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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3h

Where we stand, in long arc of history:

-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.

-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.

I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

Two headlines on front page of NYT.

First is "Trump Weighs Transforming Refugee Policy. White People Would be Given Preference."

Second is "Justices May Ban Race as a Factor in District Maps. Nation's Political Balance Could Shift If Court Guts 1964 Law."

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 15h

It's weird how Johnson in particular never "knows the details," but also never seems to _learn_ the details. But nobody will ever hold him to anything, so he'll get to lie like this forever.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 18h

Nearly CFPB’s entire history has basically been Republicans holding it down and giving it a noogie while saying “stop unprotecting yourself” over and over again

Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 21h

He's been president for almost 5 years and still nobody has told him that "asylum seeker" doesn't mean someone who came from a mental institution

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Q: Why did you authorize the CIA to go into Venezuela?

TRUMP: They have emptied their prisons into the US. Prisoners from mental institutions, insane asylums ...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

The increasing proliferation of facial recognition systems which often fail to properly capture and categorize disabled users with facial differences As Faces At All is leading to mischategorization, inaccessible systems, personal tech lockout, & other harms, & like… Yeah, dawg: we told you it would

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 1d

Tagged “ASMR white flight”

Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, shoutout to 3 consecutive generations of Americans for living in the shadow of WWII and the Cold War, building up the greatest fighting force in the known universe, and still not thinking for a microsecond about a rogue actor using it on us

Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 1d

If you think this is great, wait a couple years until the law-school students who haven’t even written a college-level essay on their own since ChatGPT rolled out, much less a legal brief, start being tasked with case work. Or policymaking.

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month.

🔗 www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 2d

Worst prophet ever.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 2d

Your tax dollars at work

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 3d

This seems fake but it's completely real: Audio of Seattle's current Mayor dreaming of a giant computer-simulated Martin Luther King, something the King family has explicitly asked people not to do.
Big thanks to Erica Barnett for being the only reporter in town covering these events so closely!

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 3d

Researching “ChatGPT-based personas”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 3d

Infrastructure Week, huh?

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 3d

They’re making the same noises in Seattle against the liberal mayoral candidate.

And you know what? Good. Get the fuck out. Most of them don’t live here and behave like it. Go line up for a job in DuPont or whatever.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 3d

Or Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe they need to do an infomercial. Or like a TikTok dance. Or have Zohran explain it to them.

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 4d

Wait, what in the fuck did 3 in 7 people think potato chips were made of

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 4d

AND IT KEEPS GOING THAT WAY

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 4d

"And you could say, Well, Dr. Martin Luther King, I've always wanted to meet you. What was your day like today? What did you have for breakfast? And he comes back and he talks to you. How cool would that be if we have a series of historical figures that we all could agree on, that we respect?"

Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 4d

This is Seattle’s incumbent mayor, trying anything he can to win a race where he’s well behind.

And this idea is so bad it should be disqualifying for anyone, running for anything. Student body treasurers shouldn’t have ideas this bad.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 4d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 4d

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 4d

Gonna go out on a limb and say if there’s still next-day costume delivery, then Portland probably is not, in fact, a burned-out war zone

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 6d

This is awesome.

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 4d

Standard Puget Sound homeless policy

Homer Simpson in front of a sign that reads “Can’t someone else do it?”

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Matt May @mattmay.bsky.social · 4d

There's a significant subset of them that will just take it out on the district. In red states, probably most. BUT IT'S THE LAW, they'll bleat, while in all the other cases where the law is ignored and it doesn't impact them directly they couldn't give a fuck.

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 4d

And with that, the white mama bears who've been fighting the schools for their kid's IEP jump off the Trump bandwagon

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 4d

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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