I’ve angered famous men. Scribe @thinkingautism.com: https://tinyurl.com/TPGA-NL. Books: PHALLACY+TAILORED BRAIN+. Journalist, words@ SciAm++. Biologist: embryos/gonads+. Human-crafted work. Pro-woke/antifascist. Very Texan 🤠 https://tinyurl.com/526jrcuv
Lots of states have one terrible Senator. Missouri has two of the absolute worst Senators around.
Kyle GriffinLiz Oyer says she's received deaths threats since testifying against Todd Blanche's nomination for Attorney General — and that Missouri's Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt have helped fuel the violent threats against her.
Hey, #medievalsky. Does anyone have access to a print copy of An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from Chaucer to Henry VIII (British Library I, MSS Additional and Egerton)? I need to see if there's anything on Add. 10302. It's this one: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
Brepols - The British Library, I: MSS Additional and EgertonBrepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of histo...www.brepols.net
Pls share: U of Washington has an opening for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position is expected to specialize in molecular virology or bacteriology. Here is a link: microbiology.washington.edu/index.php/ne...
Micro is Hiring! | UW Microbiologymicrobiology.washington.eduA personal note from me as prelude to this week's newsletter:
Thinking Person's Guide to AutismOur newsletter is back from hiatus! Today @ejwillingham.bsky.social takes exception to the Autism Science Foundation (ASF) & its coldly manipulative attempt to convince the autism community that ABA therapy is "nicer" now. (Spoiler: It is not.) Pls share & subscribe! buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
And if you're an NYC resident, please take two minutes to submit a note to @mayor.nyc.gov asking him to establish a moratorium on "A.i." in NYC schools! We gotta get this locked down before the school year starts - send him a note TODAY! www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Contact the Mayor - NYC Mayor's OfficeSend a message to NYC mayor on the web. You can also get links to media contacts and submit FOIL requests.www.nyc.gov
FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.
You gotta watch the video for the noise. It's insane. Every time I see somebody ask "hey, why the backlash against data centers?" I'm puzzled because those people don't seem to understand data centers are *bad faith neighbors*. gizmodo.com/this-viral-d...
This Viral Data Center Sounds Like Satan’s BuzzsawMy God, the looks on the faces of the people who have to live next to this...gizmodo.comThis "losing the thread" reaches into all of higher ed&other areas. What we used to understand experientially has been completely erased&the territory is uncharted. eg, despite my extensive experience in all aspects of STEM/academia, I can't advise my sons on courses of action bc paths are erased
Tressie McMillan CottomI lost the thread because *waves hand* so I don’t know the latest, best guidance for folks on the SAVE student loan plan. Any whipsmart folks with the bottom line on what plan to move to, status of legal challenges, and the real deadline to change?
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in ThereA trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.futurism.com
New, from Dalyah Jones in our magazine: "East Texas, where I’m from, is the beating heart of Black Texas. It’s a place where the majority of enslaved people were concentrated, and it’s where 90 percent of cotton was grown in the state."
A Love Letter to the Black Woodswomen of Deep East TexasWhere I’m from, the Afro-Texans who made me know our lives are forever woven into the ecology of the Thicket.www.texasobserver.org
It’s true—and they should say it.
McSweeney's"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
Trump’s systematic assault on science “By attempting to politicise scientific research today, the current administration risks hampering US leadership in the technologies of tomorrow.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Trump’s systematic assault on scienceThe government is politicising funding for basic researchgiftarticle.ft.com