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A gift link to that excellent piece. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Always read M Gessen. Donald Trump ruled the GOP using the same terror techniques that he’s now using to rule the country. Plenty of GOP politicians and activists knew this all along and full well. They chose to capitulate to the terror. They are complicit. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:59 PM
A gift link to that excellent piece. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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New Yorkers built a movement around the belief that every family should be able to afford a dignified life. Today, as Governor Kathy Hochul and I mark our commitment to universal childcare, we're proving that a movement of the people can transform how government serves the people.
January 8, 2026 at 4:32 PM
New Yorkers built a movement around the belief that every family should be able to afford a dignified life. Today, as Governor Kathy Hochul and I mark our commitment to universal childcare, we're proving that a movement of the people can transform how government serves the people.
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☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone
December 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone
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“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
Love this. Obvs.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
Love this. Obvs.
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Facial recognition errors can have life-altering consequences. In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, CDT’s @jakelaperruque.bsky.social warns that ICE’s new approach — treating AI matches as definitive IDs — violates currently-understood DHS policy and endangers civil liberties.
ICE’s Reckless Reliance on Facial Recognition Puts Us All In Danger | TechPolicy.Press
Jake Laperruque raises the alarm on ICE’s reckless use of facial recognition and its risks for wrongful detainment.
www.techpolicy.press
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Facial recognition errors can have life-altering consequences. In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, CDT’s @jakelaperruque.bsky.social warns that ICE’s new approach — treating AI matches as definitive IDs — violates currently-understood DHS policy and endangers civil liberties.
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The man was on a DoorDash delivery run at the time that another Portland resident filmed his arrest.
‘I can’t breathe,’ man tells ICE agents in Spanish five times during Portland arrest
The man was on a DoorDash delivery run at the time that another Portland resident filmed his arrest.
www.oregonlive.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The man was on a DoorDash delivery run at the time that another Portland resident filmed his arrest.
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Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity"
Gift link from @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Gift link from @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity"
Gift link from @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Gift link from @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer.
New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans
Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.
buff.ly
September 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer.
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We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
September 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.
September 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.
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If this is interesting to you, check out some research on the use of bikes in disaster response from my colleague Dr. Sarah Kirkpatrick!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If this is interesting to you, check out some research on the use of bikes in disaster response from my colleague Dr. Sarah Kirkpatrick!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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"Looking over the data shows an odd trend: Mamdani's victory was built on the backs of people who don't own cars." www.jalopnik.com/1895759/nyc-...
NYC's Upset Election Was Drawn Along An Odd Line: Car Ownership - Jalopnik
Car ownership and transit ridership serve as a shorthand for someone's entire living situation — and, apparently, their politics.
www.jalopnik.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"Looking over the data shows an odd trend: Mamdani's victory was built on the backs of people who don't own cars." www.jalopnik.com/1895759/nyc-...
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Put this on a billboard.
More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.
June 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Put this on a billboard.
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The beautiful Breonna Taylor should have celebrated her 32nd birthday today. Never forget her. ❤️🕊️
June 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The beautiful Breonna Taylor should have celebrated her 32nd birthday today. Never forget her. ❤️🕊️
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It is possible to build machine learning systems which punch up instead of punching down.
A lot of people say generative AI shouldn't infringe on copyright. These researchers actually tried to do it. The result: an 8 terabyte dataset of text that's openly licensed or in the public domain & 7 B parameter model that performs as well as Meta's Llama 7B www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | AI firms say they can’t respect copyright. These researchers tried.
A new effort using only openly licensed data may have implications on thorny policy disputes around copyright and AI
www.washingtonpost.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
It is possible to build machine learning systems which punch up instead of punching down.
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Haliburton, as called in:
Brazil, France, Iceland, U.S. (in Spanish), Albania, U.S. (ESPN Radio), Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, the Netherlands, Türkiye, Canada, and Croatia:
Brazil, France, Iceland, U.S. (in Spanish), Albania, U.S. (ESPN Radio), Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, the Netherlands, Türkiye, Canada, and Croatia:
June 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Haliburton, as called in:
Brazil, France, Iceland, U.S. (in Spanish), Albania, U.S. (ESPN Radio), Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, the Netherlands, Türkiye, Canada, and Croatia:
Brazil, France, Iceland, U.S. (in Spanish), Albania, U.S. (ESPN Radio), Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, the Netherlands, Türkiye, Canada, and Croatia:
Big tech's energy consumption has skyrocketed bc of AI ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...
Data Collection – Big Tech Emissions + Energy
A collection of emissions and energy data for big tech companies, including the ‘unadjusted’ measures of scope 2 emissions often hidden or obscured.
ketanjoshi.co
June 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Big tech's energy consumption has skyrocketed bc of AI ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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A new study details the evolutionary change of Anna's Hummingbirds, finding their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to get the most from common feeders.
Backyard feeders changed the shape of hummingbird beaks, scientists say
A new study details the evolutionary change of Anna's Hummingbirds, finding their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to get the most from common feeders.
www.npr.org
May 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
A new study details the evolutionary change of Anna's Hummingbirds, finding their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to get the most from common feeders.
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AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this
May 22, 2025 at 6:06 AM
AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this