Mel Buer

Missing the midwest something fierce today

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

When the US govt terminated the National Nature Asst, @phillevin.bsky.social + the author team were determined not to let that stop them.

They re-organized, set up an advisory committee, found funding…and now the brand new Nature Record is open for public comment. 👏🌳👏🌲

Check it out (link below)!

Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Right What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?

Hi! Do you think Tucker Carlson “has a point”? Do think Platner platforming Holocaust deniers isn’t really a big deal? Do you think the “Epstein class” is short for “good w/ $$”? Well, my pal @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social and I wrote an article just for you! inthesetimes.com/article/form...

I miss you too bub ❤️

Sup :P

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Photographer indicted after Minnesota church protest coverage Shane Ryan Bollman, a documentary photographer known professionally as Junn Bollmann, was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, California, …

Photographer Junn Bollmann was arrested in LA on Friday after being indicted on the same civil rights charges as journalists @donlemonofficial.bsky.social and @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social for covering January protests at a MN church.

Federal agents also seized his devices:

yes

Reform? In this economy?

and half of New York City

Right, more of the "kiss Josh Hawley's ass and alienate the entire LGBTQIA+ wing of the Teamsters" kind

As principled as a limp noodle

booooooo

The guy he's trying to fight is Sean O'Brien, president of the Teamsters, at a PRO Act hearing a couple years back. It would have been pretty funny to see O'Brien kick Mullin's ass on the committee floor lmao

O'Brien's now widely understood to be a Trump supporter and right-leaning reactionary

Please tell me they're gonna retcon Wash's death

PLEASE

MARISA WHAT

Bye-bye

Someone hire me lolsob

Working on more teaching applications and went in search of a COVID-era syllabus; found a few classroom lecture recordings from that era of teaching fully remote…not to toot my own horn too heavily but man am I good at this

Just really solid classroom presence, even in a virtual setting

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Who are these jailers, I just wanna talk

My tooth infection bored a hole through my jaw and turned my face into a swollen pumpkin. I have never experienced pain like that in my life

Couldn’t eat, speak, or sleep, cried for weeks until I got the cash together to get it pulled

Horrendous, HORRENDOUS experience

This poor man, jesus christ

At the barest minimum

Literally a single visit to a dentist to pull the tooth and a round or two of strong antibiotics could have prevented this, and these motherfuckers let him suffer in a prison cell until he DIED

Evil shit

Truly the only way forward is to cast these devils out of society the second they are unmasked

These monsters are incompatible with a peaceful existence, and should know no peace themselves for the rest of their miserable lives, I truly mean that

Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane

This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster

Not to mention that chatbots, when asked for articles on a topic, just throw together a likely string of words to approximate a citation. There’s no guarantee it’s a citation for a real article, as our students have discovered many times over.

Additionally: Human beings built the databases that AI now throws a shitload of slop into

Human-fucking-beings made it possible for a thing to exist that AI now shreds

A monumental achievement in digitizing an absolutely insane amount of knowledge was done by—you guessed it—human beings

The amount of things that AI actually helps with is honestly pretty low, and of those things, if you’re not QCing results and staying vigilant about checking the quality of the research, then it’s actually making *more* work for you

Besides, why outsource your own intelligence to a machine?