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@spacyoddity.bsky.social
nyc/li. impostery #linguist doing research on language, law, & tech. fan of cats, dinosaurs, mutual aid, & shitposting. #disabled.
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@spacyoddity.bsky.social
· May 16
I'm so sorry but when I say I don't have the resources to help with donations, I mean:
I haven't been paid in 2 months
I'm disabled on medical leave
I can't cognitively do the work of vetting asks because my brain is not working right now
PLEASE don't tag me or request money from me directly.
I haven't been paid in 2 months
I'm disabled on medical leave
I can't cognitively do the work of vetting asks because my brain is not working right now
PLEASE don't tag me or request money from me directly.
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What an unserious person. I will never be able to unsee the people suffocating in their own bodies because the virus melted their lungs. Whole families showing up together at the brink of death. Myself & my colleagues putting on garbage bags & months-old N95 to resuscitate them in hospital driveways
June 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
What an unserious person. I will never be able to unsee the people suffocating in their own bodies because the virus melted their lungs. Whole families showing up together at the brink of death. Myself & my colleagues putting on garbage bags & months-old N95 to resuscitate them in hospital driveways
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Please stop saying ICE agents are “wearing masks”
They’re wearing face coverings. Gaitors.
The anti-mask rhetoric has caused untold harm to disabled people.
Mask bans have already been enacted in many places.
We must fight for our right to continue wearing medical masks & respirators.
They’re wearing face coverings. Gaitors.
The anti-mask rhetoric has caused untold harm to disabled people.
Mask bans have already been enacted in many places.
We must fight for our right to continue wearing medical masks & respirators.
June 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Please stop saying ICE agents are “wearing masks”
They’re wearing face coverings. Gaitors.
The anti-mask rhetoric has caused untold harm to disabled people.
Mask bans have already been enacted in many places.
We must fight for our right to continue wearing medical masks & respirators.
They’re wearing face coverings. Gaitors.
The anti-mask rhetoric has caused untold harm to disabled people.
Mask bans have already been enacted in many places.
We must fight for our right to continue wearing medical masks & respirators.
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Between Greta Thunberg and her fellow activists being kidnapped by Israel and Trump turning LA into his personal war zone, I hope people realise that protest, no matter how peaceful, will always be met with violence by dying empires.
June 9, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Between Greta Thunberg and her fellow activists being kidnapped by Israel and Trump turning LA into his personal war zone, I hope people realise that protest, no matter how peaceful, will always be met with violence by dying empires.
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NEW from me: A decision is imminent in three of the four cases that will determine whether individual health information for legal reproductive care remains protected by a 2024 federal rule under HIPAA, including a case in Texas before the same judge who tried to revoke FDA approval of mifepristone.
Will HIPAA protections continue for abortion care? Courts to soon decide.
Dr. Eve Espey has many stories she can tell about patients who travel to her clinic in New Mexico from their homes in Texas, where abortion laws are some of the most restrictive in the country.In one ...
www.newsfromthestates.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
NEW from me: A decision is imminent in three of the four cases that will determine whether individual health information for legal reproductive care remains protected by a 2024 federal rule under HIPAA, including a case in Texas before the same judge who tried to revoke FDA approval of mifepristone.
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An Australian journalist was shot with what’s been reported as a rubber bullet while covering immigration protests in LA.
9News US correspondent Lauren Tomasi was hit in the leg by a non-lethal round fired by an officer in riot gear. Footage shows the officer turn toward the cameras before firing.
9News US correspondent Lauren Tomasi was hit in the leg by a non-lethal round fired by an officer in riot gear. Footage shows the officer turn toward the cameras before firing.
June 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
An Australian journalist was shot with what’s been reported as a rubber bullet while covering immigration protests in LA.
9News US correspondent Lauren Tomasi was hit in the leg by a non-lethal round fired by an officer in riot gear. Footage shows the officer turn toward the cameras before firing.
9News US correspondent Lauren Tomasi was hit in the leg by a non-lethal round fired by an officer in riot gear. Footage shows the officer turn toward the cameras before firing.
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Greta Thunberg knew that something like this would happen--that she and the rest of the team would be kidnapped by Israeli forces.
