the Wikipedia entry for axolotls reads like a Cake song

Today is a good day to follow news outlets that take a stand against Generative AI slop (this is a living document, please send recs!) go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

(At job interview) What would you say are your three biggest strengths? I get knocked down But I get up again And you’re never gonna keep me down

Marc Masters 🌵@marcissist.bsky.social · 6h ago

(At job interview) What would you say are your three biggest strengths? I know when to go out Know when to stay in Get things done

After Heath Ledger died Perez Hilton sold shirts on his website saying “why couldn’t it have been Britney?” He made a living off making her life a living hell: nypost.com/2021/02/15/p...

Perez Hilton knows he made Britney Spears’ life a living hell

Notorious gossip columnist expresses regret following the release of the “Framing Britney Spears” documentary.

nypost.com

Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 12h ago

Perez Hilton releasing a statement requesting privacy is WILD. I hope he is ok but come on. After he recovers I hope he is humbled and apologizes to the people he went after when their mental health was in crisis, starting with Britney Spears.

“A bureaucratic restructuring that leads to the selective elimination of faculty members really puts academic freedom in jeopardy… particularly for professors who have displeased admin, trustees or donors.” — Mark Criley, Senior Officer in the AAUP Dept of Academic Freedom, Tenure & Governance.

He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway.

The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.

nytimes.com

So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h ago

I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.

It is a GENIUS messaging strategy to link AI and data centers to dick swinging toxic masculinity and I want more of it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

El-Sayed: "Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can make himself feel a little more manly by making an AI video ... he's a guy who went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to bet for his endorsement."

El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."

My 24-year-old cousin with a motif for our times.

this name shit would be the perfect time for obama and/or mamdani to do a hit for el-sayed. "we've heard a lot of people attacking dr el-sayed over his name. well, for eight years they called me PRESIDENT hussein obama. and i'm MAYOR mamdani. so maybe its time for SENATOR el-sayed."

Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.

Hahahahahaha I wanted to type something here but I'm laughing too hard "could you still get through an entire workday" what the fuck, man, you just sharpied "I am incompetent" on your forehead.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 22h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

Teaching doctors about smoking is a moral imperative. And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking the tobacco industry's money or doing nothing!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

Universities “are increasingly acting like other employers, finding “complicated and sometimes pretextual reasons” to fire employees, even those with tenure. “What we’re seeing at the New School is emblematic of the rising pressures on higher education as a labor market and as an industry”

He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway.

The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.

nytimes.com

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

propublica.org

Stevens is neck-and-neck with Abdul El-Sayed in Oakland and Macomb Counties. She needed to run away with these places to even be competitive with AES.

There's a Kornacki Cam fyi www.nbcnews.com/video/kornac...

Kornacki Cam: Watch Steve analyze midterm primary election results

NBC News chief data analyst Steve Kornacki breaks down real-time vote tallies from Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia and Washington, while giving viewers a behind-the-scenes look at election night ...

nbcnews.com

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Also, if you are a cis person and you actually think this is about trans people, I'd be happy to inform you that it's not. Conservatives want to police gender for everyone. It's the skeleton key to their entire political project. It won't just affect trans people. It'll affect you, too.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.

You can see the very obvious throughline from “men could transition and easily dominate women’s sports” to “women’s sports are lesser and shouldn’t be taken seriously” to “women shouldn’t play sports” to “here are the acceptable life choices for women”

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 3d ago

"It's about protecting women's sports which, by the way, I hate more than anything in the world."

I feel like at least some of this self corrects when you stop giving yourself mental medals like "ally" and just act normal with other people who are in fact for the most part, also just normal people

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 2d ago

A PSA to my fellow cis people who are (or want to believe they are) trans allies If you are getting pushback from trans people and your reaction is to be all “no! not me! I’m one of the good ones!” please remember that “being one of the good ones” is something you DO, not something you ARE

“The litigation has revealed a clear pattern: Uber’s lawyers scour women’s private communications, medical records, therapy notes …They grill the women about those issues, their sex lives and their behavior on the night of the incident.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...

Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’

The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.

nytimes.com

Me on the AAU "The AAU claims to be comprised of America’s leading research unis...But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares

Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.

insidehighered.com

The kids are out here getting looks mogged when they could be getting books mogged, is what I’m saying

On the day that Barbara Synder, Douglas Girod and Ronald Daniels and the @aau.edu capitulated to the Trump administration, it's worth looking back at history. First. The Red Scare. @aau.edu was there to bend the knee to Senator Joe McCarthy and HUAC. 1/ www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares

Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.

insidehighered.com

"On the day classes resumed their regular scheduling in September, one protester splattered the university’s famous Alma Mater statue in red paint. Following the incident, NYPD investigators deployed an extensive array of high-tech surveillance and investigative tools to identify the alleged vandal"

NYPD Used High-Tech Surveillance to Find Gaza Paint Splatter Protester, Docs Show

Throwing paint on a Columbia statue seems minor, but the NYPD uses tremendous resources when pro-Palestine protesters are in the crosshairs.

theintercept.com

Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

periodic reminder that long covid has surpassed asthma to be the most common chronic health problem in children jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

Covid was- overwhelmingly- not a threat to children. Hence why (generally) we don’t vaccinate them now.

Welcome to the resistance: meet the workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer's AI mandates: aftermath.site/ai-resistance-...