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💙📚 ReligionNerd; Libraries How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks ~Sayers 🏳️🌈. BLM. Protect 🏳️⚧️. End the warcrimes. Open borders. End Prisons. Eat the Rich.
I really do think it is *possible* to restore global norms around “intentionally murdering civilians with precision weapons is bad and you will eventually suffer repercussions from doing so you don’t like.” But as it stands, humans are choosing to murder civilians with FPV drones all the time.
I need to write something longer on this, but still seems like a lot of the AI war crimes debate assumes combatants mostly don’t actually want to slaughter civilians with autonomous weapons. We can NOT, in any way, continue to assume that. I’ve been collecting lots of global evidence here:
Targeted Small Drone Attacks on Civilians: A Global OSINT Picture
A global OSINT map of targeted small drone attacks on civilians since 2022.
map.faineg.com
This is scary/ bad, but not surprising, in that both Ukraine + Russia have been trying to crack cheap onboard computer vision targeting for a long time. IMO, core problem in 2026 is still that we’re seeing hugely increased numbers of 100% human-piloted, intentional attacks on civilians with drones.
Dr. Jonathan Schroden@jjschroden.bsky.social · 16h ago“The use of self-targeting A.I. in the gas station attack, on July 6, would be the first documented case in which civilian deaths were caused by a Russian drone outfitted with such a system” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
6 in 10 rural americans live in metropolitan areas. Our stats conflate exurban suburbs with strict large lot land use controls and a basket of gimmicks to avert annexation for tax purposes with rural america. So does popular consciousness.
Applications are now open for the PhD program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at #UniversityofMaryland 🌈🎓 Learn more about the program and apply at go.umd.edu/ApplyWgssPhd Applications are due no later than Tue, Nov 17, 2026 at 11:59 PM #AcademicSky #PhDSky #feministsky
bushtit is staring down Monday morning licensing work like a whole-ass vendor legal team ain't going to steal away our fair use rights with extra contractual clauses
Chris@nigrochris.bsky.social · 19h agoFemale bushtit in Colorado #birdoftheday #thinperch #birds #coloradobirds
I am firm believer in the harms of magical thinking... 💔 again. Every time I think I have insulated myself against the perils of interviewing, I find myself waking up in the middle of the night rehearsing what I could have/should have done differently in the campus visit to get it "this time."
On some level, I guess there are important issues around "wokeness" and "anti-wokeness" in the US, but the fate of hundreds of thousands of Haitians being violently deported by our government right now for purely racist reasons seems a lot more tangible and pressing.
Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...
Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
newsletter.thedriftmag.com
I have a bunch more pictures of Dilemma the Highland Coo, and yet more coo puns to use, and I have committed to not posting any of them until this fundraiser reaches £500. Please do donate. If you can't, I understand -- I really do! A share would also help. www.justgiving.com/page/whatsacoo
What's a Coo to Do? for St John the Evangelist, Brownswood Park
Help Kathryn Rose raise money to support St John the Evangelist, Brownswood Park
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Really loved the latest Vibe Check pod on the death of Jason Arday and the dangers of being isolated in elite spaces. Thank you, @theferocity.bsky.social! Also if folks haven't seen the website Arday's former students put together, please give it a read. leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...
Vibe Check | iHeart
A weekly podcast where Saeed Jones and Zach Stafford make sense of what’s going on in news and culture – and how it all feels. Vibe Check is your favorite group chat, come to life. Subscribe to Sirius...
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I was much more interested in this "I fed my family for $28 a day" article before I realized it was a couple with one 10-year old son.
I thought my wife and I were okay, so I am very surprised to be a person transformed into a chubby clay doll completing wild adventures w/ some other woman because I'm her estranged husband... under a spell cast by a magic psychology book on 'love as work' + a little girl's grief? (It Takes Two)
Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · last wk.You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?
This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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If you're prepping your syllabi and other class materials on African American history and culture, don't forget about the NMAAHC's amazing 'Searchable Museum,' which uses artifacts from Smithsonian collections. It even includes resources for teaching this history. www.searchablemuseum.com #edusky
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A museum that seeks to understand American history through the lens of the African American experience.
searchablemuseum.com
God have mercy, for surely the death penalty is an abomination. Give welcome to souls of those who die, chasten the conscientious of all who observe, and strengthen all who fight for justice and mercy in our structures and actions.
Well, this was an unexpected but lovely invitation Huge thx to @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social & other members of the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities Program Committee for inviting me to give a plenary at the annual conference in Indianapolis If you're going, let's get coffee or drinks!
Headlines like this make one long for the inside of a whale. Activism is for people who think change is possible. Prophecy is for people who can believe in society’s redemption. Time to go work in the garden in the hope that I find a reason to turn around.
David Beard@dabeard.bsky.social · 3w ago2026 in a headline: Kalshi Defends Plan to Bet on Lives of Cancer Patients. futurism.com/health-medic...
"By the same token, if faculty members assume that the typical student at their school shares their political beliefs, they can be tempted to editorialize in the classroom in ways that go beyond the scope of their expertise." Citation needed.
Opinion | College Is More Political Than Ever. But in a New, Insidious Way.
Students are self-segregating by ideology.
nytimes.com
This is actually a place where those of us who have some seniority and no fucks to give can leverage their privilege. If someone posts a job to a list without salary info, I will IMMEDIATELY reply on-list to say “Before I forward this to great candidates who might be interested, what is the salary?
Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social · 3w agoMy MLS students would like you to know that if you don't post a salary with your job posting, they aren't likely to apply.
whispers of hope
Leah Stokes@leahstokes.bsky.social · 3w agoThe conventional wisdom is the Democrats' big climate law failed to deliver votes and then died. That's wrong. My new study finds its factories moved 2.5 million votes—more than Trump's margin. And the law's still alive. My latest in @theatlantic.com. Gift link! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Corporate money doesn’t just buy seats. It buys rhetoric, votes, and policy. From Medicare for All to lowering utility costs, I’ll be able to actually fight for solutions that people in Western and Central Mass need when I’m in Congress.
I suspect new-er nightmares returning this evening...
Tom Elliott@paregorios.bsky.social · 3w agoBoley, Aaron C., Samantha M. Lawler, and Hanno Rein. “Rings in the Sky: Orbital Data Centres and Potential Impacts to Astronomy and the Sky.” arXiv:2608.02757. Preprint, arXiv, August 3, 2026. doi.org/10.48550/arX.... Don't sleep on the final paragraph ...
Academic Christian Twitter: Does anyone know of someone who has written on the *pastoral care/pastroal guidance* implications of novelizations of lives of the saints (the example I am thinking of is the novelization of the life of Bakhita, but general discussion is welcome)
we have reached the stage of tired where I lead the johnny appleseed song as a mealtime prayer for my children by whistling while dancing with plastic plates in each hand like some kind of queer 80s revivalist
📚📜 Hey #archives / #memoryWorker friends! The Southern Memory Workers just opened applications for their new program An archives-training-for-non-archivists, this focuses on folks working in #socialJustice orgs in the US South www.southernmemoryworkers.org/programs/sav...
Save Your Progress — Southern Memory Workers
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