Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You!

Y'all, there are three years to pick a better candidate than this. Three years

Three.

Years.

If you're already so all-in on newsom that you're out in these skeets fighting strangers about why we should give him a pass for hurting us and the people we love, i don't even know what to tell you. Bye

Like… yeah, the team of people behind this particular figurehead is doing real damage and that's good, and good on him for hiring them, and when the target is destroyed I want all of the members of that team to start working for better people & I never want to hear from that figurehead again. 🤷🏾‍♂️

And if targeting trans people and the unhoused is somehow a "purity test" for you, then what the fuck are you actually fighting for and against?

I'm serious: If the literal things our enemies are doing are not bad enough for you to say "hey maybe this guy isn't actually on my side," then *What Is*?

I know we're all desperate for anyone at all to fight back against trump, but Newsom's not a hero, here. He's not even a good person. He's a transphobe & actively, proudly destroying tent shelter encampments *With His Own Hands*.

This is prime LetThemFight Dot Gif & we get to take down the winner.

ICE agent carrying away a yard sign that says “ICE kidnapping happened here”

An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀

a girl with a bow in her hair is sitting at a table with a green drink Alt: an anime girl bangs her head against a desk repeatedly

JP Morgan loaned $20 bn for the EA acquisition, oh my god, this is going to go so badly

I promise you, the gaping maw of loneliness & a lack of purpose borne of the mismatch between the self you truly are & the one-size-fits-all mold of patriarchal masculinity will NOT be filled by subjecting a woman to pregnancy, childbirth, and unequal divisions of labor just so you can be a father.

“When shootings involving MPD officers happen, there are laws and regulations requiring that specific information be shared. The two recent shootings, though, show the significant gap in transparency that exists when federal agents pull the trigger.”

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When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81 Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

A Year of Refusal Maggie Fernandes, University of ArkansasMegan McIntyre, University of ArkansasJennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Photo by Francis Glenn Marciano on Pexels.com It’s been about a year …

A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"

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Armored worms and death-ball sponges among array of life newly documented from the deep sea In the darkness of the deep ocean, where pressure crushes and light fails, an expedition has found an astonishing array of life, including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge (from the genus…

A 35-day deep-sea expedition in the Southern Ocean has uncovered 30 new species: from a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge to iridescent armoured worms, black corals and even the first-ever live footage of a colossal squid in its natural habitat. buff.ly/9uVWJvN
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Unfortunately regularly necessary reminder that End-to-End Encryption does not protect you against needing to thoroughly and routinely vet your comms.

Snitches are how 99% of FBI cases work, or someone talking when they shouldn't. It's almost never breaking encryption.

So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

This story doesn’t in any way indicate that Signal is broken. This was a big signal group with open membership. Reading between the lines of the story this was 99% chance a snitch or undercover agent or cellebrite (1% chance someone’s phone got compromised)

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There’s a reason boring-wozniak is disallowed

For lots of reasons, I don’t like LLMs and I don’t use them, but I know there are serious people working on ways to meaningfully incorporate them into education and I don’t doubt there are ways to do that productively. It’s probably obvious that “Have the LLM tell you the answer” isn’t one of them.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Pattern recognition has to be my least favorite part of neurodivergence. "Oh, I see where this is going. Surely everyone else sees this too? Oh. Okay. Can't wait to sit here in silent horror while that car crash slowly happens."

Here's a gift link (we need a version of this not in The New York Times):

Yeah, that's what I gathered about the state of the research at present; & this part you note 👇🏾 is what I really want to see tested in the wild. Lots of claims are being made about the efficacy of these systems & those Claims are being used to argue Trustworthiness, when trust might not be warranted

Artificial Intelligence is Putting Innocent People at Risk of Being Incarcerated There are at least seven confirmed cases of misidentification due to facial recognition technology, six of which involve Black people .

What I'd really like is new research on whether there've been any improvements in the racial & gender disparities in facial recognition systems in the past 5 yrs. Run the baselines again, see who & what it gets wrong, in what contexts. We know the effects (👇🏾; ≥10, now, btw), & need more process data

That's a very live question; seems like… sometimes?

There's a lot of *claims* of improvement, yeah. But… Yeah.

Artificial Intelligence is Putting Innocent People at Risk of Being Incarcerated There are at least seven confirmed cases of misidentification due to facial recognition technology, six of which involve Black people .

What I'd really like is new research on whether there've been any improvements in the racial & gender disparities in facial recognition systems in the past 5 yrs. Run the baselines again, see who & what it gets wrong, in what contexts. We know the effects (👇🏾; ≥10, now, btw), & need more process data

The fact that most successful people from marginalized communities are going to be high achievers was papered over for the idea that somehow Black people in general and Black women in particular represented a new “cultural elite” from which Harvard etc derived power had many people participating.

It was an older story we thought was more recent. (I left mine up because rekognition is still in use by various agencies and according to recent research still shows the same problems as it used to.)

Katy O’Brian Is the Queer Action Star We’ve Been Waiting For Katy O’Brian has tackled lesbian neo-noir and gone full-throttle action, sharing the screen with Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” earlier this year. She also appears in two of the year’s most anticipated films: “Christy,” the true story of lesbian boxer Christy Martin (with Sydney Sweeney in the title role), and “The Running Man,” opposite Glen Powell.

From queer horror to action blockbusters, Katy O'Brian is reshaping the screen on her own terms. Katy spoke with us about her mission to tell bold, boundary-pushing stories that matter.

What's really weird is that I thought I saw 2025 in the byline of the one you posted. But thanks for catching that