Israel targeted Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil repeatedly and eventually murdered her. 🧵

#AmalKhalil

DC statehood yesterday

hello hi yes so this makes sense when you understand that the sucess condition for an LLM is the production of a text-base, genre-bound performance of a plausible and acceptable answer to a given question. the question defines the expected genre.

I'm really learning this social media stuff on the go, so I am very proud i made this little video for Instagram for our FLASH SALE.

Anybody convinced by this gorgeous design to get a yearly sub for $52 dollars? (pls say yes)

Get it here:
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🚨 Holy shit, this is a 5-alarm fire. The censorship is extreme.

Bhattacharya, who has long been RFK Jr’s most reliable ally, has suppressed publication of a study that showed COVID vaccines are highly effective.

It was scheduled to be published on March 19 in MMWR, the CDC’s flagship journal.

you love to see it

The U.S. has cut climate-warming pollution by 18% since 2005. Most of those cuts were due to a steady reduction in the use of coal-fired power plants.

But last year that changed - electricity production from coal increased 13%. We wanted to find out what was happening … and what it meant. 🧵

Article text: From the Lower East Side to rural Tennessee, Wank built structures that made socialism’s grand promises monumental, intimate, and useful. Thinking about Wank’s work helps us focus on the ten million public, no-carbon homes’ core premise: climate justice will be visceral. It’s about more than solar photovoltaic cells, healthy rainforests, and plant protein. It’s about how we work and live: the stone, glass and steel that we shape with our hands to protect us from the elements — and to bind us to their beauty. The politics of climate change and the transformation of the built environment are the same damn thing. And they have a history. There was a bright red line between the street architects who built barricades across Europe in 1848, founding a continent’s socialist and feminist politics, and the arrival of no-carbon hydro-electricity, built by public institutions and delivered by cooperatives, in rural America’s poor heartland. That line curved through the greatest public homebuilding project of Europe, and the great socialist cooperative tradition of New York City, tracing brick-and-mortar homes and bright green gardens that made the abstract ideals of social equality literally tangible — justice you can run your fingers over. It was, to be sure, a crooked line, a line that divided. It needs to be redrawn with an ambition scarcely imaginable on the Left even a year ago.

For Earth Day, I'm resharing something I wrote on climate and social housing in the early days of the Green New Deal. It's been a few years, but I'm still obsessed with the idea that we need to create a climate politics you can touch—justice that's literally tangible.
jacobin.com/2019/02/gree...

The new Amazon: How employees are navigating AI, RTO, and a shifting culture Amazon employees say layoffs, AI, and return-to-office rules have reshaped their jobs in recent years.

Amazon's warehouse workers have dealt with surveillance, employment uncertainty, and grueling performance quotas for ages.

Now, those practices are trickling up to the company's white-collar workers too.
www.businessinsider.com/amazon-emplo...

Open or Shut, the Strait of Hormuz May Not Go Back to Normal

Hilariously ideological piece here about the long term energy supply and distribution implications of a less reliable strait of Hormuz that completely avoids mention of renewable energy and energy efficiency

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park."

The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!

“Colossus Failure”: Elon Musk’s Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis As tech companies scramble to build massive new data centers to power artificial intelligence, marginalized communities are bearing the brunt of the environmental harms. In Memphis, Tennessee, Elon Mu...

Elon Musk’s xAI operates over two dozen methane gas-burning turbines without legal permits to power its data centers, Colossus I and Colossus II, polluting the nation’s largest majority-Black city with toxic emissions.

Republican lawmakers introduce bills to put Big Oil above the law | Center for Climate Integrity The House and Senate bills would block laws and lawsuits that aim to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for its role in the climate crisis.

Republican lawmakers have introduced sweeping legislation to put Big Oil above the law.

The bills would dismiss existing climate accountability lawsuits and prohibit new legal action against the fossil fuel industry, forcing all of the costs of climate change onto everyday Americans.

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

New gas-powered data center projects linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI could emit more greenhouse gases than entire nations, according to a @wired.com investigation from @mollytaft.com --

happy earth day, don't miss this one!

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math.

less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

it's so crazy that we funneled billions in environmental subsidies to Tesla, only for it to become one of the most rampantly polluting companies in business today

Testing finds toxic metals where Tesla discharges wastewater The drainage district that commissioned the testing has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company, which says it is in compliance with all requirements for its state wastewater discharge permit.

I’m shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...

The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche Another dark day for DOJ.

EXCLUSIVE: The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche.

Another dark day for DOJ.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters

these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

"rhetorically unfortunate" is an incredible turn of phrase that I will now be using, thank you.

Monterey Park becomes the first city in California to ban "all data centers within city limits" Residents of the small enclave east of LA not only killed their city's proposed 250,000 square foot data center, they pushed city council to ban them altogether

The "public comments at the hearing before the vote left little doubt that Monterey Park residents overwhelmingly disdained not only the prospect of a massive, noisy, and polluting infrastructure project being erected in their backyards, but who that project would benefit, at their expense.”

Mask vending machine at JFK

So great to see JFK airport still has mask vending machines, which have 3M Auras!

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

A poster showing a library worker shelving books, underneath the words "National Library Workers Day."

Today is #NationalLibraryWorkersDay! Part of #NationalLibraryWeek, this is a day to recognize and celebrate the hard work of library support staff and librarians. Are there library workers and librarians that have helped you, over the course of your reading life? www.librarything.com/tag/librarians

Very awkward to celebrate library workers when you're cutting public library budgets so I guess we'll just pretend that #NationalLibraryWeek isn't happening.

She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

I think we're going to see more and more companies punishing employees who speak out to question contracting with the Trump admin.

We’ve been Voluntarily Recognized! We have a UNION✊🏽!

Thank you to our amazing Organizing Committee and everyone who supported us! Many thanks to colleagues who were part of the effort but no longer at Clean Water Action. We are thrilled to be part of the @newsguild.org @cwaunion.bsky.social!

Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire'

Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire' https://aje.news/niqwe0

Head of NYC housing nonprofit jailed over court-ordered repairs at Harlem building The case marks an unusual example of a nonprofit landlord arrested and jailed over conditions in a building his organization owns.

A NYC nonprofit executive was jailed last week after a housing court judge found his organization failed to make court-ordered repairs at one of its Harlem apartment buildings

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