A MOTHER JONES SCOOP! New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had a years-long business tie with the sex offender. This challenges his claim he had minimal contact with Epstein. The two were involved in a deal for six years, and an email shows they discussed it. @nlanard.bsky.social

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

what if i told you OLS is AGI

The “quietly retracted” part troubles me. This should be big and splashy and consequences severe.

Our dog is perplexed that we are staying in a shouting at the TV instead of walking in the woods like we usually do. Sorry, pup!

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy? Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia. And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

I know it sounds like I'm writing from the 19th century but Republicans and the news media were once very very concerned with how the Democratic administration of Bill Clinton may have put names into a computer. www.upi.com/Archives/199...

It is essential to take the threat to women’s voting rights posed by the SAVE Act within the wider context of coercive and misogynistic views on the right. I wrote about it for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

84 years sounds like a long time. And I know in some ways it is. But it's also not that long. I still have living relatives who were in the camps and who were old enough to remember it. This isn't abstract or ancient history. It's part of the living memory I grew up with.

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

This was a first for me today: On the phone with customer service call center at a financial services firm. Human answers the phone and introduces himself as a virtual assistant (?!). I had a 10-minute call with this guy who was obviously reading a chatbot's responses off a screen. Weird.

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

I encourage everyone to sit with the term "ethics waiver" for a minute.

Every single article on an issue starts with a descriptive statistic about how prevalent/important it is. But if you happen to be in the business of generating those statistics, your work will be dismissed as “merely descriptive.” #EconSky

I absolutely refuse to believe that the pheasant who regularly visits my mum and dad’s garden is real and has not in fact been crocheted.

In PA, which John represents, the EDPa has had to reject *NINETY* attempts to imprison people “without cause, without notice, and in clear violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act.” The cases keep coming because of Trump’s defiance.

if you want 100% nonfictional stories from measles patients and their families, follow voices for vaccines! more: voicesforvaccines.org/resources/blog/

A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-... I think we are about to get a lot of “Wild West” analogies. What are good sources to tool up on that bit of history? Bonus points for economic history.

This is dystopian.

I have been thinking a lot about this question. I saw David's YOLO'd paper, and have done similar things on my own. His paper's abstract is pasted below. 1. It's a remarkable achievement that CC can do this with minimal prompting. 2. The paper is unbelievably banal from a research standpoint.

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

These people are ghouls.

This is more or less an admission that they know this is destructive. They are consciously set in opposition to civil society, and are trying to evade scrutiny. It’s just plain evil. You guys gotta delete your Instagram accounts. Stop funding this shit.

#Econsky, #Edusky, I am thinking about assigning seating to my undergrads (smallish seminar classes) for the first time in my career. I feel so High School. Pros/Cons from those who have done this?

I miss the days of being mostly worried about tariffs.

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/ Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

And please thank lawyers doing this work. We’re carrying a lot of trauma for voiceless clients. We are tired. We have become experts in new law under the most dire circumstances. If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. They’ve been at it the longest and have the least resources. 30/end?

Startup idea: surveillance-free bars. Third party certified.

On every important vote that matters, Susan Collins votes with Trump. Every time her vote could stop something he’s trying to do, she votes with him. She is a fake moderate with a MAGA voting record. A vote for Susan Collins is a vote to give Trump more power.

Hot take: it's a bad idea to let an individual own an international bridge.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

8 more children died from influenza complications last week, according to CDC's FluView report, bringing the total to 60 pediatric deaths so far this season. The agency keeps tabs on childhood deaths caused by the flu, but doesn't recommend flu shots as a way to prevent infection👇

(Media) SCOOP: Weeks ago, the owner of the Washington City Paper had offered to purchase The Washington Post's sports and local sections, keeping their desks alive. The Post reporters were laid off and the desks were shut down instead. www.theverge.com/policy/87683...

“Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations.” Is quite a sentence.

2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.” From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

@graememcelheran.bsky.social we apparently are better-connected IRL than online!

This is a great analogy.

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.

And never forget. These are asylum seekers. This is what the USA is doing to the most vulnerable people on the planet who we promised to protect.