Joy Reeber 🦄

Next up, it'll be serfdom

“the cost of gas doubling is a small price to pay” is an incredibly funny thing to say as the head of a political movement that in many ways is still built on a nationwide psychosis triggered by having to go about four weeks without a haircut six years ago.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

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This reminds me of that line I saw someone say once (which rang true) that something that makes Trump uniquely able to connect with low-information voters is that he is a low-information voter.

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

So admittedly I think some folks might need to remember that for a lot of academics the first real interaction we directly have had with "AI" writ broadly was either a) our laziest students trying to cheat or b) whole swathes of our profession being gutted by these kids who don't know anything.

Once again, I am begging the TV/movie industry to stop only ever bothering to write shows about colleges/universities & professors that only ever involve inappropriate sexual relationships with students on campus.

If you think trump is risking “world war 3” here as bad and as transnational as it is/gonna get, if I had to analogize it to a world war, I would absolutely not compare it to the second. We are part of a collapsing empire starting bloodbaths for brain dead mad king reasons where…

The constituency of Americans who see DEI as detrimental to the country is vanishingly small, the sort of constituency that can easily be ignored if politicians want to ignore it.

It's simple really, it's because he faced no real accountability for his actions.

For International Woman’s Day, a thread.

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

I would argue that this is not WORSE than murdering a puppy but my god it is so much fucking weirder.

the guy conducting a war does a daily presser about how he doesn't follow any rules and how he loves war crimes and then a school ends up bombed, hard to say how it happened

ending her career lying about an orwell quote while the entire room is getting news notifications about how she’s been fired and clearly doesn’t know it, perfect

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

today’s guy was a 32 year old DACA kid. they scooped him up for possession last August and sent him to ICE detention in Arizona where he contracted COVID. like probably 3/4ths of these people, it says ICE never officially reported a cause of death and it’s still under investigation. Jesus Christ

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

if you were to write a prophecy of the future back in 2000 that "in 2026, President Donald John Trump has launched a war on Iran with Israel after previously attempting a coup to stay in power in 2020", people would think you've gone insane

I think AI bros maybe need to start taking some classes in Medieval philosophy. Because they are making the same arguments for the consciousness of AI as Anselm and Abelard made for the existence of God.

praying enough of them do this for mainstream media to finally pick up “transphobia is a losing political position for Democrats” as a narrative they can no longer ignore, since it will only become real to the Democratic Party itself once that happens

The difference between "terrorism" and war without rules of engagement cannot be found with a quantum tunneling microscope. It doesn't exist.

9/11 was war without rules of engagement. What Hegseth & Trump et al are doing is inviting more 9/11s.

trust me you do not want to go here, like not even a little bit

A quote from me - “it’s pretty insulting to see scholarship used this way when the academic humanities are currently under attack from every possible angle — as though the actual people who do the thinking and produce the scholarship are reducible to their work itself, and can be removed entirely from the equation”

Went on record saying, essentially, “AI sucks, fund the humanities” today

Hey, remember how we let a nazi near-trillionaire annihilate the US state capacity? I know it was a whole year ago, but it turns out that this has consequences beyond "murdering 14 million people by ending USAID" (which apparently no one cared about).

I'm an editor with twenty years of experience spanning genres, incl. academia, journalism, etc. and I will be a forgotten footnote in the history of the world as the sun burns its last before I manage to spell "bureaucracy" correct on the first try.

Every editor was one sworn enemy word, right?

They’re doing what?! This is the future some Star Trek holodeck episodes warned us about…

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

The revealed preference of the American people is that you can use the power of the American state to kill as many people as you want as long as we don't get our hands dirty and we keep our bodies to a minimum, and also that if you stop a war the press will hound you to the ends of the earth