“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin, “Notes on the House of Bondage”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Mni Sóta Makoce—the land where the sky reflects in the water.

Chris Steller@chrissteller.bsky.social · 8h ago

Minneapolis just now

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

LIBERALS: Why do you people always say we have to destroy capitalism, all we have to do is elect enough Democrats and they’ll reform it into something that works for everybody COMMUNISTS: A company that got rich making shackles for slaves is still in business making restraints for migrant workers

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2w ago

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

It's kind of interesting to see this at the same time schools like Arizona and Syracuse are starting influencer degrees, a field in which most people make less than $15/yr and only 13% make more than $100k, even prior to 2024 when sponsorship money was flowing

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · yesterday

"President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans ... Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music, and cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest." newrepublic.com/post/213446/...

Look what just came in the mail today! I feel like it is very relevant to some of current academic discourse on here

Started listening to Madonna's new album out of idle curiosity and found myself going back to it enough to buy the CD and I am feeling oddly compelled to play it on repeat. It's like.... so many of her notable musical motifs and themes from decades, brought forward into the present

I'm incredibly honored to be one of the inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z award. The sequence of events preceding and following this retraction were harrowing (and are honestly still stressful), but I hope this will be an opportunity for more open dialogue about mistakes + self-retraction in science.

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · yesterday

The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Lotte Reiniger's silhouette animation in THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926), the earliest surviving full-length animated feature. Her attention to detail was stunning, note the wobble of the chess piece.

Bepress why are you sending me new submissions when I turned the "open to submissions" button off?

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

I think I have time for one more book before school starts, so here we go!

Add anything Krasznahorkai to the list, also Enriquez's Our Share of Night (And adding Pavić to my own to-read pile)

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · yesterday

Most of Delany's work, including his notorious DHALGREN. A lot of Alan Moore's work, including the novel of his I've read (VOICE OF THE FIRE). Olga Tokarczuk's (alas) THE BOOKS OF JACOB (trans. Jennifer Croft), DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS by Milorad Pavić (trans. Christina Pribićević-Zorić).

"Also wondering how many people just published that photo with her story without questioning." All of them. 100% of them. That total atrophy of critical thinking skills is exactly why we're stuck in a massive misinformation crisis.

@bluebirdsoar.bsky.social · yesterday

Am wondering if they are related. Maybe the family used the name Margaret for several generations. Also wondering how many people just published that photo with her story without questioning. It’s more mysteriously incomplete than fake. RIP Margaret & Margaret

"...we found that the rhetoric & policy of shared sacrifice diminished & partisan differences in pandemic policy increased once it became clear to political elites that there were major racial disparities in COVID-19 cases & deaths."

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’m proud of this paper (as awareness of disparities spread, Republicans eased up on public health measures- but Democrats focused a lot of energy on reducing disparities, so real divergence). Also nice to have a random pharma salesman summarize the whole issue in the epigram at the top.

The interview is actually quite interesting and not at all like this. Feels like ragebait.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Took me a second but ... grade inflation is a dog whistle, right?

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

Feds want unis: "reexamining admissions practices, hiring more conservative faculty, cracking down on student protests, combating grade inflation, reducing foreign donations and lowering tuition." Some faculty will fall for this nonsense. The bigger worry is that boards and presidents will.

Someone smarter than me has probably written whole books on border enforcement and maintenance of serfdom

This is especially true on the left or left liberal end where a lot of people have fried their own brains on a litany of bigotries in order to justify being for the idea of the border regime, something that is younger than modern liberalism or republicanism and arguably younger than Marxism.

Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce

Reuters@reuters.com · 2d ago

Michigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E

I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

Datacenters - The Interstate Highway Project of the 21st Century

I keep thinking about this gorgeous essay about how LLMs- so often trained by inheritors of colonial English- has now rendered the kind of language that is natural to us (“fancy” vocabulary, passive voice, reduced relative clauses) artificial and suspect. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

marcusolang.substack.com

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 4d ago

A Nigerian born author, Jerry Falade, had his $2.4M book deal pulled because he was accused of using AI. There is unavoidable optics of a Black man writing a brilliant novel that people assume must have been written by AI. However the broader issue is we can’t trust any writing isn’t AI generated.

Trying to remember who it wasnI was going to listen to. My brain is stuck on Fauré and that's fine but not it.

Hey Minnesota won and the nudification technology ban will go into effect tomorrow at 12:00AM!

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

@sparklebeam.bsky.social I thought you would like to know that I am now in an ABBA phase

Top US science journals more likely to reject paper by Chinese authors: Even among American-based scientists, those with Chinese surnames had lower publication rates than those without, team finds www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

Top US science journals more likely to reject paper by Chinese authors: study

Even among American-based scientists, those with Chinese surnames had lower publication rates than those without, team finds.

scmp.com