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Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising

“Stanford […] Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising” “Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises recently used AI to change the races of the students it included in its advertisements. AI was also used to noticeably slim down and alter students’ faces.” stanfordreview.org/stanford-r-d...

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Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises recently used AI to change the races of the students it included in its advertisements. AI was also used to noticeably slim down and alter students’ faces. O...

I’m sad to hear that filker Kathy Mar has died, age 75. I never knew her personally, but she was one of the first filkers whose music I heard and enjoyed, sometime in the 1980s, on the Off Centaur sampler album _Quarks and Quests_. I still listen to her songs. www.facebook.com/kathy.mar.9/...

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Discord has launched its age-confirmation system. 1/4

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About Gender Liberation Movement — Gender Liberation Movement

“The Gender Liberation Movement fights to free all people from harmful and limiting gendered expectations.” “We are building power for gender liberation in organizing, culture, and policy.” genderlib.org/about

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Learn about Gender Liberation Movement—who we are, what we believe, and how we build power through organizing, culture, and policy.

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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day

“The abuse that immigration agents inflict on people everywhere from Evanston streets to Alabama construction sites underscores that Kavanaugh’s racial profiling apologia in _Vasquez Perdomo_ was always based on a fantasy.” ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.

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“A legal settlement protects RV residents in Mountain View – it’s expiring soon” 1/5

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“RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office” (Content warning for mention of deaths of babies.) 1/6

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Ancestry dot com is now providing access to historical enslavement registers. 1/4

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Festivids AI Policy. (I’m linking to this as another data point in the range of organizations’ AI policies.) festivids.dreamwidth.org/163812.html

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“Over one million children around the world have used the LEGO Group's MRI Scanner set, helping transform a potentially stressful medical procedure through a playful, hands-on learning experience.” 1/5

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Bisexual Procrastinators Day! www.facebook.com/jed.hartman/...

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In making that rhetorical move, they are attempting to erase all of the work that we HAVE BEEN doing to warn the public and policymakers about the real harms being done in the name of "AI". >>

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

California license plate I saw a couple weeks ago: O BTHER

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

9/ That cafe meeting, Kao asserted, was just one episode in a sprawling pay-to-play operation in Congress. He and his close associates donated nearly $900K to dozens of politicians, allowing Navatek to establish operations in half a dozen states with $40M+ a year in government funds.

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Mountain View City Council candidates square off at forum - San José Spotlight

Two articles about the eight candidates for Mountain View City Council: * “Mountain View City Council candidates square off at forum” (from August) (sanjosespotlight.com/mountain-vie...) * “Candidate Comparison Grid: Mountain View City Council” (www.mv-voice.com/election/202...)

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Ahead of the November election, the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce held a recent forum to give voters an early look at the policy positions of eight candidates vying for a seat on the City Council.

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nux Morse Code Karte Pro | mit Funktion | G41731.2

Some things that’ve been advertised to me recently, that look like they might be kinda neat: * Morse Code Trainer Card Pro: (nux-modellbau.de/g41731.2/nux...) * Kit to build a ball-balancing robot: (ba-bot.com) 1/2

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Interaktives Lern- & Technik-Gadget zum Entdecken, Verstehen von Morsecode. Bekannt von Instagram und TikTok: Die nux Morse Code Karte Pro wurde erstmals am 3. April 2026 vorgestellt und erreichte...

These days in the US, mail that you send may not get postmarked the same day that you send it. However, it turns out that if you want to be sure a piece of mail is postmarked the same day you send it, you can explicitly ask for a manual postmark at a USPS counter. 1/4

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026

Reposted by Jed Hartman

Anyway Judge McMahon's answer is "well if there's a problem, you fucking call me and give your shitty frivolous opinion to my face right then and there."

