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Greg Linden
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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 19h
Congressional oversight has been slowly breaking since at least the 90s, accelerated by war-related dynamics in Bush II and general nonsense in Trump I. But this is just crazy. All norms gone. All sense of loyalty to the constitution or belief in Article 1 supremacy by the GOP gone.

Reposted by Greg Linden, Richard M. Carpiano, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 19h
So grandma, when authoritarianism came, what did the media do?

Well, honey, they framed everything as a battle between two sides, and never actually said one side was undermining the rule of law, damaging institutions, and creating a new Fash Tech Oligarchy™️ that was unaccountable to the people.
CNN homepage: headline says Bondi Democrats trade insults during combative hearing

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
holy shit -- Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 22h
ruh roh this must be a bigger than known disaster

*MUSK HELD XAI ALL-HANDS MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT 
*MUSK DIDN'T SPECIFY WHAT RESTRUCTURING WOULD LOOK LIKE

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Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 22h
Some likely only works because of novelty. That is, works for a few weeks, but then people will tire and it doesn't attract interest anymore. AI slop is likely in that category broadly. This is a problem with A/B testing, by the way, easily can optimize for things that only work briefly.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22h
you can find more on that, and links to the emails and supporting reporting here

Epstein clearly had more going on than working for the Russians, but it's impossible to ignore the evidence that he was a conduit for spy-shaped Russian women to to US oligarchs

niedermeyer.online/2026/02/10/m...
There's more than a whiff of Musk in the Epstein Files
Explore the relationship between Elon Musk and Jeffrey Epstein, as documented in the Epstein Files.
niedermeyer.online

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22h
like I'm sure Palmer Lucky types would be perfectly happy to invent SkyNet in an act of hubris-fueled societal seppuku but by every objective metric we are nowhere near that point with LLMs and claiming otherwise is an act of misdirection

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22h
The most important thing to understand about the debt:

Yes, spending is rising – due to demographics & health care cost growth

But taxes used to be on pace to match that rising spending

Then we cut taxes and now it isn't

Spending is rising slower than expected, so tax cuts bear 100% of the blame
Line graph showing both revenues and spending falling behind old projections.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22h
Epstein leveraged his relationship with Boris Nikolic to connect with Kimbal Musk, Elon's brother, and used one of his victims to hook the more easily-snagged of the two. With that foot in the door, Epstein looked to leverage his relationship with Kimbal into meetings with his real quarry: Elon.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22h
There's no question but that Epstein pursued Musk. Though often depicted as a subliterate lecher, Epstein was very attuned to what his elite circles saw as aspirational, and clearly sought to insinuate himself with the Musks as Tesla's Model S took off.

How he did this is highly instructive.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22h
Part One of my exploration of Jeffery Epstein's relationship with the Musk brothers is now live.

Unpacking the first year or so of the documented relationship, it shows how Epstein pursued Elon through connections and "girls," and hints at possible motivations.

niedermeyer.online/2026/02/10/m...
There's more than a whiff of Musk in the Epstein Files
Explore the relationship between Elon Musk and Jeffrey Epstein, as documented in the Epstein Files.
niedermeyer.online

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Greg Linden

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23h
The CIA shut down its World Factbook. Graham: "This is different from the [Trump] administration’s assault on truth... It’s a series of steps that by design or in effect block access to data, and in doing so erode the concept of a shared frame for all Americans." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
America Is Losing the Facts That Hold It Together
The Trump administration is erasing the country’s shared understanding.
www.theatlantic.com

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Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 23h
Paul Krugman has a few good pieces on this such as this one. tl;dr is that effective tariffs have been much lower than the headlines, and the impact of what actually happened is about as predicted.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-wonkish-...
A Wonkish Note on Tariffs and Inflation
There isn’t really a puzzle here
paulkrugman.substack.com

