Trans people are targets of cruelty right now. Official targets, official cruelty. By law. Life is already hard for them, and there is a significant bloc of assholes working night and day to make it harder. If you aren't in direct, vocal opposition to that, you are a bad person.

When a press release about an existential risk for humanity comes from some organization you haven't previously heard of, step 1 is to go on LinkedIn to check the background and experience level of every single person listed on the web site of said organization. Just saying...

Everyone is talking about the Mountain Valley Pipeline today but no one is mentioning that the builder caused one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. We will explain here. (1/9)

The world has lost one of its greatest composers.

David Byrne’s statement says that Here Lies Love “has always been performed to Karaoke tracks” but that’s misleading. The piece was performed at Carnegie Hall in 2007 with a large live band, including winds, brass, and strings.

Shout out to YouTube for removing my entire channel - RIP to a decade worth of art documentation and all the infosec beauty parody videos commissioned by Mozilla @zkmkarlsruhe @HEK_Basel and Eyebeam from 2014-2018

starting an online bookstore at Abe Books, anybody want some books? abebooks.com/servlet/StoreF…

Next week, 40 years since I joined the tenure track CS faculty at Stanford AI Lab; had finished my PhD there in 1981. 40 years??? We all thought we would have AGI by 1983. Did that happen? No. Has it happened yet? No. In 300 years we'll look back: What were they thinking?!?

Honestly, it seems like the main reason college administrators are pushing generative AI so hard right now is that they hope it will allow them to cut teaching staff even further, and squeeze more out of those who remain. They want to make us complicit in our own obsolescence.

everyone says "u feel a lot better when u get regular exercise and it can also help with ADHD symptoms" and im always like yea yea i know but then after 3-4 days of biking im like "wow u really feel a lot better when u get regular exercise and it can also help with ADHD symptoms"

Incredibly cursed research methodology just dropped.

IIT has many problems. but "pseudoscience" is like dropping a nuclear bomb over a regional dispute. it's disproportionate, unsupported by good reasoning, and does vast collateral damage to the field far beyond IIT. as in vietnam: "we had to destroy the field in order to save it."

Facebook messages turned over by the company served as key evidence used to convict Jessica Burgess and her daughter. E2E encryption keeps people safe.

🤩 the future has arrived 🤩

Mission impossible because the whole idea is rooted in Eugenics. medium.com/@collegehill/a…

first thing in a while brianmccorkle.bandcamp.com/album/little-m…

still real proud of this #newmusic youtube.com/watch?v=CVUOH8…