But she knew that her presence would increase global awareness of the genocide in Gaza.
That is courage. Brava.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
But she knew that her presence would increase global awareness of the genocide in Gaza.
That is courage. Brava.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Israeli forces take control of Gaza aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg
British-flagged yacht operated by pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition was making symbolic attempt to deliver aid
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Greta Thunberg knew that something like this would happen--that she and the rest of the team would be kidnapped by Israeli forces.
But she knew that her presence would increase global awareness of the genocide in Gaza.
That is courage. Brava.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
But she knew that her presence would increase global awareness of the genocide in Gaza.
That is courage. Brava.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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not only do i not support this, i dont support the dutch's right to exist as people outside of zoos
Do you support the Netherlands right to exist as a Dutch state?
June 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
not only do i not support this, i dont support the dutch's right to exist as people outside of zoos
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Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out.
www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...
www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...
June 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out.
www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...
www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...
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I stopped using Meta social media
Apart from - annoyingly - Messenger and WhatsApp chats.
Step away from #Meta.
Meta is not your friend.
Meta also is knowingly complicit in the destruction of democracies, as shown by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social in #TheGreatHack
www.netflix.com/gb/title/801...
Apart from - annoyingly - Messenger and WhatsApp chats.
Step away from #Meta.
Meta is not your friend.
Meta also is knowingly complicit in the destruction of democracies, as shown by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social in #TheGreatHack
www.netflix.com/gb/title/801...
Watch The Great Hack | Netflix Official Site
Explore how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolize the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
www.netflix.com
June 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I stopped using Meta social media
Apart from - annoyingly - Messenger and WhatsApp chats.
Step away from #Meta.
Meta is not your friend.
Meta also is knowingly complicit in the destruction of democracies, as shown by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social in #TheGreatHack
www.netflix.com/gb/title/801...
Apart from - annoyingly - Messenger and WhatsApp chats.
Step away from #Meta.
Meta is not your friend.
Meta also is knowingly complicit in the destruction of democracies, as shown by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social in #TheGreatHack
www.netflix.com/gb/title/801...
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Researchers recently caught Meta using tactics that one expert called similar to those of digital crooks to secretly compile logs of people’s web browsing on Android devices.
Here are a few ways to safeguard your digital privacy:
Here are a few ways to safeguard your digital privacy:
Meta found a new way to violate your privacy. Here’s what you can do.
Even hardened digital privacy veterans said they were surprised by Meta’s scuzzy tactics.
wapo.st
June 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Researchers recently caught Meta using tactics that one expert called similar to those of digital crooks to secretly compile logs of people’s web browsing on Android devices.
Here are a few ways to safeguard your digital privacy:
Here are a few ways to safeguard your digital privacy:
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Disappointing to see Harvard Med School go even farther than Harvard College in capitulating to the administration by erasing their statement in support of health equity, renaming one of their diversity offices, and absorbing another into the Office of Student Affairs. Shameful.
HMS Restructures and Renames Diversity Office, Removes Pledge To Fight Inequities | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Medical School renamed its diversity office and announced changes to several major DEI programs on Wednesday in the latest rollback of diversity infrastructure at Harvard.
www.thecrimson.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Disappointing to see Harvard Med School go even farther than Harvard College in capitulating to the administration by erasing their statement in support of health equity, renaming one of their diversity offices, and absorbing another into the Office of Student Affairs. Shameful.
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This is really brilliant, accompanying ProPublica's story on how AI tagged a bunch of contracts for elimination.
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health
Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to g...
www.propublica.org
June 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This is really brilliant, accompanying ProPublica's story on how AI tagged a bunch of contracts for elimination.
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
look, I'm all for weeding but this is fucking unconscionable:
"Even worse: weeks previously, student assistants – part-time hires – had been asked to manually scratch the surfaces of hundreds of DVDs with penknives, rendering all of them inoperable."
"Even worse: weeks previously, student assistants – part-time hires – had been asked to manually scratch the surfaces of hundreds of DVDs with penknives, rendering all of them inoperable."
