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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 3d

tbc im fine with this argument. i also quibble a bit with the possibility of anything about the computer or people with a weird relationship with it having a slur at all, since slurs come with the power of reinforcing a repressive hierarchical system

🏳️‍⚧️ glass floret🌼 @yarrow.gay · 3d

this is driving me insane

the argument isn't "don't call the computer a fake slur, that's mean/racist"

it's "let's NOT get comfortable using that kind of language in general, especially when *actual* racists are using them because they *sound* like slurs they can say without getting in trouble"

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Sarah @lepidopterane.bsky.social · 5d

I quote skeeted @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social ‘s post about how ICE locked up Rodney Taylor without his prosthetic legs. which is? fucked up! If you saw this and want to do something right now, well, here’s a petition to sign. I just signed it. let’s get loud abt this

www.change.org/p/demand-the...

Sign the Petition

Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention

www.change.org

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d

Rodney Taylor still needs our help!

He’s still locked in an ICE camp.

He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs.

He’s still facing deportation to Liberia.

He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored.

Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE

Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

www.disabledginger.com

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Sarah @lepidopterane.bsky.social · 5d

really enjoyed the Toxic Avenger reboot!

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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 8d

UK users will soon start to see Facebook and Instagram asking them to either consent to personal data collection for targeted advertising - or pay up to £3.99 a month.

Your right to privacy should not be for sale.

www.politico.eu/article/meta...

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Witch’s Black Kat Marchán 🐈‍⬛🧙🏼 @zkat.tech · 9d

Them: “tech needs to be apolitical. Focus on building”

Also them: “it was great meeting you Mr War Criminal I hope we can do a lot of technology together that benefits your political goals and my political wallet”

jacky. @jacky.wtf · 9d

What most folks in tech have been doing: "separating politics from tech" and dancing for state support

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 14d

Unfortunately, the FT did this "analysis" with ... ChatGPT.

They don't note this in the article. They do admit it in an FT podcast!

www.ft.com/content/9232...

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https://www.ft.com/content/9232b857-ccc5-4eed-aec1-62c10a534e8d

Melissa Heikkilä
So we wanted to do a very thorough data-led analysis of what companies are saying themselves. And so we took all of the S&P 500, SEC 10-K filings, as well as earnings reports, and then used AI models. We used ChatGPT.

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Mat Kelly @machawk1.bsky.social · 23d

At ACM Hypertext 2025, Sarah Abowitz (@lepidopterane.bsky.social) describes her observation & user studies for translation & aids for students learning Greek.

Cognitive load of opening aids less preferred to opening in same window: hoverables do not overwhelm or disrupt the reading plan #ACMHT2025

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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 24d

Today, @olivia.science and her colleagues speak about their efforts to resist the uncritical adoption of AI in academia. Read all about it in today's blog, and see their open letter below:

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g...

www.civicsoftechnology.org

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 24d

Being at an AI conference as a skeptic is a lot like going to a church for someone else’s faith. A lot of friendly people talking about something that has changed their world, and you keep looking around for signs you just can’t see.

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Sarah @lepidopterane.bsky.social · 24d

this (what the dept. Of education is doing) is ableist!

ProPublica @propublica.org · 25d

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.

A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Screenshot of article excerpt: The Education Department also was concerned about other words in the application, said Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in the state. He said he has talked with state officials about the discontinuation of the grant.

“I was told that apparently the administration is going through past grants and two words were flagged: One was transition and one was privilege,” Klenz said. “Transition — transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Privilege came up because a parent wrote a glowing review of staff that said what a privilege it was to work with them.” ProPublica obtained a copy of the grant application and confirmed that those words were included.

Sarah @lepidopterane.bsky.social · 25d

I agree with all of this so much. disco and lower decks were nice shows where i looked at the different characters and they reminded me of me and my friends and my gf (emily if u r reading this u r SO tilly coded)

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 25d

I'm among an apparent minority of people who loved discovery more than not, & among the majority who love SNW & felt that Lower Decks was some of the best Trek ever made & shouldn't have been cancelled, & i look at what paramount has done to these shows' season lengths, public faces, &c, & i just… 😮‍💨

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New York City Magic: The Gathering 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ (🔜League Top 16) @nyc-mtg.com · Sep 3

Hi everyone,

My work has announced a partnership & significant funding from a certain world government that could lead to strife with my employer around my transness. I will not say more publicly. I am proactively seeking full time employment and supplemental financial support. 🧵1/4

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26d

Let’s not forget that the Wall Street Journal literally fabricated a claim that the shooter was trans and leftist. When in reality, the shooter appears further right then Charlie Kirk.

Corporate media proudly remains complicit in the rise of fascism in America.

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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 26d

posters joking about charlie kirk were held to a higher standard than the wall street journal this week

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 29d

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 29d

The people whipping up panics about "academic freedom" rarely speak up when academic freedom is actually imperiled.

This is absolutely chilling.

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29d

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

www.kbtx.com

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · Sep 8

“In the past, they killed and expelled us,” a tribe leader said. Now, “they make us invisible.”

TikTok is investing in a $10 billion data center in Brazil. An Indigenous group who says the project is being built on their land is trying to stop it, claiming they were not consulted on the project

Indigenous group in Brazil takes TikTok to court over planned data center

The Anacé Indigenous community is going to court to stop a planned TikTok data center they say is being built on their land.

restofworld.org

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · Sep 8

Consistently, student journalists do the best work holding their institutions accountable.

Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

"Young ordered the restoration of $783 million in federal funding for fiscal year 2025 — a portion of which, totaling millions, was allocated to Harvard — before the Supreme Court stayed the order nearly two months later. (The total multi-year funding pool affected by Young’s ruling included $3.8 billion in grants, many of which were partially paid out before the freeze. According to a Crimson analysis of court filings, Harvard was awarded more than 140 grants within that pool, with a combined multi-year value exceeding $60 million.)

Harvard expected the grants listed in Young’s ruling to flow back to researchers, according to a person familiar with the matter, even though the White House had imposed a block on all Harvard grants as part of its initial funding cut in April.

But the funds never arrived, and Harvard wrote in an August press release from the School of Public Health that the NIH was continuing to “block disbursement of any funds to Harvard University.”

According to one person, Harvard has been unable to access any funds from the NIH since April because of the restrictions imposed by DOGE through its oversight of the NIH’s payment system, including in the two-month period in which Young’s ruling mandated that grant awards listed in the ruling be resumed."

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Sarah @lepidopterane.bsky.social · Sep 8

Finite Jest

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Alright Gatsby

Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · Sep 8

As I Lay Drying

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is the dumbest fucking shit I've ever read and people who talk like this need to go touch grass.

LLM tools only have real case uses in very limited areas when the people using them are actual experts in their fields and can check it carefully for its bullshit.

So, not students.

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Sarah @lepidopterane.bsky.social · Sep 5

they put more songs into mayhem when i wasnt looking 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · Aug 29

Massholes say no

WBUR @wbur.org · Aug 29

A Trump administration official said the federal government may try to take over Boston's South Station "for more security and cleanliness." Commuters there said they aren't on board with that idea.

Boston commuters aren't sold on a federal takeover of South Station

A Trump administration official said the federal government may try to take over Boston's South Station "for more security and cleanliness." Commuters there said they aren't on board with that idea.

www.wbur.org

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