shauna (find me @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy)

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Today's DC-inspired #woso viewing guide:

- 2 PM EST - Rose and Ivory Coast vs Kenya

- 3:30 PM EST - Leicy and Colombia vs Argentina

- 6:45 PM EST - Trinity,Tara, and the #USWNT vs Gabby and Canada

- 10 PM EST - Carleigh, Katrina, and the Philippines vs South Korea

#ThatsTheSpirit #dcpowerfc

We're back at Council! The 12 noon Legislative Meeting just started and you can watch here: dc.granicus.com/player/camer...

this is objectively the best party game

ICE OUT NOW.

ICE OUT NOW #mnufc

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

With other teams finding a way to celebrate the Black community, nothing is not a choice, @washingtonspirit.com.

also your reminder to follow @blackgirlhockey.bsky.social who are such a special group out there and refuse to let this white-heavy space deter them

Shooting in a metro themed background is another great nod to DC, i love that this photoshoot was very intentional

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

One of the families we've been helping, the father was finally released from the facility in Texas and then from Whipple. They dumped him on the street with no coat, no phone, nothing, in single digit temps. Bless the people who monitor Whipple 24/7

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.

This is bad. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Respectfully, Ticketmaster kicked the crap out of all of us last year.

That is the last company that should be getting away with paying $0 in federal income taxes.

And yet, here they are paying $0 in federal income taxes.

Thanks, Trump.

More than 75,000 Post readers cancelled their subscriptions after the recent cuts. An even larger number bailed after Bezos killed the endorsement of Harris, but now the decline feels terminal. Bezos does not want a great paper with a conservative opinion page (like the Wall Street Journal). He seemingly barely wants a paper at all, treating one of the most important American media institutions like an embarrassing child from a previous marriage that no longer fits his lifestyle.

This sounds unbelievable but its true: since Bezos acquired The Post, his wealth has grown tenfold and the Post has been cut in half.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...

‘Murky Waters’ for Global Businesses After Trump’s Tariff Loss

This is the best illustration of why the economic effects of Trump will be felt not in a single moment of collapse, but in permanently lower prosperity. Outside AI euphoria, people will think ten times before committing to any large investment.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

Page 34: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct."

Page 29: "Absent genuine, particularized necessity, the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness requirement prohibits government officers from executing a civil arrest while systematically concealing their identities in a manner that eliminates contemporaneous and subsequent accountability."

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

As @titonka.bsky.social says, all politics are masculinity politics

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

oh no

lol, it’s a lot easier to form a tenants union when everyone in the building is in the same group chat

WEEZY F. AND THE F STANDS FOR uswntFullback

woman giving thumbs up while riding a bunch bike with unicorn waving a hand inside

Was your weekend this much fun?

If not - you need more #cargobike 😎

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