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Labour are scrapping the 1824 Vagrancy Act. This does decriminalise rough sleeping, but it also repeals a statue that directly targeted itinerent Romani people. Although not meantioned by name the act targeted their ways of making a living as well as 1/? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Please stop saying ICE agents are “wearing masks” They’re wearing face coverings. Gaitors. The anti-mask rhetoric has caused untold harm to disabled people. Mask bans have already been enacted in many places. We must fight for our right to continue wearing medical masks & respirators.

submitted 13 days ago • 54 comments

Between Greta Thunberg and her fellow activists being kidnapped by Israel and Trump turning LA into his personal war zone, I hope people realise that protest, no matter how peaceful, will always be met with violence by dying empires.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

NEW from me: A decision is imminent in three of the four cases that will determine whether individual health information for legal reproductive care remains protected by a 2024 federal rule under HIPAA, including a case in Texas before the same judge who tried to revoke FDA approval of mifepristone.

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An Australian journalist was shot with what’s been reported as a rubber bullet while covering immigration protests in LA. 9News US correspondent Lauren Tomasi was hit in the leg by a non-lethal round fired by an officer in riot gear. Footage shows the officer turn toward the cameras before firing.

submitted 14 days ago • 124 comments

Greta Thunberg knew that something like this would happen--that she and the rest of the team would be kidnapped by Israeli forces. But she knew that her presence would increase global awareness of the genocide in Gaza. That is courage. Brava. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

not only do i not support this, i dont support the dutch's right to exist as people outside of zoos

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out. www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

Researchers recently caught Meta using tactics that one expert called similar to those of digital crooks to secretly compile logs of people’s web browsing on Android devices. Here are a few ways to safeguard your digital privacy:

submitted 16 days ago • 83 comments

Disappointing to see Harvard Med School go even farther than Harvard College in capitulating to the administration by erasing their statement in support of health equity, renaming one of their diversity offices, and absorbing another into the Office of Student Affairs. Shameful.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

This is really brilliant, accompanying ProPublica's story on how AI tagged a bunch of contracts for elimination. www.propublica.org/article/insi...

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

look, I'm all for weeding but this is fucking unconscionable: "Even worse: weeks previously, student assistants – part-time hires – had been asked to manually scratch the surfaces of hundreds of DVDs with penknives, rendering all of them inoperable."

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

the president wont see your cheap dunks against jeffery epstein . But your friends who have ties to state sponsored pedophilia will

submitted 17 days ago • 105 comments

I very rarely say this about my province, but Quebec has passed a good law. Revenge porn is already a serious criminal offence everywhere in Canada, but it’s still extremely difficult to get images/video removed from platforms. This will help immensely to fix that.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

How embarrassing for New Zealand. This was such a great moment in democracy. What a shame.

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

@danc.bsky.social Just saw this and thought it might be useful to teachers - sharing just in case. linguistlist.org/issues/36/17...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

submitted 18 days ago • 107 comments

5 yr Postdoc at Edinburgh - how and why digital participation is transforming experience of warfare. Data Viz, NLP, text & data mining, principally related to Russian war against Ukraine.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I love sites like bsky because they fulfill the basic human desire to say things just to say them

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

The Onion does not use AI in any way. Our newspaper is proudly made by actual living people. AI makes bad, boring shit, and people make art. Subscribe to us instead: membership.theonion.com

submitted 18 days ago • 82 comments

We are hiring a dream team of doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows in applied sociolinguistics, education and related fields to work on "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan" @uni-hamburg.de www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I'm biased, but this report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025. It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

At 95 years old, Catherine Kuehn became a world-record-holding powerlifter. The short documentary “Strong Grandma” follows her as she prepares for what may be her final competition. Watch here.

submitted 19 days ago • 19 comments

"GenAI can simulate all of the steps: it can summarize readings, pull out key concepts, draft text, and even generate ideas for discussion. But that would be like going to the gym and asking a robot to lift weights for you."

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

It turns out that letting a machine someone else owns do all your thinking for you means that your very process of thought can be enshittified into a glorified ad feed. Who would have guessed this was going to happen, except everyone?

submitted 48 days ago • 8 comments

Lynda Sayce plays a piece of lute music that was recently discovered in an archival document at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Since the handwritten lute tablature was folded and reused as scrap paper, it's problaby the first time in 400 years that this music is heard.

submitted 29 days ago • 32 comments

Nicht alles ist schlecht in Bayern. Immerhin.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Ms. Rachel is the closest analogue to Mr. Rogers active today. Imagine if Mr. Rogers was saying this about what apartheid was doing to children, and mainstream instititions were trying to tell everyone that made him racist against Afrikaners. That is essentially what is happening right now.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

It is entirely possible to make clothing from spider silk. It has been done before and it could be done again. So far, however, no one has been able to make spider silk garments profitable at scale they way they have with silk moth silk. Spiders say "fuck capitalism". :-D

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

the don’t ask don’t tell collection

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

not to be histrionic but I kind of feel like the confluence of Trumpism, algorithmic social media, and LLMs have placed language and the fundamental proposition that words have meaning under unprecedented strain and it’s freaking me out more than a bit

submitted 23 days ago • 44 comments

if you're still offline, stay offline

submitted 23 days ago • 38 comments

The Trump administration is trying to negotiate with elite universities to strike a "deal." They're feeling the need for a political win after public opinion is in Harvard's corner (much to their surprise). www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

submitted 23 days ago • 103 comments

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

submitted 142 days ago • 46 comments

Today is the anniversary of the death of Dr. George Tiller — a courageous abortion provider who was murdered at his church. Dr. Tiller’s death was a horrific act. He should still be with us today. May his memory continue to guide our conscience to trust in the dignity of choice.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The terrifying reality Trump's megabill creates for trans people by Katelyn Burns is a must read!

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How can corpus linguistics enhance law? Dr Adrian Hemler (@uni-konstanz.de) explains in this new Language-on-the-Move post (Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers’ Network - LLIRN lecture) www.languageonthemove.com/legal-corpus...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

ITS NOT THE DRUGS FAULT ELON IS A FASCIST ITS HIS FUCKING FAULT THE WAY YALL TALK ABOUT DRUG USERS GENERALLY IS NASTY. begging people to kill the cop in their heads.

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This is one of the best mainstream pieces of A.I. criticism I've ever read, and it is somehow on CNN. @amorrow.bsky.social is far ahead

submitted 23 days ago • 24 comments

And even if gay marriage wasn't going to be the next domino to fall, standing up for trans people would still be the right thing to do. You're either for human rights whether it affects you personally, or you're not.

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