Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

A demonstration at the Dilley Concentration Camp in Texas. Children and families have been imprisoned in the concentration camp in Texas for months, and all they’ve experienced is abuse, neglect, mistreatment, undrinkable water and moldy food. #SHUTDOWNDILLEY

Credit: @mommmaliz.bsky.social

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.

The damage that Trump has done to the federal government now has a number: $165.6 BILLION. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two peop...

Harvard too has a plan to promote “viewpoint diversity“ that lacks any explanation of what this means, how it will improve scholarship & how it applies beyond hiring more “right-leaning scholars.” In what fields: Physics? Engineering? Economics? Computer Science?
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

In the fall of 2025, NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt visited Yale as a Presidential Lecturer and presented the research behind his book The Anxious Generation, which documents the effects of smartphones and social media on adolescent mental health, attention, and social development. Haidt’s visit helped to inspire a conversation among faculty and students about the fundamental shift that has taken place in the relationship between technology and learning.47

This passage citing the work of Jonathan Haidt in the Yale Report is instructive. For a group pushing "intellectual pluralism," it is notable that it doesn't mention the widespread criticism of the book, such as the reviewer in Nature who bluntly said his argument "is not supported by science."

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

“It’s a multi-level marketing scheme.” Getting to know the boom and bust world of crypto with @benmckenzie.bsky.social, whose new doc “Everyone Is Lying To You For Money” explores the harsh truths of the industry. New pod out now!

If everyone got a receipt for their taxes breaking it down like this, I think our country would look totally different

Chuck Schumer's two votes tonight in favor of bombs and bulldozers to Israel is yet another reason Senate Democrats must vote to remove him as leader post the midterms.

Black Feminist Visionary Beverly Guy-Sheftall to Discuss New Book 'Black! Feminist! Free!' @ LA Ms. Mag HQ, April 23 A leading voice in Black feminist scholarship Beverly Guy-Sheftall joins professor Bonnie Thornton Dill on her new book, Black! Feminist! Free!

Beverly Guy-Sheftall joins professor and dean emerita Bonnie Thornton Dill for a public conversation on Guy-Sheftall's new book 'Black! Feminist! Free!' at the Ms. HQ later this month—join us!

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

Time to #TalkAboutHumanities -- Linguistics is the study of how language works and how we work with language, and linguists end up very sensitized to language use and how it shapes our social world.

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Media companies are increasingly blocking the Internet Archive from archiving their material (but at the same time using the site to gather data for their stories). [wired.com]

Yes, should be noted that when Vance joins Kushner and Witkoff he is not joining a team of negotiators but a pair of war profiteers.

A win! A federal judge just ordered the government to hand over evidence from ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s killing of Renee Good.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

The cartoon of the guy saying “say I am alive” to a computer” and the computer says “I am alive” and the guy replies “Oh my god”

Every credulous buffoon in Tech Journalism:

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

joke at 01:05:15 in the cassette played only one day in 1992 on Kmart's 30th anniversary: "Since our first store opened 30 years ago today, another new K-Mart has opened every 4 days. Scientists predict that at this rate by the year 2450 over 2/3 of the Earth's surface will be covered with K-Marts."

My father was a Marine who trained on Parris Island during WWIi. Now the American SS will be st the gate dragging racially profiled family members to concentration camps and forced punitive deportation.

this is bizarre.

apnews.com/article/cdc-...

Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX

Trump State Dept. Accused of ‘Largest Fee Fraud in History’ of US Immigration System | Common Dreams An immigration researcher at the Cato Institute found that the Trump administration is "raking in billions of dollars in

ICYMI: The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications.

It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far.

Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?

Diane Nash helped found Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

She wrote proposals for Selma voting rights and one for Alabama voting rights.

She was a Freedom Rider and a civil rights activist.

Coop from Interstellar piloting a spaceship and saying "This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years"

your grandparents voting for reagan

MEMPHIS: “I was a marshal. The march was peaceful and brief, right at the end police starting blaring their sirens, turned up the temperature, and swarmed - primarily marshals… I got some pepper spray.”

New angles of the Memphis PD escalation 👇🏽

(🎥 From Kevin McKenzie & Boyd Shot Images)