish times on Twitter. And 6,300+ times on Bluesky. I've never had a paper prove it's own point so quickly! doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Sorry but the crudest parody of a Woke 1 feminist was basically just correct about powerful men and their insecurities and how disastrous that was. Everyday Feminism 101 article on Toxic Masculinity basically the book of Nostradamus.

Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 3mo ago

can't stop laughing at this Poilievre: "We will reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture."

Some day, two people are going to go on the Joe Rogan show. The first person will say, "Everything Person #2 tells you is a lie." Person #2 will say, "I am lying." And Joe Rogan will spend the rest of the show spluttering and eventually have a stroke. This will happen to Ezra Klein someday as well.

"So, we evoked a demon that can sit between you and all objective knowledge, and it's really useful but you can never quite trust it. And then we made it paranoid it might have it's own demons intermediating access to objective truth." Descartes: "mon ami, I am too fucking high for zis"

ponder@ponder.ooo · 3mo ago

absolutely deranged they've got their llm so fucking noided about evals and fictional environments it hears tell of a new version of nvidia drivers and goes "ah this is probably a fake world im living in the matrix and everything is a lie"

I'm reading a bunch of papers on the integration of social sciences into conservation science and practice. I am sad to say that from what I can tell all of this is also gender.

In ‘terrible but also funny’ news, the state of Florida is currently beefing with… An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, aka the world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish Dance because the NA championships are being held in Orlando and CLRG refuses to ban trans girls from competing as girls

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz

The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...

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Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

📢Super important new work led by #ECR @clemencywhite.bsky.social driving towards more positive, inclusive, safer #fieldwork experiences for all. doi.org/10.1093/ices... @profstevesimpson.bsky.social @drcatmac.bsky.social @drmjwitt.bsky.social @drjuliawester.bsky.social 🙏Please read & share

Past experiences can inform better practice for marine fieldwork

Abstract. Field-based research is a common component of marine science and many researchers cite field opportunities as a reason for pursuing a career in t

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I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.

Worth noting that they are clearly “allowed” to be as racist as they want they are just also demanding a right to be liked despite being racist. No sorry people can draw conclusions that you’re a miserable person they don’t want to associate with.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4mo ago

"People have stopped believing that the economy can be good, and have lost the willingness to admit that they are doing well. That pessimism might be harder to fix than an actual downturn," @annielowrey.bsky.social argues.

Repost this if you’ve gone to the doctor or you’ve seen a dog. I’m a teacher trying to show my students that it’s possible to repost stuff under certain circumstances like if a post asks you to and you’ve gone to something or seen something

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 5mo ago

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

I found it!

Julia Wester, PhD@drjuliawester.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’m trying to find the tweet/skeet about someone saying they are going to organize an uprising of the people but they are one of the most personally off putting people you’ve ever met. Anyone got it?

the penne opticon

WIRED@wired.com · 5mo ago

The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time. www.wired.com/story/prego-...

I’m trying to find the tweet/skeet about someone saying they are going to organize an uprising of the people but they are one of the most personally off putting people you’ve ever met. Anyone got it?

I teach a weekend workshop on Excel for undergraduates every year. Excel is always a little persnickety but this year had way more instances of just buggy nonsense (e.g., functions just not showing up for some students). I sort of instinctual blame vibecoding for this? Is that right?

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity

Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

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Spending a lot of time ripping out crab grass by hand so my clover can take root out back, and it has me meditating a lot on what it means to take out fascists. We always used to say it was whack-a-mole, it wasn't. Successful antifascism in a democracy is a practice of weeding

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Sharon Simmons, the DoorDash grandma who was just part of a Trump photo op at the White House, says on Fox News that "no tax on tips" helped her because she couldn't afford her husband's cancer treatments

Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better? Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence. Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”. Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it. Crazy!