You are free to cut anyone out of your life who makes you feel bad for just being yourself. There are plenty of people who will love you for who you are.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d agolol come the fuck on
Rachel Jones
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Librarian & Writer. Organizing with NYC PLAN (nycplan.org) and the Prison Library Support Network (plsn.org).
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d ago
Libraries remain an essential service in the digital age and as generative AI makes information online less reliable. @parismarx.com spoke to Hannah Cyrus & @flexlibris.bsky.social about how libraries are helping patrons gain a critical view on tech and AI. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/338_...
We may never know the answers to this inscrutable mystery
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3d ago"Why do the kids hate the filterless sociopaths who are destroying the environment and the economy and who monologue like James Bond villains?"
MEET THE PRESS: Do you support birthday cake? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: Look, I support blowing out candles, I support having streamers, I want party hats. We are focusing on hard-working middle class Americans having the birthday of their dreams.
For over ten years, Trump and all of his enablers, including a huge number of pundits, have constantly been telling people that it's okay to be an asshole. It's not, actually. It's not okay to be an asshole.
Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 3d agoYeah it doesn't have a catchy name like "woke" (although you can just call it trumpism or MAGA in a cultural sense) and again it's just this elevation of the idea that being your worst self & a real piece of shit is laudable, being good makes you a sucker and a loser
For my colleagues interested in #pseudohistory or the #lostcause literature. Levin's work is the thorn in the side of the amateurs and racists trying to rewrite history.
Kevin M. Levin@civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 3d agoWayne Pease, Jr. Went Looking for Black Confederates and Found What He Was Looking For #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/wayne-peas...
Wealthy technofascists and protected pedophiles are receiving far more grace than Jason Arday did. Absolution should be available to all. Our justice needs to be restorative, not exile and extermination. The latter is not justice at all.
Oh fuck.
Zach Everson@zacheverson.com · 7d agoMeet Eric Neff. At the LA DAs, a True the Vote conspiracy theory led him to prosecute an election-software CEO. The charges were dropped. He was placed on leave. LA paid $5M to settle the wrongful prosecution. He's now chief of the DOJ's Voting Section. 3/ www.justice.gov/crt/media/14...
I worked at an elite law school, and I have STORIES.
Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 5d agoThink of all the mediocre white men with their plagiarism/stealing student work/sexual harassment who kept their jobs or quietly retired but are alive. Jason Arday’s situation did NOT have to play out or end this way, no matter his errors. And the media and everyone with a hot take is responsible.
If only the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee had agency and the ability to influence how U.S. tax dollars were spent.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoQ: The shock gloves that ICE is reportedly rolling out using the deescalation funding. Is that the sort of use you envisioned when you passed that bill? SUSAN COLLINS: It's not
“People have been recognizing each other’s faces since the beginning of time—we just do it electronically,” an MSG spokesperson said in an emailed statement. …..! OKAY!
New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG
At a press conference outside Madison Square Garden, politicians, musicians, and privacy advocates argued for tighter restrictions on how public venues deploy biometric surveillance.
wired.com
New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:
Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...
unraveledpress.com
"Queens has seen a major spike in ICE activity in recent weeks — particularly in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods like East Elmhurst, Corona and College Point — with more than two dozen arrests documented throughout the borough since July 27, according to information provided by Hands Off NYC."
ICE Activity Surges in Queens - Queens Ledger
Elected officials and local activists are sounding the alarm as ICE arrests spike in the World’s Borough. BY COLE SINANIAN | cole@queensledger.com CORONA — Speaking to Fox News in June, White House B...
queensledger.com
The Beastie Boys tried to warn us that every generation must fight for the right to party. The price of partying is eternal vigilance. Amen.
jon christian@jonchristian.net · 6d agokids today are literally confused about whether "partying" was real or an urban legend
I have lived east and west and while the west coast mountains will kill you through indifference to humanity, they are brash young mountains. The Appalachians are the home of things whose names humanity has never known, and they resent us as newcomers and take us down into the dark when they can.
Kris Lorischild@direkris.itch.io · 6d agoIt's so cute when people on the east coast talk about mountains
UPS drivers pulling 9-hour shifts in hazardous wildfire smoke. Food processing plant workers sweating in 95 degree temps. Nurses taking care of patients without running water in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Climate change is here and creating hostile conditions for workers. My latest.
Smoke, Heat, Storms: How Climate Change is Making Bad Working Conditions Even Worse
As wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes intensify, workers are increasingly fighting for basic protections on top of everything else.
inthesetimes.com
back in the real world—today is the ninth anniversary of the death of Heather Heyer, murdered by a white nationalist. from the AP live reporting that day: apnews.com/general-news...
"The gloves must come into direct contact with the skin and are not effective through clothing or hair, the user manual states. The manual says no more than 2 gloves should be applied to a subject at one time & they should not be used for more than 15 seconds in many instances." Oh Jesus. Oh fuck.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on electrical shock gloves for agents | CNN
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and officers may soon be equipped with gloves that deliver electrical shocks, which the manufacturer says are intended to de-escalate encounters with individ...
cnn.com
All you need to know about American politics is Congress was a more serious institution when Cooter and Gopher were members than it is now.
My father Ben Jones died today. We were estranged. I hope his soul finds peace.
🏳️⚧️ Please read, use, and share these safety resources for trans folks and their allies! 🧵
Hey, I made a video for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Please, @mayor.nyc.gov, don't let the billionaires get their hands on our kids! Give us a full 2 year "A.i." moratorium for the schools - for students and teachers, 2K-12! (PLEASE share - and tell the mayor what YOU think at HeyMamdani.fyi !)
"The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model produced in response to prompting; they wanted to wrestle with difficult readings and complex ideas"
Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)
We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.
insidehighered.com