Reposted by R.E.WardCN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There a very few books that deserve being called 'vital', but Sara Ahmed's 'Complaint' is one of them. 0205
Reposted by R.E.Wardhammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out 733488738
Reposted by R.E.WardCirc @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going. 2574524370
Reposted by R.E.WardRacheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Imagine if anyone with any power stopped being a coward. 016258
Reposted by R.E.WardLightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 24/09/2026This week on LIGHTSPEED: "Alterverse" by Sanjana Raj www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/alte...lightspeedmagazine.comAlterverse - Lightspeed MagazineAsha is eight pages into the book before the words disappear. There are still hundreds of pages before the end of the book, so they must have had a record of the length of the volume, but lost the tex... 054
Reposted by R.E.WardMicah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026are you fucking serious newsom and bonta should be raked over the fucking coals for settling 271834436
Reposted by R.E.WardMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026vote for me and my platform of chilly rainy days being only for cozy reading and napping 445579
Reposted by R.E.Wardjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign. 884016698
Reposted by R.E.WardAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's Monday. Please enjoy this short story about a graduate student whose clitoris disappears after the Second Comstock Laws go into effect. 111431
Reposted by R.E.Wardmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/09/2026great news! | patreon.com/lubchansky 111730349
Reposted by R.E.WardChristopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There's an attempt out there to REshape the media image of recent US gov't cuts, as hyper-rational, even humane, BUT once the totality is taken into view it is impossible to make that case, no matter how much the US fed deficit is your central issue - just consider USAID apnews.com/article/usai...apnews.comWhat to know about USAID and the deadly impacts of US foreign aid cutsThe foreign aid landscape has changed dramatically since U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration dissolved the United States Agency for International Development, once the world’s largest humanit... 38832
Reposted by R.E.WardCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026The very cool thing about this is that there are some kinds of brain cells we weren't able to grow before because we didn't understand they were different, and now that we've figured out that they are different, we can grow them. 7452117
Reposted by R.E.WardMicah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable 95115102836
Reposted by R.E.WardTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026wow its amazing how much lighter i feel after completing an extremely daunting task that's been weighing on me for months. i guess procrastination really does lead to more stress. good thing i'll definitely remember this for all future daunting tasks 1492994
Reposted by R.E.WardJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026Yeah, I've been a tech nerd for decades but all the "AI" stuff really does feel like "Sooooo we're taking a type of computation that's actually bad at most things and putting it in a whole bunch of stuff to make it work worse because... if we don't the whole economy's going to crash or something?" 44908133
Reposted by R.E.WardMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All. 461583374
Reposted by R.E.WardTyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”orlandosentinel.comDocs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI... 9555422155
Reposted by R.E.WardNathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 17/09/2026So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...techpolicy.pressWhat Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AINathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs? 14415217
Reposted by R.E.WardMicah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026the worst part about this is that a lot of the damage will be permanent by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable what a huge waste 252662642
Reposted by R.E.Wardashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 17/09/2026i feel like a message that is missing in the midterms is that….republicans control everything? it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat. 181248279
Reposted by R.E.WardDan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Kennedy Center joins the Reflecting Pool, Lafayette Park and sort of the White House itself (no tours) where supposed renovations have led to indefinite loss of public access. After taxpayer funded plans/construction, these places are fenced off and closed down, not improved. 32572238
Reposted by R.E.WardR Subramanian (he/him) @rsubramanian.com · 17/09/2026"NPR tracked down equipment and found that some of it was auctioned, donated or thrown in the trash... NASA donated hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of radio communications equipment to Capitol Technology University without the knowledge of the scientists who used it" 8555254
Reposted by R.E.Wardderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story. 381217512539
Reposted by R.E.WardJeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · 16/09/2026the latest episode of SHADOW GOVERNOR DAVE BOLIEK www.wral.com/news/nccapit...wral.comPolitically divided NC court panel upholds GOP takeover of state elections boardThe 2-1 decision by the North Court Court of Appeals, with Republicans in the majority, allows a GOP-backed effort to seize control of elections from Democratic Gov. Josh Stein to stay in place. 063
Reposted by R.E.WardKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/09/2026This is partly an LLM problem and partly an organizational problem. The LLM makes life much, much easier for everyone who wants to just pretend, and much, much harder for everyone who doesn’t. 5435106
Reposted by R.E.WardDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026American Samoans are nationals, but not citizens. Do you know what this distinction means? Neither did they, and the result was they were prosecuted for voting in a local AK election. The good news is that the prosecutions were dropped, but when you hear about voter fraud, its often cases like this. 171125312
Reposted by R.E.WardMicah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026the world would be a much better place if all the cultural cachet and wealth of harry potter had gone to the matrix instead 1758075
Reposted by R.E.WardKaren Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It’s just spite at this point.nytimes.comE.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States. 17114
Reposted by R.E.WardMichael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If Democrats were serious they would go straight for the jugular of the crypto industry as soon as they take power. There’s public policy reasons to do this (name a non-crime use case), but also it cuts off a major artery for Republican support and corruption. 251890327
Reposted by R.E.Wardsirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026they'll do it to you anyway, Dems 0193
Reposted by R.E.WardJulia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 12/09/2026👇 THIS right here. Talarico, Turek, et al ARE THE ONES WHO CHOSE THOSE POSITIONS. if you're afraid those decisions may alienate pro-trans/LGBTQ+ voters, THEN BLAME THEM, NOT US! 6955233
Reposted by R.E.WardBree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12/09/2026Holy shit y'all. 216834
Reposted by R.E.WardHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose. 1344044790
Reposted by R.E.WardHansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 09/09/2026BREAKING: Trump admin proposes major #2030Census changes that would reshape voting maps, including no race & ethnicity questions and excluding non-U.S. citizens without a green card from a count that 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state” www.npr.org/2026/09/09/n...npr.orgTrump officials propose sweeping changes to the census that would reshape voting mapsA Trump census proposal would stop asking about race and exclude millions of U.S. residents from a count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state." 24275172
Reposted by R.E.WardMicah @rincewind.run · 09/09/2026and the thing is I don't even want to do bribes! I am quite happy with my life of Not Doing Crime, actually but I would very much like it if the people with all the money and power were also not doing crime, I think it would be better if they also followed the rules 976138
Reposted by R.E.WardAmanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread. 19571811170
Reposted by R.E.WardKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 08/09/2026One thing I think would be common sense legislation is barring lawmakers from using AI in social media, ads, and all other communications. 219021
Reposted by R.E.WardAlex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 2315731116
Reposted by R.E.WardGA_Brownie @gabrownie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026At 10pm ET last night, there were nearly a half billion birds (that's Billion with a capital B) in flight. It's migration season. Help the birds make it to their winter homes safely. Turn your lights out at night. 🪶 #LightsOut 214853
Reposted by R.E.WardNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I wonder if all R candidates are going to be asked to denounce the guy who attacked Amy Acton. 27858140
Reposted by R.E.Wardprofessor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026them: we need you to get with the program, be expert tech-embracers me: i have a literal PhD in something literally called Science & Technology Studies and i actually think this tech is bad them: not like that (it's almost funny to me. *almost*) 247675
Reposted by R.E.WardMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech! 3504147
Reposted by R.E.WardMother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026You don't have a right to safe drinking water, a US court just ruled. A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.motherjones.comYou don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rulesA Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis. 14916931157
Reposted by R.E.WardMicah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026this is horrifying, unnecessary capitulation by an institution that absolutely knows better than this and both @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @governor.ny.gov should be imposing consequences on mount sinai at the state level as a result 121795403