ORDER CONCERNING FREEMAN'S DEPOSITION
McMahon, J.:
My order requires no clarification. It is perfectly clear. Counsel for Ms. Freeman do not
get to set the rules.
Ms. Freeman will answer EVERY question that is put to her - whether or not the question
was asked previously.
If Ms. Freeman asserts attorney client privilege with respect to a question that was not
previously asked, you are to call my chambers immediately to obtain a ruling. If I have to rule on more than one frivolous attorney client privilege objection, there will be consequences, in the form of sanctions, adverse inferences, referrals to the court's Grievance
Committee with the possible revocation of pro hac vice admission to practice or admission to the Bar of this Court, and the possibility of a civil contempt holding. Please understand — this is not an idle threat. I am tired of this. I do not believe that Ms. Freeman's counsel is acting in good faith and I will not stand for being jerked around - and I am indeed being jerked around — in this
manner by any lawyer who practices before me.

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In the immortal words of pastor Martin Niemöller: 1/4

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I was recently taking an online survey about a California political thing, and it asked which AI platforms I used (if any). Among the platforms it listed as examples was “Gronk.” (In context, that was very clearly just a typo for “Grok”.) Now I kinda want to start calling Musk’s AI platform Gronk.

About implicit criteria: Long ago, friends and I would try to decide what restaurant to go to for dinner. The conversations sometimes went like this: Them: What kind of food do you want? Me, magnanimously: Oh, any kind is fine, I don’t really have a preference. 1/8

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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I recently read a Reddit comment in which someone pointed out that sometimes what someone wants when they sue someone else is “emotional vindication,” and that they’re not likely to get that from a lawsuit. (At least not in the particular context that was under discussion.) 1/5

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"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...

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Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care

Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.

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One of my biggest difficulties with prioritizing projects is the number of highest-priority projects there are. Like, project A is absolutely my highest priority… …except for project B, which is even more important. 1/2

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JJ Pionke 1978 – 2026 JJ Pionke, librarian, library and information studies educator, and advocate for people with disabilities, has died. JJ was born in suburban Chicago to Wayne and Rita Pi…

I’m sad to hear that JJ Pionke has died. I didn’t know him well, but I admired his advocacy. This memorial page says a lot about him that I didn’t know. jj-pionke-memorial.org/in-loving-me...

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In Loving Memory

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“California has one-quarter of all the nation’s death sentences. Will Newsom commute them all?” “More than 560 people still face death sentences in California, despite a longstanding moratorium on executions.” 1/4

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A customizable downloadable spreadsheet designed to help artists and other creators figure out how much to charge for your work. “built as a step-by-guide… It is also built to do the math for you, based on your needs!” 1/2

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Annie Dillard - Wikipedia

Sad to hear that Annie Dillard has died, age 81. (Turns out she was born a couple weeks after my uncle Paul, and died the day before he did.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_D...

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Interesting-looking boardgame: The Unheist of Hearthburn House. “In this…game, you serve a dragon who has been asleep for many years. During its slumber, you ‘borrowed’ [its] valuables to decorate your home. Now the dragon is waking up, and you must return its treasures before it's too late!” 1/2

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“We must have the parades and catchy ditties, the rhetoric of outrage and inflammatory headlines, so that we may enter the ecstatic state where we embrace the Myths of War, which give us the clarity and conviction that we are the good guys and they are the bad” 1/5

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Mountain View's Cinemark Century 16 theater won't close for good after all

“Mountain View’s Cinemark Century 16 theater won’t close for good after all” “Property owner plans to resume movie theater operations before year’s end, according to company spokesperson” www.mv-voice.com/business/202...

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The Cinemark Century 16 theater on Shoreline Boulevard in Mountain View is slated to close next week but plans are already underway for it to reopen ahead of the December holidays.

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The open houses at the edge of disaster

“What are [home-]buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.” (Inspired by a similar article from 2019.) heated.world/p/the-open-h...

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What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.

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California’s Proposition 38 is written so that half of the funds it provides can probably go to only “one institute in the entire state: the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy, whose prominent donor and co-founder is the chief backer of the proposition.” 1/2

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OPPORTUNITY WINDOW: An Anthology of Time Loop Stories

Only 11 days left in crowdfunding campaign for _Opportunity Window: An Anthology of Time Loop Stories_, edited by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m... Submission guidelines are also on the crowdfunding page.

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Deja vu doesn't begin to cover it... OPPORTUNITY WINDOW will bring you a book of brand new time loop stories (and maybe some you've seen before) from across the SFFH genres!

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