Jen Garrett-Ostermiller

Is there any other country in the world that works this hard to honor traitors?

Not to mention enslavers and losers.

Reverse racism proves the existence of racism. Also, you know how soft you have to think a player is to ask for government intervention? If I'm CC, I'd rather just have all haters. These "fans" are racist and awful.

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

i really want everyone to read this because Dems are not going to win by default. new Republicans will run and they’ll say the right things to win. people will get fooled or maybe just agree.

Dems need real candidates up and down the ticket or we never escape this mess.

new video shows the ICE agent who claimed he was randomly "assaulted" by this 4'11" US citizen on her way to work is shown literally picking her up and carrying her away.

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

AI boosters get mad when I describe LLMs as "Spicy Autocomplete." Sure, it's a bit reductionist ("stochastic parrot" is more precise), but it's far worse for people to see LLMs as "ineffable superintelligence," as WSJ did by claiming ChatGPT expressed "self reflection." No, it didn't.

Years ago, an institution I worked for switched from having to enter all hours worked to only having to enter paid time off (this was for salaried staff). The assumption built into that new process was that if you didn’t use PTO, you worked regular hours. Saved minutes of staff time each week.

"We were kidnapped" On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.

NEW: Story from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and me based on interviews with families of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared them to El Salvador in March.

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

One of the men @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I wrote about is Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. He came into the U.S. legally, through the CBP One app. His family has worked tirelessly to secure his release from CECOT. Tonight, they got to hug him again. His mother Ydalys shares this video:

CONFIRMED: Neri Alvarado, the Venezuelan man imprisoned by the Trump admin without due process for 4 months in El Salvador because of bureaucratic errors stemming from his autism awareness tattoo honoring his brother, is FREE.

Why the fuck is AI involved in the *peer*-review process?

A reminder that this represents all of the money we pay to the government in taxes for educational infrastructure just being straight up stolen from us. We aren’t getting it back and we’ll never stop paying for the services they destroy bc they aren’t lowering OUR taxes (only billionaires’ taxes).

This is like those treeless house developments where they clearcut all the trees and then name the roads after them.

ChatGPT spits out these words because the stolen labor products it was trained on consisted in large part of academics’ writing.

Yeah this is the thing I'm told me and all my students need to uncritically embrace so they can get a job after college

I grew up reading sci-fi, some predicted post scarcity worlds where we’d cured diseases and aging while others predicted tech powered dystopias.

Seeing a budget with $4B for cancer research and $170B for mass deportations and detentions, it’s clear which future America picked.

Happy 4th of July.

weird that jamelle pointing out that the reporters didn't do their due diligence and were platforming a eugenicist violates social media standards

Japanese American National Museum reminding us that we’ve been here before: the government is creating concentration camps.

The one thing I really cannot get over is the cap on borrowing for students that want to be doctors and veterinarians. Given the cost of education and the fed borrow cap at something like $22000, they've just established the caste system. Unless you're born into wealth, you cannot make wealth.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

This is why they didn’t want him back: He is a witness.

I have three hearings at three different courthouses today. At the second, someone was sobbing outside the courtroom. They'd asked ChatGPT what to say in Court. They believed what it told them.

They lost because it hallucinated, and they didn't know there were no do-overs.

A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual

PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government

Just feels real bad to be told your existence is too controversial to allow children to know about it

Mahmoud v. Taylor "Appendix" from Alito with an image from a picture book Uncle Bobby’s Wedding showing a happy wedding announcement.

Alito includes screenshots from the books he thinks parents should be able to bar schools from letting their children read.

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Strong feeling that Democratic leadership are DRAMATICALLY underestimating the desire amongst Democratic voters to punish the ICE thugs that are doing this.

Voters want accountability, and this is going to boil over into D party fracture if @schumer.senate.gov keeps trying to ignore it

Democrats are racking their brains trying to find the "Joe Rogan of the left" while doing everything they can to defeat people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who actually possess the skills they're so desperately looking for.