I can't express how bad this is from the research ethics perspective.

poly relationships with complex feelings, sign yourselves up

Forest Antifa novel tbh

I read a draft of this beautiful book, and I hope others will get to read it, too. 💚🌳🍄‍🟫

None of these journalists will address the specifics of what happened in 2023 on here (citing the expertise of Sydette, Aveta, Link), and none of them will talk about the entire shaping of this platform around excluding Palestinian users. This is because of racism. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Remove half a million diesel cars, let people use medicine without guilt.

I've been working on a book proposal and alternating between "this is meaningful" and "this is pointless," and a friend recently shared this quote that she stumble on in a Goodreads review: "Every book is a grand gesture of optimism on the part of both the reader and writer." Keep creating, friends.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

A fascinating if depressing piece on competing gangs stealing rare copies of Russian literature from European libraries in the last couple of years, with a possible, though far from proved, Kremlin connection.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

I was born in a place with fairly cold winters, then moved further north, but I’ve always been quite sensitive to cold. I just accepted that I’ll be swaddled in wool while others are still in their summer clothes.

You’ll be fine! Don’t look at what others are wearing, wear all the layers that *you* need. Even if it means becoming a Michelin person while your neighbours still wear flip flops to their corner shop.

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Again, they’re doing this to artificially inflate ChatGPT usage numbers to feint demand as they squeeze investment out of gullible shareholders before the bubble pops.

Ukrainian sanctions work 💪

do we think it's good that entire economy is based on the same entities passing money back and forth on speculative investment without anyone making anything that someone outside the loop is buying

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"My work takes up the theoretical challenge first posed fifty years ago that reliance on agriculture is responsible for a Neolithic increase in disease"

Brenna is one of the most modest AND most sharp scholars I know - this project will be fantastic!

the interviewer goes “are there people in the world you don’t like?” in this tone of voice that sort of implies “surely not you, Jane Goodall, patron saint of the natural world,” but oh no she was IMMEDIATELY ready with a list of names

A splendid change, even if it's very much only just starting! 🧪

Anyone telling themselves "oh they can't feel pain": that's the oldest coping mechanism in the book, it's always turned out to be obvious nonsense and always will.

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

The claims about LLM personhood/consciousness are interesting to me as a researcher because of their ableist assumption that the ability to express oneself in words is, somehow, a hallmark of being a person

"Move fast and break things" and "better to ask forgiveness than permission" get us a whole suite of "AI" literally built out of consent violation and coerced control, where human consent is not meaningful a possibility, and uses that suit to try to coerce or replace anyone who might tell them "no."

I remember working in tech and asking how we interpret user research when users' stated preferences conflict with their values, or with ours. Usually people would just stare, confused