Amy Wood
@amyrwood.bsky.social
Curious writer, perpetually learning, finding joy in community; she/her. I repost a fair bit because I like sharing interesting information.
Omg how did Pepi miss that?!?
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Omg how did Pepi miss that?!?
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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college woso is perfect
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
college woso is perfect
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"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
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Beste sammenligningen jeg har sett: KI-teknologi er som asbest
Hegerlenke: openletter.earth/stop-ai-in-m...
Hegerlenke: openletter.earth/stop-ai-in-m...
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Beste sammenligningen jeg har sett: KI-teknologi er som asbest
Hegerlenke: openletter.earth/stop-ai-in-m...
Hegerlenke: openletter.earth/stop-ai-in-m...
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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Everyone deserves to feel safe in their community. We will not let fear divide us.
🚨 Stay alert.
📚 Know your rights.
💙 Protect one another.
🚨 Stay alert.
📚 Know your rights.
💙 Protect one another.
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Everyone deserves to feel safe in their community. We will not let fear divide us.
🚨 Stay alert.
📚 Know your rights.
💙 Protect one another.
🚨 Stay alert.
📚 Know your rights.
💙 Protect one another.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
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Our libraries are cutting staff so that Elsevier can have its 32% profit margin
A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:
a 🧵 1/n
Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
a 🧵 1/n
Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Our libraries are cutting staff so that Elsevier can have its 32% profit margin
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Politicians who change parties after election should have to win a special election to keep their seat. Let the voters decide.
November 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Politicians who change parties after election should have to win a special election to keep their seat. Let the voters decide.
Autumn isn’t really a thing where I live—I planted my winter garden while wearing shorts today—so we get our Fall fix from watching walking videos on YouTube.
We’ve done a Beacon Hill “walk” & now we’re “strolling” through Central Park. Fun way to spend an hour together chatting about what we see.
We’ve done a Beacon Hill “walk” & now we’re “strolling” through Central Park. Fun way to spend an hour together chatting about what we see.
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Autumn isn’t really a thing where I live—I planted my winter garden while wearing shorts today—so we get our Fall fix from watching walking videos on YouTube.
We’ve done a Beacon Hill “walk” & now we’re “strolling” through Central Park. Fun way to spend an hour together chatting about what we see.
We’ve done a Beacon Hill “walk” & now we’re “strolling” through Central Park. Fun way to spend an hour together chatting about what we see.
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This dude got a mohawk in the hopes of pulling the Angels of a 12-game losing streak, but got fired before he could even show the team. He’s still big mad about it.
Certified Crank Joe Maddon is comparing the new Giants manager to, you guessed it, Mamdani
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This dude got a mohawk in the hopes of pulling the Angels of a 12-game losing streak, but got fired before he could even show the team. He’s still big mad about it.
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This is what comes of insisting on teaching kids how to use LLMs "responsibly" or "ethically."
They don’t even necessarily *know* whether they’re using LLMs anymore. What’s OK? Summaries, Grammarly? Brainstorming? Their college has an institutional subscription to ChatGPT, so why is their prof mad at them for using it?
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is what comes of insisting on teaching kids how to use LLMs "responsibly" or "ethically."
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They don’t even necessarily *know* whether they’re using LLMs anymore. What’s OK? Summaries, Grammarly? Brainstorming? Their college has an institutional subscription to ChatGPT, so why is their prof mad at them for using it?
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
They don’t even necessarily *know* whether they’re using LLMs anymore. What’s OK? Summaries, Grammarly? Brainstorming? Their college has an institutional subscription to ChatGPT, so why is their prof mad at them for using it?
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An unfortunate effect of AI: for all the talk of it enabling “creativity,” many of us feel forced by its utility for plagiarism to move toward more restrictive and surveillant measures in the classroom. In the last few years the classroom is of necessity becoming more locked down than it ever was.
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
An unfortunate effect of AI: for all the talk of it enabling “creativity,” many of us feel forced by its utility for plagiarism to move toward more restrictive and surveillant measures in the classroom. In the last few years the classroom is of necessity becoming more locked down than it ever was.
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The weaponization of historic preservation has always been about blocking new homes, but they usually don’t just come out and say it out loud like this
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The weaponization of historic preservation has always been about blocking new homes, but they usually don’t just come out and say it out loud like this
Based on my feed, there are a number of people wanting to live a life where Marta and/or Joyce Carol Oates does not feel the need to destroy them.
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Based on my feed, there are a number of people wanting to live a life where Marta and/or Joyce Carol Oates does not feel the need to destroy them.
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Well, the game went ahead today. It snowed in the second half, and the women played with a fluorescent yellow (highlighter) ball.
Here's a goal for AFC Toronto, complete with a "worm" celebration. Yes, doing the "worm" in the snow
Here's a goal for AFC Toronto, complete with a "worm" celebration. Yes, doing the "worm" in the snow
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Well, the game went ahead today. It snowed in the second half, and the women played with a fluorescent yellow (highlighter) ball.
Here's a goal for AFC Toronto, complete with a "worm" celebration. Yes, doing the "worm" in the snow
Here's a goal for AFC Toronto, complete with a "worm" celebration. Yes, doing the "worm" in the snow
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They’re not concerned with affordability. The whole reason the ACA exists is to get insurance to people who were otherwise denied coverage for preexisting conditions or shunted into terrible, high-cost plans with poor coverage. It was to ensure access to preventive care to reduce catastrophic need.
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
They’re not concerned with affordability. The whole reason the ACA exists is to get insurance to people who were otherwise denied coverage for preexisting conditions or shunted into terrible, high-cost plans with poor coverage. It was to ensure access to preventive care to reduce catastrophic need.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net
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Towers take a decade to deliver homes. Small 6-12 unit apartments—once legal everywhere—can go from permit to move-in in under 3 years.
Empowers local builders, uses less steel, spreads housing beyond polluted arterials.
Empowers local builders, uses less steel, spreads housing beyond polluted arterials.
To Build Fast, Think Small
To Build Fast, Think Small
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Towers take a decade to deliver homes. Small 6-12 unit apartments—once legal everywhere—can go from permit to move-in in under 3 years.
Empowers local builders, uses less steel, spreads housing beyond polluted arterials.
Empowers local builders, uses less steel, spreads housing beyond polluted arterials.
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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 4:19 PM
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...
I am so depressed about the Wave losing earlier (ugh) but at least Aaron Rogers gave up a safety, so… at least one small something good happened today.
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I am so depressed about the Wave losing earlier (ugh) but at least Aaron Rogers gave up a safety, so… at least one small something good happened today.