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Cari Z/Cath Lauria

@caricath.bsky.social

Colorado author who loves snow and sunshine! Publishing M/M romance with Entangled as Cari Z, IP fiction with Aconyte and Marvel as Cath Lauria, and a whole lot of good stuff by herself too.

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Seanan McGuire@seananmcguire.bsky.social · 6d ago

How can anyone choose to get pregnant when there's a chance the embryo implants in the wrong spot--something you can't control, influence, or prevent--and then you get to die a horrible, miserable, inescapable death?

ProPublica@propublica.org · 6d ago

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last yr.

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University

Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last yr.

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

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w ago

A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.

Derek Fox@partialobserver.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remember, whenever a politician or pundit talks about making “necessary sacrifices” or “tough choices” to achieve some other goal - they actually want both things, independently. R’s wanted to starve kids, so they voted for it.

Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to April 2026. Between the reconciliation law's enactment in July 2025 and April 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million.
@escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 2w ago

To be clear everyone involved in this should go to prison. This is not some petty "but the golf course was so nice beforehand" shit, this is "you are in open and flagrant violation of the law in that you lied to the court about your intentions and timelines" territory people.com/dozens-trees...

Dozens of Trees Quietly Toppled in D.C. Without Court Approval Ahead of Trump’s New Golf Course Makeover: Report

Over 60 trees were removed at East Potomac Golf Links before official approval for renovations was granted, the Washington Post reported Friday, Aug. 26. Preservationists argue the plans violate a law...

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Professor Peacock@jmpeck4.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am still trying to process that a man who eats roadkill is in charge of the Nation's health. #RobertKennedyjr www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Street food: Robert F Kennedy Jr boasts of ‘a freezer full of roadkill’

Claim by independent presidential candidate follows admission he was behind prank involving dead bear in 2014

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a superb piece—an absolute must-read It’s also a reminder of how far back RFK Jr’s extreme, dangerous anti-vaxx activism goes; obviously now, as the man running the US health system, he is using that platform to achieve his longstanding eugenics-based dream of driving down vaccine coverage

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3w ago

I just want to build a new society built around a common understanding: If you have more money than you could ever spend and you still want more, you are a fundamentally broken human who needs supportive intervention before you are fit to participate in a healthy, functioning community.

Ethan Marcotte@ethanmarcotte.com · 4w ago

Been reading some strident arguments for LLM usage from fairly high-profile writers this week, and I keep thinking about this post I wrote a few months ago. I cannot imagine publicly carrying water for a military contractor, simply because you like the emails it helps you write.

Screenshot of an excerpt from the linked blog post. Excerpt reads, “ And I don’t just mean monetarily. It’s not lost on me that these commercial “AI” platforms improve by learning. Well, “learning” is too anthropomorphic a verb: these large language models analyze user input, and may be trained on the data we feed them. And as I’ve read about the opening days of this pointless, stupid, awful, horrifying war, I couldn’t help but think that the everyday use of these machines is quite literally enhancing them.”Screenshot of an excerpt from the linked blog post. Excerpt reads, “ None of this is new, of course. Microsoft’s “AI” products were used by Israel’s military to surveil Palestinians; the 2018 Google Walkouts were driven in part by employees protesting Google’s machine learning contributions to drone strikes; during the height of the Vietnam War, tech workers were mobilizing against the industry’s embrace of defense contracts. But today, we cannot meaningfully separate the everyday use of ‘AI’ platforms from their application in death and war. Imagine asking Northrop Grumman to summarize an email for you, or refactoring code with help from Boeing and Raytheon.”
Ethan Marcotte@ethanmarcotte.com · 6mo ago

🦊 We cannot meaningfully separate everyday usage of “AI” from the machine of death and war. If you’re upset by the military-industrial complex? These tools feed it; they *are* it. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propel...

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2mo ago

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence Remember: These are the foundations of real freedom.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2mo ago

I’ve spoken with Jason Watson. He knew exactly what this would cost him. He gave up his military career to take a brave stand for democracy. Patriotism that only works with obedience isn’t patriotism.

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 3mo ago

NEW: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.

A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification

ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.

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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 3mo ago

I’m not going to hail Barrett and Roberts for allowing us to count our votes. It’s a huge win for democracy, but it shouldn’t have even been a question. That we were one vote away from disenfranchising votes is all the more reason to expand the court in 2029.