Drífa Jónsdóttir
@drifa.bsky.social
Just another cat on the internet. I chew wires, fix things, and spend way too much time thinking about computers, airplanes, old cars, and safety. No, I’m not from Iceland, I just love the name.
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This is the end of science in the US it is a MASSIVE crackdown an literally everyone this racist bullshit would stop basically all science in its tracks and allow the administration to deny funding to basically whoever they wanted to
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This is the end of science in the US it is a MASSIVE crackdown an literally everyone this racist bullshit would stop basically all science in its tracks and allow the administration to deny funding to basically whoever they wanted to
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
As much as ‘artificial intelligence’ &%^€s up, maybe we should just call it ‘digital stupidity.’
Machines can’t be stupid, of course, but the people foisting them on us sure seem to be.
Machines can’t be stupid, of course, but the people foisting them on us sure seem to be.
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
As much as ‘artificial intelligence’ &%^€s up, maybe we should just call it ‘digital stupidity.’
Machines can’t be stupid, of course, but the people foisting them on us sure seem to be.
Machines can’t be stupid, of course, but the people foisting them on us sure seem to be.
Jeez, just accept that binary sex is a myth, leave people alone to figure out who they are, and offer them affirming surgery on their timeline and terms if it would give them gender euphoria. It’s not hard.
Stop trying to police other people’s bodies. Let people be free.
Stop trying to police other people’s bodies. Let people be free.
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Jeez, just accept that binary sex is a myth, leave people alone to figure out who they are, and offer them affirming surgery on their timeline and terms if it would give them gender euphoria. It’s not hard.
Stop trying to police other people’s bodies. Let people be free.
Stop trying to police other people’s bodies. Let people be free.
Hey @safety.bsky.app why is Sarah Kendzior blocked?!?
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hey @safety.bsky.app why is Sarah Kendzior blocked?!?
The Democraps—in the Senate or otherwise—are not going to save us. Not even Mamdami will, for all the good things he says. We need to be making strike committees and organizing food distribution because saving each other’s lives is going to take direct action that eliminates oligarchs’ power.
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Democraps—in the Senate or otherwise—are not going to save us. Not even Mamdami will, for all the good things he says. We need to be making strike committees and organizing food distribution because saving each other’s lives is going to take direct action that eliminates oligarchs’ power.
You know the olympics banning trans women entirely is about politics and not fairness because there are trans women who never went through male puberty and thus could not possibly have the advantages transphobes spuriously claimed.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You know the olympics banning trans women entirely is about politics and not fairness because there are trans women who never went through male puberty and thus could not possibly have the advantages transphobes spuriously claimed.
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"Are there even any-" it doesn't matter. Banning the few trans athletes isn't the point. The point, from Trump's ban on trans people in government to Britain's bathroom ban to Newsom's sports ban, is to make sure everyone knows trans women are OTHER and to act accordingly to us in their daily lives.
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"Are there even any-" it doesn't matter. Banning the few trans athletes isn't the point. The point, from Trump's ban on trans people in government to Britain's bathroom ban to Newsom's sports ban, is to make sure everyone knows trans women are OTHER and to act accordingly to us in their daily lives.
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For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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It’s absolutely terrific.
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It’s absolutely terrific.
Deliberate deadnaming and misgendering are assault: they can cause intense distress for the target. Assault doesn’t cease to be assault just because the perp really wants to express themselves through assault.
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Deliberate deadnaming and misgendering are assault: they can cause intense distress for the target. Assault doesn’t cease to be assault just because the perp really wants to express themselves through assault.
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"biological pronouns" is an insane phrase
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
November 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
"biological pronouns" is an insane phrase
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We concur with the members of this jury that tossing a sandwich at a federal agent in Washington, DC should not be treated as criminal activity.
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We concur with the members of this jury that tossing a sandwich at a federal agent in Washington, DC should not be treated as criminal activity.
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A competent opposition party could make transphobia absolutely toxic for the GOP.
THE MAJORITY of money spent by Winsome Earle-Sears and outside groups in Virginia went to anti-trans ads. The GOP needs a new playbook after tonight. Voters are tired of this song.
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A competent opposition party could make transphobia absolutely toxic for the GOP.
Happy Vote for Someone You Don’t Like Much to Keep Out a Horrific Bigot day to me, I guess.
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Happy Vote for Someone You Don’t Like Much to Keep Out a Horrific Bigot day to me, I guess.
Darth Cheney finally died. Ding fuckin’ dong.
November 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Darth Cheney finally died. Ding fuckin’ dong.
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
Great thread.
It feels as if the dust is starting to settle about the use and value of LLMs in education.
Basically, they are being promoted HARD by people who don’t really understand the purpose of education.
That may sound simplistic, but it isn’t. The purpose of education is easy to lose a grasp on.
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Basically, they are being promoted HARD by people who don’t really understand the purpose of education.
That may sound simplistic, but it isn’t. The purpose of education is easy to lose a grasp on.
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“... Drawing on recent popular and academic literature on genAI, we argue that the values embedded in this technology do not align with the values of critical humanities and social science pedagogy, which include originality, academic freedom, creativity, and critical thinking.”
October 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Great thread.
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Missing woke yet?
SCOOP
The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered
The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”
I got the memo laying it all out
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered
The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”
I got the memo laying it all out
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Missing woke yet?
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New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
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A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
At this rate I wonder if Spirit Halloween is going to open a last-minute pop-up shop in the US House Chamber.
October 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
At this rate I wonder if Spirit Halloween is going to open a last-minute pop-up shop in the US House Chamber.
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i remember when glass onion came out and i remember seeing a fair amount of “well, idk, i think its a little over the top just how exaggerated the characters are”
and like, dawg,
and like, dawg,
They're all idiots. the-flytrap.ghost.io/glass-onion-...
October 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
i remember when glass onion came out and i remember seeing a fair amount of “well, idk, i think its a little over the top just how exaggerated the characters are”
and like, dawg,
and like, dawg,
While I have some antipathy toward states as a form of social organization, I think a bare minimum I might accept for the end of the Trump regime is a new reconstruction that purges white suprematists and their legacy.
October 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
While I have some antipathy toward states as a form of social organization, I think a bare minimum I might accept for the end of the Trump regime is a new reconstruction that purges white suprematists and their legacy.