The algorithm is an alibi. AI is an alibi. Machines are not making decisions. Machines are providing cover for decisions that people make.

“You can use the N95 mask you bought for the pandemic to filter out the wildfire smoke engulfing the entire Northeast” is a neat little sentence that lets you know we’re in the fun part of the century that future historians are going to talk about a lot.

NYC air quality is so bad right now it’s literally off the chart

sanjana curtis is now on bluesky Mods are asleep… post stereoisomers.

The LGBTQ+ community is facing horrific and bigoted attacks in state legislatures all across our country. It's past time we pass the Equality Act and make clear that LGBTQ+ rights are human rights and we won't let hate win.

There are so many quotes I could pull from this interview because jsalowe is @ bsky is just so damn gifted, and it’s a thrill and honor to read her, and even more to talk to her about her work.

This week, the Trump-appointed Supreme Court ruled that it’s not okay for private or public institutions to level the playing field for people of color with affirmative action, but they also ruled that it IS okay for private institutions to discriminate against the LGBTQIA

Putting a rate limit on viewing tweets is so exceedingly stupid as a business practice. All that does is encourage people to leave your site instead of infinitely scrolling through trash. You fool. You complete imbecile. You have freed us.

I needed this wonderful thread today, and maybe you do, too:

I cannot POSSIBLY be any clearer (as someone who worked in IT managing some of this country's biggest databases) UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD ANYONE PROVIDE PICTURES OF THEIR PASSPORTS OR DRIVING LICENCES ESPECIALLY NOT to databases outside the GDPR THREAD:

I stopped using Twitter about a year ago and I went first to Mastodon, but eventually settled on Bluesky. If anyone is looking for me, try (at) lunacinnic (.) bsky(.)social