Jess Schomberg
@schomj.bsky.social
Librarian, disability, union member 🏳️🌈
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Contact info and various socials: https://linktr.ee/schomj
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Contact info and various socials: https://linktr.ee/schomj
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
Sometimes I think about how gormless I was when I first graduated library school and wish someone had sat me down and told me point-blank basic facts about how money works
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Sometimes I think about how gormless I was when I first graduated library school and wish someone had sat me down and told me point-blank basic facts about how money works
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Excuse to post a classic?
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Excuse to post a classic?
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November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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I have posted before about how my GLP-1 pretty much saved my life after covid, but I also strongly believe that people taking them should have access to mental health support, because these medications & discussion around them & how folks treat you would make it so very very easy to hurt yourself.
One of the things I want people to take away from this is (CN: EDs): Anorexia doesn't look like you think.
Sometimes, yes, it does.
But a LOT of times it does not. 🧵
www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...
Sometimes, yes, it does.
But a LOT of times it does not. 🧵
www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...
Doctors are worried about prescribing GLP-1s to certain patients
With one in eight adults taking drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro, emerging evidence shows that the medication has potential to both help and harm people with eating disorders.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I have posted before about how my GLP-1 pretty much saved my life after covid, but I also strongly believe that people taking them should have access to mental health support, because these medications & discussion around them & how folks treat you would make it so very very easy to hurt yourself.
Ohhh this is why the auto-suggestions are suddenly so bad today
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Ohhh this is why the auto-suggestions are suddenly so bad today
Primo sucks so much I'm actually about to do this search in whatever Lexis-Nexus is now called instead. I can't believe we pay so much for this complete garbage tool.
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Primo sucks so much I'm actually about to do this search in whatever Lexis-Nexus is now called instead. I can't believe we pay so much for this complete garbage tool.
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In a rapidly warming world, heat waves will become mass mortality events. If 2003 European heat wave were to recur with 1.5 °C of warming (we're close to that today), this study predicts 17,800 excess deaths across Europe in *one week.* With 3 C of warming, the toll rises to 32,000.
📈🚨NEW: Extreme heat events are increasingly threatening to become mass mortality events. In @natclimate.nature.com today, we project tens of thousands of deaths in a single week across Europe if extreme heat domes coincide with rising global temperatures.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature Climate Change
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. Th...
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In a rapidly warming world, heat waves will become mass mortality events. If 2003 European heat wave were to recur with 1.5 °C of warming (we're close to that today), this study predicts 17,800 excess deaths across Europe in *one week.* With 3 C of warming, the toll rises to 32,000.
Also all of these tools were developed by eugenicists specifically to promote eugenics
Oh, and abolish the AP, the College Board, and ETS. The EdTech grifter cartel is the source of our problems, not the solution to them.
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Also all of these tools were developed by eugenicists specifically to promote eugenics
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ICE terror is a disability justice issue
NEW — An investigation by a group of Chicago-area newsrooms and independent journalists found that federal agents used chemical weapons on protesters at least 49 times across 18 incidents across Chicago and the suburbs since October 1.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...
thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...
Feds used chemical agents dozens of times in Chicago • The TRiiBE
An investigation by reporters from six newsrooms found that agents used chemical irritants nearly 50 times during Operation Midway Blitz.
thetriibe.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
ICE terror is a disability justice issue
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Grades are not accountability. Grades are a quantitative mystification of the qualitative. Letter grades were developed to create the illusion of rationalization in an industrial society & then, as now, exaggerate the potential for automating assessment & other labor by educators.
If high schools and elite colleges are holding students and teachers accountable for AP test results, you have a strong incentive to fix this problem.
