I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

I teach at a public university in Florida. Here are the requirements that all History courses must conform to under BOG rule 6.017. This is overt censorship. I am going to discuss this with my students during the first week of class and I urge my colleagues to do the same

Senate Resolution Would Block New Trump OMB Rule Until December 11 Here's my coverage in @forbes.com of this 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

Senate Resolution Would Block New Trump OMB Rule Until December 11

A Continuing Resolution from the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee would delay implementation of the Trump administration's new OMB rule to at least December 11.

forbes.com

Something that keeps happening: I find an amazing article and look up the author who conducted the analyses (distinct from the author who was PI or senior author, BTW), and the vast majority of the time, said author is precariously employed at the institution listed on the publication.

Just ordered a copy and so should you

october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch@octoberk.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am so excited to announce the pre-sale for my forthcoming book, The Struggle Is Always Worth It! This is also the first reveal of the table contents, and let me tell you, there are some superstars who contributed to this book. givebutter.com/SIAWI-presale

Big Tech is key to Trump's pogroms. Without Oracle's databases, Microsoft's administrative tools, Amazon's cloud, and Google's location data, ICE would be frozen in place. Big Tech is the source of Americans' risk from authoritarian oppression. 9/

Here's a fascinating story. Catholic schools in Florida are, on religious grounds, denying religious exemptions to vaccines. Florida's right-wing Republican AG is demanding that the state's Catholic schools violate Catholic teaching & allow for religious exemptions. www.osvnews.com/florida-ags-...

Fla. AG's threat to Catholic schools 'clear violation' of the First Amendment, law scholar says

The AG's letter "reflects a misunderstanding of Americans' fundamental right to religious freedom and is a glaring and dangerous government overreach."

osvnews.com

incredible stuff

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · yesterday

"US has used 'virtually all' PrSM and ATACM munitions" we are out of ammo www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

This is stupid and repugnant and I doubt it will hold up in court, but also student debt sucks

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Dunno… I remember friends telling me there were bodies in the streets. And going into work seeing intensive care wards packed, patients dying at crazy rates, and having pathologists ask me to help them screen tissues for COVID viruses because they were trying to find out what tissues were infected.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d ago

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

I still remember when the Red Sox hadn't won a championship in a gazillion years and every fan kept hoping somehow this year they would break the curse but they never did. And it was too bad but also better than once they actually started winning

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

the way people do science communication on here is giving me rabies

"Go to academia and say poststructuralism is passé and it'll be years of war" wut

Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social · 4d ago

But let's be clear on the fact that any American told that anything they rely on must change will fight tooth and nail to stop it. The courts will fight any reform. Corporate media will fight any reform. Go to academia and say poststructuralism is passé and it'll be years of war.

Good lord look at all the cameras on this map

CL (says protect trans kids and adults)@clc1905.bsky.social · 4d ago

Posting this for absolutely no reason whatsoever. maps.deflock.org?lat=39.8283&...

This is a great thread, but the blog post that Doctorow spends a big chunk of time summarizing is.... well, just really something else. Highly recommended if you are interested in the way that the AI hype is transforming our society and economy

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

Very useful!

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

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

youve heard of failing upwards. well academic careers in 2026 encapsulate the reverse: succeeding downwards. so many talented, highly qualified people, being punished for their achievements

Historian friends: What OCR software do you use to convert archival images to searchable format? I have a gazillion images. Thanks

A super interesting piece about a topic I know almost nothing about, but one that also sounds similar to critiques I have of the tech-innovation-hype cycle in other areas

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 6d ago

It’s fun writing into the void (apparently)

Imho this is wrong Republicans created a radicalization feedback loop which constantly mainstreams what used to be the fringe and pushes the fringe further into la la land Opposition from Dems is necessary but not enough to stop this process. The feedback loop needs to be broken

Here's an interesting thread on empathy from someone who does not experience it. I have significantly less empathetic response than most people so this was nice to read

@cooperativescience.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I think empathy is a poor foundation for moral behavior alone, and people who rely entirely on affective sympathy to motivate compassion scare the shit out of me. I think it's so so so easy for such people to behave monstrously without ever realizing it.

Just stumbled across this reaction video from a rap guy listening to the Grateful Dead for the first time. It's so sweet and nice and I wish more of life was like this youtu.be/q79LfFxz5nw?...

Rapper Reacts to The Grateful Dead for the FIRST TIME!

YouTube video by JusJrdn

youtu.be

Going to mute the phrase "Boy George" because life is far,far too short

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS & we can still stop it. Please call your Senator NOW & ask that they sign onto S.4814 & extend TPS for Haitians for 3 years. This will be a catastrophe for our neighbors who have been here legally!! Here's the call script! drive.google.com/file/d/1XXEs...

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

Just read Tennyson's Ulysses (1842) for the first time, b/c you know, the discourse, and ... holy shit what a great piece of work Is all his work this good? Somehow I assumed he was boring?!?

"Hide replies for everyone" is a great feature of bsky and everyone should use it a lot

Wouldn't the SAVE Act massively and disproportionately disenfranchise Republican voters? Not that I want it to pass or anything, it is evil, but what am I missing here? maybe they just really believe the crap about undocumented immigrants voting for Democrats in huge numbers? is that it?

one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last wk.

Projection so powerful, you could screen the Odyssey in 70MM IMAX from it.

Incredible work

Liz Saila@lizsaila.bsky.social · 4w ago

Under the hood of LegiAlerts This is the spreadsheet the front end yoinks data from. It, in turn yoinks data from a couple dozen spreadsheets organized year by year, as well as a few other summative analysis spreadsheets. I hand copy the laws & auto pull the bills docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Creating a vector database of nearly 10k LGBTQ related bills from 2004-present. This will allow for semantic search on bills as well as novel textual analysis. It'll include all bill meta data along with hand coded values by the legialerts team. I don't think anything like this has been done before.