Canadians and Northern USers, you would be shocked how well these work! Please, please, if you have the time and the money, make one.

🍁Mel🇨🇦@melhathnofury.bsky.social · 3w ago

Here’s instructions on building your own Corsi-Rosenthal box.

Today is something called AI Appreciation Day (wut) and I’m seeing apocalyptic photos across my timeline of wildfire smoke coloring the skies orange and gray, so here’s the Against AI and Its Environmental Harms library one more time:

Bad air coming, Minnesota. Limit time outside tomorrow and Thursday. How are we getting vulnerable people inside? Cooling centers, Hennepin: www.hennepincounty.gov/services/ass... Ramsey: www.ramseycountymn.gov/residents/em...

This is the link to make a comment about the proposed OMB rule change. This rule change does many things, most most centrally it effectively moves the power of the purse from the legislative to the executive branch. www.regulations.gov/document/OMB... This is incredibly dangerous.

A brilliant 🧵. Please do read. I particularly loved “Of course LLM products have an address. It's a corporate address.” A wonderful unmasking of the faux-neutrality underlying tech exceptionalism. Google, channeling Barlow, has long claimed to be “everywhere & nowhere.” But Google has an address!

Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

He kept coming back, repeatedly (in the way AI often loops) to this idea of AI (specifically Claude) representing "a position without an address", and it became increasingly clear to me that there was some odd mystification happening. Of course LLM products have an address. It's a corporate address.

Generative AI is a tool designed to break labor, but to break some laboring groups harder than others

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

There was some one outside the federal courthouse today holding a sign: Arrest Jonathan Ross, Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez. Let’s keep that front and center, journalists.

Kat Rohn@rohnkat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is hard, as a Minnesotan, to see the resources expended on the arrests and charges here and at Cities Church while officers who shot and killed our community members continue to walk free. To know that immigration enforcement has billions of dollars while folks in community struggle to pay rent.

This will continue as long as there are no consequences for them.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Potentially up to 15 legal observers in Minneapolis have been arrested so far today. 06.16.2026 PLEASE SEND THIS TO YOUR COMRADES DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR

Navigating the balance between autonomy and consistency is a huge piece of my job and I really appreciate Christian's take on why both matter and the issues with going too far in either direction.

Christian Moore-Anderson@cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

Well, debating teacher autonomy versus teaching consistency is all the rage on LinkedIn, apparently. But when a well balanced post is written, hardly anyone reads it. People still want one-sided hot takes, it seems. christianmooreanderson.com/the-problem-...

Well, debating teacher autonomy versus teaching consistency is all the rage on LinkedIn, apparently. But when a well balanced post is written, hardly anyone reads it. People still want one-sided hot takes, it seems. christianmooreanderson.com/the-problem-...

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It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

ACLU@aclu.org · 3mo ago

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

This is also a very clear demonstration of how "we'll pretend it's over and the weirdos can just mask" and, more generally, relying on masks as a long-term solution individualizes a problem that should be addressed structurally. Masks are NOT, actually, universally accessible. Clean indoor air is.*

Alana@alanasaltz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I have horrifically severe TMJ and jaw arthritis. To the point I haven't eaten solid food in over three years. I can only wear adhesive N95s and even they can bother me. I still mask.

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Counterpoint: Yes they are, and that is good

Just in case you don't realize it, AI sucks.

I present: a tiny rant news.chanda.science/archive/who-...

Who gets to ask the universe questions?

A few notes on who should read books about physics

news.chanda.science

‘Covid ‘only’ kills the sick the old and the vulnerable’ presented as a net positive is not restricted to RFK jr. And I’m sure I will be unpopular for pointing that out.

Thomas [DARK MODE], DO@tom.medsky.social · 3mo ago

RFK Jr. showing his eugenicist beliefs. Here he is today at The City Club in Cleveland: "The average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases. So what was really killing them? It was almost impossible for COVID to kill a healthy person. It was killing people who were already sick."

And for the teachers in the room, no, your “teacher voice” does not substitute a microphone.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Conference friends: My voice is very loud. Almost certainly louder than yours. I always use the microphone during a conference presentation so that everyone can clearly hear me. And you should too.

Getting settled in Anaheim for #NSTA26! Who do I know (or want to know!) that's coming?

If you are worried your town is next - start organizing now. Make connections. Talk with five neighbors. Start those signal groups for your school or neighborhood. And know that every bit of organizing you do now will pay off tenfold when ICE comes to your community. 2/2

This is a multigenerational sin that isn’t really reparable

Half of those arrested by federal agents in Minnesota this winter have already been deported

The federal government moved at a rapid pace to deport nearly 1,700 people picked up during a surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota this winter, according to data analyzed by APM Reports and M...

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Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.

Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

startribune.com

speaking from minnesota, weird to see anyone asking about where are student protests in the wake of the most effective protest movements of my lifetime, one that included so so so many college students but not as /college/ protests.

Struggling with this a whole lot, personally. Where do we direct this energy? How do we pivot? I’m taking cues from what leaders of immigration organizations are doing. Mirac and Mn8 featured in this piece.

Sahan Journal@sahanjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Community organizers, legal groups and lawmakers are seeking financial and legal tools to help the hardest-hit communities while cautioning that the Trump administration’s heightened immigration enforcement will continue. Written by @ncsscibelli.bsky.social

The past few months have brought out enough Minnesota pride that it's been tough to find state flags or flag poles (unless they come with American flags), but I finally got mine

I'm interested in a short article/video/other resource for teachers interested in learning about using "for every" slope statements. Anyone have something they like? #iTeachPhysics

I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal@jayapal.house.gov · 6mo ago

I received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office. ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for. We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.