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Feeling a lot of FOMO about this since I'll be in Melbourne, but if you're in Sydney you should check this out!

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Something I've been feeling a lot lately, but haven't heard much about is the grief that comes with being an early career scientist in America in 2025. I think we all understand that, even if things turn out well, there is no going "back to normal" now. A (sad) thread /1

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

And that’s not the only one! We’ve also got a special #QueersInScience event planned for #Melbourne too! lil’ ol’ me will once again be sharing the panel with these absolute rockstar queer scientists. Gonna be good fun — come along!

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

oh so we should dissent peacefully?? through legitimate channels?? like by being elected to the united states senate and asking questions at a DHS press conference???

submitted 19 hours ago • 15 comments

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 1 day ago • 599 comments

Wikipedia has a chance to be a free, universally recognized, and comprehensive counterpoint to slop, at a time when that is badly needed

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

"We also need to hold our institutions accountable. Just as 19-year-olds are easily lured by automatic essays, university administrators are highly susceptible to the temptations of technology-driven downsizing, big tech donations, and the appearance of being on the cutting edge."

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"Dear Academic. Would you like to spend a year putting together a special issue for our journal? You will provide us with all your contacts and edit the issue for us for free. We will then sell access to the work. In return for your efforts, you will be allowed to read the issue, for no extra cost".

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Something I've been thinking a lot about recently is how powerful abusers don't really need to convince you of any one lie but rather just flood the zone with bullshit to render it "complex" enough that nobody feels confident enough to intervene on behalf of the victim

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

NEW As usual for major news events, disinformation on social media is running unchecked during the ICE protests in LA So people are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT for fact checking The problem is, the bots are making the situation much worse www.wired.com/story/grok-c...

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

I don't think we can discount the idea that one reason the coverage of LA is so bad is a bunch of reporters and pundits have stayed on X telling themselves it doesn't affect them -- but of course it does.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

“The gender-equality paradox entails that countries with more equality have larger gender differences in behavior. Positive associations between equality & gender differences disappear or reverse when accounting for cultural clusters of countries. The paradox appears to be a methodological artifact”

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.

submitted 2 days ago • 210 comments

Terry Moran worked at ABC for 28 years. Now, for calling Stephen Miller “hateful,” (which he 💯 is per his own family), ABC fired him to appease an authoritarian hypocrite who ran on “free speech.” This will have a chilling effect on all journalists. Fourth Estate fails. Authoritarianism advances.

submitted 2 days ago • 230 comments

I’m not blogging at all this month (revising the book manuscript), but if I wasn’t on blogging-hiatus, here’s what I’d be writing: (1) An awful lot of centrist pundit-types built their careers in the ‘10s around writing takes that perform well on algorithmic media.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

BREAKING: Miller reportedly engineered the raids that sparked the protests that have engulfed the city in recent days—likely because he wanted a pretext to send in federal troops. https://trib.al/oM1280f

submitted 2 days ago • 385 comments

the day you can internalize "I like this and I don't care what anyone else thinks about it" is the day you truly become an adult it is the most freeing realization of your life

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

The idea we should behave in such a way that the Trumpists will not portray us as dangerous/ lawless/ violent is a silly idea, because they always portray us that way and no amount of curtseys and rolling over and playing dead will change that. So people might as well speak up and stand strong.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

As usual with these dust-ups she is retreating to the ‘compromise’ position that sporting bodies should make standards about transition. The problem is that THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Standards have been in place for years. Lia Thomas met them! The bigots don’t care.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

It’s so much worse this time. It might not be clear if you don’t live in LA, but the supposed “riots” are tiny. They’re nothing like George Floyd in 2020. Protests are happening in a few blocks downtown and as resistance to specific ICE raids. This is 100% pretense for fascist subjugation.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 2 days ago • 1033 comments

oh man, this one cuts right to the bone

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Anti-trans disinfo runs on fossil fuels, and hating on Trans people is the new "climate is a hoax". An independent analysis of 45 right-wing groups advocating against trans rights found that 80% have received donations from fossil fuel companies or billionaires. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Imagine the Western news media coverage if China had illegally intercepted a humanitarian aid vessel in international waters and Chinese soldiers had taken the 12 unarmed crew captive. The Western media is complicit in Israel's genocide. #Madleen #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

These are con-artists. And I feel like I'm going crazy because so few people recognize them when it used to be a very common skill most people had!

submitted 3 days ago • 100 comments

I am a historian and the consensus as to the start date for Italian fascism is when Mussolini, accused of having his party disappear a leftist member of Parliament, made a speech daring anyone to do anything about it - no one did.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

I'd like to be extremely concerned about the marines being deployed to an American city and the scientific committee that determines vaccine schedules being disbanded, but I'm gonna hold off until the Distraction Knowers give the okay

submitted 3 days ago • 91 comments

One odd thing about Twitter/ Bluesky discourse from my perspective is… I didn’t leave Twitter for Bluesky. I left twitter. Then well over a year later, there was Bluesky, and I joined it. (In between, tried Threads and Mastadon.) If Bluesky disappeared tomorrow I wouldn’t go back to Twitter.

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments