Shel Evergreen 🌈♿️
@shelevergreen.bsky.social
Anti-fascist science writer.
EDS newsletter called Connective Issues (connectiveissues.bsky.social).
Words at @arstechnica @techreview @CanaryMediaInc + more. MIT SciWrite ‘22 + NASW Ed Committee Co-chair
EDS newsletter called Connective Issues (connectiveissues.bsky.social).
Words at @arstechnica @techreview @CanaryMediaInc + more. MIT SciWrite ‘22 + NASW Ed Committee Co-chair
Sickening.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Sickening.
We’re already back down in education over the last decade, and we were already comparatively low. A quick peruse through teacher forums is disturbing. Kids in high school have trouble comprehending basic paragraphs.
I think tech can do great things for humanity, but only if wielded responsibly.
I think tech can do great things for humanity, but only if wielded responsibly.
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
We’re already back down in education over the last decade, and we were already comparatively low. A quick peruse through teacher forums is disturbing. Kids in high school have trouble comprehending basic paragraphs.
I think tech can do great things for humanity, but only if wielded responsibly.
I think tech can do great things for humanity, but only if wielded responsibly.
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Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
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what’s funny (it’s not funny) is how many indie journalists, who—with next to none of the infrastructure propping up the zz’s of the business—not only report incisively on political power but do so without leaving years of embarrassing receipts about their relationships with subjects and sources
November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
what’s funny (it’s not funny) is how many indie journalists, who—with next to none of the infrastructure propping up the zz’s of the business—not only report incisively on political power but do so without leaving years of embarrassing receipts about their relationships with subjects and sources
I was away from the internet for the day and came back to woah
man what the fuck is happening today
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I was away from the internet for the day and came back to woah
this might be the take
Zohran with Trump reminds me of many interactions I’ve had with Boomers where I act normal and they’re like “maybe not all millennials are so bad”
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
this might be the take
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“Jeffrey Epstein is not unique,” writes a child sex trafficking expert. His case is a classic example of how powerful, often wealthy men exploit vulnerable children – and how low prosecution rates, victim-blaming and systemic failures let trafficking persist.
buff.ly/PUxu2b1
#news #Epstein #polisky
buff.ly/PUxu2b1
#news #Epstein #polisky
‘Jeffrey Epstein is not unique’: What his case reveals about the realities of child sex trafficking
Child sex traffickers are typically white, wealthy men who often insulate themselves from detection and charges, according to a sexual exploitation scholar.
buff.ly
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
“Jeffrey Epstein is not unique,” writes a child sex trafficking expert. His case is a classic example of how powerful, often wealthy men exploit vulnerable children – and how low prosecution rates, victim-blaming and systemic failures let trafficking persist.
buff.ly/PUxu2b1
#news #Epstein #polisky
buff.ly/PUxu2b1
#news #Epstein #polisky
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
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Poverty and disability often go together.
It’s difficult to “try harder” your way out of financial problems when you lose your health.
The pull yourselves up by your bootstrap mentality goes out the window if you’re bedbound.
It can happen to anyone at any time.
They aren’t moral failings.
It’s difficult to “try harder” your way out of financial problems when you lose your health.
The pull yourselves up by your bootstrap mentality goes out the window if you’re bedbound.
It can happen to anyone at any time.
They aren’t moral failings.
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Poverty and disability often go together.
It’s difficult to “try harder” your way out of financial problems when you lose your health.
The pull yourselves up by your bootstrap mentality goes out the window if you’re bedbound.
It can happen to anyone at any time.
They aren’t moral failings.
It’s difficult to “try harder” your way out of financial problems when you lose your health.
The pull yourselves up by your bootstrap mentality goes out the window if you’re bedbound.
It can happen to anyone at any time.
They aren’t moral failings.
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This is an amazing fact
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
This is an amazing fact
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The first independent poll of this election has me tied for first place!
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The first independent poll of this election has me tied for first place!
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Larry Summers was corresponding with Epstein in 2019 right up until he was arrested.
So when it was mainstream news that he was a convicted prolific child sex trafficker, Summers was emailing Epstein for advice on how to manipulate his Harvard subordinates into sleeping with him.
So when it was mainstream news that he was a convicted prolific child sex trafficker, Summers was emailing Epstein for advice on how to manipulate his Harvard subordinates into sleeping with him.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Larry Summers was corresponding with Epstein in 2019 right up until he was arrested.
So when it was mainstream news that he was a convicted prolific child sex trafficker, Summers was emailing Epstein for advice on how to manipulate his Harvard subordinates into sleeping with him.
So when it was mainstream news that he was a convicted prolific child sex trafficker, Summers was emailing Epstein for advice on how to manipulate his Harvard subordinates into sleeping with him.
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Today, as a show of respect to Dick Cheney, me and the fellas are invading Iraq.
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Today, as a show of respect to Dick Cheney, me and the fellas are invading Iraq.
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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IDK, I don't really see how you can say "I can't believe something like the Epstein thing would be something people would know about but not say anything about" once you've been through The Catholic Church Scandal, The Sandusky Scandal and The Northeastern Private Schools Scandal
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
IDK, I don't really see how you can say "I can't believe something like the Epstein thing would be something people would know about but not say anything about" once you've been through The Catholic Church Scandal, The Sandusky Scandal and The Northeastern Private Schools Scandal
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The only way to for the public to see complete Epstein files is to leak it. Do it. Now. Anything else is complicit.
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The only way to for the public to see complete Epstein files is to leak it. Do it. Now. Anything else is complicit.
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Ro Khanna at a podium with Marjorie Taylor Greene, just as we all predicted five years ago
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Ro Khanna at a podium with Marjorie Taylor Greene, just as we all predicted five years ago
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me.
I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me.
I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
This is incredibly endearing.
A lot of people have been calling me the
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This is incredibly endearing.
Like in ‘08, these CMBS’s are also wrapped in another level of securities called Collateralized Loan Obligations.
There are also CLOs for Student Loan Asset Backed Securities.
I think the cascade will be far worse than 08’.
There are also CLOs for Student Loan Asset Backed Securities.
I think the cascade will be far worse than 08’.
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Like in ‘08, these CMBS’s are also wrapped in another level of securities called Collateralized Loan Obligations.
There are also CLOs for Student Loan Asset Backed Securities.
I think the cascade will be far worse than 08’.
There are also CLOs for Student Loan Asset Backed Securities.
I think the cascade will be far worse than 08’.
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bull shit like this is why dems lose on “masculinity” by the way
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
bull shit like this is why dems lose on “masculinity” by the way