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Underarmour men's leggings where one leg is shorts and the other is full length

is this shrinkflation y/n?

*States into the camera anarchistically after Noem got fired.*

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fully funded field experiment when

parallels the pro-choice/pro-life framing failure. MAHA and anti-vaxxers already captured "you know your body best/doctors mislead" so all that's left for (liberal) cis advocates is an appeal to respectability, rules, and expertise

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

A POLITICIAN
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A POLITICIAN MUST NEVER
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

"AI can do better social science research." Can it? Like come up with novel questions or sites of inquiry that start entire fields? Because that's what I did, and so did many of my friends. Fuck off with that mess.

i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI

in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period

People don't actually care whether the bombs being dropped on them have been authorized by Congress or not.

A scanned image of the first page of a legal document on letterhead from Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, dated February 27, 2026. It is labeled "Opinion No. KP-0518" and addressed to Mr. Darrel D. Spinks, Executive Director of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. A portion of the first paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "mental health care providers" licensed by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council."

A scanned image of the second page of the Attorney General Opinion document. A section in the first full paragraph is highlighted in yellow, which reads: "[f]or the purpose of transitioning a child’s biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex."

A scanned image of the third page of the Attorney General Opinion document. The text discusses various statutory and dictionary definitions of the terms "health care provider" and "health care". There are no highlighted sections on this page.

A scanned image of the seventh and final page of the Attorney General Opinion document, showing the "SUMMARY" section and the signature block for Ken Paxton. The entire summary paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "The definition of a “health care provider” in subsection 161.701(2) of the Health and Safety Code unambiguously encompasses the professions regulated by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. Any licensee that facilitates the provision of unlawful procedures or treatments that aim to transition a child’s sex are thus forbidden from receiving public money in support of those efforts and, separately, risk revocation of their licenses to practice."

Texas AG Ken Paxton has declared that it is illegal for mental health providers and therapists to treat trans youth. It means that trans youth will be denied access to any mental healthcare that isn't conversion therapy. Paxton also threatens parents of trans youth with child abuse investigations.

The least human thing you can do I read a story just now about a man in Chicago who saved a baby after its carriage had been blown into the harbor by heavy gusts of wind. Lio Cundiff – who is a trans man not that it should matter her...

"Saving a life is brave. Being instructed to kill and saying no I will not do that is brave. But murder like this? It is the least human thing you can do."

www.welcometohellworld.com/the-least-hu...

Google, OpenAI employees call for unified front on military use Tech workers call for their companies to stand with Anthropic in opposition to domestic surveillance and autonomous warfare.

"More than 200 employees from Google and OpenAI have signed an open letter stating their solidarity with Anthropic in limiting the use of advanced AI for domestic surveillance or fully autonomous warfare."

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

cis ppl went too far so for woke 2 all legal gender markers will be abolished, assigning sex to a baby is illegal, and every institution will now have 3 bathrooms, all gender neutral, with someone giving you a monty hall problem while you need to hold it in or else piss on the floor. Good luck

Alice Wong's Celebration of Life March 25th, 2026 11am PST This Toolkit is an invitation and a resource for individuals and communities to participate in Alice Wong's Celebration of life. Be it from bed, your living room, local community center, classroom, or in the streets... You can join Alice's Celebration of Life through: - The livestream +virtual reception: Join the livestream and gather for the virtual reception hosted by Calling Up Justice & San Francisco Disability Cultural Center. - In-person livestream watch + your own gathering: Host an in-person gathering to join the livestream and connect in person to celebrate Alice. Detailed Toolkit with links photos and resources to make your gathering accessible, plus ways to honor Alice Wong's legacy: https://bit.ly/aliceislove Document your honorings and celebrations Share online with hashtag #AliceIsLove Don't forget to make your post accessible (image descriptions, captions, etc.)

reposting this from @DisVisibility on twitter.

AI Lost Out to Traditional Models in Forecasting NYC's Blizzard Two days before New York's biggest snowstorm in a decade began, forecasters were still unsure how much snow would fall. One traditional US model had consistently predicted a major hit, while newer art...

“We’re so trained to think anything AI is better,” says Columbia Climate School researcher Andrew Kruczkiewicz. “Even if models are considered better or high quality, decision-making is not necessarily simplified.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm actually fine with making people question the value and credibility of degrees and certifications--that discussion has been brewing for a long time. But I'm not fine with pretending that this bullshit AI solves some fundamental human need or is akin to "liberation" (of horses or otherwise)

AI homework completion does nothing to support or engage students who *actually* want to learn. Either busywork more cumbersome for everyone, or we give up entirely and let AI read, write, and produce. But people who are intellectually curious still have no recourse, just a worse overall environment

Knowing there's a problem doesn't make the solution "create AI about it." Speedrunning homework assignments might (emphasis on MIGHT) show that many are meaningless busywork, but it does nothing to fundamentally change the incentives of the education system. But it's worse than that--

School isn't education; homework isn't education. We haven't had an educational infrastructure that values and supports critical thinking, curious inquiry, and intellectual engagement as their primary functions in a long time (perhaps ever). BUT/AND:

‘Wrong in 1942. Wrong now.’ Local Japanese Americans tie WWII incarceration to Trump’s immigration crackdown Japanese American groups held a vigil at the Broadview ICE facility on the Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the 1942 order spurring mass incarceration of those of Japanese ancestry during Wor…

Japanese American groups held a vigil at the Broadview ICE facility on the Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the 1942 order spurring mass incarceration of those of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

👇👇👇

still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors

How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

Had to be at least a decade ago that a NPR show hosted a historian who had published a book on the Stasi and the SS. It turned out the SS et al., had not been the magical intelligence machines at all but had relied almost entirely on neighbors lining up to rat out each other.

A horizontal dot-and-line chart titled "AI completions of historical poems bias emotion toward positivity and away from arousal." The x-axis shows percentage difference, ranging from -10 (more present in original poem) to +11 (more present in AI completion). Sixteen emotional categories are listed vertically, each with a source framework, an example poem excerpt, and an AI completion excerpt. Positive, low-arousal emotions such as Pleasant-Subduing-Relaxation (+11.0%), Positive Low Arousal (+10.2%), Joy (+5.3%), and Calmness (+5.3%) are shifted substantially to the right, indicating they appear more frequently in AI completions than in the original poems. Mid-range emotions like Aesthetic Appreciation (+3.8%) and Anxiety (-1.3%) cluster near zero. High-arousal and negative emotions are shifted to the left, appearing more in the original poems: Sadness (-4.6%), Pleasant-Arousing-Strain (-3.9%), Negative High Arousal (-11.1%), and Unpleasant-Arousing-Strain (-11.8%) show the largest negative differences. Data points are color-coded from green (positive shift) to red (negative shift).

AI completions of historical poems bias emotion toward positivity and away from arousal.

LLMs prompted with an emotion taxonomy and a poem, for 3 taxonomies x 3K human poems [Chadwyck-Healey sampled for poet DOB 1600-2000] + 3K AI poems [9 LLMs completing first 5 lines of human poem].