Weeding discourse - yet another topic that never seems to die. 🤦♀️ Why can people not accept that librarians know how to do our jobs and don’t just chuck stuff away for shits and giggles?
June 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
look, I'm all for weeding but this is fucking unconscionable:
"Even worse: weeks previously, student assistants – part-time hires – had been asked to manually scratch the surfaces of hundreds of DVDs with penknives, rendering all of them inoperable."
"Even worse: weeks previously, student assistants – part-time hires – had been asked to manually scratch the surfaces of hundreds of DVDs with penknives, rendering all of them inoperable."
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the president wont see your cheap dunks against jeffery epstein . But your friends who have ties to state sponsored pedophilia will
June 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
the president wont see your cheap dunks against jeffery epstein . But your friends who have ties to state sponsored pedophilia will
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I very rarely say this about my province, but Quebec has passed a good law.
Revenge porn is already a serious criminal offence everywhere in Canada, but it’s still extremely difficult to get images/video removed from platforms. This will help immensely to fix that.
Revenge porn is already a serious criminal offence everywhere in Canada, but it’s still extremely difficult to get images/video removed from platforms. This will help immensely to fix that.
“Revenge porn is routinely used as a method of coercive control, with significant emotional, social and professional consequences for the victims.” @cultmtl.com cultmtl.com/2025/06/queb...
Quebec's new law fighting revenge porn is a win for women, and it's about time
Revenge porn is routinely used as a method of coercive control, with significant emotional, social and professional consequences for the victims.
cultmtl.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I very rarely say this about my province, but Quebec has passed a good law.
Revenge porn is already a serious criminal offence everywhere in Canada, but it’s still extremely difficult to get images/video removed from platforms. This will help immensely to fix that.
Revenge porn is already a serious criminal offence everywhere in Canada, but it’s still extremely difficult to get images/video removed from platforms. This will help immensely to fix that.
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How embarrassing for New Zealand. This was such a great moment in democracy. What a shame.
Three Maori MPs in New Zealand received record suspensions of up to three weeks for performing a protest haka in parliament last year.
June 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
How embarrassing for New Zealand. This was such a great moment in democracy. What a shame.
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@danc.bsky.social Just saw this and thought it might be useful to teachers - sharing just in case. linguistlist.org/issues/36/17...
LINGUIST List 36.1731 Media: Applied Linguistics
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
linguistlist.org
June 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
@danc.bsky.social Just saw this and thought it might be useful to teachers - sharing just in case. linguistlist.org/issues/36/17...
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5 yr Postdoc at Edinburgh - how and why digital participation is transforming experience of warfare. Data Viz, NLP, text & data mining, principally related to Russian war against Ukraine.
JOB KLAXON - 5 year Research Fellowship for experienced postdoc working with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social on digital war @edinburghuni.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Research Fellow (WARSHARE)
We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral Research Fellow with demonstrated success in delivering complex research projects, and advanced knowledge in conceptual and theoretical work on the appli...
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
5 yr Postdoc at Edinburgh - how and why digital participation is transforming experience of warfare. Data Viz, NLP, text & data mining, principally related to Russian war against Ukraine.
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I love sites like bsky because they fulfill the basic human desire to say things just to say them
June 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I love sites like bsky because they fulfill the basic human desire to say things just to say them
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The Onion does not use AI in any way. Our newspaper is proudly made by actual living people. AI makes bad, boring shit, and people make art. Subscribe to us instead:
membership.theonion.com
membership.theonion.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The Onion does not use AI in any way. Our newspaper is proudly made by actual living people. AI makes bad, boring shit, and people make art. Subscribe to us instead:
membership.theonion.com
membership.theonion.com
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We are hiring a dream team of doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows in applied sociolinguistics, education and related fields to work on "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan" @uni-hamburg.de
www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...
www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...
Hiring a dream team in linguistic diversity and social participation
Visit the post for more.
www.languageonthemove.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:23 AM
We are hiring a dream team of doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows in applied sociolinguistics, education and related fields to work on "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan" @uni-hamburg.de
www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...
www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...
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I'm biased, but this report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025.
It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.
It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.
NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out.
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
June 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I'm biased, but this report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025.
It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.
It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.