Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago
www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
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Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago
www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
A book cover with the title “Children of Owl” and a girl looking up at a mountain with an owl boy prominent in the background.
CHILDREN OF OWL HAS A COVER!!!! With art by Abigail Rajunov, who also illustrated 25 pages of comics in the book. It was an honor to work with her; I couldn’t be happier!! 🥹💕
Omg this looks AMAZING!! 😍
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
If you're interested in following a good #TimelineCleanse account, I recommend this one. #Mascots #Japan bsky.app/profile/mond...
yellow skunk cabbage blossom
orange striped fish with long snout
glasses left on a stump, surrounded by greenery
oh who this? this who. this who fungi lookin' like a fritter, like a fritter gained consciousness and sat up on a log and said who this, this is who.
Quite a lot of lovely texture seen on the Reed College Texture Gathering Expedition that @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social and I went on yesterday. Our findings will be presented at the 2027 London Architecture College's "Colloquium on the Quantum Loss of Tactile Experience in the 21st Century".
The entire power elite of the USA owns this savagery forever, including the theoretical opposition party, unless you beat the drums of IMPEACHMENT for Trump immediately and don’t stop until he’s gone. He’s given you 700,000 reasons now and it’s one of the only tools you have. USE IT.
Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday. Charly Triballeau / AFP - Getty Images
NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Photo of Tehran.
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...
Op's quotes are full of "we didn't decide slavery was unethical, we decided enslaving HUMANS was unethical, so..."
I cannot express the vehemence of my "go to hell" strongly enough in the microblogging medium.
The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.
The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.
It’s weird people want to own something conscious! It’s weird that you want a notes app that can feel pain!!
Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.
Entire research agendas + years of labor, knowledge, and expanded understanding torched in an instant because a fratbro tech imbecile in his twenties used “subjective judgment” to decide if something was “crazy”
I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.
NEH's budget is tiny—not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.
[with my final breath, in a Tori Amos voice] Ooooohooo, time to be a ghost
god this is so embarrassing 🙈
Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh
Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,
Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below
👀⚖️👇🏾 #ai #doge
The pentagon refusing to give a simple yes or no to this question is pretty telling of itself
These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.
A coin-op fortune telling machine called Zoltar. It's a racist caricature mannequin in a turban with a crystal ball, and a terribly grainy pre-recorded voice. Only a fucking idiot would think it was alive, which is why I'm putting it in a reply to someone desperately trying to glaze genai slop machines
"I put a dollar into this machine. What it said next shook me to the core"
Also me to my Gen Z students
chat is this good
chat
chat please stop speculating on oil future contracts right this second
It’s not as if scholars and writers and artists have been grappling with understanding and explaining and expressing human consciousness for centuries is it
I will not vote for Newsom because he does not believe I deserve human rights.
If it comes down to JD Vance vs Newsom, who are both rabidly transphobic & support ICE, I will vote for a third party candidate.
Luckily Democrats have another 2 years to make sure we select a better, viable candidate!
We're all going to the Hague, but at least gas is $8 a gallon, AI is bombing schools, and our child raping president is is being led around by multiple foreign leaders.
I'm not sure where I was going with this.
