Reposted by Matison W. McCoolAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 5hI don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1 21671571735
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolBrynn Paulsen, PhD @brynnpaulsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I attended NY Climate Week w/ @standupforscience.net. I have some THOUGHTS. 1/ Climate change is an existential threat. Addressing it means confronting unequal harms, powerful political & financial interests, & an uncomfortable reality: good intentions do not necessarily produce adequate action. 1219
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolHuman Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️ 8218180
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolWillow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Cornell rape story and the Silicon Valley professional orgy culture story are the same story. 2373113
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolRobota Bobby @alixiswright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Good for them but goodness gracious I swear half of university admins are super villains. I hope the players are getting the support they need from some other adults <3 0195
Matison W. McCool @matwmccool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026To the guy who just single handedly got everyone at the front of the plane their bags in the back of the plane before de-boarding began: 🫡 000
Matison W. McCool @matwmccool.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Great, they’re making it a shitty tamagotchi you can’t starve to death. 010
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026As an early career scientist who…departed from my research career to do activism to try to save our science: We need more from the establishment than guides on ethical research for ECR’s. 1399
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up. 580176024496
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolYell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing 201325510
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolMatthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Bernie Sanders -- the easily manipulated dipshit that he is -- has decided that noted Harry Potter fanfic writer and racist sex-cult leader Eliezer Yudkowsky is the man who should write AI legislation for America. 06311
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolSchrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026What's being described there has its own named mathematical law. It's called the Law Of Adverse Selection, and there isn't a single actuary who isn't intimately familiar with that law and why you never, ever *ever* f**k with it. 131447139
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Oh my God, I agree with WSJ opinion Oh my God, shoot me in the face 371506302
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Everyone's been asking for it, and THIS FRIDAY it's yours! Stream InfoWars: The Album on September 25. 950151
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolRep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Let’s be clear—health care is a human right, not a privilege. This is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to kick hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Americans off their healthcare. Millions are already struggling to access healthcare—and this is their plan? We will be fighting back.washingtonpost.comTrump officials cut 760,000 enrollees from ACA, claiming fraudVice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force concluded that the people were wrongly signed up for the government health care program. 821199475
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolWilliam Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’m proud to be endorsed by Stand up for Science. An educated population is an empowered public. We must protect our scientific education, stand up to restrictions on scientific inquiry and academic freedom, and combat misinformation and anti-science attacks. 13915
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I don’t mean this to be cruel, but there’s just too much air being taken up by people with media or tech backgrounds who think their hot take on consciousness with LLMs is new, and lord it has all been done before and we’re past that. Christ, half the news cycle is yud refusing to read a book. 738364
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolGabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 20/09/2026An accurate representation of my novels. 821027
Matison W. McCool @matwmccool.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We think grants are moving slow now? What happens when we have to wait for Vought and Jay to find a time to meet between Jay’s podcasts and Vought’s ecdysis and exuviation episodes? 001
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Fail. (Big piece on this tomorrow.) www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comDemocratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AIDemocratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them. 1691312170
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolIan Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses 227131723351
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Straight talk time: Doomerism is BORING. It's the same fantasties rehashed over and over again, just louder each time. And with each iteration it seems that new audiences are being reached, and a new group of people needs to be talked down from unnecessary fear. >> 11596163
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If you cannot be trusted to stand up for transgender Americans when they’re facing what some experts call a genocide, I don’t trust you to stand up for anything. 592321506
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026As @alexhanna.bsky.social and I write in The AI Con (see Ch 6): even though the Boosters and the Doomers like to portray themselves as holding down opposite extremes of opinions on "AI", they are two sides of the same coin. thecon.ai >>thecon.aiTHE AI CONHow to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want 216435
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 11/09/2026DOGE is still running the show: The Bureau of Land Management gave its state directors *3 days* to list public lands that could be turned over to Big Tech to build AI hyperscalers, after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met with Amazon CEO Andrew Jassywashingtonsun.comInside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public LandsThe Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land. 23560415
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...prospect.orgImmigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American ProspectAhmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons. 718091133
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Ugh. Neither is further institutionalization what metascience needs as a field nor is a centralized metascience that issues science-wide mandates what sciences need. This kind of thing is something I've been strongly against even without an office of metascience at NSF. But I could see it coming. 13815
