Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
The Brennan Center tracks the Supreme Court's shadow docket rulings on challenges to the Trump Administration's actions. The Court has ruled in favor of the Administration 80% of the time, often without explaining its decisions or providing guidance to lower courts.
I know I'm always harping on about this but it really is corrosive to public life that our major media institutions are run by people who do not know how evidence works and cannot distinguish between a real social trend and something their algorithm feeds them on tiktok.
good, productive feminism explains that gender isn't innate and the patriarchy can be deconstructed; essentially telling young women that all men are creeps and predators and will never change is actually just weirdly reactionary and purposeless
This is truly insane
Noah Wyle as Dr Robby on the Pitt leaning on the counter „One must imagine Sisyphus happy“
The academic job market
I wrote about the Olympics’ ban on trans women competing, and the stakes of the new women’s sex-testing regime for female athletes, trans and cis alike. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
For this episode of In Bed with the Right @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I headed to Flavortown to talk about its frosty-tipped mayor, about Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chefs and the gender of cookery www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Media outlets should spend less time writing about the “legitimate grievances” of people who loathe immigration and more time addressing how racist reporting about migrants, Muslims, Black folks, and other racialised communities has cultivated the fascism we are enduring today. Just saying.
In an email to customers, Amazon announced that it would be ending service for Kindle devices older than the 2012 edition. Those devices will lose access to the Kindle Store. www.wired.com/story/amazon...
I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.
Constantly reminded of this Ted Chiang passage on capitalism, technology and progress from the New Yorker whenever I see the tech “elite” snowflaking about criticism.
The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.
That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.
(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).
People keep blabbing that Congress is "so divided" but they're never divided when it comes to these three things:
1) Supporting Israel no matter what it does
2) Covering for Jeffrey Epstein and his network
3) Supporting Big Tech, including technofascists, and taking their donations
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
The Trump Department of Education wrote a dangerous new regulation that would strip Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) from people based on their "political ideology."
It's a completely naked fascist attempt.
But Senate Dems can stop him—it just requires a few more votes.
My response to this question is always, "Viewpoint diversity? Okay great, hire more Palestinians, I'm sure they've got a really different viewpoint than your profs with bi-national research foundation grants. For that matter, hire an out-and-out anarchist instead of a liberal democrat."
Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor.
The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.
"Democrats need to break from this path and acknowledge that billionaires—especially those in the increasingly antidemocratic tech sector—are never going to side with them over the GOP." From @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2087...
Dave Chapelle says "I resent the republican party because they weaponized trans jokes that not what I was doing"
When they dehumanize trans people it's a matter of public policy whereas when I do it it's for money
“We recommend listening to neurodivergent people to find out about their preferences and using the words that they prefer, instead of solely being led by traditions which have developed without the input of the communities we are referring to.”
theconversation.com/what-neurodi... #neurodiversity
you ever just feel overwhelmed by crushing sadness? like your heart might implode? no? haha me neither
Teeth (2007). Was probably 10 or 11 when I saw it.
i dunno maybe it's because i'm in Minnesota and we kicked out Al Franken for squeezing his constituents' asses and now have a woman senator who is *currently holding the senate floor to save the boundary waters*, but you got a man with baggage? you can toss the man!
Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States.
Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay.
Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.
He's just upset he can't keep pretending he is some sort of insightful progressive and is being named for what he actually is by those who most embrace his worldview
It’s a point that bears repeating: it’s not “reasonable concerns” or “legitimate questions” that impede healthcare for trans people. It’s just basic transphobia.