Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by usagibrian

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 12h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

Reposted by usagibrian

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

a strong case could also be made that if you were confused by why Bill and Ted would cast themselves in WAITING FOR GODOT, you might also not fully understand Bill and Ted

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

a strong case could be made that in fact, by selecting this play for themselves to star in, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have demonstrated that they understand WAITING FOR GODOT better than anyone else alive

3 33 260

Reposted by usagibrian

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 13h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

55 990 3.3K

Reposted by usagibrian

Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 12h

Folks, that's no irony. It's the whole point.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

At the IRS, for example, staff reductions have fallen particularly heavily upon auditors and revenue agents, whose numbers were down by 31 percent in the first three months of this year. (It is no small irony that few government investments offer a higher rate of return than tax audits on upper-income filers, which can yield as much as $12 for every dollar spent.)

3 52 200

Reposted by usagibrian

💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 5d

"AI is sentient because it mimics our behavior" bro you are a bronze age peasant who thinks your shadow is a demon

13 250 760

Reposted by usagibrian

John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 17h

Stop calling it a “crackdown”
Start calling it what it is: a terror campaign.

1 9 60

Reposted by usagibrian

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 14h

The existence of even one Catholic convert dismantles the central lie of religion, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

See I can make bullshit, nonsense arguments too, Heritage Foundation.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15h

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

3 190 1.1K

usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 15h

More skeletons than a Spirit Superstore warehouse.
He lost me at the affair with his campaign manager's wife *during the campaign*.
I don't care about the sexual proclivities, but it's disqualifing bad judgment.

1 1

Reposted by usagibrian

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 22h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

9 570 1.9K

usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 15h

Once more for those in back, Newsom will lose in a national election.
He is a much less capable version of Harris with much more baggage.

Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 15h

Apparently I am feeling SALTY today after a few days of Newsom apologists in my mentions. Look, if you don't care about his policies & actions towards marginalized people that's on you. I do. And no, I will not do your research for you nor give him a "pass" because you need to do your own work.

1 1

Reposted by usagibrian

Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 15h

Apparently I am feeling SALTY today after a few days of Newsom apologists in my mentions. Look, if you don't care about his policies & actions towards marginalized people that's on you. I do. And no, I will not do your research for you nor give him a "pass" because you need to do your own work.

3 9 22

Reposted by usagibrian

CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 16h

Thread.

And a reminder: sex addiction is not real. It’s a religious scrupulosity issue and it is promoted and marketed by religious and parachurch organizations as both a money-making grift and a means of social control in high-demand religious movements.

it’s not an addiction.

doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 6d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

2 36 91

Reposted by usagibrian

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h

We stopped using the school drop off and pickup line. We park away and walk in. School is lovely and the students are awesome but the parents are pieces of shit. One asshole was beeping at a kid who was in the crosswalk and then DROVE AROUND him and it was another parent dropping off their kid!

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21h

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

17 27 220

usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 17h

This is a truth.

Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · Jun 18

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

Reposted by usagibrian

Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · Jun 18

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

160 3K 11K

Reposted by usagibrian

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 20h

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

13 330 1.2K

Reposted by usagibrian

perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 19h

thinking about how the state of maine told trump to go fuck himself and prepared to withhold federal taxes if he ordered them around and he backed off immediately and hasnt brought up maine since. i wonder if any other states could learn from that. probably not

4 37

Reposted by usagibrian

Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 18h

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

6 230 590

Reposted by usagibrian

Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 19h

a bksy dev following the Heritage Foundation would be an unpleasant surprise if you didn't know this place was created by and for libertarian crypto bros, and all the good things about it are an unintended consequence they have been trying to "fix" for the last year

3 86 400

Reposted by usagibrian

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

In 2015, it was obvious to me that stopping Eastern Europeans from entering the country was a cipher for deporting black & brown people that have been in the UK for generations.

I knew that because people were literally saying that out loud at the time.

This is not news, this was the next step.

Deporting ethnic minority Britons was the goal of Brexit for many

3 29 120

Reposted by usagibrian

Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 21h

In Trump's America, you're an order of magnitude more likely to get attacked on the street by ICE and the National Guard than by any foreign gang member.

17 200 720

Reposted by usagibrian

Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky is quickly becoming the Gavin Newsom of liberals. Better than the other side's alternative, but will absolutely sell you and their ethics down the river when it's expedient. Especially if you're transgender.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

3 8 37

Reposted by usagibrian

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

You cannot have "discourse" with people bent on your destruction.

2 93 330

Reposted by usagibrian

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1d

The building may have been selected for the raid bc bankers and realtors wanted it empty. A Brazil (movie)-like collaboration btwn bureaucrats, capitalists, and fascists that I don't think we're ready to deal with.

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

2 16 38

Reposted by usagibrian

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

The Department of Defense staffers and other sources are also convinced that certain aspects of the accelerating Pentagon leak hunt can be gamed and sabotaged by the leakers themselves. For one thing, multiple sources tell Zeteo that they’ve already practiced how to beat polygraph exams.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

We started reporting this trying to get a follow on the revelation last week that Trump / Hegseth were waging a new escalated war on leakers and whistleblowers, expecting some of the similar doom and gloom we get often— instead we got a bunch of government personnel laughing at fascists bumbling.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

“Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown”

New, for @zeteo.com tonight, via @andrewperez.bsky.social and me:

zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...

6 51 240