“maddie”
@lilbitthinky.bsky.social
she/her located in atx
forever student of philosophy & yoga. passionate about climate, cycling & community. living to learn, learning to live 🌞
forever student of philosophy & yoga. passionate about climate, cycling & community. living to learn, learning to live 🌞
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Oh yeah, at work someone advised me to remove em dashes from something I’d written because it implies AI wrote it. So now this shit between me and AI is fuckin personal
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Oh yeah, at work someone advised me to remove em dashes from something I’d written because it implies AI wrote it. So now this shit between me and AI is fuckin personal
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Or...in 2027 we will take the next steps and in a decade it will be normal for humanity to live together peacefully within the limits of the Earth with everyone's basic needs met.
Choose your moonshot.
Who do you center?
Choose your moonshot.
Who do you center?
“In a decade, Pichai said that it'll be normal to build extraterrestrial data centers”.
And he’s definitely not the only one speaking about the *necessity* of data centers in space. Apparently the planet is not big enough for their scaling “laws”.
www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...
And he’s definitely not the only one speaking about the *necessity* of data centers in space. Apparently the planet is not big enough for their scaling “laws”.
www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...
Sundar Pichai says Google will start building data centers in space, powered by the sun, in 2027
Google announced Project Suncatcher earlier this month. CEO Sundar Pichai now says it could begin building data centers in space as soon as 2027.
www.businessinsider.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Or...in 2027 we will take the next steps and in a decade it will be normal for humanity to live together peacefully within the limits of the Earth with everyone's basic needs met.
Choose your moonshot.
Who do you center?
Choose your moonshot.
Who do you center?
i have been noticing this more and more as these autonomous beasts swarm atx. how does one report on an unmanned yet dangerously operated vehicle?
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
i have been noticing this more and more as these autonomous beasts swarm atx. how does one report on an unmanned yet dangerously operated vehicle?
bet they can’t even taste the food they’re buying over the lingering taste of polish from the boots they lick
Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.
December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
bet they can’t even taste the food they’re buying over the lingering taste of polish from the boots they lick
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What if, instead, resistance did?
Incompetence will save us from full blown autocracy… probably
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
What if, instead, resistance did?
if only articles denouncing the unavoidable violence encouraged by cars and car dependency were as common as the articles written to demonize bikes, we might live in a better world
Unregulated e-bikes are a growing danger on American streets. In one Bay Area town, a terrible accident finally led to reform. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m...
December 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
if only articles denouncing the unavoidable violence encouraged by cars and car dependency were as common as the articles written to demonize bikes, we might live in a better world
as if i could like mamdani more
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: ‘war on drivers’
Car-hating Transportation Alternatives boss Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mamdani's transition team for transportation, climate and infrastructure – and his agenda is a nightmare for the city's drivers.
nypost.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
as if i could like mamdani more
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"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
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obsessed with her
November 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
obsessed with her
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me, when i’m running late and keep having to run back inside to grab another thing i forgot because i’m trying to leave in a hurry
November 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
me, when i’m running late and keep having to run back inside to grab another thing i forgot because i’m trying to leave in a hurry
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Technically “fuck around and find out” is the scientific method
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Technically “fuck around and find out” is the scientific method
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Join us 12/4 8pm for a special Austin live panel with War on Cars podcast hosts Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon!
Panelists also include Austin Mayor Pro Tem Vanessa Fuentes and Black History Bike Ride's Talib Abdullahi. KUT's Nathan Bernier will moderate.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-war-on...
Panelists also include Austin Mayor Pro Tem Vanessa Fuentes and Black History Bike Ride's Talib Abdullahi. KUT's Nathan Bernier will moderate.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-war-on...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Join us 12/4 8pm for a special Austin live panel with War on Cars podcast hosts Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon!
Panelists also include Austin Mayor Pro Tem Vanessa Fuentes and Black History Bike Ride's Talib Abdullahi. KUT's Nathan Bernier will moderate.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-war-on...
