AJ Strauman-Scott

The thing many people fail to grasp—the thing you are sort of prevented from ever having a reason to grasp until you put the effort in to learn or life demands it of you—is that a world in which you see a lot of disabled people is simply a world in which more people survive disability.

Indigenous Activists Occupy Land Near Fort Snelling, Plan to Stay Until 'Land Back' - UNICORN RIOT Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling, establishing an occupation. Organizers demand land back in the form of "returning Fort Snelling" to the Dakota pe...

NEW: Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling and near the Whipple Federal Building -- headquarters of ICE's Operation Metro Surge -- establishing an occupation demanding 'land back' in the form of “returning Fort Snelling” to the Dakota people. [Video]

**Colonizers have been ruining everything since we came to this shore.

Colonizer =/= Immigrant

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

📚⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @doctora-nature.bsky.social has grown as a writer, resulting in a book that exceeds its predecessor. She connects everything that feels overwhelming in the world at its single point of intersectional nexus, and provides us a universal solution - empower Indigenous women to lead policy.

A hardcover copy of the book "The Catch" by Yrsa Daley-Ward against a grey background.

📚⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"The Catch" by @yrsadaleyward.bsky.social (2025) is an extraordinary piece of fiction. I have longed for a novel about the responsibility of wanting to parent the children you create like this book describes in poetic clarity. Immediately receives an honored place in my 'favorites' shelf.

Brockman had to have INTENTIONALLY avoided inviting non-white scientists to these events where Epstein would show up because Epstein didn't believe in the intellectual equality of non-white scientists to white ones

If you're a white scientist in an all white space, ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY

anyone who has had to think through the tradeoff between "recall" and "precision" in machine learning will react to this with complete horror

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Volkswagen Workers in Tennessee Win 20% Pay Hike in Union Deal Volkswagen AG employees in Tennessee have secured a 20% across-the-board wage hike in a landmark deal with the United Auto Workers union.

New: UAW reaches landmark tentative contract deal with Volkswagen in Chattanooga Tennessee, including 20% across-the-board pay hikes www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "This contract is proof that if you stand up and stick together, you can win a better life”

Abstract Al assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition in the process. We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistance of Al. We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average. Participants who fully delegated coding tasks showed some productivity improvements, but at the cost of learning the library. We identify six distinct AI interaction patterns, three of which involve cognitive engagement and preserve learning outcomes even when participants receive AI assistance. Our findings suggest that Al-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence and AI assistance should be carefully adopted into workflows to preserve skill formation - particularly in safety-critical domains.

‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

Published the same day Noem announced all goons will wear body cameras. Incredible work @404media.co 👑

NYPL has 21 incredible titles (with 16 available as audiobooks) available with instant access through Feb 28th.

❤️

I can only get through an academic paper if I can TTS it while I'm reading it. I suggest listening to the audiobook while reading simultaneously.

Catherine O'Hara is as much of a "good in absolutely everything, no matter how good the thing itself was" actor as Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

Congrats to the Local 600 members nominated for their achievements in cinematography at the '26 Oscars:

Dan Laustsen, ASC, DFF, Frankenstein
Darius Khondji, AFC, ASC, Marty Supreme
Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC, Sinners
Adolpho Veloso, ABC, AIP, Train Dreams

I'm proud to have banked with Brooklyn Cooperative since I formed my LLC in 2019. Their business loan at 9% interest allowed me to buy my steadicam in 2022, kickstarting my ability to make real money. I'll pay off the full balance this year.

I remarked early into the afternoon to a woman standing behind a table covered in organized boxes of hand warmers and coffee and masks how impressively fast these things came together.

“We can do this so quickly because we built these networks in 2020, so now everyone just knows what to do.“

The Leslie Knope vibes are strong with this one.

We will keep parents updated on the latest with @nycschools.bsky.social.

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Stay warm, stay prepared, stay safe.

The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX

Did @resist.bot go viral somewhere? I've never seen it break 50k before. 🎉

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

🤞🏼🤞🏼Please, please be televised with @mayor.nyc.gov like Judge Judy🤞🏼🤞🏼

It's one empire, Michael. How long could it decay for, 10 years?

In the spring I joked that the real winner of the Mayor's race was @ny4childcare.bsky.social thanks to their organizing for universal childcare. Today's announcement is the culmination of that work.

"The world is only free if the US has total control of absolutely everything."