Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.
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🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal:
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I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
Senator Wyden can’t say it plainly without losing his security clearance, but this raises the alarm that Kash & crew have decided they can illegally surveil Americans without a warrant.
damn, dark as shit
This organization is doing great things
Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection
The job market has really shrunk for Black scholars. So many schools are doing their best to get rid of us or never hire us. I know way too many folks suing their institutions or the state over what they research and teach.
I figured living next to an ai data center would be harmful, but I didn’t expect it to be a literal Analog Horror Noise Generator
"Writing with [insert stylistic quirk] is a giveaway that it's AI."
"You can tell this drawing is AI because [insert stylistic quirk]."
My sweet little children, WE DID THOSE THINGS FIRST. AI didn't invent the Oxford comma or the em dash - we used them correctly, and AI *stole our work*.
If you get 1 normal person out of 100 off the drip-feed of right wing noise and Sinclair-type local "news" you have done more to push the country in the right direction than all the bulk Facebook ad buys in human history combined.
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)
Neppalli refused to say how much Uber was actually spending on tokens, but this is the beginning of organizations admitting that AI is a massive resource drain. With Anthropic moving all enterprise to API pricing we'll find out in the next few months if AI is really "worth it"
My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service.
The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.
I don't want to be glib about the coming recession / inflation spiral but I do think that if you zoom out to the decadal time scale a lot of things happening now will ultimately leave humanity better off once we get through all this economic pain from energy shocks
anything could happen but, hypothetically, if the Strait being blocked drags on until Trump is out of office, this will be the biggest forcing function toward renewables ever in history, the (positive) consequences will reverberate for a thousand years
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.
This is as beautiful a thing as you'll see in all your life. Hope, after months of darkness.
Excited supporters of Péter Magyar and the Tisza Party are already dancing outside Parliament in Budapest. 🇭🇺
Watching BBC and the celebration in Budapest is ENORMOUS.
Fun fact: many of the prettiest photos taken by robotic spacecraft were similarly framed ahead of time by humans using simulators of view geometry to pick when the spacecraft should shoot the photo. Case in point: this photo of Europa over Jupiter from New Horizons science.nasa.gov/image-detail...
important read
I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad
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Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.
Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!
🌕 💛
As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII
Black women have advanced the human species so, so much. Just unrivaled brilliance, every generation.
Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones
Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones
