Currently braving the Anthropic settlement call line on behalf of all self-published cowriters and y'all. 😂 These ladies are very nice but this system is a HOT STEAMING MESS and we are all due restitution for the stress

It's good that the pressure was applied and the order issued, but the fact that these fuckers tried to deploy the Guard to voting sites At All is a direct escalation and attempt to test what level of authoritarian fuckery they can get away with. Very glad DC held firm and said "No."

Jonathan Diaz@jonathandiaz.bsky.social · 2d ago

After pressure from the DC Board of Elections and Election Protection organizations, a spokesperson for the Guard said that they are addressing this specific incident, and that National Guard members are "directed not to monitor or secure polling locations" www.washingtonsun.com/metro/nation...

Would watch.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · yesterday

statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans

This week we have updates on Immigration, Medical Research Funding, Medicaid, and Food Safety (and you can always find all our tracked issues at unbreaking.org).

Unbreaking

Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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Here’s the website. Link to preorder at the top. (Site’s worth a look even if you’re not ordering, imho) therebelloonarchive.com

The Rebel Loon Archive

The Rebel Loon Archive preserves and shares art speaking out against Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota.

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I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

We are about 6 months away from my book, RESONANCE & RADIANCE, being released into the world. (April 13th, 2027!) RESONANCE & RADIANCE is a narrative nonfiction book about spectroscopy—the field of science that studies how light interacts with molecules. I want to share this book’s origin story 🧵:

Adjacent: Donna Strickland, who became the third woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, was an Associate (not full) Professor at the University of Waterloo at the time (she was also the first female physics prof there in 1997 (!) which I’m sure is unrelated to why she never went up 🙄)

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

A call for all Minnesotans: show up at your neighborhood mosque today; whistles, signs--We Love our Neighbors, We Love our Somali Neighbors. Show up, between 12 and 2 (prayer time). (this is the post you should reshare, buds).

strong statement from the Association for Human Mathematicians. "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding."

MPS school board directors Greta Callahan & Sharon El-Amin have authored a resolution calling for a delay of the Transformation Plan to be voted on Oct 13. the Tues., Oct 13 board meeting is *also* conference night in MPS, so staff & parents cannot attend the last meeting before the Nov 10 vote.

I live in Minnesota. I love my Somali neighbors. To get to them you gotta come through me.

This is so well put, I just wrote it on a post-it. This plus racism I think explains about 99% of everything about the U.S. right now.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 4d ago

Under financial capitalism, profit is the prime directive. But care is too labor-intensive to be profitable at the level of compensation needed for sustainability. And it can't be easily automated at the level of quality required for human needs.

Darnese Foster was one of the thousands of Black women who lost their jobs when Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency gutted the federal workforce. More than a year later, she is still looking for work to support her family. https://bit.ly/4y624cM

The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After DOGE Layoffs

Part 1 of a three-part series, FIRED: The DOGE Layoffs Hit Black Women Hard, a collaboration between MindSite News, Capital B, The 19th, and The Nation, edited by MindSite News. Photographs by Kuwilil...

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rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Like many scientists, I’ve been mulling over the impact of LLMs on our fields. I’ve not yet seen it articulated, but I think there is a largely unspoken “invisible labor underclass” framework at play.

Differences in housing policy post-Surge couldn't be more stark. Both councils passed a temporary 60-day notice requirement for nonpayment evictions. Minneapolis: the mayor vetoed and council centrists refused to override. On pace for record evictions. St. Paul passed it veto-proof. Down 15% YOY

Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · 4d ago

September eviction numbers from @homelinemn.org: Minneapolis remains on pace for its highest number of evictions in decades, tracking 4.8% ahead of 2025 which was already a high-water mark. St. Paul is on pace for a 15% *reduction* in eviction filings year-over-year homelinemn.org/12175/evicti...

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is award to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for their work in 'mirror' chemistry www.scientificamerican.com/article/2026...

2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to pioneers in 'mirror' chemistry

The prize recognizes Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai's discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis

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We are still OPEN FOR PITCHES for Issue 2. All experience and backgrounds welcome. We are especially looking for: -pieces not focussed on medieval europe -experimental writing -reviews have a look at our "experimental" and "reviews" sections in Issue 1! playtestmaterial.org/issue-two-hi...

Issue Two: Histories

It’s my great honour as guest editor to introduce the second issue of Playtest Material, “Histories.” The call for submissions for this issue will open to the public September 15 and close October 15....

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“ICE never left. Things became less public, became less of a spectacle, but immigrants are still being targeted and persecuted,” Barham said. “And from rumors I'm hearing, things I've seen, I suspect that they're about to amp up again.” story via Cait Kelley www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...

Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic

Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...

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Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

What is the IceCube neutrino observatory? Neutrinos are elusive particles that rarely interact, but can create flashes of light when they do. Most neutrino detectors are giant water tanks surrounded by light detectors. IceCube is kilometer-long strings of detectors embedded in the Antarctic ice.

Physics World@physicsworld.bsky.social · 6d ago

A rare solo #NobelPrize in physics goes to neutrino scientist Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin”. Full coverage here: physicsworld.com/a/francis-ha... 🧪⚛️

Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 6d ago

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

The @startribune.com is basing a headline and story frame around a known racist Islamophobe’s tweet. This is wild even for the Strib.

Y'all... Get in on this! There's some great stuff in there

Angela Scare-letta@periwinklejane.bsky.social · last wk.

Minnesota cat rescue Kitty Revolution is holding a silent auction. Ends Sunday 10/4 and we are not even halfway to our goal. Please take a look - maybe you'll find something you need? www.32auctions.com/kittyrevolut...

This is infuriating. Can't stop thinking about it. For 35 yrs I've talked to experts, asked them for their time & expertise. IT IS WRONG to treat sources as Nicole was treated. Just shitty, one human to another, but also unethical and deceptive.

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm the token expert voice saying that inconsistencies in victim's narratives are common in an otherwise brutally bad piece of journalism full of tropes about how not to report on sexual assault.