@kateclancy
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. 🍉
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job
On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
Hey! Wanna know the difference between 1926 and 2026? Read my book!
(Rhetoric of the bad guys still same)
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it. On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned. Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.
What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right. "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
Young authors writing older characters: 70 is not that old. Pls drop the nostalgia for Elvis & fear of smart phones. A 70-yo just left her corporate job a year ago & has been on the internet longer than you have. She isn’t afraid to drive on the freeway, she’s commuted for decades. 🙄
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A country that always defends human rights and international law, like Spain, earns the respect of the entire world, as has happened in recent weeks.”
“What if a university president had taken the conservative critique seriously long before Trump recaptured the White House—would it have made a difference? We have a natural experiment to test that question: Johns Hopkins. And we know what happened: it didn’t help.”
It's unforgivable. Most places around here have halted care for under 18s.
Still trying a few last places in state - but I can definitely try out of state later. Just enraging that I am in a state supposedly with protections and our doctors are cowards.
Where is Dr. Shore - what clinic/system? Not sure I've gotten that name. Happy to call and try!
Chanda I cannot get a fucking CONSULTATION for top surgery for my adult child in ILLINOIS. The absolute cowardice and lack of care for trans kids and adults - despite the fact they all know where this leads - is unforgivable.
I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves
I live in Illinois. A blue state supposedly with protections and supportive governor. I shouldn't have to call people in Minnesota and I'm certainly not trying Ohio.
As trans rights go, so does access to healthcare for all. Can't selectively cut off access to key hormones and reproductive medicine. You got thyroid disease, hormonal imbalance? Tough shit. Hormones are getting regulated harder than weed and alcohol at this point. 🩺 🧪
I hear this refrain CONSTANTLY.
Before Dobbs it was “no one cares about abortion.”
Now it’s “fallen off the radar.”
And yet…the number of people getting abortions is even higher.
So whose radar are we talking about?
Can I tell you how absolutely fucking betrayed I feel by blue state doctors right now? Working my way down the list of those who supposedly do top surgery ON ADULTS and even those will no longer even do consultations on people under 19.
FUCK your cowardice and the harm it does to my son.
Personally, I find these comparisons a bit grand, and am skeptical that A.I. will bring about two hundred years’ worth of economic and cultural transformation in just a couple of decades, as Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, who is among Silicon Valley’s more careful C.E.O.-prognosticators, has suggested it might. But I also don’t know that slowing the rate of data center construction will stop A.I. from introducing machine hallucinations into the conduct of war; from destabilizing employment patterns by bringing about widespread layoffs, and contorting surviving kinds of work, too; from polluting the internet with slop; from interfering with education; from making dating an exchange between chatbots; and from turning what we call writing into something extruded by prompting, and moviemaking or music into things done entirely within a machine.
Pretty disappointing and weird piece from @dwallacewells.bsky.social here dismissing opposition to data centres in the US as hollow "NIMBYISM" or at best a second-order reflection of anxieties about AI
No chance communities have reasonable concerns, not possible.
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And this was a strategy used by Israel against Gazans first
www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
We can hold two truths at once.
Hegseth saying "we, of course, don't target civilians" a day after he said there are "no stupid rules of engagement." If anyone ever needed a trip to the Hague, it's that guy.
It seems irrelevant? The government and Anthropic seem to admit that they integrated Claude into a targeting tool in a breathless WashPo piece about how they were able to hit so many targets so quickly. It's not an appropriate use of LLMs period whether or not THIS incident was Claude provided.
Right, I think these are the two relevant sources on which this is based, but it's not clear if there's a link between them
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I know this is only 1 of at least 1000 atrocious war crimes in recent memory, but the fact that Claude, which is supposedly the "less evil" genAI, is responsible for the death of all those little girls, should really get the folks insisting "ooh Dario is totes better than Sam" to STFU.
100 girls are dead because of generative AI