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DrJessieNYC

@jessienyc.bsky.social

Writer. Professor. Queer. Latest book: #NiceWhiteLadies.

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Micah@rincewind.run · 3mo ago

this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

Karina Lunai@karinalunai.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Well said. It's also worth pointing out that even if we do miss the 2c target, hitting 2.1 is still better than 2.3. Climate tipping points are not all or nothing, there are multiple tipping points at different temperatures.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 3mo ago

We are going to win! This stuff can and will be brought to a halt. None of it is inevitable. Anthropic cannot afford to slow down. It has to grow to at least $100bn a year in revenue or it doesn’t have a hope in hell of paying its compute bills. Same for clammy little Altman.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 3mo ago

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features." He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.
DocLB2@doclb2.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

Genie Lauren@moreandagain.me · 4mo ago

I hope white people have plans on what they'll do when the Democrats retake power and do NOTHING about Trump, his administration, or all the people working for ICE

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Israel killed an average of at least 47 girls and women per day in Gaza. A new analysis published by the United Nations shows that more than 38,000 girls and women were killed in between October 2023 and December 2025.

More than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025 – UN Women | UN Women – Headquarters

Six months after the ceasefire, and as regional developments shift global attention, UN Women warns that women and girls in Gaza remain at critical risk.

unwomen.org

johnedwinmason@johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In case you haven't noticed, Israel is occupying Lebanese territory with no signs of leaving. The Gazafication of southern Lebanon? "Israel army says it established 'Yellow Line' in Lebanon, as in Gaza." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Israel army says it established 'Yellow Line' in Lebanon, as in Gaza

The demarcation line in southern Lebanon is similar to the one separating its forces from territory still held by Hamas in Gaza. The Israeli military said that it had already struck suspected militant...

lemonde.fr

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 4mo ago

What I can say with a full throat, however, is that “AI” is a rhetorical, political tool and a set of ideologies built on specious claims. The technologies are almost incidental to those things, and are built to try to fulfill those claims, not the other way around.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 4mo ago

I’m watching the new essential film, Ghosts in the Machine, featuring many esteemed colleagues of mine, and noting how many of the great men scientists making claims about the ability for machines to mimic humanity also denied the humanity of women in myriad ways.

Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Denton County and its economy are built around the University of North Texas. Denton County also went 56/43 for Trump in 2024. That's because most voters there wanted to get rid of immigrants. Now, as international students disappear, the university is collapsing. They burned down their own house.

The Dallas Morning News@dallasnews.com · 5mo ago

The university is facing a projected $45 million shortfall as international student enrollment falls.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

A War Criminal's Daughter Helps Choose What You Read

Why I withdrew from one of my book tour events

news.chanda.science

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

I just had to pull out of a book festival where Jenna Bush Hagar (not even an author!!!) is the headliner and it is a sign of American moral bankruptcy that she was allowed to carry the Bush name not just onto TV but into being one of the biggest book influencers in the country

Christina Meyer@chrismey2203.bsky.social · 5mo ago

a woman wearing a red and white striped shirt is making a face .

Alt: a woman wearing a red and white striped shirt is making a face . From the tv show ne girl. Jess.

media.tenor.com

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Academic women on social media are routinely confronted by (usually) men who have no expertise in their fields but whose only goal is to challenge that expertise. ‘Why don’t you do this’ ‘Smile more’ We get it in conferences. And classrooms. We can smell the misogyny a mile off. Just saying.