descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I just stank-faced while reading this piece it is so good. 0101
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This whole piece 🤌. “The very notion of ‘predicting’ future advances in AI and related technologies has become an exercise in what economist Paul Romer once called “mathiness,” where the appearance of numbers, especially enormous ones, dresses up unquantified speculation as calculative objectivity.” 010
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They don’t value humanity. Christ. 000
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It’s really disheartening, makes it less useful, less pleasant to find the real local news. It undercuts the credibility of the real journalists there. Instead of checking them every morning, now it’s half that or less. I don’t understand the business model. 000
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Apple News feed for my local paper (long ago eaten by Mcclatchy) used to be the best way to read it. I’d given up on their website a million years ago. Anyhow, over the past several months, that feed looks more & more like a junk lifestyle pub—ai-generated stories about peptides, hair loss, etc 100
Reposted by @descriptivist.bsky.socialJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not the odds, but the stakes. That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in election coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes. Sep. 11, 2023 1238680
Reposted by @descriptivist.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk. 4508112
Reposted by @descriptivist.bsky.socialDominique Revue ᥫ᭡. @dominiquerevue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Still one of the baddest recordings (Minnie the Moocher) and one of the coldest intros (Cab Calloway dancing to St. James Infirmary). Said to be the first known footage of Cab Calloway . . . *imagine* what it must have been like to see Cab layin' this down on screen for the first time in 1932?!! ☠️ 1319
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Feels like decades of voting for anyone but that man and still he persists. 000
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Goddamnit! First I lost my Al’s fries, now this shit!? I can already go to 20 places just like this. This place has nothing sticky, no characters manning the register, no mash of classes & personalities. 000
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Lovin makes you a mite demonic every once and a while, look 000
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026First, my husband has way more hair than that. 021
Reposted by @descriptivist.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources 7943342
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026An important measure of how out of pocket your people are is % of your 1st-degree relatives are/were this kid. For me, it’s about 50%. 000
Reposted by @descriptivist.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026sent this to everyone. 632093
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It makes sense so many people think the credit is the point. Obviously many people of all ages understand the intrinsic pleasures of creation & connection, of care work & process. We just tend to select out of the positions currently flogging AI, the ends-focused masters of the barf universe. 000
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think this confusion about the point of creating/ ingesting the creations of others is the natural consequence of ends-focused ed. Get the grade or credentials however vs actually engage w the work. We teach kids to market themselves to institutions before knowing themselves. We emphasize credit. 120
Reposted by @descriptivist.bsky.socialEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news. 201317426
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I sometimes learn more from my 17YO son about his condition from our daily dinner check-ins (& grocery check ins) than any other interaction, something freeing about the indirect invitation to share rather than interviewing him. Sometimes active collaboration is the goal for all the soft benefits. 001
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My spouse+I have kind of an ongoing dialogue w each other, our teens, ourselves about dinner that is only partly about what we wanna eat tonight. It’s also about what kind of day we had, how we feel, what we’re craving, inspiration, what tomorrow is shaping into. It’s actual connection/care. 110
Reposted by @descriptivist.bsky.socialTyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions. 182013975
Reposted by @descriptivist.bsky.socialOn the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026On the show this week, @micahloewinger.bsky.social and @brookegladstone.bsky.social break format to discuss why it took the White House press corps so long to stand up to Trump’s attacks on the media. 5297
Reposted by @descriptivist.bsky.socialMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here: 131864906
Reposted by @descriptivist.bsky.social🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 125123755272
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is the military history I need atm. 000
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’ve now lived through Republicans saying that (pre ACA) people who have insurance and use health care regularly are the problem AND (now) the people who have insurance and don’t use health care regularly are the problem. 000
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Straight to the household chat w this. 010
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Shit like this makes me realize I take my emotional intelligence entirely for granted. 0150
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Did my 13 yo just yesterday float the idea of a snail pet? Did I just grab this advent cal? Yes. 030
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And!! A regular reminder that there is an active movement to reclassify trans people as minors until the age of 19 (or higher), which means a parent could ask their state AG to prosecute a CA dr for prescribing hormones to an 18 yo who got this care on their own. 010
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is meant to suppress out-of-state families from getting treatment in CA that they can’t get in their home state, families that already have to navigate so many obstacles to meet their kids’ needs. Idk how CA has less progressive laws than VA, but y’all backsliding something fierce over there. 110
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This shit can’t be normalized by Dems. 010
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026(They did Edna’s figure dirty, tho. Has Drag Race not yet taught community theater how to recognize good padding?) 000
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Everything is <deep sigh> but I took my kid to see a local production of Hairspray that went so hard. Singers AND sangers. Plus some great comic performances. That message really rhymed w the Ed Sheeran of it all this week. 100
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026So good! I think her performance was my fav of that show. 000
descriptivist.bsky.social @descriptivist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Most upset for Annette who has been killing roles this year, even! Granted, she’s in the “invisible” years, but damn, she’s a powerhouse. 160
