Katharine the Geek 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ❤️🧡🤍💜🩷
@katharinethegeek.bsky.social
Just your average queer scientist 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 👭🏼. Wife, mom, teacher, anti-fascist. I solve nonlinear PDEs for food.
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According to today’s WSJ, over half of GDP growth is represented by dumping money into the Mauna Kea volcano. Stopping this may anger the volcano gods, so we must press on.
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
According to today’s WSJ, over half of GDP growth is represented by dumping money into the Mauna Kea volcano. Stopping this may anger the volcano gods, so we must press on.
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"It really is a travesty that England, named after the Angles, speaks English and speakers are called Anglophone, when it could have been Sexland, named after the Saxons, speaking Sexish and speakers are called Saxophone"
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"It really is a travesty that England, named after the Angles, speaks English and speakers are called Anglophone, when it could have been Sexland, named after the Saxons, speaking Sexish and speakers are called Saxophone"
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Anyone using chatbots for education needs to stop now.
They spew Jim Crow levels of racism and hate that get even worse with scaling not better.
Reminder: "AI" has never been about education or intelligence..it is about power, surveillance and control.
They spew Jim Crow levels of racism and hate that get even worse with scaling not better.
Reminder: "AI" has never been about education or intelligence..it is about power, surveillance and control.
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 5:06 PM
Anyone using chatbots for education needs to stop now.
They spew Jim Crow levels of racism and hate that get even worse with scaling not better.
Reminder: "AI" has never been about education or intelligence..it is about power, surveillance and control.
They spew Jim Crow levels of racism and hate that get even worse with scaling not better.
Reminder: "AI" has never been about education or intelligence..it is about power, surveillance and control.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Classical Eurasia was so much more interconnected than anybody realizes today and I am deeply fascinated by it.
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Classical Eurasia was so much more interconnected than anybody realizes today and I am deeply fascinated by it.
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“LLMs do not improve one’s writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one’s driving ability. Students should hone their writing, thinking, and other academic skills at every opportunity.”
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
zenodo.org
September 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“LLMs do not improve one’s writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one’s driving ability. Students should hone their writing, thinking, and other academic skills at every opportunity.”
zenodo.org/records/1706...
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Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.
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Instead of "AI", say "entitled assholes with computers"
Examples:
Will your job be replaced by entitled assholes with computers?
What's the environmental impact of entitled assholes with computers?
Will entitled assholes with computers cure cancer?
Do entitled assholes with computers lie?
Examples:
Will your job be replaced by entitled assholes with computers?
What's the environmental impact of entitled assholes with computers?
Will entitled assholes with computers cure cancer?
Do entitled assholes with computers lie?
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Instead of "AI", say "entitled assholes with computers"
Examples:
Will your job be replaced by entitled assholes with computers?
What's the environmental impact of entitled assholes with computers?
Will entitled assholes with computers cure cancer?
Do entitled assholes with computers lie?
Examples:
Will your job be replaced by entitled assholes with computers?
What's the environmental impact of entitled assholes with computers?
Will entitled assholes with computers cure cancer?
Do entitled assholes with computers lie?
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LGBTQ+ Texans fought to be recognized. That work is eroding under a conservative pressure campaign.
LGBTQ+ rights are eroding in Texas under a pressure campaign
Conservative activists argue they’re protecting women and rebalancing the law that Democrats tilted in favor of LGBTQ+ people.
www.texastribune.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
LGBTQ+ Texans fought to be recognized. That work is eroding under a conservative pressure campaign.
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See also sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
A Dictionary of "AI" — Sonja Drimmer
Even if you spend just a small amount of time listening to people who believe that any kind of digital technology (whether that’s “artificial intelligence” or not) is an unquestioned good, you’ll hear...
sonjadrimmer.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
See also sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
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genuinely not surprising at all to me that the transmisogyny moral panic is moving all through the same anglosphere media network that is and continues to do massive coverups for the fact that their entire ruling class is good buddies with jeffrey epstein
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
genuinely not surprising at all to me that the transmisogyny moral panic is moving all through the same anglosphere media network that is and continues to do massive coverups for the fact that their entire ruling class is good buddies with jeffrey epstein
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“Remember the Maine!” -1898
“Forget the Epstein!” -2025
“Forget the Epstein!” -2025
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
“Remember the Maine!” -1898
“Forget the Epstein!” -2025
“Forget the Epstein!” -2025
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November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“It’s a hoax but she was old enough to make her own decisions” might not be the best defense, but please keep talking, mr trump.
The president of the United States declares that no one cares about Epstein's child abuse and that, in his opinion, the abuse of 14-year-olds is not a crime because they can make their own decisions. This sounds suspiciously like an excuse from a child molester.
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“It’s a hoax but she was old enough to make her own decisions” might not be the best defense, but please keep talking, mr trump.
Get-rich quick idea of the week: give trump a bar of lead painted gold, get no-bid govt contract. Profit.
“straight up giving the president a bar of gold” is where we’re at now on the “corruption isn’t real” scale
good work, John Roberts
good work, John Roberts
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Get-rich quick idea of the week: give trump a bar of lead painted gold, get no-bid govt contract. Profit.
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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The purpose of the New York Times is to launder right wing policies and talking points to the point where they are palatable to a middle class moderate liberal living between Boston and Washington DC.
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The purpose of the New York Times is to launder right wing policies and talking points to the point where they are palatable to a middle class moderate liberal living between Boston and Washington DC.
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Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation
The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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….telling trans teens they can’t get gender affirming care because “they aren’t old enough to make that decision”, and then having sex with young girls of the same age…. very on brand of them
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
….telling trans teens they can’t get gender affirming care because “they aren’t old enough to make that decision”, and then having sex with young girls of the same age…. very on brand of them
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can’t wait to tell my students in the middle of class, “hold on—gotta email the chancellor before I can answer your question“
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
can’t wait to tell my students in the middle of class, “hold on—gotta email the chancellor before I can answer your question“
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Trans Awareness Week honors & uplifts the trans community in a time when anti-trans bigotry & political attacks are on the rise. It’s more important than ever that we listen to, learn from, & show up with compassion for trans folks. 🏳️⚧️
Hear more trans people #SpeakOUT: lambdalegal.org/speak-out/
Hear more trans people #SpeakOUT: lambdalegal.org/speak-out/
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Trans Awareness Week honors & uplifts the trans community in a time when anti-trans bigotry & political attacks are on the rise. It’s more important than ever that we listen to, learn from, & show up with compassion for trans folks. 🏳️⚧️
Hear more trans people #SpeakOUT: lambdalegal.org/speak-out/
Hear more trans people #SpeakOUT: lambdalegal.org/speak-out/
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Bakunin wrote about this very thing!
"Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or the engineer.
"Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or the engineer.
So there is an issue with authority.
Authority that arises from experience, character, and skill seems to me to be different than authority by hierarchy, force, or status.
Thoughts?
Authority that arises from experience, character, and skill seems to me to be different than authority by hierarchy, force, or status.
Thoughts?
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Bakunin wrote about this very thing!
"Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or the engineer.
"Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or the engineer.