tl;dr: Alabama's ability to administer a new congressional map disenfranchising Black voters has been complicated by the fact that Alabama is celebrating Jefferson Davis's birthday today.

My team uncovered that foreign enemies are targeting U.S. servicemembers in war zones by buying their location data. The threat to national security posed by data brokers has never been more clear. We need to dismantle the surveillance advertising industry.

Sloan rescued a formerly NSF-supported project on intersectional transphobic discrimination in mental healthcare access for which I lead an NLP substudy with one of my most important mentors. A crucial new role. Please circulate.

DON HERTZFELDT, in this the year of our oversized spoon 2026, has uploaded a HD version of Rejected to his YT channel?!?!?! OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS I'M SO HAPPY HIIIIII

Watching a man trying to convince me that the manosphere is just like feminism and getting upset when I told him feminism is why there are age of consent laws, why women can vote, own property, have bank accounts and get paid more fairly for the work we do proves to me that these men are potatoes.

No it the fuck was not.

We built an MCP server so AI assistants can query NYC Council legislative data directly — bills, hearings, votes, committees, council members. Open source. Free to use. Powered by Legistar. npx @betanyc/nyc-council-mcp github.com/BetaNYC/nyc-council-mcp

NYC's Charter, Administrative Code, and Rules of the City — all three, searchable, in one repo. Includes an MCP server so AI assistants can query them directly. The law belongs to everyone. The tools to read it should too. github.com/BetaNYC/nyc-charter-laws-rules #opengov #civictech #ai4good

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

NEW: Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor. Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying"

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

All these "We Need a Greater Diversity of Viewpoints at Universities" ass clowns suddenly get real quiet when: Rutgers cancels graduation speech over speaker’s pro-Palestinian posts | US universities | The Guardian

Ahh, yes, the unpopular decisions like “black people don’t deserve political representation,” or “rich people should be able to control everything,” or “women shouldn’t be in charge of their bodies.” Truly a man committed to justice.

HOW THE FUCK DO WE HAVE SUCH GOOD SYSTEMATIC DATA ABOUT THE RENT BEING TOO HIGH, FUCK FACE? OH IS IT PEOPLE WITH ADVANCED DEGREES DOING THOSE ANALYSES????

"Elon Musk is doing fascism the right way" -- Ezra Klein

We fought. We won. Others can too. www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus...

even funnier than Dawkins getting romance scammed by autocorrect is that he, an *evolutionary biologist* tries to defend it as a thought experiment in which something with no body, no sensory organs, no reproductive cycle & no evolutionary pressures is a valid model for how/why sentience evolves

your intermittent reminder that the left/right axis is a spatial metaphor, not a reality, that the "centre" is not in fact a moderate middle ground but rather the *centre of power & privilege* protected by the vulgarly overt antisocialists operating on behalf of the polite paternalist antisocialists

really striking that this guy is in his 80s and not the least bit curious about black political behavior. no, it’s all “groupthink” pushed by the government.

Finally had a chance to write up some of why I find the Supreme Court's ruling on voting rights/redistricting so stupid and clearly results-driven...

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Police are using the surveillance state to stalk "love interests" because there really is no difference between the part of my job where I fight state surveillance and the part where I fight domestic abuse: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Speakers who repeat questions asked without a mic are next tier

Asking urban and progressive voters to constantly eat shit and fixate only on the wants of rural voters who claim economic anxiety or whatever other mask of their bigotry is not a feasible way of having any kind of collective future which is fair.

Interesting perspective on government #reform, h/t Jason Tashea's JT/DL newsletter www.eatingpolicy.com/p/a-three-ho...

This insightful thread made me reflect on how I, a Gen Xer, was socialized to think about the political agency of ordinary citizens...and how those historical "lessons" that I'd imbibed, drawn from the history of the 1960s and 70s, just don't ring so true to today's young adults.

The Best Place in the World. #BookSky

My essay on why the SECURE Data Act, the new federal privacy bill is awful danielsolove.substack.com/p/a-disastro...

Surveillance by the Big Brother is dangerous and so is surveillance by Big Billionaires. This Wired story is essential reading: www.wired.com/story/madiso...

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

The more you know theonion.com/poor-sleep-l...

Good use of bike lane (cc @andrewhyatt.bsky.social) www.westsiderag.com/2026/04/15/d...

Here's a perspective even many trans allies might not have considered: "the risk of transphobia interfering with ... medical care" is often rationally perceived to exceed vastly "the risk that ... birth sex will matter to ... diagnosis or treatment"

The bladed sax would gradually fall out of use, and by the advent of third wave ska it would be entirely replaced by the trumpet bayonet

April 14 has been designated World Quantum Day in honour of Planck’s Constant which can be rounded to h~ 4.14×10−15 eV·s (and some folks write April 14 as 4/14*). 🧪🐡🎢 Planck’s constant comes up a lot in quantum mechanics; for instance a photon’s energy is h times its frequency). 🧵

Publishing Triangle Awards. April 16, 6:30 PM. The New School. Presenters include Charles Busch, Karen Finley, Patricia Spears Jones, and more—with Julie Enszer and JP Howard joining our esteemed list. Free. Reception to follow. RSVP: event.newschool.edu/the2026publi...

NEWS: Trans kids in Minnesota can access their gender-affirming care again. www.advocate.com/health/trans...

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this. You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

It’s a little rough knowing how widely this is true. Even when people come forward with their own story, wanting to go public, the work it will take to get from there to publication is intense—and can honestly feel monstrous to survivors

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

if a position of authority can be misused in this way, that position of authority should not exist. It's clearly not enough to simply change who is in that position, no more than praying that the next king be better than the last.

"In a moment of rising censorship nationwide, hostilities toward free speech, and federal efforts to silence the LGBTQ+ community, a bill like this has the potential to further threaten constitutional rights and undermine access to online resources."

When we talk about what the NYT is up to now, it’s actually helpful to be attentive to the fact that they have *always* done shit like this

It's effectively a declaration that what they are at war with is transness itself and that they will stop at nothing to mandate conversion therapy for all of us. That's it. That's what it is. That's what it is meant as. There is no other way to read it because they are blatant about it.

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

ICE is expanding its use of AI, data analytics, facial recognition, and surveillance tools far beyond the border -- embedding monitoring and tracking into everyday life across the U.S. Read more:

I am constantly amazed at how many people have totally internalized the blatantly false belief that Section 230 was premised on platforms being "neutral" when the ENTIRE point of it was the opposite, that they shouldn't have to be.

Barry Caldwell Dies: ‘Animaniacs’ & ‘Pinky and the Brain’ Animator Was 68 deadline.com/2026/03/barr...