Christina D
@akasha111182.bsky.social
Writer. Knitter. Science Geek. She/Her. I have Opinions. 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 🏳️🌈 💙💜🩷💉😷
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NEW: A passenger who was contagious with measles passed through Denver International Airport’s B concourse on Dec. 12. The traveler, on an unspecified airline, arrived at gate B45 at about 7:24 p.m. and departed from gate B84 at about 9:41 p.m. that same night
Possible measles exposure at Denver International Airport
The person, who doesn’t live in Colorado, arrived at gate B45 at about 7:24 p.m. on Dec. 12 and departed from gate B84 at about 9:41 p.m.
www.denverpost.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
NEW: A passenger who was contagious with measles passed through Denver International Airport’s B concourse on Dec. 12. The traveler, on an unspecified airline, arrived at gate B45 at about 7:24 p.m. and departed from gate B84 at about 9:41 p.m. that same night
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The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.
SFWA members and general SFF community:
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.
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mentioned in this thread but over the past couple years I have taken to sending people delivery gift cards when things are going on -- as thread notes, takes off burden of cooking but also requires very little coordination (i.e. not intrusive) and works remotely
A friend had a death in his family & our other friends wanted to do something for him but weren't sure what. My advice was to not say "let us know if we can do anything" having been in a similar situation. The person is overwhelmed. Don't put the burden on them. Instead tell them what you can do 1/
December 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
mentioned in this thread but over the past couple years I have taken to sending people delivery gift cards when things are going on -- as thread notes, takes off burden of cooking but also requires very little coordination (i.e. not intrusive) and works remotely
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Get hard copies. Especially of queer art, books, music, films. We’ve got to be archivists whether we want to be or not. I’m not going to see more things I love burn.
December 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Get hard copies. Especially of queer art, books, music, films. We’ve got to be archivists whether we want to be or not. I’m not going to see more things I love burn.
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
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Die perfekte Weihnachtsbaum-Deko existiert nic...
December 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Die perfekte Weihnachtsbaum-Deko existiert nic...
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also, while I know this is true of physics, engineering, chemistry, and biology--I have to imagine it's true for other academic fields as well:
PAPERS
ALREADY
HAVE
FUCKING
SUMMARIES.
That's what the FUCKING ABSTRACT IS!
PAPERS
ALREADY
HAVE
FUCKING
SUMMARIES.
That's what the FUCKING ABSTRACT IS!
December 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
also, while I know this is true of physics, engineering, chemistry, and biology--I have to imagine it's true for other academic fields as well:
PAPERS
ALREADY
HAVE
FUCKING
SUMMARIES.
That's what the FUCKING ABSTRACT IS!
PAPERS
ALREADY
HAVE
FUCKING
SUMMARIES.
That's what the FUCKING ABSTRACT IS!
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DO NOT look at these photos on your phone, it will protect you from the full experience.
I've got it open on my laptop now, and it's like staring straight into the screaming heart of a supernova made entirely of home decor warehouse contents.
I've got it open on my laptop now, and it's like staring straight into the screaming heart of a supernova made entirely of home decor warehouse contents.
I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 - 3 beds/3.5 baths
(SW Michigan MLS) For Sale: 3 beds, 3.5 baths ∙ 5000 sq. ft. ∙ 414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ∙ $7,000,000 ∙ MLS# 25062388 ∙ This Downtown Ann Arbor penthouse stands among the finest residence...
www.redfin.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
DO NOT look at these photos on your phone, it will protect you from the full experience.
I've got it open on my laptop now, and it's like staring straight into the screaming heart of a supernova made entirely of home decor warehouse contents.
I've got it open on my laptop now, and it's like staring straight into the screaming heart of a supernova made entirely of home decor warehouse contents.
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My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
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We have 526 scientists signed up for spring semester. We try to get that to about 1000 scientists before unleashing the teachers on the database. Wanna connect a class of kids with science this spring? Sign up!
Alright scientists! It's that time again!
Time to sign up for Skype a Scientist's spring semester.
Want to get matched with a classroom in 2026?
Sign up now 🥰
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Time to sign up for Skype a Scientist's spring semester.
Want to get matched with a classroom in 2026?
Sign up now 🥰
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We have 526 scientists signed up for spring semester. We try to get that to about 1000 scientists before unleashing the teachers on the database. Wanna connect a class of kids with science this spring? Sign up!
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Here is your Librarian verified easy ICE in Columbus resource guide, collected from several trusted sources.
