Josie Young
@josieyoung.bsky.social
Big into responsible AI (formerly Microsoft, currently eBay), skiing, romance novels and queer shit. Grateful for my abortion in 2010s. Probably ADHD’d something recently. She/They, views my own 🩷💙💜
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"I asked ChatGPT, and--" ...the ghost of Ada Lovelace appeared and punched you in the face, I hope.
May 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"I asked ChatGPT, and--" ...the ghost of Ada Lovelace appeared and punched you in the face, I hope.
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With the Trump administration having terminated multiple contracts providing lawyers to unaccompanied migrant children, we're back to the bad old days of toddlers representing themselves against deportation.
April 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
With the Trump administration having terminated multiple contracts providing lawyers to unaccompanied migrant children, we're back to the bad old days of toddlers representing themselves against deportation.
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Editor creates an AI executive who is "an expert at building and scaling digital media companies." Decides within minutes that the AI is "one of the most knowledgeable and energetic colleagues" he's ever had. Asks the AI to create a headshot of itself. It does. He sexually harasses it immediately.
April 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Editor creates an AI executive who is "an expert at building and scaling digital media companies." Decides within minutes that the AI is "one of the most knowledgeable and energetic colleagues" he's ever had. Asks the AI to create a headshot of itself. It does. He sexually harasses it immediately.
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I think most people have a hard time believing that the USAID/PEPFAR cuts are as bad as they are bc it's impossible to stomach that policymakers would knowingly kill millions. But this is what is happening.
PEPFAR supported antiretroviral therapy for 20.6 million people.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
PEPFAR supported antiretroviral therapy for 20.6 million people.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Portraits: A 10-year-old, a house painter and a mom who are running out of HIV pills
HIV medications were supposed to be exempt from U.S. aid cuts. In Zambia, for example, those on the ground say otherwise.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I think most people have a hard time believing that the USAID/PEPFAR cuts are as bad as they are bc it's impossible to stomach that policymakers would knowingly kill millions. But this is what is happening.
PEPFAR supported antiretroviral therapy for 20.6 million people.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
PEPFAR supported antiretroviral therapy for 20.6 million people.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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“If you or I went to someone and went like hey look I’m going to lose $5B but I promise god will come out of the computer, they’d institutionalize you or me; they’d definitely institutionalize me.” @edzitron.com talking about OpenAI
April 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“If you or I went to someone and went like hey look I’m going to lose $5B but I promise god will come out of the computer, they’d institutionalize you or me; they’d definitely institutionalize me.” @edzitron.com talking about OpenAI
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This is it, folks. Far larger than Harvard itself, as large as Harvard is. Every nonprofit from the center leftward is on notice for potential destruction.
The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, CNN reports
IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status | CNN Politics
The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliat...
www.cnn.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is it, folks. Far larger than Harvard itself, as large as Harvard is. Every nonprofit from the center leftward is on notice for potential destruction.
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“I want people to know about what they did to Americorps. For many of us, this was our way to pay for college, to get away from home, to figure out what to do with our lives,” says 19-year-old Coloradan Noe Felix Burns, who was rebuilding houses in Philadelphia damaged by 2021’s Hurricane Ida.
DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs
The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.
www.wired.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“I want people to know about what they did to Americorps. For many of us, this was our way to pay for college, to get away from home, to figure out what to do with our lives,” says 19-year-old Coloradan Noe Felix Burns, who was rebuilding houses in Philadelphia damaged by 2021’s Hurricane Ida.
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This is evil and awful and trans people everywhere deserve better than what's happening right now.
And I think it's impossible to overtstate the pivotal role that JK Rowling played in mainstreaming hateful and false ideas about trans people. Every dollar you give her goes toward efforts like this.
And I think it's impossible to overtstate the pivotal role that JK Rowling played in mainstreaming hateful and false ideas about trans people. Every dollar you give her goes toward efforts like this.
The U.K. Supreme Court rules that Britain's equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female. The ruling means a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes.
