BTW, this is one of the currently active, functioning, doing-good-science missions that the proposed budget would kill.

it's so cool how you can try to build a life with the help offered to you and then the government will take it away because too many people needed that help

stability? security? no thanks, gimme a hit of that boundless anxiety please

This is absolutely correct and, to be honest, having met some of the best scholars in the world in their respective (sub or sub-sub- fields), part of what makes them the best is that they truly and fundamentally believe and live this.

Hey, since @why.bsky.team unblocked me, I'd like to say that so-called "AI" is a venture capital scam that's gonna fuck the economy sideways when the bubble bursts and that Claude specifically is for chumps

A great example of what I mean. People with social capital are often allowed to transgress because the costs are borne by people without it.

“a survey by the center [UW’s Latino Center for Health] shows 41.2% of agricultural workers experience long COVID – one of the highest rates among professions studied. Overall, 34% of Latinos report experiencing long COVID, the highest rate among the racial groups examined.”

I was telling some friends today that it's amazing we haven't all died from stress... and realized that's survivor bias talking.

Plenty of people are definitely not surviving the stress.

But we muddle through

If you like to read about a man suffering, this is for you.

Or we could end societal transphobia, Brianna

I think it's interesting how much of THE LORD OF THE RINGS is or probably is conscious, unconcealed borrowing from other well-known works of fiction or popular accounts of history

Something I want young people to know is that when I was young there were twice as many birds as there are now.

Joy can be resistance. And I don't mean that in the "let's throw a party" sense. I mean that in the "there is more to us than suffering" sense. I wake up every morning next to the love of my life. I'm a whole freaking LAWYER.

being trans rules actually and the only downsides are deliberately manufactured by cis people

i remember getting suicide statistics when i first came out and having to explain to dumbfounded family that embracing my gender was actually the first time in my life i WASN'T suicidal.

if you want life to suck less for trans people, start by believing that trans life is beautiful and worth living

Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays Frontier AI models generated "detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces" without ever seeing the images.

“The number one [takeaway] would be that just because the AI is saying, very convincingly, that it is seeing something, it doesn’t mean that it is actually seeing that.”

Holy fucking shit, just use humans.

It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It. The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.

Totally off-topic, but did y'all the know the Free State of Florida's citrus industry is basically dead??

This is quite a story:
slate.com/business/202...

It's all just of a piece with every other rape panic - it's foreigners! It's trans women! It's anonymous internet perves! - when it's actually just men in power who don't hide what they're doing and will argue it's fine anyway even if they are ever held accountable.

Young adult happiness is falling. Percent of young people who are pretty or very happy has dropped from 88% to 76% over the last 15 years after having held fairly steady between 1980 and 2010

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

How im tryin to be this summer

Do art.

Childhood you remembers.

Trust your inner child.

Do art.

February: Meta employee leaks confidential company memo to the NYT, alerting the public about plans to deploy face rec on RayBans

April: Meta announces it plans to track the keystrokes of all employees

I always feel like such a fun sponge writing talks for conferences on play and including a slide on the importance of remembering that play is not always a positive experience, and that definitions that do focus on fun, pleasure, and universality are problematic…

Tbh I think it's actually kind of obvious that if you think gerrymandering in a two party system is bad, and one of the parties is actively doing that and rejecting legislative efforts to curtail it, the correct move is to counter-gerrymander until you can restore equilibrium and force negotiation.

here's what i'll say about this: suspending the gas tax *with the stipulation you raise it an equivalent amount later when gas is cheap again* is a policy idea that makes a lot of sense.

Latest insane Islamophobic legislation comes from Geneva, Switzerland, where new rules dictate that women at public pools must wear, "one-piece or two-piece swimming costumes whose maximum length is above the knees and which leave the arms bare”.

So, women MUST show arms and legs. That's freedom!

Getting coffee, then I’ll have about an hour to finalize the text of Friday’s presentation so that I can start practicing it in earnest this afternoon

When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene. By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks. One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance. The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.

Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics.

Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park."

The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!

it will never not be funny how they thought bsky was going to be a google campus and instead they got tumblr and they absolutely h a t e it

Reclaim "vibe coding" to mean "putting some instrumental electronic music in your headphones as you buckle in for a serious coding sesh".