Importantly they are planning to hire these people on 2 year contracts so what actually happened is they fired everyone so they could rehire them with worse working conditions and an easy revolving door with industry 🔭
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died. https://cnn.it/4l9weqG
the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics
this is what it feels like to post on bluesky
I'm just kind of amazed that the past ~8 years or so of the tech industry have been basically reduced to a series of absolute fucking scams that opportunists latch on to as get-rich-quick schemes, no matter the cost to people, or the planet, and I just assume that's what we're gonna be going forward
RIP to the Trolley Car Diner
Hey all, sorry to say this, as I think I have well-intentioned friends who signed, but this "declaration" means nothing. Because Steve Bannon signed it, and he wants my family dead. So if you can sign along side him? At best, you got played. He's the "humanity in control". humanstatement.org
whatever else we do
we need to make it illegal for chatbots to call themselves "i," "me," and otherwise pretend to be people
it's not innate to llms -- it's part of the interface layer between the user and the statistical model
and it can be gotten rid of
I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...
The iPhone led to the homogenization of not only phones, but tech as a whole, removing all uniqueness to where every company operates off the same business model, even when it doesn't realate. Part of this was a deification of Steve Jobs.
In this essay, I will....
Did you know Latino men have the US’s highest risk of new HIV infections? They are 72% more likely to be diagnosed than the general population—and in Minneapolis, they are skipping clinic visits for fear of ICE, report @cameronoakes.bsky.social & @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social
South Side and Derry Girls are the funniest shows of the century imo
Let's say it's true that LLMs are producing better work than many tenured profs. I don't think the conclusion would necessarily be that LLM "research" is good or desirable...
there was no question that I was going to be putting a zip of all the albums on a each flash drive to give to whoever wanted one. what a time to have been alive. #delasoulday #thankyoudave
I remember on De La Soul day in 2014 or so, the group was able to drop all their albums for download on portable devices. I shouted to no one in particular in my cube farm, "De La Soul just dropped all their albums for download!" someone else shouted, "I'll get some flash drives!" #delasoulday
How do we bail this lady out and get her a lawyer. Where is the fund.
It’s actually FEWER Misérables
You're welcome! let me know how you like it!
cover of the audiobook for La mala costumbre by Alana Portero
seriously, read this book. I've listened to the audiobook in Spanish and English twice each and cannot recommend it more strongly. it's incredible.
me, listening to Mala Costumbre read by the author for the 3rd time in a row:
My entire life the systematic murder and incarceration of Black people has been a daily norm that just runs in the background of American life and has been perpetuated by every major institution and publication and when you talk to or about Black folks you need to take into account that context
Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill How many Americans have to get Allahu Akbar’ed before we realize Islam is a problem?
The way sitting politicians can say this stuff about Muslims while facing zero consequences is an indication of just how entrenched Islamophobia still is in our institutions and culture.
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted [...] History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
ruben @3rubengoat Hitler in heaven getting told that the whole world is against the Jews now From autist 1:58 PM · Feb 28, 2026 · 8.1M Views
8 million views. 16,000 RTs.
It's a new age. The combination of Gaza, Musk's buyout of X, and the Epstein Files is creating a perfect storm of antisemitic hate.
This is why I warned people to focus less on Musk's antisemitism and more on the systemic issues his buyout caused.
the single most consistent thing about bluesky since i’ve been on here is it that it will target and seek to punish an accomplished black person for the crime of being uppity
the dems are only upset because they wanted to be able to authorize war with Iran.
Every progressive over ~30 is dealing with massive, MASSIVE Iraq and Afghanistan (imperialistic) (invasions) War gaslighting and fatigue right now... along with the horror of yet more blood on our hands.
Some of us were always against this shit. Some of us protested it. And... here we go again. 🤬
Anywho, there's no better time than now to put your ideas out there and invite other people to do things with you. Might as well try. You don't have to know everything before starting. You can just start.
Funny enough … 🤔
We are training undergrads (18-22) to digitize vcr tapes, cassettes, and vinyl. We introduce phrases like "rewind" into their vocab and made diagrams of what a tape looks like from 6 angles. And we get questions like "how do I rewind a record" which is understandable but turns my bones to dust.
