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"We are not our ancestors" is not gonna yet us through this moment. You better wish you were your ancestors who survived the middle passage, chattel slavery, who consistently revolted, who made ways as maroons. We definitely need to connect with Black legacies of survival for now.

Alice Wong, a woman in a wheelchair with dark hair, poses in a pink and orange outfit and berry lipstick. A headline reads: "Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51." Photo via John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

This country and the social contracts we’ve all lived under can never be reinstated.

We’ve shown the fallacy in them by letting this shit show run amuck. You can’t talk about merit ever again. The rule of law? Baby… might as well forget about it.

Society in decline and nothing can patch it up.

I wish we could take the rest of the year off.

Like, as a species let’s sit down and rethink this lived experience because we don’t have to live like this.

Rosalind Franklin - Wikipedia

Rosalind Franklin, 1920-1958

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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

I think you should join in with others especially when it's easy to do.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Me ready to destroy a presenter with a tough question (jk!). In all seriousness, I had the best time at @lansi2024.bsky.social sharing about @francescaorfw.bsky.social my upcoming book, "Race talk in institutional settings: A language and social interaction perspective" and learning from others!

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

I just had a creative meeting where our team solved four problems and made a huge leap towards achieving our goal and I regret to inform you — truly — that sometimes an in-person meeting truly is the best, most efficient use of your time.

Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.

YouTube video by American Experience | PBS Fannie Lou Hamer's Powerful Testimony | Freedom Summer

6 October is Fannie Lou Hamer's birthday.

"Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. But his plan backfires."

An organizer friend says, repeatedly, that if it weren’t for Black women leaders there’d be no organizing. The church, naacp, D9 teach them how to organize, from the ground up in many cases. That and Heritage about the other massive training infrastructures left.

“Working For AI”

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I always feel my class based differences really strongly when something like this happens.

I share zero of my professional colleagues’ impulses.

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."

Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;

We really need more papers on this issue

Econ is coming out in droves to support Lisa, legitimate her bona fides, and warn that Trump taking over the Fed would be disastrous.

Ask yourself if YOUR workplace or profession would defend a Black female colleague this vociferously. An old, conservative, combative profession at that.

"The poor say the rich have the cure
The rich say the poor are the source...
Some say the first case came from a maternity ward
Some say a morgue, some say the skies, some say the floors
Whores say the nuns, nuns say the whores
And everybody is sure"

📄 “Safer than driving”: Risk communication about surgery with racially diverse families in pediatric urology visits,

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#EMCA

This year has been unbelievably weighty (much loss and grief). Rest assured, Doc.

More on advice.

Ours is an advice culture, I get that. But I’m just not sure men in public get as many demands to tell people what to do as women get? Or, as a colleague once replied, maybe you don’t have to ask men for advice because they’re already always giving it! LOL

But yeah its not my jam.

I just saw something that said the next big thing in education for the rich will be tech-free schools. This reminds me how all of those tech company owners are like "oh no my kids can't use our product." They're pushing A.I. on your kids but making sure their kids don't touch it.

It's not the generation. IT'S THE POLITICS.

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

If you're an academic in the U.S., I highly recommend looking up "Lysenkoism"

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“I finished my PhD @26. I regret this. Take time off between grad school and undergrad. Live your life. Defer, read, work, explore, party, save, make art, sleep. Don’t rush. Grad school is not the safety net you think it is. The degree will be there when ur done. Enjoy life!”

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

When you strip away humanity