I remember back when I did my librarianship MA they deliberately de-emphasised specific tools when it came to things like search design and information retrieval "because any tool we teach you about will be obselete early in your career". Instead it was hugely about underlying principles.
abigail spanberger is out here canceling tax breaks for confederate groups and getting rid of confederate license plates and i for one think this is absolutely wonderful for the centrist wing of the democratic party
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
www.13newsnow.com/article/news...
I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."
We have many decades of verified, repeatable, consistent research showing that is exactly how mass media works. Several enormous industries are built on the idea of media affecting attitudes and beliefs. Reporters who deny this in a fit of pique at facing down their own behavior just look unserious.
i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan
i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years
Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Is Not Breaking Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons equals the collective weight of every animal on earth. Including the insects. Times three. Six billion tons sounds impossible until I consider how it is to swallow grief— just a teaspoon and one might as well have consumed a neutron star. How dense it is, how it carries inside it the memory of collapse. How difficult it is to move then. How impossible to believe that anything could lift that weight. There are many reasons to treat each other with great tenderness. One is the sheer miracle that we are here together on a planet surrounded by dying stars. One is that we cannot see what anyone else has swallowed.
“There are many reasons to treat each /other with great tenderness. One is /
the sheer miracle that we are here together / on a planet surrounded by dying stars. / One is that we cannot see what / anyone else has swallowed.”
We photographers warn against following content scrapers (who steal photos, post without credit & make $ off the accounts.) This thread shows there really is an account resale market for Bluesky. And scammers take full advantage
(Gray Catbird says be careful and guard your passwords) #birds 🌿 📸
this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that.
Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best.
Welcome home, Integrity crew!
"Turns out students aren't great at asking questions well." No fucking shit. Literally any educator could tell you that. 90% of my job as a high school librarian is trying to figure out what kids actually want versus what question they asked.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
AND! If you're not good at one or more, the best thing about being human is that we can teach each other and work together. You don't have to go through the universe alone. All of humanity can be with you, if we let each other.
A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.
Segregationists did memory hole slavery for about 100 years and then integration meant that white students would learn about it honestly in school and they've been trying to memory hole it again ever since.
Depluralize a movie:
Blue Only Child
Child of Man
Close Encounter of the First Kind
Hoosier
No Country For Old Man
One Candle
JFC
Just don’t invite him in the first place.
You’re setting yourselves up to fail.
To those still complaining about Artemis 2:
We spend 100× more on killing people for oil profits, but yeah, NASA’s the problem. 🤦🏽♀️
NASA: $25B
Defense: $901B
That’s 36 NASAs.
Space programs have driven major advancements in science, medicine, and technology, real benefits for humanity.
Morally, legally, economically the war on Iran is disastrous and the disaster goes on for years no matter what happens now. But what cannot be overstated is that in pure national security terms it is also an unmitigated catastrophe.
Y'all have to stop thinking our world's fucked up because some people have disabilities that are making them fuck it up instead of that it has some incredibly wrong systems in place!
Gemini said A screenshot of a post on X by SEGM (@segm_ebm). The post text reads: "A new Finnish study reports that youth gender transitions (under age 23) did not improve mental health symptoms. For some youth, medical gender reassignment may have had a negative impact." Below the text is an image showing the "Results," "Conclusion," and "Summary" sections of a medical study. The word "FALSE" is stamped in large, bold, red letters across the center of the study text. A specific sentence in the "Results" section is highlighted in blue: "Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up—rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminising gender reassignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising gender reassignment."
This is going around on X, a new study by SEGM member Riittakerttu Kaltiala (the abusive head of a clinic in Finland) is getting picked up as proof that gender-affirming care doesn't work. The data actually shows something very different from what the authors claim. It's purposefully distorted.
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The NYT’s editorial line is supposed to reflect certain standards of decorum, but at a certain point decorum must yield to truth.
We live in a world where norms failed to save us from a dictator and norms prevent us from calling him one.
"...even as art is held up as the last relic of 'authentically human' expression, it is being systematically eliminated from public life... The idea that art is what machines can’t do sounds like a challenge: the ultimate goal rather than a prohibition or limit."
"Filing taxes should be really easy and completely free. It is in most other developed countries. And in 2024, the Biden administration debuted a pilot program called Direct File that could have made tax filing easy and free for most American taxpayers, too.
President Trump killed it."
"This is the ouroboros. The snake eating its own tail. AI writes the code. AI reviews the code. AI checks the deployment. When it breaks, the answer is more AI. The loop has no exit condition."
There are so many powerful cautionary lessons — both technological + methodological — in here.
A rusty, square steel plate on a sidewalk in Pittsburgh, PA, on which someone wrote FART with a white paint pen, underneath a U-shaped scar where something was once welded to the plate. The letters T and O were also written on the bolts in the 4 corners, alternately.
Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!
When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose.
AI will never fill that void.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
