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Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

“Men suffer in silence” then why am I constantly hearing about it

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"

Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

i lived and organized in a small town during 2020 and also it's currently in the news for getting a new data center so i'm gonna need to take a breather after Eddington (2025)

and i thought i was getting out of there without seeing some gnarly gore. lol.

ari aster was actually the perfect director to make a heavy handed pandemic movie

The step is always knowing who to ACTUALLY be mad at.

the thing about rural organizing is the beauty of being a couple, a few, five or so hours away – but knowing your friends and comrades and scattered community are a call/drive away for whatever shit goes down. Lill was one you know would hold it the fuck down, and we were lucky to have them.

i only crossed paths with Lill briefly, and at a really pivotal moment in my life and organizing my corner of Kentucky. I am so grateful for them, and feel so tender for the queer Southern/Appalachian community who are grieving.

Honoring our beloved colleague and friend, Lill Prosperino - National Harm Reduction Coalition It is with broken hearts and profound sadness we share our beloved former colleague and forever friend, Lill Prosperino, has passed away. Lill was a light. Their smile and laugh made the whole room — ...

We lost one of the realest ones. Harm reduction and Appalachia are better off because of Lill, and my heart is with everybody who will miss their fierce presence. harmreduction.org/blog/honorin...

9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place. This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

You're laughing? Someone who pretended to write a book but didn't want to do any work used a program that pretended to write a book but didn't do any work, and you're laughing??

You can also donate directly to the UFW by going to this link. They are on the ground helping other farm workers every day, including the folks who were rounded up in that horrific raid last week. bsky.app/profile/ufw....

Strikes must be voted in by the membership. Yes, wildcat strikes happen. And sometimes they are necessary. But those are usually unique circumstances. Generally, you want to strike with support of the union because it gives you access to strike funds and legal protections,

a family of california quail! they were looking for breakfast alongside some cottontail rabbits.

i will walk into the sea with pockets full of rocks before i ever accept the title of cybrarian

no one knows because it was so dark and no one could see anything

This is his time.

to all 25 year olds arguing about niche micro-identity politics on the internet: they got all kinds of cool stuff outside. you can see a bird or even buy a seltzer out there. Adventures Await, Outside

The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.

"No one can say, years from now, that nobody knew about the camp, or that no one pushed back." - @melissagiragrant.com

A screenshot of the grey t-shirt that says "alligator alcatraz" and features an ai slop image of an alligator and a large snake in front of a prison

a screenshot of a tweet from florida gop announcing their "alligator alcatraz" merchandise

every day these ghouls somehow manage to dig a deeper circle of depravity

so uh, that ai slop concentration camp merch huh

Most of us are tied up by HR rules about not being able to contact applicants directly after a certain point in the process; we can, should, and HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO push back against this.

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

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All of Us Disrupters spark the moment, but it takes an entire ecosystem to sustain a movement.

I'm proud of everyone on the streets today, and I'm alongside you in the daily building better, too 💚 open.substack.com/pub/deepaiye...

every protest I've ever been to(and I've been to a lot) was like 95% normies, don't let the cosplayers on the internet fool you, the people out there are the ones who drive change, not the ones serialposting about how wrongly they're doing it

Screenshot of first page of the FAccT '25 paper "Algorithms in the Stacks: Investigating automated, for-profit diversity audits in public libraries" by Melanie Walsh, Connor Franklin Rey, Chang Ge, Tina Nowak, and Sabina Tomkins. Abstract: Algorithmic systems are increasingly being adopted by cultural heritage institutions like libraries. In this study, we investigate U.S. public libraries' adoption of one specific automated tool -- automated collection diversity audits -- which we see as an illuminating case study for broader trends. Typically developed and sold by commercial book distributors, automated diversity audits aim to evaluate how well library collections reflect demographic and thematic diversity. We investigate how these audits function, whether library workers find them useful, and what is at stake when sensitive, normative decisions about representation are outsourced to automated commercial systems. Our analysis draws on an anonymous survey of U.S. public librarians (n=99), interviews with 14 librarians, a sample of purchasing records, and vendor documentation. We find that many library workers view these tools as convenient, time-saving solutions for assessing and diversifying collections under real and increasing constraints. Yet at the same time, the audits often flatten complex identities into standardized categories, fail to reflect local community needs, and further entrench libraries' infrastructural dependence on vendors. We conclude with recommendations for improving collection diversity audits and reflect on the broader implications for public libraries operating at the intersection of AI adoption, escalating anti-DEI backlash, and politically motivated defunding.

Many libraries now use automated tools to measure diversity in their collections.

We examined how these tools work and whether library workers find them useful. A complex case study of libraries navigating automation, DEI, & shrinking public funding.

Our new FAccT paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.14890