Mollie Holmberg

What happens when a city takes women’s unpaid work seriously? Bogotá’s radical experiment in caregiving is going global.

www.vox.com/policy/46963...

one small lesson to take away from the crumbling HE sector, btw, is that there is no such thing as meritocracy here and the only thing that matters is doing work that is meaningful to you and the people you care about and to make friends and collaborators in the process

3. I appealed to the joy of doing science—and got the predictable question:

Would you rather live in a world where AI cured cancer or live in a world where you personally get to do science?

But that's not the dilemma we face at all. There's no cause to think that AI could do anything of the sort.

The problem with Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship Critics have accused the company of being technofascist.

Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

if you’re still wondering if europe will actually fund efforts to bring over US scientists who were purged or defunded, here’s your answer (the answer is no)

One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

This is why I'm generally unimpressed by people describing how they use LLMs in academic work. Writing can sometimes be time consuming/painful because *you don't really know what you're trying to say*. The labor of thinking stuff through is part of the science and shouldn't be outsourced.

It reminds me of the classic “real victims” fallacy that mainly functions to deny that victims are really victims in pursuit of respecting “real victims” but it’s just a practice of shaming specific victims that hurts everyone

An ongoing concern of mine is not that GenAI will replace teachers but the technology will - as described in the article - deskill teachers "under the banner of efficiency" while also providing those in power with means to deprofessionalize teachers too.

In the genocide in Sudan, Canada has a hand in the violence ⋆ The Breach The massacres of civilians in Sudan are being fuelled by Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee restrictions. It’s time for Canada to end its complicity

Co-wrote this piece with the brilliant @nisrinelamin.bsky.social
and Ismail Adam of the Darfur Diaspora Association, on Canada's complicity in the war in Sudan and the genocide in Darfur, for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...

Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.

Playbook for RCMP’s Wet’suwet’en raids provided by former U.S. commander in Iraq and Afghanistan Presentation highlights darker truths behind violence and intimidation against Indigenous land defenders resisting resource extraction

To be super duper clear, Carney is preparing a counter-insurgency campaign backed by the American Empire. The US aren't playing around, they really do need these resources if they want to keep playing the imperial game. This was just a warm up: ricochet.media/justice/poli...

Israel has killed two Palestinian children in Gaza every single day since the so-called ceasefire

Also, stop being condescending shitheads when someone asks a question you think is obvious. If they're not asking why a certain group deserves human rights or something, there is literally NO REASON not to be generous and helpful!

AI’s water problem is worse than we thought A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.

What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.

And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More

We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.

Hey y’all Sydette really needs a boost. Can you help her out right now?

She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.

How Many People Die in India From Hot Weather? Nobody Really Knows.

🌡️ India's heat crises are likely worse than we think. Official counts miss most heat-related deaths... though estimates rise to 150,000+ excess deaths for summers experiencing 5 heat waves.
Addressing gaps in data collection and urban public health systems will be good places to start.

Donate to Help finish Alice’s work, organized by yomi wrong Our comrade, friend, collaborator and fierce Tiger Mischief Maker, Alice Wong, needs us. As yo… yomi wrong needs your support for Help finish Alice’s work

www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...

here’s where to send funds to continue Alice’s legacy <3

Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?

A nontrivial fraction of these people appear to be seriously unwell.

OpenAI claims that they have the situation well under control.

My inbox suggests otherwise.

It’s getting cold and Ranin is pregnant and has a one year old. If you can help her winterize her tent it would be appreciated

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

If you can, you should join an organization. Your random "advice" on social media is just that, random advice. If you are part of an organization, then you can convince others to execute those ideas with you.

‘This is survival’: Jamaica leads calls from vulnerable nations at Cop30 Countries including Mauritius and Cuba reiterate life-or-death nature of cutting emissions, calling it ‘a moral duty’

Jamaica more or less out of the news entirely just a few weeks after Melissa hit. It shouldn't be.

"Hurricane Melissa changed the life of every Jamaican in less than 24 hours."

I see a lot of people speculating about how Alice died and I am asking you to...please not do that. If her family wants to share information about that on their own time, they will, but the speculation and sometimes outright conspiracy theories are actually really upsetting for them to see.

can’t say what’s going through my head right now

But something about US history, Black women, Native women, and Nazis

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.