You can report their presence here:
iceout.org/en/
stopicealert.ddns.net
And here are some infographics to keep handy:
You can report their presence here:
iceout.org/en/
stopicealert.ddns.net
And here are some infographics to keep handy:
December 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Here is your Librarian verified easy ICE in Columbus resource guide, collected from several trusted sources.
You can report their presence here:
iceout.org/en/
stopicealert.ddns.net
And here are some infographics to keep handy:
You can report their presence here:
iceout.org/en/
stopicealert.ddns.net
And here are some infographics to keep handy:
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Yes! The future is not already settled. In fact, actual serious people (not tech bros or acolytes) are majorly calling into question every aspect of "AI" on a deep level. I compiled 18 pages worth of links to help resist "AI is inevitable" propaganda: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
December 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Yes! The future is not already settled. In fact, actual serious people (not tech bros or acolytes) are majorly calling into question every aspect of "AI" on a deep level. I compiled 18 pages worth of links to help resist "AI is inevitable" propaganda: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.
December 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.
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"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
This episode of #Watson is about a pandemic thawing out of the permafrost and barely anybody is masking. Watson’s surgical mask isn’t fully unfolded. One of the patients took his mask off for his intake. I’m going to have a stroke.
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This episode of #Watson is about a pandemic thawing out of the permafrost and barely anybody is masking. Watson’s surgical mask isn’t fully unfolded. One of the patients took his mask off for his intake. I’m going to have a stroke.
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"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
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Also on "well isn't *spell checking* AI???" smug arguments: Every spell checker on every software I use to write has gotten worse and stupid as more and more ML features have been added. It literally cannot do better than a simple strict check for words not in a dictionary.
December 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Also on "well isn't *spell checking* AI???" smug arguments: Every spell checker on every software I use to write has gotten worse and stupid as more and more ML features have been added. It literally cannot do better than a simple strict check for words not in a dictionary.
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
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more power to any Dean who makes the case that their discipline-specific standard for AI is refusal, and AI refusal will be what they integrate into the curriculum
It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
more power to any Dean who makes the case that their discipline-specific standard for AI is refusal, and AI refusal will be what they integrate into the curriculum
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Also, if I have any trusted friends or friends of friends who knows one of the following languages and is willing to donate time to translate a flyer to help support teachers/trans kids/disabled folks in AB, reach out 🥹
Arabic
Tagalog
Vietnamese
Tigrigna
Yue (Cantonese)
Amharic
Punjabi
Spanish
Urdu
Arabic
Tagalog
Vietnamese
Tigrigna
Yue (Cantonese)
Amharic
Punjabi
Spanish
Urdu
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Also, if I have any trusted friends or friends of friends who knows one of the following languages and is willing to donate time to translate a flyer to help support teachers/trans kids/disabled folks in AB, reach out 🥹
Arabic
Tagalog
Vietnamese
Tigrigna
Yue (Cantonese)
Amharic
Punjabi
Spanish
Urdu
Arabic
Tagalog
Vietnamese
Tigrigna
Yue (Cantonese)
Amharic
Punjabi
Spanish
Urdu
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Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.
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We're at it for the next few hours. Last minute gifts, handmade, by angry queers. Many around $20, free US shipping over $25.
www.peculiarityshop.com
www.peculiarityshop.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We're at it for the next few hours. Last minute gifts, handmade, by angry queers. Many around $20, free US shipping over $25.
www.peculiarityshop.com
www.peculiarityshop.com
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It’s weird how there’s always moves to make fiction more “interactive” with different endings etc. It’s like these people have never seen the same film twice a few years apart and had a completely different reaction. All fiction is interactive. That there’s an audience is the interactive part.
December 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It’s weird how there’s always moves to make fiction more “interactive” with different endings etc. It’s like these people have never seen the same film twice a few years apart and had a completely different reaction. All fiction is interactive. That there’s an audience is the interactive part.
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Trench coats informally banned from every high school since 98 but the suicide robot is installed on your school laptop automatically
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Trench coats informally banned from every high school since 98 but the suicide robot is installed on your school laptop automatically
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Placeholders are supposed to be crude MSPaint drawings made with 0 effort by a programmer! They're supposed to look like dogshit because then you know to replace them!
Sorry I think using AI for placeholders is also bad
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know you only care about finished art but placeholder art also needs to be made by a human being who also needs to be paid for that
But placeholder midjourney slop cuts that artist out
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know you only care about finished art but placeholder art also needs to be made by a human being who also needs to be paid for that
But placeholder midjourney slop cuts that artist out
December 13, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Placeholders are supposed to be crude MSPaint drawings made with 0 effort by a programmer! They're supposed to look like dogshit because then you know to replace them!