if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
I just feel like we should just TRY matriarchy. After all, can’t possibly be worse than where we're at!!
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While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
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THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!!
PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!
Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!
@scott-delaney.bsky.social has had a front row seat to the Trump admin’s cancellation of NIH grants
I caught up with Scott as his project to track research grant terminations became real personal — and his own funds were cut 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
The House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡
A spot of hope: this is a dataset that we may be able to crowdsource. Insurance companies, attribution scientists, and outside evaluators already estimate the cost of disasters, and so we can probably "life raft" this until we have an administration that gives a damn about the American people.
What better indication that the Trump admin would have us stick our heads in the sand as hurricanes, wildfires, and floods sweep through our country and kill our friends and neighbors? Climate disasters don't exist if you don't collect data about them!
$2.9 trillion dollars of total cost in billion dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980, and 16,941 Americans killed. Why would you want to collect data about such trivial events!?
It's easy to see why an administration so beholden to fossil fuel interests would feel threatened by this data. This dataset shows, directly, the $ cost to Americans of climate disasters, and provides a valuable timeseries of the increasing frequency of such disasters.
But data availability isn't the main problem here: supposedly, all reports will remain available on the site: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billi.... The biggest problem is that THIS is no longer a priority for the government.
@noaa.gov axed their Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters dataset: a crucial resource showing the inflation-adjusted cost/damages of U.S. extreme weather and climate disasters.
(We at @publicenvirodata.bsky.social grabbed it.)
www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
#climate #weather #disaster #NOAA
Kinda amazing that one of the biggest announcements of the year *in 2025* is still done by smoke signal.
Social media has destroyed democracy—let's go back to smoke signals & carrier pigeons!
“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones.
Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
Thanks for the tip, @lizneeley.bsky.social !
There's been credible info of intent to delete National Science Foundation (NSF) awards from Research.gov databases during planned downtime, so I grabbed all awards from 1960 to present and uploaded them to a free and open research repository. Please share!
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
[1/5] @jonathang.bsky.social, data scientist à Harvard, dénonce la destruction de données scientifiques par l’administration Trump. Ces bases de données sont essentielles pour analyser les risques globaux comme le climat, la pollution ou les pandémies, qui affectent tous les territoires. #geography
From me in @theguardian.com (!)
"Data is being stolen from us; our ability to understand the world is being stolen from us. Americans will die because the Trump administration is abdicating its responsibility to the people."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A clarion call to stand up for scientific data from @jonathang.bsky.social ⤵️
I have the privilege of working with Jonathan and have had a front row seat as he and his team have busted their asses to archive data the past several months. He's a warrior for science. 💪
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
Weird way to say that capitalism is on track to destroy the climate!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hilarious juxtaposition. "'There's certainly a concern of retribution from the administration, but we feel strongly we're on the right side of history here,' Gilmour said. The White House did not respond to Context's request for comment before time of publication."
www.context.news/digital-righ...
NIH terminated *7* grants focused on mitigating the spread of misinformation just last week.
That's half of all grants that contained the word "misinformation" in their titles in 2024.
So he spreads misinformation, then prevents others from correcting it. Cool cool
My favorite neighborhood coffee spot (in brooklyn) lost its lovely outdoor dining to exactly one parking spot. The first day after it was torn down a range rover was parked there—truly can't make this stuff up
If you have any of these or want clarity on what I mean by rich metadata (to ensure that these remain useful for researchers), I'm jonathan.05 on Signal!
A list of datasets at risk from the NIH
Asking for help—do you have access (DUA) to any of these critical datasets? If so, now would be a great time to download them—and ensure that you're preserving rich metadata about them. Let's make sure these exist for posterity.
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
#nih #data #preservation #research
