just me, or does the SDST Jackrabbit mascot look like Bugs Bunny with a goiter?
Evan Bradley
@yevb0.bsky.social
he/him; psycholinguist, professor, music nerd, dad 📍Lenape land http://linktr.ee/yevb0
Ok, I'll just say it: seeing him coach a football team that's not purple is...weird
You're at a concert/festival: what band's shirt (not on the bill) is a 🚩 that perhaps you've made a terrible decision?
Mike Myers: Talk Amongst Yourselves
ALT: Mike Myers: Talk Amongst Yourselves
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Google occasionally serves me news from Malta, and this article has me cracking up for some reason. It also has a particular Maltese vibe I can't quite explain. www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/nationa...
Fraudulent Italian merchant flees, leaving customers angry and doorless
They went to Birżebbuġa, they saw and bought their doors. But now, the merchant, Giuseppe Fiore, is nowhere to be found
maltatoday.com.mt
Make a band bigger 10,000,000 Maniacs
Magistra Cohen (she/her)@magistracohen.bsky.social · 3w agoMake a band bigger Adam Carpenter Ant
listening to NPR journo expounding on the value of understanding the tiny sliver of the electorate ("unicorns") who are low-info swing voters in swing states who only vote every 4 years I am begging us as a society to stop hyper fixating on these people
refusing to take the bait/ redirecting energy and attention is actually a very good, non violent, liberal-friendly tool!! it helps to preserve the value of civil discourse in the public sphere!! /4
Watching movies from the 1900s, I am sometimes amazed by how many shots there are longer than 3 seconds
it's an incredible thing, that you have to ask this question: will the American people find the will and the courage to stop things like "Masked Roving Electroshock Street Execution Squads"? maybe? let's find out
crossstitch it, frame it, hang it in the Louvre
dr. caitlin m. green@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · last mo.nothing worse than an unfuckable moon
2- Righteousness. People do have legitimate needs, often unmet needs, and the synthetic text extruding machines can *look like* a solution. But just because the problems are real doesn't mean the solution is beneficial, effective, or worth (not always externalized) costs. >>
The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer from Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring
An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000
theguardian.com
Children are asking questions so we have to remove all the trans people so children go back to their natural state of never asking questions.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last mo.They straight up encourage employment discrimination. The teacher didn't do anything at all wrong. Literally just existing and working until the online mob decided to make them the new target.
Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
If you hand ammunition to Trump, you are not some heterodox, dispassionate academic voice. You're just complicit.
Incredible law suit by @thrasherxy.bsky.social lithub.com/when-we-figh...
When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government
Yesterday, I filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and—in his official capacity as Chairman of the US House of Representatives House Committee on Education and the Workforce—Michigan Cong…
lithub.com
AI can be both extremely capable and extremely unreliable ... that is in fact what makes it so dangerous.
I am responsible for the academic skills line in our AI programme and I think part of the 26/27 curriculum needs to be to help students understand that all those “AI assistants” that publishers and apps force on them are in fact “traps” for them to avoid. >>
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2mo ago> Something seems to be lost on my peers today: it’s still easy to not use AI. [...] Eschewing AI is one thing that we can actually do to live out ethics that affirm values of human and environmental rights. It’s almost a gift! Just use a computer the same way you did three years ago!
how dare you tell me how to live [die]
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 2mo agoMAGA cultist Eric Metaxas was outraged by seeing an air quality alert triggered by the Canadian wildfires that suggested people limit outdoor activity: "How dare they say that. Who has the right to tell me or you or anyone anything? It's a free country. I can do whatever I want."
The precipitous decline in quality and intelligibility of campfire skits mirrors the increasingly self-referential memeification of youth culture and signals a post-post-postmodern abandonment of narrative structure, leading inexorably to ouroboric synthesis of brainrot and AI slop; in this thread I
So, the ⚽ ball sensor technology can detect a brush of a player's hair, but not a skycam cable?