Reposted by Charles W. Smith, Dana R. Fisher, Greg Linden

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
wow -- Bondi throws a fit in response to Nadler's question about how many of Epstein's co-conspirators, if any, she's investigating, aggressively pointing at him and yelling. The hearing then devolves into chaos and Raskin and Bondi start yelling at each other.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d
Manufacturing overall has LOST jobs over the past year (-83k).
Pretty much every manuf subsector is flat or down, with modest exceptions for fabricated metal products, electrical equipment, food.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 1d
Learn more in our article: ourworldindata.org/co2-gdp-deco...
Many countries have decoupled economic growth from CO₂ emissions, even if we take offshored production into account
It is possible to reduce emissions while growing the economy. But this decoupling needs to happen faster.
ourworldindata.org

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d
Yikes here are the numbers for the past 12 months. Everything is pretty much dead except healthcare/social assistance. Note that healthcare growth is largely not about the business cycle -- it's about the aging of the population and more elderly people needing care.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d
congratulations everyone
The US slips to its lowest-ever rank in a global corruption index | CNN Business
The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures views of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople.
www.cnn.com

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 1d
Affidavit for Fulton County FBI raid is out & begins with massive red flag, noting that "criminal investigation originated from referral sent by Kurt Olsen, [Trump's] Director of Election Security & Integrity"

Olsen was leader of 'Stop the Steal' in 2020 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 1d
EVs now represent more than 10% of new car sales in 39 countries, including Vietnam at 38% and Indonesia at 15%.

In the U.S., that figure is less than 10%.

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America is falling behind in the global EV race – that’s going to cost the US auto industry
Electric vehicles are a fast-growing share of auto sales in many countries, and Chinese automakers are benefiting as the US industry pulls back.
buff.ly

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d
Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent. Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent
Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump.
www.nature.com

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 1d
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 2d
I have so many stories I could share about this. I'm sure everyone does. newrepublic.com/article/2063...
How Companies Profit by Annoying the Hell Out of You
A new report reveals that sneaky fees, excessive paperwork, spam calls, and other annoyances cost Americans $165 billion annually in wasted time and money.
newrepublic.com

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 2d
This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://help.ft.com/faq/gifting-and-sharing-an-article/what-is-a-gift-article/. https://www.ft.com/content/a5cf86ec-47cb-448f-b4a3-56ca6390ad8e Elon Musk is betting that AI’s future lies not on Earth, but in orbit — a claim he has put at the centre of his $1.25tn plan to merge SpaceX with his lossmaking start-up xAI. The tech billionaire, who aims to launch an initial public offering for the newly combined company this year, argues that vast fleets of satellites powered by solar energy and cooled by the vacuum of space will become the cheapest way to generate AI computing power. Musk believes this will happen within the next three years.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 2d
@hannahritchie.bsky.social's new book, “Clearing the Air”, will be published in North America on February 17th! (link to pre-order now in 🧵 )

Hannah, our Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead, published her first book, “Not the End of the World”, in 2024...
A picture of Hannah Ritchie's book Clearing the Air

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 2d
AAAH AAAAhhhh AAAAHHHHHHHHH

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 2d
I take your point! We did think a lot about the boundary for our term. Our argument is that the term is useful because these systems uniquely elicit *context* to facilitate post interpretation, which is not the goal of other crowdsourced systems. Check out section 4 of the paper!

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 2d
Having said that, in a differentl project here on Bluesky we are exploring the use of behavior data for reputation. Make sure you subscribe and like @stechlab-labels.bsky.social if you haven't seen it before!

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 2d
Interesting! (side note: TrustRank author Zoltan was my officemate; Hector was our advisor). We thought a lot about the boundary of CCS. I don't think we'd say implicit/behavioral data is immediately included, though one can imagine using it for what we called "Curation" @travislloydphd.bsky.social

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Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 2d
The reason I ask is that, historically, the use of implicit and explicit behavior data for reputation has been important for what content gets attention and what content is ignored or removed. And the term CCS might touch on that, if not embrace it fully. Eg:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrustRank
TrustRank - Wikipedia
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