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026For those not on the other site: the Kansas Jayhawks made a rivalry hype video that repeatedly references John Brown. x.com/ku_football/... 1310414
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/09/2026Higher Ed is under attack. Send America's Compact for Higher Education to your school's president demanding they endorse now: tr.ee/3OB6R2 United we stand. Divided we fall.tr.eeDemand your school's leadership publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education — STAND UP FOR SCIENCEEmail your school's president urgently asking them to publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education 58938
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolProject Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 10/09/2026Today, we filed a FOIA request with DHS concerning an AI-generated image the @DHSgov X account posted this morning. The image depicts a Transformer facing a South Asian man, over a caption telling "Mr. Singh" to self-deport and get off American roads. We want the prompt. 451357352
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2025So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals. In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed. Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph... 1/4media.tenor.coma man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket .ALT: a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket . 6254108
Reposted by Matison W. McCool404 Media @404media.co · 08/09/2026404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.404media.coA Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime. 391085618
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026this is not optional for democrats. there is no way back unless it happens 6666124
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolJohn Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Dolly Parton logged a combined total of 115 years of union membership. Throughout her working life, the “9 to 5” singer/songwriter carried the union cards of two major unions: The American Federation of Musicians Local 257 in Nashville — for 58 years. SAG-AFTRA — for 57 years. HAPPY LABOR DAY!share.googleOpinion | Celebrate Dolly Parton's working-class solidarityJohn Nichols: She carried two union cards, sang Woody Guthrie songs and mocked the bosses in "9 to 5." 5280551830
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolChineburlai @vikingkim5.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Nunca.🙅♀️ Never. 👎🏼 Over our dead sacks of chile. 🌶️ Mexica is the name the Aztecas had for themselves. Mexico was not named until the 1820s. New Mexico was called New Mexico after the Azteca Valley in New Spain in the 1500s. #NewMexico 32312
Matison W. McCool @matwmccool.bsky.social · 06/09/2026“First — That the king is not to be trusted without being looked after, or in other words, that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.” 021
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If you think “healthcare economics” (in the United States no less, good god) is a real science then you’re probably also an expert in transvestigations, phrenology, and race science 1156387
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This is laughable --- "reporting says", well yes, these reporters did a bang-up job anthropomorphizing the system they are talking about, and obfuscating the responsibility that OpenAI holds here. bsky.app/profile/mims... Some examples: 15521171
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolTom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop. 3346831900
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolAltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 03/09/2026The actual author of this shit never identifies themselves. They are placing the blame for this bullshit on those guys and théir affiliated schools to make the paper look legit. If you know one of these scientist, please alert them to this. If they do not push back, they will lose everything! 38920
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/09/2026Let me say as loudly as I can to all the Europeans on here who have been rightly appalled watching the Trump regime’s third-country removals: Your government has been watching, too, and they like what they see. 82480864
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolAlex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026With 22 out of 24 Ontario colleges having published their financial statements, we can have a good look at the annus horribilus of 2025-26. Sector-wide: Total fee income down 43% (about $2bn) Total income down 30% (about $2.3 bn) Net margin went from +8% to -3% (625M surplus to $160M deficit)2 2177
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Since "AGI" is in the news, a few items from the archive. 1/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social, June 3, 2025:techpolicy.pressThe Myth of AGIAlex Hanna and Emily M. Bender write that claims of "Artificial General Intelligence" are a cover for abandoning the current social contract. 47222
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolRep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Last week we asked the State of New Mexico key questions about Project Jupiter’s water use. Here is what we heard back. 1017548
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolSource New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 31/08/2026Tina Cordova, founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Monday in hopes of convincing global leaders to stop nuclear weapons tests like the one that sickened generations of her family in New Mexico. sourcenm.com/2026/08/31/d...sourcenm.comDownwinders advocate Tina Cordova calls for nuclear disarmament in United Nations speech • Source New MexicoCordova addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York City as part of the International Day against Nuclear Tests. 01910
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/08/2026Yes this. But also... Harris county. But that's every election.🤷🏿♂️ Texas has the most Black voters in the USA. Harris county has the most Black voters in the state of Texas. Only Cook (IL), King's (NY), and Wayne (MI) have more Black voters in the US. So US voter suppression always targets Harris. 6233135
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolMapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026We’re not changing it. 17536228211514
Reposted by Matison W. McCoolStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/08/2026OHIO! America deserves a Congress that will Stand Up for Science, and fight against the Trump admin's war-on-science. That's why we are phone banking for Brian Poindexter, OH-7, to unseat incumbent Max Miller. Join us, Saturday, August 29th from 1-3PM EST: zurl.co/qkmulzurl.coPhone Banking for Brian Poindexter, OH-7As you may know, Stand Up for Science has endorsed Brian Poindexter for Congress in Ohio’s 7th District. He's exactly who we need in Washington: a working class, pro-science, pro-union advocate for wo... 03813