Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 10hNo, this is a person who thinks they're great at their job, but is actually terrible. 110
Reposted by Cate ElandAlyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 11hObligatory reminder that private/voucher schools can refuse to take disabled students (or any students they deem will drag down their numbers) and in most states are not required to offer or honor IEP accomodations. 2317
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 11hWhat is the term for the opposite of imposter syndrome? 310
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026To be honest, the Chevy brand itself is the dealbreaker for me. I spent a lot of hot afternoons in mechanics' shops in my younger years because of Chevys. If I'm planning to drive a car for at least a decade, I'm not buying one that's going to be in the shop all the time after 3 years. 130
Reposted by Cate ElandBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.nytimes.comInside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations. 152459721
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"He's trying to build relationships like Venezuela." Trump kidnapped the Venezuelan president and threatened to do the same to the replacement if they didn't have over the oil. Now no one can tell us where the money from Venezuelan oil is going. 010
Reposted by Cate ElandCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging. 252872755
Reposted by Cate ElandAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 05/10/2026@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Strange to think that that -- counting national and state elections in 2024 and 2024 and prbly 2028 -- Reps will have spent over a _billion_ dollars on ads about transgender/NB people. In a backwards way, I think it shows just how deep and powerful who/what we are is. 2488
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think this has largely been within the Amish community. There's been a big push to boost vaccination rates since the outbreak began. 020
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026People who are pregnant, give birth, or are post-partum are twice as likely to die in states that have banned abortion as in states that have not, but sure. Roe was an "abstract" interest. (thegepi.org/maternal-mor...) 030
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Alito said, "We have stood up for freedom of speech, which is endangered." How is free speech endangered? And how has he stood up for it, beyond defending the trademarking of hate speech and K-12 students' ability to engage in bigoted harassment of their classmates? www.cbsnews.com/news/samuel-...cbsnews.comThe Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justiceJustice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet. 130
Reposted by Cate ElandStephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans 71229557
Reposted by Cate ElandNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 08/07/2026According to the most rigorous studies, 10.8% of college men perpetrate at least one rape before graduation. This statistic always comes to mind when I see men in power reacting with disgust to the idea that one of their peers could face even a shred of accountability. 51204426
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 03/10/2026...who is ideally positioned--and critically is BEING positioned--as an expert who can help construct the regulations that constrain the industry. Leaving the company does not lower his profile. It elevates it, inside and outside the industry. 050
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 03/10/20264) Robinson isn't a cultist falling on a sword. He's a well-compensated former employee who has hired a PR firm and has the pull to get high visibility doom and gloom op eds that align with the calls for regulation coming from his former bosses. He's a former policy and safety leader... 150
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 03/10/20263) If you look at which companies are pushing for federal regulation vs. market guardrails, the ones who are leading right now are the ones who want the government hammer to come down, not to protect people, but to raise the barrier for entry into the market and seal their own monopoly. 130
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 03/10/20261) After 3 years, he will still have a fair number of shares, and if the company IPOs at ~$1.3 trillion, he's still going to get very rich. 2) Regulatory capture often goes hand in hand with regulatory revolving doors for workers who go back and forth between industry and regulators. 140
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You'll notice that all these former frontier lab employees Chicken Little-ing about AI aren't calling for regulation that protects privacy or civil liberties or the environment. They're calling to raise the regulatory barrier for potential competitors to enter the market. 13010
Reposted by Cate ElandErin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Why are issues like retirement age and the physical toll these jobs can take on the body so rarely mentioned? stevens.house.gov/media/press-...stevens.house.govRep. Haley Stevens Announces Bill to Lower Social Security Age for Americans Who Work With Their HandsWashington, DC — Today, Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11) announced the Blue Collar Social Security Fairness Act, a bill to allow Americans who work in physically demanding jobs to collect ... 51178114
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 03/10/2026He's not worried about IP theft. He's not even really worried about the safety issues AI presents. The hope is that by terrifying people about the future of AI, lawmakers will step in and pass regulatory legislation that effectively limits competition for today's top frontier labs like OpenAI. 1222
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I absolutely think AI companies should be regulated, but those regulations should come in the form of protecting regular people, privacy, civil rights, and the environment, not ensuring a permanent monopoly for OpenAI and Anthropic out of utterly made up panic over a Battlestar Galactica future. 082
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 03/10/2026These "former" frontier lab employees aren't leaving because they've suddenly developed a conscience. They're leaving with PR teams, editorials in major publications, open lines to federal legislators, and enough shares that a trillion dollar IPO will make them outrageously rich. 1123
