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priya chand

@priyachand.bsky.social

Food Influencer of Worldcon 2024 (TM) Reckoning staff, words, birds priyachandwrites.wordpress.com fatbirdpics.tumblr.com avatar is from Clemente Susini's studio at La Specola di Firenze, profile image is a tree hyrax in Ngorongoro Crater

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Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 20h ago

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.

priya chand@priyachand.bsky.social · 24h ago

read the full piece here for free: rdcu.be/fxQn1 please. indulge the overthinking spiral. do it :D

The past is an open can of worms: a stimulated-memory exhibition | Nature

A lost world.

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Nature Futures@naturefutures.bsky.social · last wk.

This exhibition is like no other you have visited. It is an experience you cannot get anywhere else. It will show you things you’ve never seen. Teach you things you didn’t know you needed to know. It will literally change your mind. #scifi by @priyachand.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A stylized human head has an open crown, from which a tree grows against a bright Sun-like orb in a golden, textured room
priya chand@priyachand.bsky.social · yesterday

ok seriously also like...are you all looking at the accuracy stats these companies are reporting, because they are *wild* and 0 access is being given to the underlying datasets used to make their claims

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · yesterday

I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

We Old Cordeliers@inondees.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’ll get on my soapbox: I work every day educating Afghan girls and women in the same modalities that were used during school lockdowns— with fewer resources— and no one treats that as a real problem, much less a crisis.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Catherine Rockwood@martin65.bsky.social · 5d ago

And today's poem at @reckoningmag.bsky.social, by Fatima E. -- "A rubāʿī for the rescued pangolin of Ravi flood." I love this one so. "a stranger’s hands became a shore: gathered him whole." reckoning.press/a-ruba%CA%BF...

A rubāʿī for the rescued pangolin of Ravi flood | Reckoning

Carried like wreckage on restless currents, a hushed syllable of scales and fear adrift on brown water. But a stranger’s hands became a shore: gathered him whole. The flood itself seemed to bless the ...

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azteclady@azteclady.bsky.social · 6d ago

🧵 "Asking people not to support one of the most well-known transphobes in the world wasn’t that big an ask but for a lot of cis people it’s still asking too much" 👇🏽 You only have to open that fucker's Wikipedia page to learn of all the ways she's chief fucking TERF, ffs. Arguing over it? On you.

May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄@goddessblade.bsky.social · 6d ago

Things like seemingly harmless NYT consumption are big deals to trans people because transphobia, despite being intense and escalating these days, is an oppression often rendered invisible. Trans people are used to being abandoned by cis people, so even small abandonments have an impact.

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 6d ago

Had the tab open for weeks but finally read the New Yorker's Tate brothers expose. Among many thoughts: that reporting ought to be an existential emergency for MAGA and the international far right, but the reaction is eerily mute due (perhaps) to the decline of reading and weak political opposition.

priya chand@priyachand.bsky.social · 6d ago

YEAH they even got me and I had all of one story in 2022. I was not aware of this website's existence until today. what's disgusting is they are claiming to have author permissions...one of the authors whose content they have stolen died several years ago. PRETTY SURE THAT MEANS NO PERMISSION.

Beth Cato@bethcato.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d ago

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6d ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

Violet Blue®@violetblue.bsky.social · 7d ago

For those unfamiliar, Newsmax is a far-right extremist, election-denying, pro-racist, pro-Trump, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-queer, and anti-democracy state propaganda platform. Newsmax content will now "support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Meta’s latest AI content deal is with Newsmax.

In addition to Reuters, WSJ, CNN, Fox News, and USA Today, Meta now has an AI content partnership to “…draw upon Newsmax’s significant current reporting as well as archived content across its platform...

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priya chand@priyachand.bsky.social · last wk.

Pangram also makes some *wild* statements about its accuracy that are in desperate need of independent verification (which would include access to the data sets used)

Robin Bradford@tuphlos.bsky.social · last wk.

This is all it takes to ruin someone's career before it even really gets started. Nevermind that the "technology" hasn't been vetted, the research hasn't been peer reviewed. They say it is, so now it is. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The study has yet to be peer-reviewed, and to be clear, there is no definitive proof that Wolfe used AI. “The suggestion that I used generative AI to write Daggermouth is wholly untrue,” Wolfe said in a statement sent by her lawyer. “I wrote this book myself. I have been outspoken about my opposition to generative AI and what it’s doing to writers, artists, and the creative community. I don’t believe it belongs in the writing process.” Referencing Pangram’s limitations, Wolfe added that “accusations like these have real consequences for authors, and they should not be made on the basis of technology that is known to be unreliable.” Susannah Lawrence, a spokesperson for Daggermouth’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, told me in an email that the company stands behind the book, noting that it went through “the same editorial and production process as our other published titles.” Neither Wolfe nor Lawrence addressed my questions about the “rare expressions” that Daggermouth shares with other recent ebooks.
[Christopher M. Federico]@chrispps.bsky.social · last wk.

this sounds elitist but our recovery from the present moment will depend in part on being able to once again effectively malign, ostracize, and refuse a platform to cranks

[Christopher M. Federico]@chrispps.bsky.social · last wk.

I don't stan Fauci in any mawkish resistlib way but I do not blame him for not wanting to play along on television with a gaggle of conspiracy-addled degenerates who are objectively beneath him in terms of intellect, culture, and values

priya chand@priyachand.bsky.social · last wk.

yeeeee it's live! only been 12 years since my last piece in Nature Futures, thanks Colin for picking it up :')

Nature Futures@naturefutures.bsky.social · last wk.

This exhibition is like no other you have visited. It is an experience you cannot get anywhere else. It will show you things you’ve never seen. Teach you things you didn’t know you needed to know. It will literally change your mind. #scifi by @priyachand.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A stylized human head has an open crown, from which a tree grows against a bright Sun-like orb in a golden, textured room
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · last wk.

They said from a profitability standpoint they can’t afford to make movies with Asian protagonists but then they also said it’s worth it to them to put abusers in movies just to put women in their place.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · last wk.

There’s an even more sinister angle to Johnny Depp’s ongoing “comeback” tour as the new Scrooge—it’s a Paramount production and part of a slate of Ellison-backed conservative cultural takeover attempts. It’s angled around MeToo rejection and the manosphere. spitfirenews.com/p/johnny-dep...

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 2w ago

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.

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Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · last wk.

🧵 This piece is really important, because it gets to something that is a prerequisite for and recurring feature of atrocities worldwide: selective empathy. Most people assume that when atrocities happen, it’s bc everyone involved is a sociopath. Some are. But not all. 1/

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.

When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

priya chand@priyachand.bsky.social · last wk.

these dudes aren’t liable under HIPAA btw. That only applies to *covered entities* which a basic chatbot interface is not.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...