Surely, the media are doing everything they can to hold Republicans and the WH responsible for this? Surely they are hounding Republicans in Congress nonstop and demanding answers.😒

The Arctic's winter sea ice shrank to a record-low level for the second year running, a sign of how climate change is reshaping the region.

i’m ngl… if Kamala were president, I just might have been pregnant or have already had a child by now..

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

I really REALLY wish people would understand that “ai governance” is impossible when you believe t&c and schools especially should be challenging their “compliance consultants” who sign this rubbish off. I have yet to read a single t&c which makes sense or is legal but schools keep signing up

Since the start of the war, Arash Azizi has spoken with more than a dozen people living in Iran. He was struck by how many expressed the same paradox: They fear the continuation of war, yet they also fear its end.

MacFarlane: I’m focused on being an enterprise reporter who gets at the truth and does not abide the whitewashing of history or the erasing of what people have said. We’re not just battling to find news and truth—we’re battling a force that is trying to contaminate and metastasize across all media.

Ran accessibility check on my portfolio with axe DevTools and Lighthouse. Had to darken a few font colors, but the site's now WCAG level AA compliant. This took me about an hour. illdave.com

Can't go out locally because all the 3rd spaces are either closing or becoming too expensive. Can't engage in hobbies because they're too expensive. Can't travel because flying is too expensive and you might end up getting assaulted by an ICE agent. And he's only been in office for a year.

This part is *so* damning. "The results Google omits tend to be less trafficked and less search-optimized, which frequently means they’re more substantive and written for readers rather than algorithms. "

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

wapo.st/40Mzcs0 as @mcmegan.bsky.social says, it’s a compelling exercise of social creativity.

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

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We should use ICE to clear mines from the Strait of Hormuz.

The controversial SAVE America Act would add new requirements that could make it harder for Indigenous voters to cast a ballot. trib.al/Q6ymTOQ

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

We support the Equal Tax Act from @Markey.Senate.Gov. Closing tax loopholes and making sure millionaires pay the same tax rates on their income, it's about equity for all. Working people shouldn’t carry the burden while the ultra-wealthy get special treatment. www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary sue OpenAI for allegedly misusing their reference materials to train its AI models (Blake Brittain/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

The nicest article about JPEG compression, by @sophielwang.bsky.social The moment there are color stats involved, I’m in. It’s so well done it makes me think we need some kind of online library where articles like this get preserved. www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg

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A sandstorm hit Gaza on Saturday, slamming tents and other makeshift shelters with forceful gusts in an enclave where most of the population was displaced during the Israel-Hamas war. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...

During California’s worst dry spell in the past 1,200 years, some populations of wildflowers defied the odds of survival. Researchers say they believe these flowers relied on a type of rapid genetic evolution — the first time such a phenomenon has been documented in the wild. https://cnn.it/4s68rdQ

The Israeli bombardment in Lebanon has killed more than 680 people and displaced over 800,000, according to Lebanese officials. Follow live Middle East updates. nyti.ms/4b6i7iH

Bike lanes and public seating are good for business! It's common sense: when you create streets that are calm and welcoming, people like to spend time there. www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...

"We want to be the newsroom D.C. needs at this critical time, so we’re raising funds to triple our reporting capacity." a quick thread on why you should support this (if you're in the DMV) and similar outlets if you're elsewhere 51st.news/the-51st-is-...

A professor of poli sci & a professor of public policy provide a well-written synopsis of how Congress can limit 47, or at least him accountable, for war with Iran. As disheartened as we are by spineless Republicans, I still think it's important for us to bone up on the civics. No pay wall.

Alright fam, here it is Moby-Dick Rocks!!!; or, put down the AI and read a fucking book. by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein earrings by Ear Art by Ebony London

You should also just read the article on disability dongles. The framework it lays out could be valuable for pushing back against a wide array of proposed "AI" use cases.

So, uh. In disability studies we call this a "disability dongle" or a techno-utopian solution to a problem that appeals to the able-bodied imagination rather than the actuality of disabled life itself. Deploying a LLM to translate a legal notice for an asylum seeker functions similarly.

There is a big & unpleasant conversation to be had about the way generative AI has helped to lay bare how certain segments of society idealise certain bodies. The fact that men construct their own images of female bodies - like pervert Frankensteins - is a symptom of a deep societal ill.

For Women’s History Month, we’re revisiting women whose deaths were recorded by The New York Times across generations to see what was emphasized, what was minimized, what might have been left unsaid. Here is a look at the lives of women who changed history, made trouble and broke barriers.

Racism. Anti-semitism, Anti-Muslim. Anti-trans ableism, eugenics. No matter the flavor of bigotry the crux is an anti-social orientation to the world that is destructive in politics, healthcare, education or interpersonally. No matter the life sector it will, as a pattern of being, manifest harm.

one of the ways Trump’s war is robbing you (if you’re alive to read this) is that news organizations that still do arts coverage are cutting their arts coverage to make room for war coverage

The entire world is deeply involved in a vanity project for one old man that knows he’s dying.

It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life

WE LOST A MID SIZED CITY OF SCIENTISTS?!?

Firms like Polymarket and Kalshi are turning war into yet another racket, as the suffering of many becomes a windfall payday for those few who hit the dystopian jackpot. trib.al/NHLhGVi

"A year-long journey exploring iOS accessibility, one day at a time. Each post shares practical insights, tips, and techniques to make your iOS apps more accessible." accessibilityupto11.com/365-days-ios... #a11y #accessibility

tbh we could save the world with street food accessibility and variety. ice doesn’t just target taco stands because they’re staffed by mexican americans — they do it to tear gaping holes in the social fabric

Perhaps the guests could include former enlisted military members pointing out the bullshit. Perhaps folks trapped in countries across the world because the State Dept cannot plan could be asked to call in... Perhaps Iranians who oppose the war could be featured...

relevant to #DeafSafeAI (ipso facto, #DeafSafeAI is relevant to accessibility tech)

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

A folk logic about it is starting to develop. People may not understand the monopolies and geopolitics of renewable energy at a gradual level. But they can see data centers, hear data centers, and read their electric bill statements. They are angry.

Happening now in Chicago's federal plaza: A rally is underway in solidarity with trans people in Kansas whose drivers' licenses were suddenly invalidated last week, due to the enactment of a new state law that requires a person's gender on their license to match their assigned sex at birth.

A federal judge clashed with Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor during a contempt hearing, after he accused the federal government of violating multiple court orders to return property to immigrants who had been unlawfully detained.

The Fall Of Iran And Venezuela Are A Boon For Oil Tanker Billionaires

Breaking News: The Trump administration abandoned its efforts to impose potentially crippling orders against law firms that refused to bow to the president.