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prompt: a scientist in a lab coat peers through microscope to examine a brightly colored corn chip, which another scientist is holding in place carefully with tongs. a third scientist stands nearby with a pen and clipboard.

A screenshot of the wikipedia home oage that reads Did you know ... ... that Masoud El Amaratly, one of Iraq's most popular folk singers in the 1920s (recording featured), was a mustarjil? ... that a recent Kate Nash song rebranding TERFs as GERMs caused her to trend on X within hours of its release? ... that Blossom C. Brown attracted national attention for highlighting violence against Black trans women? ... that the dinosaur emojis have been used by transgender groups to represent themselves? ... that several journalists have attributed the suicide of Lia Smith to anti-transgender policies? ... that misinformation about violence by transgender people has been used to defend violence against them? ... that in 2023 Kate Nambiar advised the EastEnders team around HIV treatment options for a storyline? ... that some people identify with no gender? ... that the first transgender person to compete professionally in League of Legends was also the first woman to do so?

Today’s Wikipedia DYK section has been taken over for Trans Day of Remembrance. 🏳️‍⚧️

By the end of the spring semester, Gwen reached a breaking point with AI. “I felt like I didn’t deserve to be a Yale student,” she said. She thought that she was throwing away her education and the scholarship paying to support it. She decided to quit using ChatGPT altogether. She didn’t ask AI to help her sentences flow or to strike the right tone. She didn’t even use it to brainstorm. “I think that’s a skill you need to have on your own. That’s the core of being original, anyway.” Gwen recalled completing her final assignments without AI, sitting in the middle of a crowded library so that she felt watched. “I struggled. And they weren’t very good.” It was only then, she said, that she started to understand just how much learning she had missed out on. ∎

New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

A meme depicting a woman staring at her phone with one hand on her head, with the following text below: IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD? What your Great Lakes maritime history-obsessed teen's text messages actually mean: brb = bell rang bro rofl = rang out for lost (crew) bff = big freakin' freigher lol = Load of Ore on the Lake smh = shift minutes to hours glhf = Great Lakes hella freighter tbh = taconite be haulin' stfu = steer the freighter upwind tfw = that freakin' witch (of November) asl = a ship lost gg = Gitche Gumee idc = immoderate deadweight capacity btw = beneath the waves afk = a freighter kaput hbd = hauler's beacon down ily = iron load yonder jk = just [24] kilometers lmao = lost my abyssal ore nbd = north bound draft glhf = good lord, hold flooding omg = obliteratingly massive gales tmi = too much iron wtf = White Fish (Bay)

I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

"that was even the fight in my little city's election" - can you explain what you're referring to?

would put this on my car 💯

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.

That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The new Väsen album is really nice. Very chill, but with a strong pulse. Makes we want a 5-string low viola. vasen.se

#Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good! Wikidata is always the mostly-invisible powerhouse in the background, so this is especially meaningful to me and a great recognition of the work that thousands of people put into structuring the world’s knowledge every single day.

Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology “Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...

"I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge. Meanwhile, you turned your information environment into a hypercapitalist post-truth digital snuff film."

banjoist Tony Trischka, bassist Erik Alvar, and guitarist Michael Daves on stage at Jalopy Theater

went to a delightful bluegrass jam in Brooklyn last night, played a No Kings protest song by an old-timer on uke, and was gifted a ticket by a stranger to see Michael Daves, Tony Trischka and Erik Alvar right afterwards. thanks NYC!

At #wikiconferencena a man pulled a gun on stage wearing a "non-offending pedophile" sign, aggrieved, seemingly, that wikipedia doesn't allow him to write about that subject. Disarmed by hero Wikipedians Pharos and Fuzheado and arrested.

YouTube video by KEXP Anoushka Shankar - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

feeling energized after listening to this fantastic Anoushka Shankar performance youtu.be/4d8Qey7xdkg?...

this seems to be happening with US Marshals too. they did an ICE-style show-of-force arrest at a gym in my town last week, didn't notify local police.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

<baby voice> sounds like somebody is a millet meltdown!

correction, it was this morning around 10:30am

my sister was at Planet Fitness in Lake Forest Park, WA this afternoon, when a large number of US Marshals came in, and handcuffed a man literally while he was on a step machine. seemed to be looking for a fight. when confronted by patrons, they acted like bullies and refused to answer questions.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Minority Report but the precogs are just an LLM reasoning model and the precrime cops are the stupidest, most racist people you can imagine

what a narrow, weak, pathetic masculinity these fascists push. like, bro, you're choking your own soul.

YouTube video by HCL Concerts Hanskinkini by Soumik Datta | HCL Maestros in studio

find joy where you can youtu.be/TM6BEZ-Dzy4?...

YouTube video by Ben Gillin Ai Music Video in the style of Salvador Dali - ALL CAPS - MF DOOM & Madlib as Madvillian

i think it's possible to make good art with AI but this is still the only time i've seen it actually done in a way that connected for me. saw this three years ago, been listening to MF DOOM ever since.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5i-...

How to choose a tech contractor

step 1: run each cover letter through Pangram and screen out all the ones that are AI slop

The Onion News Network truck featuring the headline ICE Opens New Supermax Prison for Most Hardened Toddlers stationed outside the ICE facility.

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

but pull-tabs players usually have a clearer idea of how much time, money, and emotional energy they're wasting

trying to get work done with ChatGPT feels like sitting down with a basket full of pull-tabs, examining and discarding one piece of trash after another, collecting little bits of value (which you're just going to "reinvest"), hoping the next one will be what you actually want.

i was never really 'into' tech until i started editing Wikipedia. the feeling of using text (wikicode) to reliably build something (a web page) and have it work exactly like i wanted it (unlike Word's nightmare UI) was empowering.

the AI user experience is the opposite. feels like pull-tabs.