Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

There can be enormous power in calling things what they are. Sometimes one person in a position to name something for everyone else can clarify things enormously.

"Journalists often use the words 'unsubstantiated' or 'uncorroberated' when referring to the allegations victims have levied against powerful men, like Trump. Instead of saying these women’s accounts are not corroborated, maybe it’s time we say they were not investigated in spite of clear patterns."

new rule: if a university denied someone tenure, or let them go because it canceled their classes, or has shut down the department or program they used to teach in, that university's PR department forfeits the right to put out a celebratory statement when that person wins a Nobel

Jesus. I guess we can assume it isn't trained on siloed data. 😬

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

This is what working on digital security guides for ActivistChecklist.org feels like every day...

Moulton: This is madness! Woke 2.0!! Voters: *turns and look at a trans woman* Trans woman: *stern eyed, crooks corner of her mouth in a wintry half smile, lifts her chin, and gives the barest of nods* Voters: Madness? This!! Is!! MASSACHUSETTS!!! *kicks Moulton into a pit*

what a time to be alive (derogatory)

"The violation of xenia and its consequences is one of the central preoccupations of Homer’s Odyssey, but whereas Homer treats this violation of xenia largely as an individual sin, Nolan transforms it into a civilizational one.” @bretdevereaux.bsky.social with the review I’ve been waiting for.

Over 800 wildfires are burning across Canada right now. Canada also holds more than a quarter of the world's boreal forest and is warming at twice the global average rate. The smoke is the part getting attention. Here is everything else. 🧵

This is getting much more serious. Please limit your time outdoors please stay informed about the wildfire smoke and where it is headed. SHARE THIS MAP. I have such a bad headache and we live in one of the black spots. It's BARELY begun, here. I don't know what we are gonna do on Friday. 🥲

Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)

I don't know who needs to know this, but having just learned there's places ACs are illegal for bs reasons: if you have a working fireplace, you theoretically could vent the waste heat of a portable AC out the chimney. That's what it's for, after all. Make sure the flue is open.

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

🚨🚨resource shared by Biff on XTwitter for both respiratory & gastro pathogen trends in the USA: "The BIOFIRE syndromic trends page is a good resource, for now: syndromictrends.com These are current U.S. positivity rates:" src: x.com/Biff234523/s...

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

The odds are better than normal that whoever's on the ballot as the Democrat in your district this November will win. So it's important this primary season to make sure that whoever that person is, they're committed to an aggressive agenda of reform and accountability once they take office.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people. The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"People said X to you but it's really a euphemism for Y" will print money for you your entire career (no matter what you do)

so i don't live there now but i am From Philly, it's meaningfully part of me even 20+ years out and i'm not into hockey but this guy has transcended mere hockey mascot, imo. i've been thinking about this kind of treatment for him basically since go & especially since they doubled down on the flag-

So apparently white Americans in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars so ICE agents waste time pulling them over. They call it ICE fishing. 🧊 🎣

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

CV Families' wins at the UK Covid Inquiry How the covid inquiry was educated about preventing airborne transmission is an example for other clean air campaigners @cv_cev open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

every time some tech psycho giddily says unemployment could hit 30% soon I'm like ok man and then what. what happens after that usually. how about I give you fifteen minutes to skim wikipedia and then you can get back to me. its fine i'll wait

Why the culture of BSky is terrible: Person 1: "Huh, this horrible person doing horrible things is doing them in the a way similar to this other historical horrible person, which is interesting & possibly informative." Persons 2-n: "Oh my god how dare you demand I empathize with a monster?!?!"

Theological Torment Nexus.