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For the nerds

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

If you're in academia and you think we can just "ride this out," please read this #thread and think about how the current attacks on scientific research disproportionately affect junior researchers- who are literally the future.

If you’re verified or thinking of getting verified on LinkedIn please read this. LinkedIn is a VLOP.

HT @simonelinke.com

Let's not forget they're also pushing to end birthright citizenship and allow for denaturalizing people.

White men are going to be so shocked when it happens to them.

"But I'm a citizen."
"Nah, buddy, you we're a citizen, now you're a resident of a labor camp where you will die."

Academics, this is a really, really important story to stay abreast of.

When he's getting taken away by the police he's trying to say something but it's inaudible because he has a mouthful of AI art

For women, one of the very difficult things about the Epstein emails is having all our worst professional suspicions confirmed.

You wonder in darker moments if men say this kind of awful stuff about us (individually, and as a class) to each other, and here it is all confirmed in writing.

I look forward to entire DMV, Medicaid, and Social Security databases being wiped out because the AI thought to delete it and start from scratch as an easier shortcut. It's already happened to the AWS code base.

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On Joy and Resistance | dansinker.com

I wrote about joy and resistance and Alysa Liu and Bad Bunny. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

I must not engage in discourse. Discourse is the vibe-killer. I will face the discourse. I will permit it to pass over me and around me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the discourse has gone there will be nothing. Only vibe will remain.

An interesting side note to this story: According to this, this incident went viral because the kid who got punched was wearing Meta smart glasses at school, for which he (1) also got suspended and (2) made himself rather awkwardly famous.

White House tweets image of an eagle standing on a canada goose in response to Justin Trudeau saying “you can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game

Oh I fucking hate them

I truly can’t handle reading this news about OpenAI’s disregard for public safety on the same day as I saw Sam Altman equate the energy use of AI models with the energy use of humans, reducing humanity to a resource calculation to be managed so he can pursue his AGI god.

I’m just so disgusted.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

“Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. She says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone”

The Dead Flag Blues

@CSMFHT - Feb 12, 2021 Some things are more ancient than you think

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Every time I see someone talk about how AI products are achieved at "no cost," I feel a flinch echo through my body felt by generations of my ancestors. I know where the road goes when a consuming body is given the privilege of ignoring the true cost of labor.

Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace

Morons

Morons are in charge

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Can't "move past the blank page" on your research?

Maybe you shouldn't be a researcher.

DinoCon with a more prompt response to academics complicit in sexual abuse than uh, the entirety of academia.

the monster and another monster were in the closet making abysses and i saw the abyss and the abyss looked at me

NIETZSCHE: the abyss looked at you?

Remove Your Ring Camera With a Claw Hammer Home and life improvement.

“For stubbornly attached units, you can also use the flat side of the hammer in a straight-on strike, repeated until the item is rendered into a pile of splinters that can be swept up using an everyday broom and dustpan.”

Rooting for a "Kaiju Emerge in El Paso" headline right now.

FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport, for “special security reasons."

The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.