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Pardon my cynicism, but this is just another move by leading frontier labs to push for regulatory capture that locks in their market share and locks out the possibility for rising competition, while ensuring they get to direct the hand of government regulation in their favor. 152
Reposted by Cate ElandGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 293112944104
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 30/09/2026SCOTUS continues to be a lawless body creating legal cover for Trump based on nothing more than naked partisanship and racist malice. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...nbcnews.comSupreme Court allows Trump’s ‘third country’ deportation policyIt’s the second time the court has rejected lower court rulings that immigrants must be able to object before being sent to countries where they have no connections. 022
Reposted by Cate ElandKelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable. 393752600
Reposted by Cate ElandJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/20264a. This isn’t rogue. It is a model following the instructions given to it. The genie isn’t to blame for fulfilling a wish in a way you don’t specify. 14318
Reposted by Cate ElandKindra Cotton @kindracotton.com · 28/09/2026Third person arrested in death of Tasia Fortune, as police say hanging was staged Eric Clark, 45, charged with murder as autopsy concludes Fortune was dead days before body discovered in tree: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comThird person arrested in death of Tasia Fortune, as police say hanging was stagedEric Clark, 45, charged with murder as autopsy concludes Fortune was dead days before body discovered in tree 04738
Reposted by Cate ElandColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special. 8371150
Reposted by Cate ElandAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Claude appears to be engaging in academic dishonesty, which could be fireable for a human researcher. But one of AI’s major functions is ethics displacement, a shield that allows cheaters and other bad players to escape accountability. 717776
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My oldest has been diagnosed with ADHD for 6 years. Getting their 504 updated annually and then utilized has been nearly impossible. For the first time ever this year, he had a teacher ask him about it. Most of his middle school teachers the last 3 years didn't know about it unless I told them. 110
Reposted by Cate ElandBaltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 28/09/20265 suicides in 5 weeks. What’s going on at Cyber Command at Fort Meade?buff.ly5 suicides in 5 weeks. What’s going on at Cyber Command at Fort Meade?Five people whose work supported missions at U.S Cyber Command and the National Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade died by suicide within a month of each other this summer. Lawmakers are asking questions... 32826
Reposted by Cate ElandJohn Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026President Trump is a massive liar. It’s why he’s unfit for office, and for every other decent person role. Thank you for this essay and for all of your work, Daniel Dale. @ddale8.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...cnn.comI started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN PoliticsTen years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ... 614547
Reposted by Cate ElandSysfin @sysfin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We gotta ban the whole damn industry. 755898
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 26/09/2026IMO, the fact that Dems did very little about his crimes and dragged their feet on investigations after he left office the first time is no small part of why he's not only back in the Oval Office, but committing even more crimes even more outrageously. 31208
Reposted by Cate ElandEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t. 962297
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's telling that the only demographic focused on in this article is boys under the age of 18 being diagnosed with autism or ADHD, and the people most likely to be harmed by imposed delays in assessment are those who have already been missed and delayed because they aren't little white boys. 050
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Are you saying the trickle down was the trend line in the graph of workers' year-over-year share of the economy all along? 000
Reposted by Cate ElandMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.axios.comU.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new lowLabor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade. 27730263
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Jensen Huang doesn't know his own zip code not because of AI, but because he's so absurdly rich, he's outsourced virtually every daily activity where an address is required (i.e. paperwork, bills, mundane purchases) to administrative staff who barely get paid enough to afford a 1 bedroom apartment. 3579
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If engineers don't need to know the names of every transistor in a computer, then surely kids don't need to know every letter in the alphabet. AI can just read for them! 110
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026...because for every test score that comes back unchanged, schools are charged $50. As far as I'm concerned, with the STAAR, the fix is in to prove public schools are failing. 010
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Only 1% of students got full credit on the ECR in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades as well. Of course, I wonder how much that has to do with AI scoring. Last year Dallas ISD submitted 450 3rd grade test scores for manual rescoring and 85% resulted in higher scores. Of course, schools limit appeals... 110
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I would love to say this started with AI, but this is pure No Child Left Behind, we-expect-kindergarteners-to-be-able-to-do-opinion-informative-and-narrative-writing-but-spend-only-26-days-teaching-them-letters-and-letter-sounds-so-we-can-test-3rd-graders-on-text-analysis nonsense. 160
Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Honestly, this kind of thinking has infected K-12 education, and I think a major reason kids are struggling with math and reading the way they are is because standards have been pushed down to increase rigor, but the knowledge required to underpin more rigorous standards has been removed. 170
