Kit, the thinking woman's crumpet

The cool thing is…

It’s not too late to start wearing a K/N95 again.

Or to normalize “please don’t come over if you’re sick”

Or to demand indoor air quality investments (ventilation, filtration, ASHRAE 241 etc) in schools.

Or to gift air cleaners to friends.

Or lobby for health facility masking

This is important y’all. This is our chance to save the stars.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

A digital illustration done in a black and white woodcut style similar to Totentanz images by Holbein and others. A skeleton wearing a jester-type cowl with two floppy horns with bells on the ends, and another garment around his shoulders and boots all decorated with bells. He his high stepping and playing some kind of flute. Black lines radiate out from behind him and a banner wraps around at his hips with the words ‘maybe it will happen today’ on it.

Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission - IGN Publisher Finji says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the platform without permission and pushing those ads to its users without Finji's knowledge, including at least one ...

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something.

www.ign.com/articles/tun...

getting surgery next friday and I keep wondering— what if It Happens while I'm under??

if i had a nickel for every podcast I listened to today that talked about the structural violence inherent in early 2000s gold farming, I'd have two nickels.

my earnest advice to everyone alive is: be a little freak about something. the history of pinball machines. photographing every bird in your state. running a five minute mile. knitting hats for cats. modding your favorite video game. baking the perfect chocolate chip cookie.

survival right now is figuring out when "anything worth doing" is "worth doing well" and when it's "worth doing poorly."

Hello everyone! I am working on something and could use your help. If you pay for Claude code, please type npx ccusage@latest into your terminal and send me a screenshot of your usage from the last month, along with your level of subscription ($20/100/200). I would be so grateful!

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Wage Theft (when employers steal from employees) Minimum wage violations: $23.20 billion Overtime violations: $8.80 billion Rest break violations: $4.00 billion Off-the-clock violations: $3.20 billion Other types of theft Larceny: $5.30 billion Burglary: $4.10 billion Auto theft: $3.80 billion Robbery: $0.34 billion *all $ amounts are per year *all data is for the U.S. https://www.tcworkerscenter.org/2018/09/wage-theft-vs-other-forms-of-theft-in-the-u-s/

Wage theft is the largest form of theft in the United States, dwarfing other kinds of theft. Companies steal up to $50 billion or more from workers annually, with only a tiny fraction ever recovered and paid to employees. This perpetuates income and wealth inequalities.

www.epi.org/publication/...

ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going.

Things are changing, y’all.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A holographic plate on which whistles are being 3d printed. The holographic pattern is four pointed stars.

A large shawl rests on a tree. The shawl is knit from orange and black yarn, and the orange yarn has speckles of cream on it. The pattern is that of a pair of monarch butterfly wings.

A large shawl rests on a tree. The shawl is knit from orange and black yarn, and the orange yarn has speckles of cream on it. The pattern is that of a pair of monarch butterfly wings. This is a close up of the knitting

A large shawl rests on a tree. The shawl is knit from orange and black yarn, and the orange yarn has speckles of cream on it. The pattern is that of a pair of monarch butterfly wings. This image shows the reverse side of the shawl where the base of the shawl is black and the pattern is orange.

Monarch Butterfly Double Knit Shawl Whistle Fund Auction

Starting Bid - $1
Minimum Bid Increase - $5

Place bids by commenting on this post (ie $450)

Bidding is open on Bluesky, Instagram, and Facebook.
Auction runs Feb. 13 at 4pm CST through Feb 16th at 6 pm CST.

1 hour snipe guard in effect.

homegrown panic. imported disco.

idk man. if your world-changing tech's most common/public uses are generating csam and making students dumber, maybe you've got a bad product. if it's backed mostly by billionaires, that's a pretty good sign it's evil. and if you have to pillage the earth and artists' creations to make it work...

Made an annotated version of "Something Big Is Coming" for all of you to enjoy. I hate this guy's writing so much
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5...

periodically i remember my wife was president of her high school's GSA because she was "a really good ally"

horrified at the state of the world. time to drink and embroider too hard, aggravating my tendon injury. im sure this is a healthy coping mechanism

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Classic '90s edutainment games? We've got a Putt Putt Goes To The Moon ad for you, if you dig those!

“DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” is Bad Bunny’s Latest Decolonial Text Bad Bunny’s new album places loss at the center of tropical paradise, elucidating vacation spots as colonial constructs.

THIS IS STILL FREE TO READ IF YOU WANT TO LEAR ABOUT BAD BUNNY'S WORK!! (sorry we are excited about Benito Bowl)

Phineas and Ferb is my exemplar of meta fictional horror

Gatinho cinza rajado olhando pra foto e à frente de uma igreja onde a cúpula com a cruz ficou certinha sobre sua cabeça parecendo um chapéu

Gatólico

olympics has moved from "what can the human body do??" to "what can a bunch of time, money, and resources do TO the human body?" and that's simply less interesting

I offered someone a kit the other day and they pulled out a different one they had gotten at work!

A dog who is fetching--but not sticks, honey--in a fuzzy pink sweater at the 150th Westminster Dog Show. Photo by Timothy A. Clary.

I love dog show photos. www.npr.org/sections/the...

live your life like isaac chotiner could interview you at any moment

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly