Stephanie Crofts

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A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Very bad news. Teen Vogue was doing work other journalists were not.

Absolutely incredible work here. Just keep clicking back through the quotes.

Nature News Sept 18 Can AI chatbots trigger psychosis? What the science says Chatbots can reinforce delusional beliefs, and, in rare cases, users have experienced psychotic episodes. By Rachel Fieldhouse

By Louise Matsakis Business Oct 27, 2025 1:00 PM OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week OpenAI released initial estimates about the share of users who may be experiencing symptoms like delusional thinking, mania, or suicidal ideation, and says it has tweaked GPT-5 to respond more effectively.

Regarding "far more common than reported here":

Left: the Nature News story above, Sept 18th 2025

Right: Wired directly quoting OpenAI, Oct 28, 2025

www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

I Am a Dog. I Am About to Puke. Where Is the Good Rug? Oh. Oh no. Something is… wrong. Very wrong. Oh, boy. Yeah. No. Nope. Not okay. Don’t get up, Mom. You’re so Comfy On the couch. I… got this...

To the rug—
The good rug—
NOW.
No, Mom—
Urrrrrp.
I absolutely
Hurrrrgh.
Cannot wait
Mmmmrgh!
To get
FLURRRRP!
Outside.

A tweet from Elizabeth Warren says: “This is Trump’s presidency in a single photo: Illegal, destructive, and not helping you.” The image shows construction and demolition work at the White House, with a Volvo excavator tearing down part of a wing as workers stand nearby behind a fenced-off area.

Perfect metaphor.

Comic. Confusion matrix showing renditions of different combinations, colored yellow, tan, or gray. [Air: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Lead: gamma rays G, neutrons T, alpha particles G, light G, Sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust T, radio G, sharks G] [Water: gamma rays T, neutrons G, alpha particles G, light T, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Vacuum: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound G, heat T, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Oven mitts: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound T, heat G, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks Y] [Armor: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks T] [Biohazard suit: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust G, radio Y, sharks Y] [Faraday cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Shark cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G]

Shielding Chart

xkcd.com/3158/

omg, this is utterly painful and exactly how it feels to be an educator right now, especially in the Humanities. yikes.

Pop up aquarium bingo board

Pop-Up Aquarium Bingo 2025 Tips and additional info

Anacortes area folks!

We are doing a Bingo/scavenger hunt activity leading up to the pop-up aquarium on August 10th.

Here’s a link to a PDF copy for alt text and printing:

drive.google.com/file/d/1Ynyc...

1 Do not obey in advance.
2 Defend institutions.
…
15 Contribute to good causes.
16 Learn from peers in other countries.
17 Listen for dangerous words.
18 Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.
19 Be a patriot.
20 Be as courageous as you can.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social

#OnTyranny #DoNotObeyInAdvance

People scattered around a room with tables containing art.

The interactive show that closes this FHL art/sci workshop is amazing. 🐡

A life size painted styrofoam profile of the forelimb and skull of Brachiosaurus. The humerus stretches up to the second floor landing of the nearby stairway.

For #FossilFriday, my life-size Brachiosaurus forelimb and skull. Because even if they can’t make it to a museum, my students deserve to see and feel how enormous these animals were. Made of expanded polystyrene sheets and painted with acrylics.

We should try to find a hero fighting back against fascism in the US every day. Today, I'd nominate the FCC's Anna Gomez and, yes, Jerome Powell. A lot more courage than any elected Democrat this week (and I say that as someone who is very much NOT on the bash-the-Dems train.)

Front page of The National, a newspaper in Scotland. Picture of Trump's gurning face above a headline: CONVICTED FELON TO ARRIVE IN SCOTLAND.

Headline in a Scottish newspaper today: CONVICTED US FELON TO ARRIVE IN SCOTLAND

A four panel comic titled Bird Sounds. In panel 1, labeled thrush, a wood thrush sings its beautiful eeohlay song against a forest background. In panel 2, labeled wren, a winter wren delicately sings tweedly tweedly tweedly. In panel 3, labeled warbler, a yellow warbler delicately sings sweet sweet. In panel 4, labeled heron in a death metal font, a heron screams KRAAGH against a background of fire.

Bird sounds.

Curious if this is a one off, or did some other school superintendents come in from vacation and caved and gave them the data? We might know a lot less of what is going on in the shadows than we think.

A group of handdrawn fish.

Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Black and white photo of the young boy Emmett Till (approx. 14 years old). He is dressed in a shirt, tie, wearing a fedora hat and smiling.

Emmett Till would have been 84 years old today.

I celebrate your life, sir 🕯️

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.

Turning the kids woke but it's just making sure they're not sleeping in class.

vocal fry implies the existence of vocal onion ring and vocal tater tot

31) Non-Black Americans: you should care about Black Americans. You should listen to what we talk about, and at least maintain a healthy curiosity about what we currently celebrate/are alarmed by. We're often the first to see/experience things you'll both enjoy and be subjected to a few years out.

A favorite visualization of pearl formation (🎨: Raven Ramaria, ravenglassrocks.com/featured-art...) #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🐡🦑

South Park is getting canceled after this lmao.

There is no such thing as an "AI" (or any other technology) without biases and values in it, but there very definitely is such a thing as presenting one's own biases and values as "neutral" and then forcing people to build "AI" which conforms to *those.*

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

Can someone smarter than the New York Times explain to me what exactly the $200M fine that Columbia is paying is *for*?

Because in my naiveté and with $400M in grant funding canceled, this is indistinguishable from a protection racket.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...

The dumbest most boring and hateful losers stomping their feet and getting whatever they want is getting really really old

In the last 6 months Republicans have also:

-killed a low income broadband program that gave poor people a $30 discount

-killed a program providing free Wi-Fi to rural schoolkids

-destroyed the FCC's consumer protection authority

-killed efforts to police broadband data caps

Brad Lander's "The line in the Democratic Party right now is not between progressives and moderates — it's between fighters and folders" is truly *the* best diagnosis of what's needed right now. It also has the advantage of being backed up by public opinion.