Cycling jerseys, drawing in black and white with text as follows: - 'Petro-chemical company causing climate change' - 'Country where prisoners are tortured' - 'Do some gambling' - 'State with terrible human rights record' - 'Oil company that downplayed the risks from climate change for three decades' - 'Sponsoring cycling makes us look green and ethical'

Such an important feature on TotalEnergies by ITV Cycling and Matt Rendell on the Tour de France rest day programme this evening. In support: a repost of this drawing.

Text from kid: I got a list of books to go and find then put in a cart and bring it back So ive been doing that for 3 hours I also did some shelving Text from me: Congratulations! You are a Library Page

my 14yo’s first day at his summer job 📚

Canada: "We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide" OTTAWA – Two months after issuing one statement promising “concrete actions” if Israel did not stop intentionally starving Palestinians in Gaza, Canada has joined with 24 other nations to issue a new ...

Canada: “We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide”

Once Upon a Forest
Susan van den Munckhof
Trail Camera Wildlife Photography

Me: I’ve been having stabbing pains in my leg

AI doctor trained entirely on social media posts: classic oldest daughter energy

Me: what

AI doc: former gifted kid problems

Me: …

AI doc: ADHD Pisces season seed oil cleanse

Update: We've removed the paywall for all ye who enter.

cotton hill engaging with mark zuckerberg's AI

just found out meta's AI publishes a huge number of its queries online because people have their privacy settings set wrong and you can put any of them on a photo of cotton hill and it looks like something he would say

A popular climate website will be hobbled, after Trump administration eliminates entire staff Climate.gov is the main source of timely climate-related information for the public. It will stop publishing new information because the Trump administration laid off everyone who worked on it.

Climate.gov is the main source of timely climate-related information for the public. It will stop publishing new information because the Trump administration laid off everyone who worked on it.

oh my god, those are truly multi generational, I hate this

the thing about “bread and circuses” is that you’re not supposed to double the price of bread and then become the circus

The black-and-white photo captures a group of people participating in a gay rights protest on a city street, likely during a pride event. The crowd holds various signs with messages like "REPEAL ALL ANTI-GAY LAWS," "GLAD TO BE GAY," "MANY OF YOU ARE GAY TOO!," and "CANADIAN GAY PRIDE WEEK," advocating for gay rights and visibility. Some signs feature symbols like the lambda, associated with gay liberation. The protesters are dressed in casual clothing, with some wearing tank tops and others in jackets, reflecting the era's fashion. The background shows tall buildings and a few trees, indicating an urban setting, possibly in a Canadian city given the reference to "Canadian Gay Pride Week." The atmosphere is one of activism and solidarity, with participants standing, kneeling, and raising fists in support of their cause.

Coming Out was a groundbreaking documentary series that aired in Canada in 1972.
It was the first Canadian television program to target the LGBTQ community.
It became a landmark series that is mostly forgotten today.
This is its story.

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The right question to ask in this situation is always: oh, so how many people did you want to kill?

I keep getting told “Well you’re gonna have to get used to generative AI” and it’s like No, I will not because I have these ethical problems with it that are rather insurmountable.

Good thread.

While we’re at it.

Canvas & Blackboard are now both owned by Private Equity giants in the “data integration space,” meaning they harvest & monetize our identity & intellectual property…& our students’

We should be asking, what do these LMSs do that a $20/yr password-protected WordPress site can’t?

i recall my parents arguing in the car a LOT. and we ended up on weird abandoned logging roads a LOT

Screencap from linked article, with text: "Emily M Bender, professor of linguistics at the University of Washington and co-author of a new book, The AI Con, has many reasons why she doesn’t want to use large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. “But maybe the first one is that I’m not interested in reading something that nobody wrote,” she says. “I read because I want to understand how somebody sees something, and there’s no ‘somebody’ inside the synthetic text-extruding machines.” It’s just a collage made from lots of different people’s words, she says. Does she feel she is being “left behind”, as AI enthusiasts would say? “No, not at all. My reaction to that is, ‘Where’s everybody going?’” She laughs as if to say: nowhere good."

I appreciate this piece, but I want to correct the record on one point. I don't talk about LLMs as making "collages" but rather as making papier-mâché, and the difference matters!

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I wish folks who’re sure they’ll never be disabled would share how they’ve managed to ensure they’ll never experience illness, accidents, natural disasters, trauma, war, poverty, or old age.

And I wish so many folks didn’t need to feel personally endangered to care about disability justice.

"A call to clear-eyed humanism....In an era when billionaire space races and AI hype dominate headlines, More Everything Forever arrives as a much-needed reality check." A lovely review of my new book in @theatlantic.com! Order it here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...
#booksky 📘

On the topic of sex and gender in humans and animals being significantly more complex than a two option system, tomorrow night there’s a free talk at the Wagner on this topic!

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Germany is stepping up to create an alternative to PubMed that could be used globally. PubMed is a database that includes all of the critical scientific journal articles that researchers use.

They are doing this because of serious concerns that PubMed will be pulled offline by The Regime.

A MASSIVE ruling.

Trump used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose every tariff you’ve read about on a whole country/group of countries: Canada, Mexico, China (og+retaliatory), Liberation Day, etc.

The judge just struck them all down
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RIPPLE EFFECTS is an Eisner & Harvey Awards-nominated Graphic Medicine series that explores life as a superhero with an invisible disability - available in print as a softcover with a foreword by Harvard Medical School’s @noethematt.bsky.social!

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All year, that vinyl pouch would survive in the back of my desk and then disappear into the humid summer, only to find pencil crayons and a dead glue stick at the bottom of my school bag come late August.

Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that can be measured matters.

Source: The Quantified Society, p. 130.
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