Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD: The Real Story of Menstruation. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
Kate Clancy
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"Belfast burned this week. The direct culprits were racist thugs who set fire to homes they believed migrants lived in... We have a word for this: it is a pogrom.
@owenjones.bsky.social on how the British media and political elites are fueling anti-immigrant violence zeteonews.co.uk/p/belfast-ri...
"We’re publishing this blog post to explain our decision to refer to Delaney Hall as a “concentration camp” and clarify the term’s meaning." This is incredibly important. jerseybee.org/2026/06/11/w...
BREAKING: SCOTUS denies Alabama's request to let it proceed with the nitrogen gas execution of Jeffery Lee that was scheduled for tonight. Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch note their dissent.
Jeffery Lee will not be killed tonight.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-ni...
fascinating story that cites research by @dmimno.bsky.social & team—got me wondering whether “Elias Thorne” is the “Etaoin Shrdlu" of LLMs—i.e. an artifact of the machine’s technical function that readers/users invest with symbolic meaning?
So this happened. "A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casualties" www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
Here's the full article for those interested. Insanely bleak stuff, I don't think I'll ever be able to look at the Pokemon franchise the same way again
dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...
This is so perfectly said. Much like when we rely on others' interpretations of our sources for our analysis, when we rely on society's presets to determine what is and is not political, we are actually reinforcing the often inequitable status quo.
The term describes facilities where targeted groups are held without due process under inhumane conditions.
jerseybee.org
A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casu...
The Flytrap is one of the few pieces of indie media I can choose to pay to read a single yet extremely well-written article instead of having to justify yet another subscription that I'll forget to cancel until money's tough.
its why i call each article "the best $2 i ever spent" because it IS
Zeteo UK
Ben Werdmuller
"People think scientists aren’t political, but... the problem is that the very nature of our training teaches us to self-censor, that believing our work is objective is built into our incentive structures, that we are forced to compartmentalize our political perspective away from our scholarship."
Ryan Cordell
Social Media Lab
Chris Geidner
Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG WORLD 2026
"People think scientists aren’t political, but... the problem is that the very nature of our training teaches us to self-censor, that believing our work is objective is built into our incentive structures, that we are forced to compartmentalize our political perspective away from our scholarship."
The NAACP is asking Black collegiate players to not sign with schools in states that pass redistricting maps that diminish the Black vote.
The same should be asked for teams traveling to the U.S for the World Cup. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Who makes the first stand?
buttondown.com
Vincent is a pen name bro 🐸
Dr. Cara Berg Powers
Kate Clancy
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Kate Clancy
something strange is haunting large language models... a character that's broken out of the LLMs and now authors books, sells albums, and shows up in fake news sites www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
NEW: Alabama has gone to SCOTUS seeking an order that would allow it to kill Jeffery Lee with nitrogen gas today. The docket will be 25A1381.
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
