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If you’re still wearing a mask, thank you.

If you’re cleaning the air, thank you.

If you’re refusing to treat disabled people as expendable, thank you.

If you’ve got Covid, remember it’s not your fault.

The compassion is in the effort. Your mitigations meant you didn’t make anyone else sick.

😆 I was just thinking about you!

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

UN invites Indigenous leaders from around the world for meetings Indigenous leaders from around the world are meeting at the UN to discuss various issues including the climate crisis.

Indigenous leaders meet at United Nations, discuss water, challenges in implementing UNDRIP

Academia isn’t perfect, but it offers a rare space to pursue knowledge for its own sake. If research were fully privatized, only profit-driven questions would get asked. Yet many of the most transformative discoveries began as curiosity-driven inquiries whose value wasn’t clear for years.

I feel you! 🥶 It’s definitely an exercise in resilience

LSC | Watch | Midland Public Library Online Events

If you haven't had a chance to hear me talk about Moon of the Turning Leaves yet, there's a free online event happening tomorrow (Tuesday) evening that'll be streamed to libraries across Turtle Island. Here's a link with more details: libraryc.org/midlandlibra...

The "Privacy" screen of the GBoard settings

Oh, and as for "your phone being compromised": I recommend turning off Apple Intelligence and anything branded "Copilot", as "AI" features can scrape data and use it in surprising ways. If you use Android, disable the keyboard feature that saves "transcripts of what you say and type" "on the device"

This thread restored some of the hope that had been battered out of me. Community is all we have, and it’s often held together by a person who didn’t realize that’s what they were doing. Find that person and offer to share the load 💜

From Pets.com to AI slop, hundreds of billions of $ have been vaporized in tech bubbles over the past quarter century that could have been invested in stuff we *unambiguously need* like green energy or housing. This is how you know the market is efficient.

In 1850, the California government banned the controlled burning that Indigenous people had been doing for centuries. The practice controlled the forest density, scaled down undergrowth, and promoted fire-resistant species. It reduced the severity, mileage, and overall number of forest fires. 1/5

lol guilty as charged

The more folks resist becoming AI users, the harder companies are going to try to scale adoption by making the tech unavoidable. In other words, to scale their user base by coercion. We already saw this dynamic in 2024. I think we’re going to see it 10x in 2025.

This is breathtaking.

Aurora borealis... from *above*.

Credit: Don Pettit from the International Space Station

Anyone who has internetted for any length of time knows better than to just follow anyone and everyone.

This might sound like a hot take but friends: Read books as a hobby this year. It is one of the best things you can do for your brain to grow your thinking and perspectives.
If you want to be anti-consumption get a library card.

Bonus: in places like UK/AoNZ/CA library copies pay authors

I miss you toooo! Was just reading through what I’ve missed from you lately! I will be coming here more often!

The Myers Briggs is astrology for MBAs

How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the visually impaired Making your website and social media accessible to people with blindness and low vision.

2025 is a great year for you to start captioning your images with alt text if you haven't yet. It helps people with low vision and blindness experience more of the web, gives your images a wider audience, and even enhances searchability of your posts!

Perkins has a good "why" and "how" intro guide:

#ResistanceRoots
#Voices4Victory

Today in history, 1890: Tatanka Iyotake (Sitting Bull) is shot and killed by Indian police who had been sent to arrest him. The chief refused to go quietly, some young men intervened and a shot was fired. The police shot Sitting Bull in the chest and head. /1

Valentino model in white dress against ruffled green background on mauve carpet with a shoulder back that has the exact ripped off copy of beadwork from a historical bag. Next photo will say more.

The original beaded bag was listed as “Cree bandolier bag” for auction. It is a historical bag covered in seed beads in a floral patterns of the Metis or Cree or Dene people. It is on black trade wool with long straps also beaded and red wool tassels hanging from it.

Valentino directly copied a Metis, Cree and/or Dene historical bag and passed it off as their own design. I’m disgusted my name and work was associated with theirs in 2016. I rebuke their designers as devoid of originality and creativity. They are sloppy and “mine” other cultures to steal work from.

This type of thing is forever fascinating

It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about bias and AI.

Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini

And many many more within/outside academia.

Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
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Quoting a friend: I sincerely advise my friends to create alt accounts in the absence of appropriate privacy settings that might put your own identity and the individuals in your network at risk on a platform that has yet to demonstrate any accountability or responsibility for user safety.

Always always

That’s it - thanks for sharing! And I love that Bluesky has reached the point where an author of a study under discussion just pops into the replies with a link to the paper.