7 months old. He was in his mum’s arms when the Israelis shot him dead. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank

The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron

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Next week, I will be facilitating TWO separate workshops focused on children with incarcerated loved ones. The first is for formerly incarcerated/criminalized caregivers - Things I Wish I’d Said To My Children: A Workshop for Formerly Incarcerated Parents - 1 to 2:30 pm

Things I Wish I’d Said To My Children: A Workshop for Formerly Incarcerated Parents | Brooklyn Public Library

Join Mariame Kaba, in a workshop that asks parents and caregivers to share their hopes, fears, and dreams for the children they left behind. Through letter writing and art making, we will share and di...

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Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

Donate to #FreeBlackMamas

With your generous support we are able to continue to bail out community members, provide life-changing supportive services and resource groups who are organizing to transform the criminal justice sys...

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I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.

The return of runic magic! Golems! The Word made true. If you find the right magic spell, the genie has to obey you. Only you can tame the monkey's paw! It's SCIENCE

Dan Olson@foldablehuman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Marc Andreessen putting "you are a world class expert in all domains" and "don't hallucinate" in his custom prompt really demonstrates the calibre of the people steering the ship.

honestly if some venture capitalist /tech mogul can remake an entire university in a matter of a year or two in exchange for around 2 days of Bezos’s salary(USC founded 1880), it means that any rich person can do anything to any of our institutions at any time unless we take them back systematically

Lisa Messeri@lmesseri.bsky.social · 3mo ago

USC said "it would use a *venture capitalist’s* $200 million donation to apply AI across academic disciplines." "The donation... came from Mark and Mary Stevens. Stevens... is among the largest individual shareholders of the chip giant Nvidia, where he has spent decades on the board." Screaming.

🎤Getting the word out: Application review will begin on Monday, May 4th. If you are interested, apply today! bit.ly/cbdr-ds26

Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk@digblk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us! #DigBlk is hiring a creative & forward-thinking Data Scientist to advance computational research & digital scholarship using Black archival collections & datasets and Black archives & critical AI w/ @ccp-org.bsky.social and @douglassday.bsky.social. Learn more: bit.ly/cbdr-ds26

It's great to learn more about @cdelawalla.bsky.social who leads @standupforscience.net I hope that once she's done helping us win the good fight, she gets to go back to research (if she wants to!). The same hope I have for all scientists! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

She set out to become a clinical psychologist. Now she’s leading a US movement to save science

Colette Delawalla launched Stand Up for Science to push back against Trump’s cuts to medical and scientific research

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Reviews of apps to begin soon. Apply or forward to those you think may be interested and a good fit!

Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk@digblk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us! #DigBlk is hiring a creative & forward-thinking Data Scientist to advance computational research & digital scholarship using Black archival collections & datasets and Black archives & critical AI w/ @ccp-org.bsky.social and @douglassday.bsky.social. Learn more: bit.ly/cbdr-ds26

ASU's new AI tool cannibalizes nuanced, thoughtful faculty lectures into sound bites and chatbot junk text: www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.

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I can't imagine what would more effectively recruit US scientific talent to other countries around the world than destroying universities, eliminating research funding, and demonizing the very concept of expertise.

Young artists aged 16-24 who have been directly impacted by criminalization/policing/punishment can apply for this residency & get $2500 to work on a creative project! Visit bit.ly/diyresidency26 to learn more. Please help us spread the word!

On Monday, EPIC filed an amicus brief arguing that the Virginia city of Norfolk’s use of Flock’s Automated License Plate Reader system creates a warrantless mass surveillance program and constitutes an unreasonable search in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

EPIC files amicus brief arguing city’s use of Flock ALPRs violated Fourth Amendment

Updates

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Huge news for Zooniverse -- 3 million registered volunteers! Next milestone for 2026: 1 BILLION classifications... coming soon!

Zooniverse@zooniverse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

3 million volunteers! Congratulations, Zooniverse! Today we have reached an extraordinary milestone: 3 million volunteers contributing to people-powered research around the world. From classifying galaxies and discovering exoplanets to tracking wildlife, transcribing historical records, and…

If I had more energy id take the time to change bees to “LLMs” or “AI”. But yall get it

a group of people sitting in front of a screen that says tbs hd on it

Alt: A modification of Oprah’s famed “you get a car” segment where instead of cars, everyone gets bees

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all of us are.

Kevin Riggle@kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 4mo ago

(I am also the product of a great deal of public goods and services)

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion. I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit

Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

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Right. I would be gunning for something bigger, like Secretary of War.

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

If I wanted to party and drink I simply wouldn’t become the director of the FBI

The misunderstanding of embodiment such that social and cultural groundings are excluded (in addition to the often narrowly invoked views of the physical/affective) remains so problematic and seems to only be getting worse at the uncritical expansion of systems such as LLMs

Excited to go out to Cornell and talk with some folks tomorrow! events.cornell.edu/event/chris-...

Chris Dancy, "A framework for the human in human-AI interaction"

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what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · 4mo ago

Boy, what a terrible headline. We *need* the wealthy to participate in public services. If only poor people ride the bus, then rich people won't wield their power in support of public transit or, worse, will wield their power *against* it.

Really excited for @digblk.bsky.social LibTech Scholar Fitsum Beyene to have an opportunity to talk about our ongoing work with OCR systems and Black Digital archives at @facct.bsky.social in June! Preprint - arxiv.org/abs/2603.25761

A Survey of OCR Evaluation Methods and Metrics and the Invisibility of Historical Documents

Optical character recognition (OCR) and document understanding systems increasingly rely on large vision and vision-language models, yet evaluation remains centered on modern, Western, and institution...

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“CRITICAL AI literacy”, he yelled into the void…

We removed the barriers and created an accessible space because resistance is for everyone, everywhere. The *official* No Kings Accessible Rally will be a virtual event to protect our health, defend our democracy, and say NO KINGS. Details: zurl.co/TXWd7 #NoKings #NoKings3 #Democracy #NK3VR

1st two categories are associated in terms of info/knowledge production. Also considerations of control (e.g., “chatbots” is a dominated, centralized category) and related considerations of problems of a centralized (probabilistic, opaque) system (also TESCREAL associated control)

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Here’s a bit of analysis from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com showing chatbots are less likely to serve up misinformation than social media. So if this is how people are going to start consuming information it may be a moderating force towards factualness. Who thought that LLMs might be a force for truth?!

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

TRUMP: I did a mail in ballot for elections in Florida because I felt I should be here REPORTER: You were in Palm Beach the last few weekends TRUMP: Yeah. And I decided that I was going to vote by mail in ballot because I had a lot of different things