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This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

Transgender women athletes ban...
Transgender women athletes banned from Olympics female events by IOC

Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy It aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on women's sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The International Olympic Committee says “eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females.” Eligibility will be determined by "a one‑time SRY gene screening.” It is unclear how many, if any, transgender women are competing at an Olympic level.

AP News
“Minnesota lawyer says out-of-state transfers are ICE strategy to ‘disappear’ entire communities.” https://sourcenm.com/2026/01/22/im-stuck-here-dozens-of-minneapolis-ice-detainees-shipped-to-nm-detention-facility/
‘I’m stuck here’: Dozens of Minneapolis ICE detainees shipped to NM detention facility • Source New Mexico

More than 40 detainees arrived recently via bus from an El Paso. A Minnesota lawyer called out-of-state transfers an ICE tactic to "disappear" communities.

Source New Mexico
Good to spread the word about the disinformation Trump is spreading about NATO-members not supporting the US.
#USA #NATO #Trump #geopolitics @geopolitics

Proposal to Unicode for a guillotine emoji

edit: TIL from @osman that the guillotine emoji was already rejected
https://github.com/Crissov/unicode-proposals/issues/356

Guillotine emoji · Issue #356 · Crissov/unicode-proposals

As a symbol for (violent) revolution, a guillotine emoji may make some sense, but for the death penalty, a noose or gallows emoji #74 would suffice and could be easier to recognize, or the existing...

GitHub

#SeuksArmy

Kim, 49, had realized a childhood dream of learning to fly & was looking to make a career of it after decades working in the financial sector.

The Springfield, Virginia, man also liked animals. So after connecting with Galley & others through an #AnimalRescue discussion board called Pilots N Paws, he was in. All in — Kim did multiple animal flights a week & recruited other pilots.…

#AdoptDontShop #SpayAndNeuter #cats #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #CatsOfMastodon
https://apnews.com/article/animal-rescue-flight-crash-volunteers-seuks-army-e29dff1671ccafd9c8ac9014f49bf267?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-26-Animal+rescue

How Seuk Kim's tragic plane crash built a volunteer army of pet rescuers

A group of volunteer pilots and animal lovers, known as Seuk’s Army, has been conducting weekly airlifts to rescue pets from overwhelmed Southern shelters. On a recent Sunday, they transported 117 animals, about twice the usual number, to mark the anniversary of member Seuk Kim's tragic crash. Kim, who was passionate about flying and animal rescue, died when his plane went down last year. His legacy has inspired the group to expand its efforts. Seuk’s Army now transports two to three times as many animals as before, helping to save pets' lives and open new foster possibilities.

AP News

Please teach your students not to do this.

I understand there is a continuum between spellcheck/grammar check and LLMs, and there could be ways to use LLMs to improve wording or grammar, etc.

But please teach your students not to use LLMs to “draft content”. I don't care if they disclose it (tbh, I prefer they don't!). I don't care if they "take responsibility for the content".

The thing about writing is that it has a social function. The social function is *not* to cause text to exist. The social function is to communicate from your mind to my mind. Text is the means, not the end. If you must use an LLM, skip it and just send me the prompt.

(No, I'm not going to link to the paper. The point is not to dunk on people who end up on the wrong side of a social question. The point is to do better.)

[Marginalized Group] was Definitely Responsible for High Profile Crime Everyone is Talking About

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correction: actually [marginalized group] was not involved oops our bad
Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people.

And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off.

Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts.

Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public transport. Universities. Roads projects. Mental health services. Welfare payments.

People literally went homeless or starved, so rich people could get tax cuts.

Because the wealth would trickle down.

Eventually the eroding of public goods caused social dislocation.

So governments further cut those public goods to fund more police and prisons. To continue giving tax cuts to rich people.

But they said the wealth would trickle down.

Eventually the climate started changing because of the amount of toxic fossil fuel pollution in the atmosphere.

So governments chose to keep the tax cuts rather than fund infrastructure to reduce emissions.

(Many of those billionaires getting tax cuts made their money selling toxic fossil fuels.)

And as the oceans and atmosphere warmed, the bushfires, droughts, hurricanes, cyclones, floods, and droughts got worse.

But they said the wealth would trickle down.

Eventually people were getting pissed off at the dire state of the world.

The rich misdirected that anger at immigrants!

And First Nations!

And trans people!

And neurodivergent people!

Anyone but the billionaires who got the tax cuts.

So governments chose to keep the tax cuts. (For the rich. Everyone else got new tariff taxes.)

But they said the wealth would trickle down.

So did the wealth trickle down?

Well...

A group of billionaires saw this kinda cool tech demo.

It predicted the next pixel of an image, based on the colour patterns of every image on the internet.

It also predicted the next word in a sentence, based on an analysis of every piece of writing on the internet.

The rich decided that this clearly showed that a sentient computer was just around the corner.

The problem was these tech demos needed servers with a lot of GPUs to work.

So the rich took all the money they got from those tax cuts.

And they bought GPUs.

Millions and millions and millions and millions of GPUs.

All the tax cuts? All the underfunded schools? All the draconian welfare cuts? All the public housing shortages? The delays in funding clean energy.

In the end, it didn't trickle down.

And instead of all the public goods it could have bought...

...We'll be left with millions and millions and millions of GPUs in a landfill.

#ChatGPT #Claude #AI #LLM #capitalism #socialism #business #politics #Nvidia

To be clear, the United States has no far left. What Americans consider "far left," most other Western nations call moderate and even conservative.

It's that the US political center has shifted so far to the right, you're considered a far-left radical if you demand breathable air and potable water.

Happy #InterRail and #CrossBorderRail news :  iryo now accepts InterRail on their high-speed trains running in Spain !

Sadly as always with Trenitalia, their high-speed trains are on compulsory reservation.

Reservations are EUR 10 in 2nd class and EUR 13 in 1st class. The travel class of your InterRail pass doesn't matter, it's valid for both fares.

https://community.eurail.com/news-and-announcements-39/exciting-news-we-re-welcoming-high-speed-spanish-carrier-iryo-to-the-pass-19020

🚆 Exciting News: We’re Welcoming High-Speed Spanish Carrier, iryo, to the Pass! 🌟

Update on iryo’s integration into the Pass Network iryo's integration in our Pass Network is delayed due to an unexpected technical issue. We are working with iryo to complete the necessary preparations and are optimistic that travellers will be able to board iryo trains with an Interrail or Eurail...