tlslice.bsky.social
@tlslice.bsky.social
Nursing education, somewhat subversively. Pro bodily autonomy. Pro patient education.
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Over 71 million Americans are paid less than a living wage, and are forced into social safety nets like SNAP.

If you think too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, don’t shame them.

Shame their employers paying them poverty wages and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the rest.
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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These 5 people could caucus with the Democrats, giving them a majority & firmly opposing the fascism, any time. It might be nice for an enterprising journalist to ask them why they keep not doing this every day as the crimes & corruption continue & John Thune refuses to fulfill his oath of office.
🚨 The Senate votes 52-48 to overturn President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil. 5 GOP Senators break ranks to vote against Trump: Collins ME, McConnell KY, Murkowski AK, Paul KY, and Tillis NC.
October 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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One day, when this national nightmare is over and speaking up has no consequences, everyone will claim they were against this.
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
trib.al
October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Mamdani: "There are 12 days remaining until Election Day. I will be a Muslim man in NYC each of those 12 days and every day that follows after that. I will not change who I am, how I eat, or the faith that I am proud to call my own."
October 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Mamdani: "But there is one thing that I will change: I will no longer look for myself in the shadows. I will find myself in the light."
October 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
October 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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It is an absolute scandal. An embarrassment. A tribute to the long history of state terrorism that codifies power. Shame, shame, shame.
Breaking News: North Carolina state senators approved a new congressional map that could give Republicans an extra seat. The state House is expected to pass it.
North Carolina State Senate Approves New Congressional Map in Effort to Add a Seat
The Trump administration has pushed Republican leaders to redraw House district maps before the midterm elections next year.
nyti.ms
October 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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If you want to pursue something, don't be discouraged by how long it may take. The time is going to go by anyway. You can either be moving toward something you want to see happen, or not.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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I actually laughed at that line.
I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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just going to keep posting about this extremely excellent instrumental cover playlist video that I use as a work background until I get one of you addicted to it too www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SiK...
One Hour Of Instrumental Pop Punk, Emo, and Alternative Rock | Alex Melton's Pop Punk Power Hour
YouTube video by Alex Melton
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Cleve Jones gave a riveting, rousing speech at San Francisco's No Kings rally yesterday, and he's graciously allowing me to publish it. He began: "The pronouns I use the most are the ones probably understood the least by those in the White House today. They are WE, US and OURS."
Cleve Jones: "This Is Our Country"
This is the first guest essay at Meditations in an Emergency. I'm proud to bring you yesterday's speech by the great Cleve Jones, who has for nearly half a century been a key organizer for the global ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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The "normal" framing is so key — @randomwalker.bsky.social gave us all such a useful way of articulating a valuable idea in this discussion. www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-as-norm...
AI as Normal Technology
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
www.normaltech.ai
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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October 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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I was today years old when I found out there's a whole literature emerging on treating major depressive disorder with...sprints / high intensity interval training. amazing things happening in Brazil yall

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | Effectiveness of short sprint interval training in women with major depressive disorder: a proof-of-concept study
High-intensity intermitent training has emerged as an op�on for trea�ng major depressive disorder (MDD). However, short sprint training (sSIT), an efficient ...
www.frontiersin.org
October 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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If we look at 20th-century China and Germany as examples, it actually takes a few decades to recover from the type of self-harm that the US is currently inflicting on itself.
October 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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For the latest issue of Artforum I wrote about the culture of “AI” in my sector of academia, arguing that a focus on what it does distracts attention away from examining the exploitative conditions that the hopeful rhetoric of its promise upholds. www.artforum.com/features/gen...
MACHINE YEARNING
Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historians’ recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research.
www.artforum.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."
October 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM