Rae Walker

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

The Economist + @economist.com Follow There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles 647 USA Trump 2028 There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles econ.st October 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM & Everybody can reply

As a lawyer and democracy expert I cannot overstate how rock-solid the presidential term limit is. Thread.

How to turn off Gemini in your Gmail, Docs, Photos, and more - it's easy to opt out It's a little hidden, but there is a way to remove Gemini from your favorite Google services.

Turn off Gemini in Google!
It's been turned on by default.

Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box.

www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

For so many reasons, I positively HATE this timeline.

A.I.-washing & invisible labor case #794572303564

Thinking of Jamaica, the DR, Haiti, & everyone in the path of #Melissa 💜

This enrages me & I see it ALL the time…

A breakfast plate on a wooden counter. A cloth napkin with black checks is on the left. A Korean pancake, scrambled eggs with hot sauce, cherry tomatoes, green parsley & French fries sit on the plate. In the upper right corner there is a black book with the title, Gothic Chilling Ghost Short Stories. Coffee it’s in a colorful NEPM mug at the top.

I love breakfast 💜👻

It’s spooky season! 🎃

Tell me a SUPERNATURAL TALE OF HORROR, WOE & HUMAN FOLLY with a single (real) presentation title*. I’ll start:

“Using Machine Learning to Predict Childhood BMI from the First 1,000 Days of Life”*

<insert screaming> 👻

*actually this is a keynote from a public health ctr

Universities across the world seeing this:

"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"

Why Europe’s Resistance to Big Tech Matters for the Future of Democracy | TechPolicy.Press We are witnessing the fusion of corporate and state power take institutional form, writes Courtney C. Radsch.

The cozy alliance between Washington and Silicon Valley is creating an unprecedented concentration of power. In this new landscape, Europe’s bid for digital sovereignty is a bid for democracy itself, writes Open Market Institute's Courtney C. Radsch.

Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing

Oh

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Congrats!!!

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology TikTok video by lia

This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/

Thissssssss

Congrats to all the soon-to-be-inducted Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (including my colleague Dr. Lisa Duffy!) & awardees. Sorry I can’t dance with you all this year - but I hope you can celebrate the milestone.

And my heart goes out to those who can’t be present 💜

#FAAN #HPC2025

This. Is. Very. Illegal.
That’s not stopping the abuses of power, but it remains important context.

"Responsible adults involved in working with young people would do well to expand investments in practices of social innovation within systems of care rather than invent new methods of surveillance, punishment, and social control."

Hear, hear!

There are lessons here (if anyone is paying attention)

This is awesome - congrats!!

when I was researching it for an article, I actually learned how to run it, train models, how prompting works, all that shit, exploring it very thoroughly

and uh:

futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

THIS is what I mean when Ive been saying that nearly all big tech companies, even consumer focused ones that have nothing to do with surveillance, see the easy money to be made with practically all federal funding going exclusively to deportation and wanting in on it by making tools for ICE.

Even a single person at home can now do what once took buildings of trolls. Open models run on high-end PCs or small clusters. No provider-side safety system may see or stop it. AI Safety is missing the point here.

📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...

The wild thing about genA.I.-based “personalization” is how it tailors a unique plan (built just for you!) by… copy/pasting from others whose data look just like you*

*to the computer, at least

This is an all hands on deck moment

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.