can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

Lula supporter raising the trans flag at Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo, Brazil today.

Also the social capital - ie the friend of my parents friend who can hook me up with a meeting with a key person who might invest in my idea either with $$ or with more social connections - what Granovetter calls the "strength of weak ties"

🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh@tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump started a stupid & illegal war in Iran that has driven up diesel prices. Now he wants to bankroll Putin's illegal war against Ukraine by buying diesel from him.   One strategic disaster after the next. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel, suggests US may buy amid surging fuel prices

The move comes weeks ahead of the midterm elections.

politico.com

Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

The Stones get it.

“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028

I am beginning to think that the clitoris is not the only thing men can't find on a woman's body.

PZ Spiders@pzmyers.bsky.social · last mo.

Q: What's the large muscular organ in a woman's chest called? A: The heart? Q: I'm sorry, Bob. It's the SPLEEN. The spleen. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

Whatever is the wisdom of such limitations (and whether or not it’s really just a sham to avoid meaningful government regulation), isn’t a general agreement between competitors limiting the pace of their “innovation” a clear antitrust violation? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

Major AI companies want to ‘pace the frontier’ — but their proposed solutions need real teeth.

theverge.com

I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.

one thing i think this president has been outstanding is reframing every fight as one where minorities and the marginalized have all the power and white folks are just smol beans along for the ride who are politely asking for things like segregation and open prejudice and lower gas prices

Today I'm honoring 9/11 Day by turning remembrance into action. 25 years later,,, we remember those we lost and honor the heroes who stepped up by continuing to do GOOD. If you a NYC school teacher,,, drop yo wish list and imma hook up the first 25. Join me and @911day and #UNITEFORGOOD.

John Fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.

the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

nytimes.com

This is the fucking way.

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year “Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November”

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:5-6

He says if his kids went to public school they could be "killed by a gang of third world miscreants that want to scalp a white kid," and this happens in "every public school." This is the racist bilge conservatives imbibe every day, day after day after day.

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Benny Johnson: “I have to homeschool my kids” because they could be “indoctrinated” or “killed” in public school

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

Guys. Where are the posts reminding us not to speak ill of the dead? I'm not seeing them for some reason.

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

there is an understanding at every strip club that you can’t have multiple dancers using the same stage name at the same club—and let me tell you how many people I worked with who fought to be, lost, and still ultimately respected anyone who got to be Jolene

It’s amazing how a white guy can say that he thinks Black people are inferior and allowing it is academic freedom But it’s totally unacceptable to say that the law isn’t value neutral (critical race theory).

Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.

Man Who Skipped Airport’s Moving Walkway Immediately Realizes What An Arrogant Fool He’s Been https://theonion.com/man-who-skipped-airport-s-moving-walkway-immediately-re-1819579777/

Wait, so the Prime Minister wants to send cis men to women’s prisons because the men’s prisons are overcrowded, but he wants to send trans women to men’s prisons because we are supposedly a danger to women 🤦‍♀️

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 2mo ago

JKKK is eerily silent suddenly…

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The core of the right-wing information universe is that one correction from a mainstream outlet proves it can’t be trusted and that one accurate claim in a flurry of false ones proves that they must be.

Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is exactly what I run into with conspiracy theorists — a stray, unverified claim gets treated as if it debunks the real story, and it almost always falls apart under scrutiny. Wild to hear that pattern showing up at 60 Minutes as Cecilia Vega describes it.