The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

Sysadmin In The LLM Age - Nullrouted Space A critique of a Ars Technica blogpost called "So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it" by Lee Hutchinson, a writer and sysadmin.

“Sysadmin In The LLM Age - Nullrouted Space”

https://nullrouted.space/2026/02/05/sysadmin-in-the-llm-age/

> If this is the conclusion you come to then you need to stop writing, go stare at a wall and contemplate the choices that brought you to this completely unhinged, abhorrent conclusion.

UPDATE: they rejected me 😭

Usually, I send them right back out (go find a home, little story!) but I'm mulling self-publishing a collection of Weird Solarpunk this would be perfect for🤔

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EPA Affirms Farmers’ Right to Repair The agency issued new guidance on a Biden-era policy, which prohibits manufacturers from using environmental laws to prevent repair work.

The Environmental Protection Agency issued new guidance this week that makes it clear that manufacturers cannot use the Clean Air Act to prevent farmers from fixing their own equipment.

Look, the framing of "human-like AI" reinforces assumptions about who & which kinds of minds are"measurably" "human/right enough," a line of discourse which currently (still) has major impacts for disabled & trans & gender nonconforming individuals. It has impacts along racialized & gendered lines…

Screencap reading: They don’t have bodies. Without embodiment, critics argue, there can be no general intelligence. This reflects an anthropocentric bias that seems to be wielded only against AI. People would ascribe intelligence to a disembodied alien communicating by radio, or to a brain sustained in a vat. An entity that responds accurately to any question, but never moves or acts physically, would be regarded as profoundly intelligent. Physicist Stephen Hawking interacted with the world almost entirely through text and synthesized speech, yet his physical limitations in no way diminished his intelligence. Motor capabilities are separable from general intelligence. The sentence starting "Physicist" is highlighted in blue. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00285-6

Shame on @nature.com for publishing this ableist trash, and shame on the authors for writing it:

Short 🧵>>

…and that affects how people get talked about in public discourse, in the press, & in the law.

Those are all very real impacts.

Thinking that there is a measurable "standard" or "threshold" of "humanness" is literally the foundation of eugenics, & eugenic thought is unfortunately very much alive…

Screencap of linked blog post: Agüera y Arcas is making the analogy “LLMs are like Deafblind people”, ostensibly to show how LLMs are more like people. But he hasn’t shown (and, I’d argue, can’t) that LLMs are like people, with internal lives, relationships, and full personhood. So the analogy ends up dehumanizing Deafblind people, by saying they are like something that is patently not human, and saying so specifically because of their disability. And even if you believe that LLMs might be somewhat human-like, the analogy is still dehumanizing, in saying that Deafblind people are closer to these (ostensibly) partially human-like objects than other people. And that, in turn, suggests that non-Deafblind people are more fully human.

Alas, this isn't new. As I wrote in 2022:

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The effect of our words and concepts isn't unidirectional, flowing only from cultural context to mirroring of same as linguistic expression; how we speak can influence how we think, what we believe, and how we all act, together.

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Wearing red today to support #WearRedDay and raise awareness for heart disease the leading cause of death worldwide. Take care of your heart, check in on the people you love, and support heart health research. ❤️

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...

Technology that doesn't work is a desired feature to the surveillance state, not a bug. When everyone is a "maybe" match, then probably cause can be manufactured to justify whatever it is one wanted to do in the first place. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...

Happy Friday, comrades.

Bannon Calls for ICE to Engage in Voter Intimidation During the Midterms “You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” former Trump strategist Steve Bannon said.

Bannon Calls for ICE to Engage in Voter Intimidation During the Midterms

“You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” former Trump strategist Steve Bannon said.

truthout.org/articles/ban...

#Midterms #Bannon #ICE

Which politicians are benefitting from the ICE concentration camp system?

This image features a book titled "The Legacy of Black Women in Librarianship: When They Dared to Be Powerful," edited by Nicole A. Cooke. The book has a patterned black and white cover. It is set against an abstract background with purple and blue tones.

Discover the important stories of many trailblazing Black women who fought racism, sexism, and other hardships in their libraries and communities to become leaders of our profession. Read an excerpt: https://bit.ly/46iVoNo

#BlackHistoryMonth #Libraries #alaeditions #ALA150 #LibraryLove

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @latimes.com is hiring a reporter to produce investigations and enterprise reporting on the Trump administration, with a particular focus on stories relevant to a California audience, in addition to daily coverage of news out of Washington. jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/nantme...

#OtD 6 Feb 1919 the Seattle general strike occurred when 100,000 downed tools in support of striking shipyard workers. They then went on to elect a general strike committee and began running the city under workers' control for five days stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1060...

About Imagine 2200 Learn about Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, Grist's climate fiction contest, and read past collections.

Today the #writingcommunity is everywhere, so here’s a reminder: the future needs stories. Imagine 2200 is @Grist’s climate fiction project, gathering hopeful, grounded visions of life beyond crisis. Read, share, learn to write better futures.

Start here: grist.org/about-imagin...

#climatefiction

Kimbal Musk is no longer on Burning Man’s board Musk told the organization’s CEO “almost two weeks ago” that he would relinquish his seat.

icymi- Elon’s bro quits Burning Man board amid outrage over Epstein connection - Burners revolted over the association with Kimbal Musk, whose name appears more than 100 times in the latest DOJ documents. sfstandard.com/2026/02/04/k...

Great piece. Plannerbrain strikes again

Trump’s Assault on Immigrants Hurts U.S.-Born Workers, Too The research is clear: when immigrant workers are targeted, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for better pay and conditions.

“When the workers who are stepping up to try and reveal violations are silenced, the standard comes down for the whole industry.”

@sarahlazare.bsky.social reports that attacks on immigrant workers threaten all workers’ ability to fight for better pay & conditions.

#abolishICE

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...

NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.

But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.

Trump shares a racist video that depicts the Obamas as primates President Donald Trump has used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Ob...

Please correct this headline @apnews.com. All humans are primates. That’s a biology.

What Trump posted was a depiction of the first Black U.S. president and First Lady as chimpanzees. That’s racist.

(Please repost to get an AP editor’s attention on this.)

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Patrons! The first chapter of Elis's new novella is live. Read at any time but if you want to help choose which awful man she's going to target, vote by Monday! www.patreon.com/posts/throw-...

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Juan González on Lasting Impact of 9/11 Toxic Exposure as NYC Faces Calls to Release Suppressed Files The September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center in New York City was a major polluting event. Debris from the collapse of the buildings spread toxic substances, including asbestos, lead, merc...

Juan González on Lasting Impact of 9/11 Toxic Exposure as NYC Faces Calls to Release Suppressed Files

US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations

So that people can easily read the source, here's a gift link to the article about MAGA think tanks in Europe being funded out of US taxpayer dollars.

www.ft.com/content/f869...

Washington tribes could get more say in management of state logging lands • Washington State Standard Two Washington tribal leaders could snag seats on the state’s Board of Natural Resources. Tribal representatives would serve four-year terms.

Two Washington tribal leaders could soon snag seats on the state’s Board of Natural Resources, which guides logging sales and other management decisions for millions of acres of public land. The idea is in a bill moving ahead in the Legislature. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/02/06/w...