Civilian Tech Is Powering China’s Military Beijing’s gains could eventually erode Washington’s battlefield advantage.

China seeks to develop the world’s premier military capabilities by integrating its civilian commercial ecosystem and defense industrial base in a strategy known as military-civil fusion.

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

U.S. scientists say their work is under attack. Here's what that means for Canada | CBC News Some U.S. government scientists have been told they can no longer travel for meetings or even join virtual calls with international counterparts, putting a hold on Canadian research and sending a deep...

US scientists are forbidden to communicate with Canadian counterparts. Funds are frozen and research deleted on joint projects such as Great Lakes research.

Canada and France are both encouraging US scientists to apply for residency and research positions.
www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Sex redefined - Nature The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.

This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨‍🔬🧬🖥️

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

#Google just launched a new era of tracking. Digital #fingerprinting.

❌ No consent
❌ No escape

Here’s why this is a #privacy nightmare much worse than #cookies: 👇

tuta.com/blog/digital...

Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy Google is allowing advertisers to collect more personal information, which is harder for users to control.

"The same tracking techniques that Google claims are essential for online advertising also expose individuals' sensitive information to data brokers, surveillance companies, and law enforcement," EFF’s Lena Cohen told BBC News.

A Comprehensive Guide to the Evidence-Based Classroom If you're in search of groundbreaking insights on classroom management, grading, or student motivation, here’s a collection of must-read resources to supercharge your teaching: A Comprehensive Guide…

40+ must-read stories covering the latest insights in the learning sciences!

👆🔬 That’s what you’ll find inside our research resource collection.

#EduSky #EdResearch

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

Indeed.

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Remember, everyone, that the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, a guidebook to sabotaging fascists states, was declassified by the CIA in 2008 and is currently available online at Project Gutenberg

www.404media.co/declassified...

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

If Robert Smith says so

Picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), addressing a crowd on a street in Lakeview, N.Y., May 12, 1965. Taken for the Associated Press.

#MLKDay

Who made this 🤣

We had to get in on the video action too — Bluesky now has custom feeds for video!

Like any other feed, you can choose to pin these or not. Bluesky is yours to customize.

How a super robot anime became a revolutionary icon for Filipinos Voltes V was made in Japan, but the Philippines transformed it into a cultural phenomenon

How a super robot anime became a revolutionary icon for Filipinos

There Is No Safe Word How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

I hate every single possible thing about this, and I'm heartbroken about all of it.

www.vulture.com/article/neil...

Building my own facial mocap addon to make the lip-sync process a bit easier. It's kind of jank but the basics work :)

THE SUMMER WHEN HARUKI DIED

Talking about this horror manga with Matt at @mangatakpod.bsky.social

Conservatives join Bluesky, face abuse and censorship One conservative commentator claimed they were blocked from Bluesky for posting "there are only two genders."

🔴 The arrival of Trump supporters to Bluesky has sparked a hostile reaction from some existing users.

🗣️"Flood of MAGA trolls are arriving. Report, block, and move on."

Read more: www.newsweek.com/conservative...

Screenshot of AI Generated disclosure fields

We are now requiring asset page creators to tag their use of generative AI in their work. You can learn more here: itch.io/t/4309690/ge...

On your dashboard you can find a bulk tagging dialog if you have pages that need tagging.

How Attacks Against Obamacare Turned Into Tools to Protect Abortion Access Conservatives amended state constitutions to affirm broad rights for people to choose their health care. Now abortion rights proponents are taking them at their word.

BIG NEWS: A Wyoming judge just struck down WY's abortion bans.

And get this: The judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired.

We explained this lawsuit here:

I made a blocklist for some of the new showing up to troll anti trans folks. No oxygen for these schmoes! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark."

That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.

There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.

Joan Westenberg misses the old internet. “Today’s internet feels less like a global community and more like a series of walled gardens, each meticulously maintained to keep out any unpredicted, and thus, unprofitable, elements.” [joanwestenberg.medium.com]