If we are serious about a vengeance tour, every person who appeared in court, making this happen should lose their law license for good

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28m ago

according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

I know "have they no shame?" is one of those self-answering questions. But.

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 1h ago

“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”

I'm currently going through Python code that a smart human already wrote & re-implementing it in R, so I understand exactly what the code is doing to my data. It's not that I don't trust the code's authors, but this way I'm learning it at the same time and also it's fun

Calle Börstell@cborstell.bsky.social · 3h ago

This was one of the arguments of one (incl me) side in a recent discussion about using LLMs/AI for work tasks. The tasks that other colleagues outsource to an LLM are the same tasks that I find rewarding and fun to do myself (not to mention the responsibility, accountability and ethics).

Literally all we want from life is for people to know things

Katie O'Reilly@drkatfish.bsky.social · 23h ago

I'm admittedly not an early child development expert but it does seem the ideal scenario for any baby is being collectively raised by a traveling women's professional soccer team

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 12h ago

I've been curious about the balancing act that professional female athletes have to deal with when they become moms, and @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social does a great job explaining how four Washington Spirit players have managed it — with help from their teammates: www.washingtonsun.com/sports/spiri...

Ok yeah, we don't know what consciousness is. But we do know the experiences & behaviors that made us think there might be a thing called consciousness in the first place So weird as it sounds, we can know that LLMs (or rocks) don't have the thing even when we're not sure what the thing is

I'm gonna need @dieworkwear.bsky.social's commentary on this picture

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterday

Exclusive: The Pentagon is asking commanders to nominate troops to attend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force” address this September, and says the servicemembers must meet waist-to-height requirements and exhibit “impeccable” grooming standards. https://on.wsj.com/3VwFKeF

Many friends are rightfully pointing out how great they are at stuff, but also... have y'all tried effing around with art forms you haven't mastered and making bad nonsense? It is fun as hell and also a worthy endeavor.

JD, you can’t eat comics.@lostcity.bsky.social · 2d ago

Well I‘ve got some good news.

This is the absolute floor of where our expectations should be for ANY Dem pol/hopeful because it's such an easy answer to give. Refusing to even give this answer is a Dem going out of their way to disqualify themselves from support.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2d ago

Some Dems are running away from trans people. Abdul El-Sayed, Dem Senate Candidate in Michigan, is running towards them. When asked, he fully and unequivocally support trans youth care as a matter between parents, patients, and doctors. Subscribe to support our journalism.

.... did we think this wasn't happening?

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2d ago

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

Yeah. Wrote a whole book about it. We make issues salient in discourse through consistent effort. It’s an empirical fact but folks acts like political issues& issue attitudes are sprung from a “kitchen table” cabbage patch. We should argue for what we want. Again & again. Until it’s common sense.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d ago

the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly

because transgender kids, who are already at high risk for suicide, do not need another public official telling them they are less than. this is not hard. we must protect the most vulnerable of all of us. talarico says he's a christian, well, that's a pretty important concept in christianity.

Ashigaru Spearman@ashigaruspearman.bsky.social · 2d ago

If he can win and will vote how we want him to, who cares what he says or did. That’s the Republican philosophy and they control everything. We need to be more mercenary.

We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.

Commentary: New Trump rules upend legal student visas. The consequences for Ohio will bring lasting pain.

New Trump rules upend legal student visas. The consequences for Ohio will bring lasting pain • Ohio Capital Journal

Ohio is a state whose international students contribute an estimated $1.3 billion a year to the overall economy, and support almost 11,000 jobs. New Trump rules against student visas are a…

ohiocapitaljournal.com

Trans people tried this in Ohio and Amy Acton didn’t show up and her goons threatened the progressive and Pride caucuses while also shutting trans people out in the meetings her campaign did have (that she didn’t even show up to). If Talarico ever wants to talk I’d be more than glad to.

Some techbro doomtalks about the fake danger of humanity going extinct because of AI: *the world panics* Scientists warn us about the very REAL impacts of climate change: *silence*

Very disheartening to see more and more Dem politicians lean into anti trans positions and when trans people say "man, this sucks" they get swarmed by people yelling at them for handing elections to the GOP. Wish they had that energy for the politicians.

white leftists cling to the phrase "no war but class war" because it so widely generalizes the class structure that it enables us to cosplay as part of the lowest class, which as white people is our favorite hobby. it's a catchy slogan. it needs to be retired.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾@blackamazon.bsky.social · 4d ago

“ we have to stop billionaires “ “ okay everything we know about fascism/ and propaganda as well as what they tell us is that idealogical and racial diversity undermines them so much so they’ve attacked it since the ROMANS” “ But what about class you need to focus ”

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

wired.com

I think this is true but also part of the problem is that many people falsely believe that we're living in an age of reason and that physical threat isn't (still) a central factor in politics

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6d ago

I think it's under-appreciated how much the threat of physical violence by Trump supporters is an undercurrent in our politics, keeping a lot of people who might otherwise speak out quiet.

As queer people, it is imperative that we stay connected to our history

Doug Mack@douglasmack.bsky.social · 11mo ago

BTW, it really does appear that Tori Amos created the first known pumpkin spice latte. (Not a joke!)

With alt-text because "another possible interpretation" is doing AMAZING work here

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d ago

Refuse to empty the dishwasher, fellas, it's the only way to save your sex life www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If someone tells you their dummy is sentient and going to kill you, it's not the dummy you want the restraining order on

I've seen a lot of talk about how college students have lost lots of skills, & without challenging anyone else's observations, I want to report that my 1 1/2 classes of mostly linguistics major undergrads are sharp as tacks and an absolute delight to work with

Once you've granted the idea that it's dangerous to allow trans kids to play organized sports, you're already 99% of the way to agreeing to bathroom bans. You've stipulated to the transphobes' central argument.

Everything is gender and gender gets real weird sometimes

Sue is Pissed!@spb1159.bsky.social · 6d ago

Damn! Show me almost naked Hasan Piker ALL day long! Abs forever!!! Thanks GOP!!! ♥

Anyone calling the refusal to compromise on trans rights a "purity test" can get into the bin as far as I'm concerned

Team Blue No Matter Who is going to have their work cut out for them because I for one refuse to entertain voting for or even saying nice things about someone who wants to compromise on trans rights. Like get the fuck away from me.

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

bbc.com