Liz Ditz Still masking
@lizditz.bsky.social
Trans rights are human rights. None of us are safe until all of us are safe. Dyslexia, autism, vaccines work. She/her.
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“But the Trump administration cut the money, claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
“But the Trump administration cut the money, claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion.”
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Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis.
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis.
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
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Every trans person, and those who stand with us and see what we go through, is WELL AWARE that this student is a young woman priming herself to jump on the Right Wing Hate Grift Gravy Train.
When you discuss the merits of the essay at all, you're feeding into that. Stop it. Call this what it is.
When you discuss the merits of the essay at all, you're feeding into that. Stop it. Call this what it is.
Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics.
That’s…not the problem.
That’s…not the problem.
December 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Every trans person, and those who stand with us and see what we go through, is WELL AWARE that this student is a young woman priming herself to jump on the Right Wing Hate Grift Gravy Train.
When you discuss the merits of the essay at all, you're feeding into that. Stop it. Call this what it is.
When you discuss the merits of the essay at all, you're feeding into that. Stop it. Call this what it is.
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Have seen a few people passing around this story by Tom Stoppard from just last year, talking about how he learned he was Jewish and also much about his family history, and it's quite a read. He really knew how to write. www.huntingtontheatre.org/2024/09/11/t...
Tom Stoppard: On Turning Out to be Jewish | Huntington Theatre Company
www.huntingtontheatre.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Have seen a few people passing around this story by Tom Stoppard from just last year, talking about how he learned he was Jewish and also much about his family history, and it's quite a read. He really knew how to write. www.huntingtontheatre.org/2024/09/11/t...
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Occasionally, in small ways, I am seeing people address how COVID has impacted our ability to do the intellectual labor necessary to address the authoritarian regime. I think we can map a strategy to overcome the challenge but a disability justice framework is essential to make it happen.
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Occasionally, in small ways, I am seeing people address how COVID has impacted our ability to do the intellectual labor necessary to address the authoritarian regime. I think we can map a strategy to overcome the challenge but a disability justice framework is essential to make it happen.
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I know a bunch of y'all have done a ton more adversarial prompting and jailbreak experimenting than I will ever have the chance to: is it just me refusing to believe it could genuinely be that easy, or are your suspicious bastard alerts ringing too?
December 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I know a bunch of y'all have done a ton more adversarial prompting and jailbreak experimenting than I will ever have the chance to: is it just me refusing to believe it could genuinely be that easy, or are your suspicious bastard alerts ringing too?
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There is something really singing the "you missed something obvious" song in my deep brain here, though (and not just the stuff they noted in the limitations section, which is admirably comprehensive) and I can't figure out WHAT.
December 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
There is something really singing the "you missed something obvious" song in my deep brain here, though (and not just the stuff they noted in the limitations section, which is admirably comprehensive) and I can't figure out WHAT.
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Arxiv preprint of the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Arxiv preprint of the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
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Okay, this is deeply intriguing: adversarial poetry prompts have a significantly higher rate of jailbreak success on nearly every model the researchers tried. Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds
Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Okay, this is deeply intriguing: adversarial poetry prompts have a significantly higher rate of jailbreak success on nearly every model the researchers tried. Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Y’all say stuff like this but you have to remember that this is a completely legitimate question in my beat and there’s a not-insignificant chance that I’m the one who is going to end up having to do it
Eternal glory to the first White House reporter to ask Trump about the Nicene Creed
They seem nervous
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Y’all say stuff like this but you have to remember that this is a completely legitimate question in my beat and there’s a not-insignificant chance that I’m the one who is going to end up having to do it
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Really hard not to see this whole thing as an effort to get a trans person fired from her TA job
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Really hard not to see this whole thing as an effort to get a trans person fired from her TA job
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Like you didn't actually even site the bible, you just vaguely alluded to it?
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Like you didn't actually even site the bible, you just vaguely alluded to it?
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Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
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“They now exclude nursing, physician asst, nurse practitioner, physical therapy, occupational therapy, public health, audiology, speech-language pathology, counseling & mental health therapy, social work” & more.
Chiropractic and theology degrees are still included.
www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
Chiropractic and theology degrees are still included.
www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
What Is A “Professional Degree” And Why Does It Matter?
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Dept of Education proposes redefining "professional degrees" to exclude degrees in nursing, NP/PA, Public Health, PT/OT and more
www.forbes.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
“They now exclude nursing, physician asst, nurse practitioner, physical therapy, occupational therapy, public health, audiology, speech-language pathology, counseling & mental health therapy, social work” & more.
Chiropractic and theology degrees are still included.
www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
Chiropractic and theology degrees are still included.
www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
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OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
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Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
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There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
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Fuck you, you’re getting saved today
(I’ll take “things an evangelical might say” for $500, Alex)
(I’ll take “things an evangelical might say” for $500, Alex)
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Fuck you, you’re getting saved today
(I’ll take “things an evangelical might say” for $500, Alex)
(I’ll take “things an evangelical might say” for $500, Alex)
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This motherfucker did not want his life saved but it is currently 44°F and it is going to be below freezing after it gets dark. Texas spiny lizards brumate at 51°F and the closest thing to burrow in nearby is gravel in a trainyard so no sir you’re coming with me until the cold snap ends
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This motherfucker did not want his life saved but it is currently 44°F and it is going to be below freezing after it gets dark. Texas spiny lizards brumate at 51°F and the closest thing to burrow in nearby is gravel in a trainyard so no sir you’re coming with me until the cold snap ends