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Grades are not accountability. Grades are a quantitative mystification of the qualitative. Letter grades were developed to create the illusion of rationalization in an industrial society & then, as now, exaggerate the potential for automating assessment & other labor by educators.
why is everyone asking me to review their articles this week? (I typically only get 1-2 requests a year)
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
why is everyone asking me to review their articles this week? (I typically only get 1-2 requests a year)
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Bumping this as a reminder NYT leans hard on revenue from their puzzles, games, Wirecutter etc to fund their billionaire apologist headlines, contrarian Op-Ed take havers, and iffy/yikes livetweeting style of journo
Alternatives to NY Times Games & Puzzles 🧵
If it bothers you that your passive games subscription and clicks to the NYT Games cartel is funding their awful OpEd army and "journalism," there are a wealth of puzzle/game options less iffy/yikes complicit, and many are direct clones to your NYT faves.
If it bothers you that your passive games subscription and clicks to the NYT Games cartel is funding their awful OpEd army and "journalism," there are a wealth of puzzle/game options less iffy/yikes complicit, and many are direct clones to your NYT faves.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Bumping this as a reminder NYT leans hard on revenue from their puzzles, games, Wirecutter etc to fund their billionaire apologist headlines, contrarian Op-Ed take havers, and iffy/yikes livetweeting style of journo
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collective memory is something you have to work at constantly, and the persistent drumbeat of land acknowledgements is an extremely valuable way to produce widespread consciousness of basic material fact of dispossession and genocide
my wokest opinion is that land acknowledgements are fine. people knowing a little bit about the land you're on, even if one isn't invested in a land back project, is not particularly worse than the status quo, even if one comes by this info in a way that is somewhat cringe and forced
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
collective memory is something you have to work at constantly, and the persistent drumbeat of land acknowledgements is an extremely valuable way to produce widespread consciousness of basic material fact of dispossession and genocide
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The right thinks the left will fight to protect Bill Clinton. The actual left thinks the middle will fight to protect Bill Clinton. But I want to believe — tonight as winter creeps closer, and even the tiniest glimmer of hope is impossibly precious — that nobody would protect Bill Clinton.
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The right thinks the left will fight to protect Bill Clinton. The actual left thinks the middle will fight to protect Bill Clinton. But I want to believe — tonight as winter creeps closer, and even the tiniest glimmer of hope is impossibly precious — that nobody would protect Bill Clinton.
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lol let's talk about facts: Jamaica's poverty rate was lower than the USA.
Jamaica had a poverty rate of 16% in 2023 and went down to 9% in 2025(pre storm).
USA poverty rate is 10% in 2025(pre department of labor no longer tracking the figures)
USA poverty rate is 10% in 2025(pre department of labor no longer tracking the figures)
November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
lol let's talk about facts: Jamaica's poverty rate was lower than the USA.
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I love food banks & Food Not Bombs (used to do it in NYC out of ABC No Rio) but where they fail is being unable to accommodate dietary restrictions. $$$ in people’s hands DOES
(Love you FNB, but why are vegans so obsessed with mushrooms, the one food that can literally kill me????)
(Love you FNB, but why are vegans so obsessed with mushrooms, the one food that can literally kill me????)
People deserve to have agency over their dietary needs. Food banks and charities undermine that agency in favor of feeding the masses.
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I love food banks & Food Not Bombs (used to do it in NYC out of ABC No Rio) but where they fail is being unable to accommodate dietary restrictions. $$$ in people’s hands DOES
(Love you FNB, but why are vegans so obsessed with mushrooms, the one food that can literally kill me????)
(Love you FNB, but why are vegans so obsessed with mushrooms, the one food that can literally kill me????)
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.
We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.
The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist
"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.
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Two years ago, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration approached the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and the original caretakers of the land, with an unheard of proposition: Would they like a piece of their land back?
19thnews.org/2025/11/cath...
19thnews.org/2025/11/cath...
For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to a Tribal nation
"This return represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked."
19thnews.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Two years ago, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration approached the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and the original caretakers of the land, with an unheard of proposition: Would they like a piece of their land back?
19thnews.org/2025/11/cath...
19thnews.org/2025/11/cath...
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BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
Jury Awards $112 Million to 674 Immigrants Unlawfully Held by Suffolk County for ICE Handover | LatinoJusticePRLDEF
FOR IMMEDIATE
www.latinojustice.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.