UK Supreme Court rules that equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female
The Supreme Court has ruled that the U.K. equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female.
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April 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is evil and awful and trans people everywhere deserve better than what's happening right now.
And I think it's impossible to overtstate the pivotal role that JK Rowling played in mainstreaming hateful and false ideas about trans people. Every dollar you give her goes toward efforts like this.
And I think it's impossible to overtstate the pivotal role that JK Rowling played in mainstreaming hateful and false ideas about trans people. Every dollar you give her goes toward efforts like this.
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March 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Seems like plainclothed agents who obscure their faces, roaming the streets, and kidnapping a student who is there on a valid visa without a warrant, in broad daylight, is a sign of how things are escalating in the US.
Video of masked ICE agents surrounding and detaining Rumeysa Ozturk, Tufts PhD student and worker, has now been shared on IG. Please take action against this absurdity!
March 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Seems like plainclothed agents who obscure their faces, roaming the streets, and kidnapping a student who is there on a valid visa without a warrant, in broad daylight, is a sign of how things are escalating in the US.
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BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
This is a critical victory for trans rights.
This is a critical victory for trans rights.
March 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
This is a critical victory for trans rights.
This is a critical victory for trans rights.
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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“I never thought the leopards would eat MY face,” says the man who gave the leopards absolute immunity from criminal prosecution.
NEW STATEMENT FROM CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS:
"For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose."
"For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose."
March 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“I never thought the leopards would eat MY face,” says the man who gave the leopards absolute immunity from criminal prosecution.
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We’re still not shopping at Target.
March 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We’re still not shopping at Target.
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from senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social chris murphy's recent floor speech, via @davidcorn.bsky.social ...
link.motherjones.com/public/38940...
link.motherjones.com/public/38940...
March 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
from senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social chris murphy's recent floor speech, via @davidcorn.bsky.social ...
link.motherjones.com/public/38940...
link.motherjones.com/public/38940...
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Get in loser, we're tanking the economy
March 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Get in loser, we're tanking the economy
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Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"
March 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"
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Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
March 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
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Oh this is so very 🎯
What Putnam misses is that we're struggling to form community because we've been forced to DIY society. Without unions or a decent safety net, most Americans are caught in precarity and have to put so much energy into paid work and unpaid care for family that they have nothing left for community.
March 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Oh this is so very 🎯
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It’s hard to reconcile the “they’ll go after ideologies they don’t like next” talk with the fact they’ve been openly targeting a whole suite of them associated with Black scholarship already. They’ve already threatened to defund any university teaching critical race theory. Why doesn’t that count?
March 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
It’s hard to reconcile the “they’ll go after ideologies they don’t like next” talk with the fact they’ve been openly targeting a whole suite of them associated with Black scholarship already. They’ve already threatened to defund any university teaching critical race theory. Why doesn’t that count?
Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent US resident with a green card, was taken into custody by federal immigration authorities on Saturday night, who reportedly said that they were acting on a state department order to revoke his green card.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Reeks of McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains Palestinian student activist
Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil a ‘targeted, retaliatory’ attack on his first amendment rights, say civil rights groups
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent US resident with a green card, was taken into custody by federal immigration authorities on Saturday night, who reportedly said that they were acting on a state department order to revoke his green card.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This all started with disappearing minors seeking asylum. Remember when they lost all them kids back in '17?
We've had 8 years to prepare...
We've had 8 years to prepare...
the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps
block the path
block the path
March 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This all started with disappearing minors seeking asylum. Remember when they lost all them kids back in '17?
We've had 8 years to prepare...
We've had 8 years to prepare...
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There’s nothing efficient about shutting down U.S. National Parks when they collectively bring in over $55B a year yet cost over $3.5B a year to upkeep. This is the kind of stupid bullshit what you do when you deliberately want to crash the economy.
March 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
There’s nothing efficient about shutting down U.S. National Parks when they collectively bring in over $55B a year yet cost over $3.5B a year to upkeep. This is the kind of stupid bullshit what you do when you deliberately want to crash the economy.