Going through the A-Z database list that was run by the previous librarians at my school from about 2008-2015ish. It's depressing how many websites and webpages no longer exist. Even the ones hosted by universities.

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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Discovering you are trans is an amazing thing and choosing to transition is a wonderfully life-affirming decision. And the world needs to know: There’s nothing scary or dangerous about it, only the incredible, beautiful freedom of living your truth.

If you believe this, and I hope you do, there is nothing stopping you from continuing to protect your vulnerable neighbors by wearing masks in crowded and indoor spaces, especially necessary spaces like healthcare facilities, grocery stores, and public transportation. Absolutely nothing.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

It’s always odd to me when I get asked if I am wearing a mask because I am sick. In my experience, these days most people wearing a mask are doing so to prevent themselves getting sick, and most people who are sick don’t wear a mask at all.

The answer to the loneliness crisis isn't telling people with long Covid & other disabilities to take more health risks. It's creating a society where people don't have to choose between protecting their health & participating in community in the first place

Every time we see this kind of capitalist propaganda I want to post a photo of a regular tax-payer. This is Bob. Bob gives 20-40% of his income to paying for schools, hospitals, welfare programs and more. Bob can't afford his rent, much less a private jet, but Bob's still doing his part for society

Rob@robosullivan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Billionaires not getting taxed enough is why we *need* fucking charities

Today 4 Jul is US Independence Day, which was declared after the revolution of 1776. But despite rhetoric about men being "equal" and "inalienable rights", slavery continued for nearly a century and the genocide of Native Americans accelerated stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1096...

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

YouTube video by NPR

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What makes the idea that the world’s problems could be solved by the creation of an artificial superintelligence such obvious BS is that we’ve already had the tech to solve the world’s problems for a long time but it’s been gatekept by capitalists just as any ostensible salvation by way of AI would.

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

"Trans people will always exist." Cool. "They can't kill us all." Comforting. Yeah, transness will survive, but *I* want to survive, too, y'know? But also, survival and existence aren't enough for me anymore, and they shouldn't be enough for allies either. I want to see my trans friends thrive.

Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else

The arc of the moral universe only bends towards justice if we bend it. There's no karmic comeuppance for fascists. There's just us. Community and hard work and a willingness to to take risks and fail.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5mo ago

And there it is, folks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Brandon Alderson, from Sunderland, UK, was travelling to work when he noticed a man in distress in a layby. He pulled over and saw that the man was suffocating. Brandon performed the Heimlich manoeuvre six times and saved the man's life. Original post

Great essay, worth reading. We are "ruled" by sociopaths. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat

For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

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this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

Hourly Cosmos@hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NGC 4826 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iEerHS

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

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NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.

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In the wake of her passing and her recent celebration of life, @loscharlos.bsky.social shares how Alice Wong taught him the power of Disability Justice and how she wielded it to bridge the hesitancy between disability, Long Covid, and COVID-cautious communities. bit.ly/4mohc12

I miss Alice. She was so fucking funny and unbelievably chill. She was so warm and fun, and always ready to take something on. I wish we had more time to be friends. I also miss having someone we can all rely on to fight back and help us work together — and now that's up to us. /10

This has been an issue the military avoided confronting for decades. It was asked in the 70s. "What if I believe the person issuing a command to use nuclear weapons is not sane?" The answer was to drum the questioner from the service. slate.com/human-intere...

How Cold War Maj. Harold Hering Asked a Forbidden Question That Cost Him His Career

It was a risk. Dedicating a book to someone I'd had had a five-minute phone conversation with three decades ago. Someone who, last I'd heard, had...

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