Thanks, Mark! I'll reach out to the press and see what's going on

Me (Nora, a white-presenting woman in her 30s with shoulder-length spiral wavy hair), holding a copy of my book, Canonical Misogyny. The book cover has a red background with an image of an actress playing Isabella from Measure for Measure

Thanks for the photo @saaupdates.bsky.social ! Btw, you can preorder the Canonical Misogyny paperback for 30% off with code PAPER30 😉

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

Extended follow-up of invasive cervical cancer risk after quadrivalent HPV vaccination: nationwide, register based study Objectives To evaluate the long term risk of invasive cervical cancer after receiving the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, how risk varies by time since vaccination, and to assess the ...

The HPV vaccine is durably AMAZING.A massive Swedish registry study w 18 years of follow-up found no waning protection against invasive cervical cancer. If vaccinated before age 17, cancer risk is cut by ~80%. Even those vaccinated later still had substantial protection.
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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.

Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

As the feds distribute photos of victims while veiling their abusers,

"These photographs are both emotionally overwhelming and politically shallow. It looks like the system is exposing everything when really it is exposing the harm and hiding the hand."

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BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes.

This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.

"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?

‘They are no longer strategizing for voluntary adoption by those who come to recognize the technology’s utility by electively applying it to the problems they face. They are planning how to cross the chasm by forced adoption.’

By @mattseybold.bsky.social

*This*. It cannot be said often enough that Trump's 5th column in the UK is planning precisely the same fascist makeover. In broad daylight, and with "democratic" politicians being silent onlookers. And I wonder if Brits will have the courage of Minnesotans when it comes down to it.

Preface: Kate Manne, Down Girl Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. Published by Penguin Books, 2018. Preface: Going Wrong, pp. xi-xxiv Chapter Summary Manne's Preface opens with the question that drives the rest of t...

My first Nerdy Book Club post is up! I'm starting with Kate Manne's now-classic work Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. Whether it's your first time or a re-read, come think with me for one chapter per week #booksky

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It needs to be said that it is extremely telling of what role ICE is ultimately playing in society that schools respond to it as though its a horde of potential mass shooters.

It's like a substack, but it's not substack lithub.com/the-case-aga...

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“When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.”

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Directed against the United States.

I spent 35 years as a US diplomat abroad and at the Department of State, often working closely with our NATO and European allies. We prepared for all sorts of contingencies. Except this one. I have no words.

Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state

maybe I'm just jaded from spending my entire adult life watching sexual abuse committed with impunity, but i dont think X will suffer any consequences.

society likes to pretend it cares about sexual violence, but actually doesn't.

We are doing new eps but just at a glacial pace - this one I'm super excited about! We've got the brilliant @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social joining us to talk all things PERICLES!

This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

Stop it because why am I tearing up at a cartoon wolf in a supermarket ad 🥹🥹

FACULTY GREW TOO POWERFUL

excuse me while I laugh myself off this cliff