Britt H Young
@britthyoung.bsky.social
writer, critical tech & disability
working on a book
babbling at undergrads
working on a book
babbling at undergrads
I just want to say I am in favor of an extremely aggressive climate change action strategy that mobilizes the entire US military, every scientific resource available, and all gov’t agencies to transform the electrical grid, buy back gas cars, & protect coastal communities, wetlands, and forests.
November 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I just want to say I am in favor of an extremely aggressive climate change action strategy that mobilizes the entire US military, every scientific resource available, and all gov’t agencies to transform the electrical grid, buy back gas cars, & protect coastal communities, wetlands, and forests.
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Richest nation in human history
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Richest nation in human history
Ppl say both Musk & Trump are narcissists I think there’s a key difference. Musk is an insecure narcissist—thinks he’s god, knows deep down that ppl hate him, desperately needs approval. Trump is a secure narcissist—doesn’t need anyone’s approval, he’s more delusional, but is also more exploitable.
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Ppl say both Musk & Trump are narcissists I think there’s a key difference. Musk is an insecure narcissist—thinks he’s god, knows deep down that ppl hate him, desperately needs approval. Trump is a secure narcissist—doesn’t need anyone’s approval, he’s more delusional, but is also more exploitable.
This isn’t true. It’s actually the Trump Administration’s brave, forward-thinking new climate policy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — FAA announces 10% reduction in airline traffic in 40 markets to maintain safety during ongoing government shutdown.
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This isn’t true. It’s actually the Trump Administration’s brave, forward-thinking new climate policy.
I told a group of 60 undergrads that I decided to keep teaching this year because I love DEI and they broke into an applause. Imagine saying that kind of stuff, but to like, voters.
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I told a group of 60 undergrads that I decided to keep teaching this year because I love DEI and they broke into an applause. Imagine saying that kind of stuff, but to like, voters.
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Americans have spoken and they demand wokeness
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Americans have spoken and they demand wokeness
Six people have died from eating pasta. Six. Pasta. No political reckoning, no firings, no investigations into the big supermarket chains, just 'hey, sometimes pasta be deadly, oh well.'
www.npr.org/2025/11/04/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/04/n...
Worsening listeria outbreak tied to pasta products kills 6, hospitalizes 25
Certain prepared pasta dishes were recalled from retailers like Trader Joe's, Kroger and Walmart between June and October. Health officials urge customers to dispose of them and clean their fridges.
www.npr.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Six people have died from eating pasta. Six. Pasta. No political reckoning, no firings, no investigations into the big supermarket chains, just 'hey, sometimes pasta be deadly, oh well.'
www.npr.org/2025/11/04/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/04/n...
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Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Trump, like most clinical narcissists, is just an interior designer at heart.
October 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Trump, like most clinical narcissists, is just an interior designer at heart.
Penn's Alumni newsletters were hacked by right-wing losers, and that's probably a good thing to piss these children off. If Penn keeps it up, I might even consider donating.
October 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Penn's Alumni newsletters were hacked by right-wing losers, and that's probably a good thing to piss these children off. If Penn keeps it up, I might even consider donating.
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Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.
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IT HAS HAPPENED -- an event has appeared on @coyotemedia.org, @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @bayareacurrent.bsky.social calendars. The bay area indie calendar EGOT. What event is it? Well you will have to read all three calendars to find out. Yes I am a social media genius thank you.
October 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
IT HAS HAPPENED -- an event has appeared on @coyotemedia.org, @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @bayareacurrent.bsky.social calendars. The bay area indie calendar EGOT. What event is it? Well you will have to read all three calendars to find out. Yes I am a social media genius thank you.
A lot of people ask me what I will "do with" my geography PhD and I'm always like, "I'm /doing/ all sorts of things with it. It made my brain good."
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A lot of people ask me what I will "do with" my geography PhD and I'm always like, "I'm /doing/ all sorts of things with it. It made my brain good."
Read me.
“The cultural tension between subsets of biohackers is between those who want to live as long as possible and those who are willing to fuck around and find out.”
The Juice Is Loose | Britt H. Young
Community-supported biolabs still exist, but experimentation has taken a backseat to off-label purposes like anti-aging.
thebaffler.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Read me.
Read my essay on biohacking and learn how you too can become a llama girl.
thebaffler.com/latest/the-j...
thebaffler.com/latest/the-j...
The Juice Is Loose | Britt H. Young
Community-supported biolabs still exist, but experimentation has taken a backseat to off-label purposes like anti-aging.
thebaffler.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Read my essay on biohacking and learn how you too can become a llama girl.
thebaffler.com/latest/the-j...
thebaffler.com/latest/the-j...
Get in loser, we're going biohacking. Because we don't have doctors.
October 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Get in loser, we're going biohacking. Because we don't have doctors.
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The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.
October 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.
Everyone is "biohacking" these days, and by that I mean taking obscure supplements or trying out intermittent fasting. Biohacking was once radical & experimental. Find out how billionaires made biohacking mainstream in my latest for The Baffler. thebaffler.com/latest/the-j...
The Juice Is Loose | Britt H. Young
Community-supported biolabs still exist, but experimentation has taken a backseat to off-label purposes like anti-aging.
thebaffler.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Everyone is "biohacking" these days, and by that I mean taking obscure supplements or trying out intermittent fasting. Biohacking was once radical & experimental. Find out how billionaires made biohacking mainstream in my latest for The Baffler. thebaffler.com/latest/the-j...
Okay I'll bite, what's a salesforce?
October 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Okay I'll bite, what's a salesforce?
Not my usual content but powerlifting is so fun. Follow for the writing, stay for some chaotic lifting videos. Also yes, I am an adaptive lifter.
October 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Not my usual content but powerlifting is so fun. Follow for the writing, stay for some chaotic lifting videos. Also yes, I am an adaptive lifter.
The most beautiful thing you will hear today. Probably all month, too.
Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...
Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden
Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden
radio.garden
October 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The most beautiful thing you will hear today. Probably all month, too.
He's like a stupid Bruno Latour.
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
He's like a stupid Bruno Latour.
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
Weird that the number #1 self help book in America is called Let Them about the freeing power of letting go of trying to control other ppl & obsessing over what other ppl are doing and thinking---and the country is being overrun by a far right cultural movement obsessed with controlling people
September 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Weird that the number #1 self help book in America is called Let Them about the freeing power of letting go of trying to control other ppl & obsessing over what other ppl are doing and thinking---and the country is being overrun by a far right cultural movement obsessed with controlling people
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...