Panelists also include Austin Mayor Pro Tem Vanessa Fuentes and Black History Bike Ride's Talib Abdullahi. KUT's Nathan Bernier will moderate.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-war-on...
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👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
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Counterpoint: some men aren’t lonely enough
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Counterpoint: some men aren’t lonely enough
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People hugely underestimate how much transportation affects them except in these moments where a bunch of people are about to get it that didn’t before. Transportation is mobility and mobility is the spatial exercise of freedom.
Sounds funny today, but not long ago, the use of bicycles by women was considered *extremely* radical & dangerous--to be discouraged, even by supporters of women's right to vote.
All bc bicycles allowed women a tiny bit of freedom & mobility, without needing things a male guardian could withhold.
All bc bicycles allowed women a tiny bit of freedom & mobility, without needing things a male guardian could withhold.
Suffragist and educator Frances Willard riding her bicycle, Gladys (because it made her glad).
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
“I learned to bicycle when 50... and I think it is one of the best things I ever did. What pleases me is to see other worn-out women take it up, and find a new lease of health and life thereby."
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
People hugely underestimate how much transportation affects them except in these moments where a bunch of people are about to get it that didn’t before. Transportation is mobility and mobility is the spatial exercise of freedom.
i didn’t know the dweeb convention was in town
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
i didn’t know the dweeb convention was in town
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Remember this? The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.
Saturn Ion commercial
YouTube video by Eliyahu Biton
youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Remember this? The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.
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sorry i’m just now seeing this. did you still want my mouth open awaiting your harvest or
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
sorry i’m just now seeing this. did you still want my mouth open awaiting your harvest or
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Kinda rude that the only two options are existence & death
July 22, 2023 at 8:48 PM
Kinda rude that the only two options are existence & death
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
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www.statesman.com/news/educati...
“But student critics worried that weakening faculty governance could hurt university decisions, weaken transparency and hurt faculty and student morale.”
The students are right.
“But student critics worried that weakening faculty governance could hurt university decisions, weaken transparency and hurt faculty and student morale.”
The students are right.
UT Regents will have 'ultimate' power over college hiring, curriculum
Moving forward, UT Regents will have greater authority over what degrees are offered and who fills key leadership roles at the system's Texas public institutions.
www.statesman.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
www.statesman.com/news/educati...
“But student critics worried that weakening faculty governance could hurt university decisions, weaken transparency and hurt faculty and student morale.”
The students are right.
“But student critics worried that weakening faculty governance could hurt university decisions, weaken transparency and hurt faculty and student morale.”
The students are right.
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thedailytexan.com/2025/11/20/u...
Great editorial from The Daily Texan! We join their call for transparency about Liberal Arts restructuring.
Great editorial from The Daily Texan! We join their call for transparency about Liberal Arts restructuring.
UT stays silent, COLA suffers
The Editorial Board argues UT should provide clarity on the College of Liberal Arts restructuring to dispel current concerns about the future of its students and faculty.
thedailytexan.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
thedailytexan.com/2025/11/20/u...
Great editorial from The Daily Texan! We join their call for transparency about Liberal Arts restructuring.
Great editorial from The Daily Texan! We join their call for transparency about Liberal Arts restructuring.
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It's almost like making the effort to learn a thing teaches you more about it than just asking the closest idiot to tell you what they think about the subject and copying that down
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It's almost like making the effort to learn a thing teaches you more about it than just asking the closest idiot to tell you what they think about the subject and copying that down
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The fight for the freedom to teach and learn won’t stop until we get the billionaires out of our classrooms—until we stand up across the sector to reclaim higher ed as a true public good, free to all, without debt, free from censorship, with dignity for all workers and communities. (3/3)
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The fight for the freedom to teach and learn won’t stop until we get the billionaires out of our classrooms—until we stand up across the sector to reclaim higher ed as a true public good, free to all, without debt, free from censorship, with dignity for all workers and communities. (3/3)