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Postcards for peace! Thursday Dec 11th 6-8:30pm at 1414 Hill street. Come write postcards to decision makers to help them reconsider the Los Alamos nuclear warfare data center!

Postcards for peace! Thursday Dec 11th 6-8:30pm at 1414 Hill street. Come write postcards to decision makers to help them reconsider the Los Alamos nuclear warfare data center!

AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

the problem is the news in general but it just feels extra fashy at planet fitness

i don't think having fear-inducing local and national propaganda news projected on big screens at the gym is a great idea

Data center developers hit pause on $1 billion Howell Township proposal: 'The right thing to do now' Developers of a proposed $1 billion data center in Howell Township withdraw a rezoning request after resident pushback, passage of six-month moratorium.

Howell Township official expects developers to resubmit application for the $1 billion project when six-month data center moratorium ends. planetdetroit.org/2025/12/bill...

Union Co-Op, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Undated.

Co-op grocery store run by @uaw.org Local 877, out of Bridgeport, CT. From the union's archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Tomorrow, we may see a strong, G3 geomagnetic storm and auroras occuring further equatorward than usual. This is in response to a coronal mass ejection (CME) heading towards Earth. Impact may occur sometime Monday night into Tuesday. Here's what's happening and what to expect 🧵

#heliophysics

Healing My Heart for 20 Dollars a Month

this is fascinating bc the supposed hook is "I was raised in a tech-skeptical commune, yet AI helped me work through my problems" when it's actually "I was raised in a cult and responded to a form of AI emotional manipulation that treated me like a cult leader"

🆕 Never Post! Don’t Do It Yourself Unless you know what you're doing.

The current @neverpo.st episode on DIYing your "cloud" is great. Not just cause it shows what is possible, that you actually can do a lot, but also the cost (financial and others). Because hosting things (especially for others) is and requires care work. Great interview.

You can tell the libertarians who got there via genuinely held principle because they’re not libertarians anymore.

Green background with white text that says 'That's My Jam! A Lingthusiasm episode pairing for every day of the Bonne Maman Jam Advent Calendar'. A photo of a tiny jam of jar with a red gingham lid and cursive French script on a colourful background, set in a polaroid frame, with navy blue text that says 'Blueberry & Maple Syrup'. The photo is surrounded by line drawings of leafs and stars. Below that is white text that says 'with Speaking Canadian and Australian English in a British-American binary'

Day 1 of #ThatsMyJam!

Blueberry & Maple Syrup, with Speaking Canadian and Australian English in a British-American binary

You can listen to us get enthusiastic about the relationship between the different varieties of English here: soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm...

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

now seems like a good time to get into ham radio

Disabling Intelligences This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.

Cannot wait to read @fractalecho.bsky.social's book!!! Drawing on both critical STS and disability studies, the book provides "a toolkit for evaluating and resisting metaeugenics in technology."

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

President Obama Wants to Continue Imprisoning Immigrant Families | ACLU

and last, but not least, something that I still remember that you do not: kids in cages was an obama policy www.aclu.org/news/smart-j...

" . . a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces.
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O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again"
-Thomas Wolfe

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
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Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!

Sometimes I need to explain to non-Canadians what a square is in the dessert sense, and now I'm going to refer them to this cookbook for examples

I just got a "Decomputing" talk accepted by a very tech-focused business conference (as a Keynote even) and a labor rights organization who wanted me to propose a talk instantly went for the "The Luddites were right" suggestion. Two things that a few months ago would not have been possible I think.

Don’t Believe the Hype — or Doom — About AI For America’s VC-dominated tech industry, AI hype isn’t just a crazy by-product — it’s a structural part of the US economy in which capital tries to write our destinies. We shouldn’t let it.

For America’s VC-dominated tech industry, AI hype isn’t just a crazy by-product — it’s a structural part of the US economy in which capital tries to write our destinies. We shouldn’t let it.

We do. This was something @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & I discussed at the UIC UF event last week. (Forthcoming pod.)

Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.

Baristas in Worcester, MA on ULP strike holding picket signs

It's day TWENTY-FIVE of our national ULP strike.

You know our baristas are dedicated when they're running picket lines in these freezing temps. ⛄️ We're ready to keep fighting until Starbucks stops union busting and delivers a fair contract! #NoContractNoCoffee

If we want to end fascism in the U.S. we have to dismantle the controlled opposition party first. Period.

UM Early Childhood Educators UM Early Childhood Educators are some of the lowest paid employees at the University. They provide care for infants, toddlers and early education for preschoolers of University/Michigan Medicine staff...

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UM friends: Our Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) are the lowest paid employees on *all UM campuses*. If you are a parent who uses a UM childcare center, or if you know of someone who does, PLEASE use our template to email UM management, and encourage others to do so.

The End of the Israel Exception A new paradigm for American policy.

Of note, it was Democratic presidents, especially Biden, that gave Israel totally unchecked power.

“Israel receives treatment that no other ally or partner enjoys. When other countries buy U.S. weapons, the sales are subject to a bevy of U.S. laws; Israel has never truly been compelled to comply.”

It’s Time to Save Silicon Valley From Itself Big Tech has lost its way. At WIRED’s Big Interview event, Techdirt editor Mike Masnick and Common Tools CEO Alex Komoroske announced a manifesto designed to help the industry get back on track.

yes but forced dissolution is the only way to "save" it
www.wired.com/story/big-in...

does city club (in detroit) actually still exist?!?

☎️Professor Foucault, you've seen the news? Yes sir that's right... They're surveilling discourse in prisons now☎️

#OtD 7 Dec 1896 Japanese translator, feminist, socialist and lesbian Yuasa Yoshiko (湯浅 芳子) was born in Kyoto. As an early supporter of the women's rights movement, she became involved in the left-wing proletarian literature movement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1069...