Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)

Yeah, it's definitely a "Middle East" problem, and not colonial intervention and violence, genocide, ecocide, exploitation of resources, dispensational premillennialism, absurd Sykes-Picot land borders, the fossil fuel lobby, or anything else. It's just us. We're the problem.

Magnificent reply.

Someone asked on one of the auctions if I was afraid of losing a sale because I was so very out as a queer person and my response was no, because pretty things don't belong on ugly hearts, and I wouldn't put a diamond on a pig either.

talks as if my 4yo hired an attorney to challenge our rule against continuing to spray the hose for more than a couple minutes after the plants are watered

It's funny how they talk about "hatred of AI" like it's a category of bigotry rather than consumer preference

A lot to think about there, random guy online. Let me just check your bio real quick.

HAHAHAHA I guess his product has already addled his brain.

Nearly every synagogue hosts speakers who don’t pass antizionist standards & congregants have very little say over it short of leaving their house of worship, & there are few alternatives.

But I guarantee every church could say the same & no one is demanding Christians apply this level of scrutiny.

🎙️ Did you miss Episode 3 of the APS podcast, Useful Knowledge? Tune in to hear from @joycechaplin.bsky.social about the life and work of Benjamin Franklin including his pivotal invention, the Franklin Stove.

🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://bit.ly/4r3au1p
or Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/45oTgmS

I did indeed miss it; looking forward to listening in!

Greetings! Since I’m a historian of science, I thought my first post in this space should celebrate the cyanometer, the device Alexander von Humboldt (among others) used to determine just how blue any sky actually is

"Even when we believe we are free, we can still be haunted."

This piece by @rosasparks.bsky.social is your food for the day.

A company being awarded UK Government contracts👇🏻

This is intriguing! @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social might be interested to hear about this book, too (if she doesn't know it already).

Thank you @alexwoodroe.com!! This book scared the (figurative) pants off me.

Opinion | Why Voters Might Finally Blame Trump for Rising Costs

Stay classy, 🇺🇸. “Voters may not prioritize the deaths of schoolchildren in Iran [or] the deaths of U.S. service members …. But they will notice if they go to the gas station & gas has gotten a lot more expensive & they have trouble paying their bills.” 🤦‍♀️ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/o...

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What a cutie!

Netflix Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere Theroux's head in the grip of a muscular arm

"Casually wretched, expertly monetized" is how I would describe the manosphere after watching Theroux's very good but depressing documentary. Misogyny and lack of an ethical and moral code make money, ergo are allowed and encouraged. Disgusting.

Thank you for watching it so that (perhaps) we don't have to; it sounds important but depressing.

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To be clear, I don't know of anything happening! I just hope it will. 😀 Some other translation deals have been signed, and one of the Chinese eds came out in January, but no Portuguese-language deal as yet. (If you know any editors or publishers for translated books, feel free to point them my way!)

Pleased to learn about your book! - and you and @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, author of VANISHED: An Unnatural History of Extinction, might like to know about each other's work if you don't already.

100%. And the number of governments selling humanity to these people is jaw-dropping.

Critical Perspectives on "AI" in Education French Postcard, ca. 1901, "In the Year 2000," Wikimedia

#academicsky folks might wish to attend the free CSU-San Bernardino webinars on various upcoming Mondays (including the next two Mondays) or to catch recordings of previous events in the series 'Critical Perspectives of "AI" in Education'.
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sites.google.com/csusb.edu/cr...

"...(e.g., racism, xenophobia, classism, ableism, and sexism) remain widespread within the movement to build AGI, resulting in systems that harm marginalized groups and centralize power, while using the language of “safety” and “benefiting humanity” to evade accountability."
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Gebru and Torres argue "that the normative framework that motivates much of this goal [to develop AGI] is rooted in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition of the twentieth century. As a result, many of the very same discriminatory attitudes that animated eugenicists in the past..."
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A link to a pdf of @timnitgebru.bsky.social & @xriskology.bsky.social's "The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence."
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🧪 #AI #technology 🗃

Polite society talks (as Gramsci would recognise) about 'maintaining trust in the rule of law' as though that were more important than the law meriting trust.

But when things go wrong - when judges shut people out of decisions that affect them and accept plainly false evidence - this must be said.

Oh, FFS, Bernie!