In the last 28 years, Alaska’s rural school districts have made close to 1,800 requests to the state to maintain and repair their crumbling public schools, which also frequently serve as emergency shelters. Only 14% have been approved. (Published March w/ KYUK and @npr.org)

Help me understand how anti-inflammatory diets are all the rage but anti-inflammatory medications are trash.

Well my assumptions are so bad for this environment... The RL Agent says "i made big number! Exactly how you told me to. Ive made more GDP than the world and now operate in Space Bucks" And im just like "Well.. no.. not like that" Im laughing crying youtube.com/shorts/mrmqR... #econsky

Honestly, I think this is why the “gig economy” is potentially so destabilizing. It really tampers with the deep Connective Tissue of Life in ways that are hard to model. Especially hard to grapple with from within a disciplinary silo…

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

The true cost of the trans "conversation", which is and always has been just another name for trans persecution. I hope that all the columnists who are obsessed with dissecting trans people's right to exist and participate in all aspects of life see this and examine the harm they're doing.

Dark, but having trouble finding the humour. I’m supposed to be writing about data-driven decision making and analytics and AI. But it’s hard to be serious about “improved decision making” when we basically just ignore stuff that makes us uncomfortable.

This is both informative and hilarious.

Congratulations to Sabrina Shroff on obtaining a “not guilty” for client: Sean “Sandwich Guy” Dunn on misdemeanor charges of assaulting a federal officer with a Subway sandwich. I had the pleasure to work alongside Ms. Shroff in a high-profile federal case in SDNY. She is a fierce advocate.

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

It’s wild to re-watch the Handmaid’s Tale right now. We are so unbelievably dumb.

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...

Dark comedy where adult convert JD Vance keeps going back to the Vatican after direct insult from the Pope, that Pope dies under mysterious circumstances, and the next Pope gets even more liberal and direct with why Vance is wrong. This repeats.

Come for the alliteration, stay for the insight.

You can now search our database of 3.5 million U.S. political, election, and social issue ads on Facebook and Instagram, dating back to October 10, 2023. Discover who’s running these ads and who they’re targeting. app.polidashboard.org/meta_ads?cou...

From an Evanston resident filming an arrest at Oakton/Asbury ~an hour ago: "He was being very violent with her, I said ‘You got to stop that,’ and he said, ‘Step back or I’ll fucking shoot you.‘ I step back, and then I continue to record, at which point he turned around and pointed a gun at me.”

look at these down to earth, regular guys

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

I loved Tigana so much. I should go hide in it again one weekend soon…

I cannot emphasize enough how much the folks at Census are *obsessed* with doing the right thing for both representative data collection and privacy. (I say this as someone who nearly didn’t get to tenure because of all the frictions involved in using restricted-access Census data.)

US census data is carefully anonymized for good reason. Now Republicans want to change that -- and their plan could put the data of every person living in the US at risk. Important reporting from @telliotter.bsky.social

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Every day is a good day to post anscombes quartet

So, @talkingpointsmemo.com is running a series of posts on the 21st century of journalism & media & it's got me thinking about how I've survived for 20+ years in this biz. It's raining, I'm bored, so I'm gonna do a thread.

It’s almost like they never took Econ or public policy classes…

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.

They send armed goons to kidnap parents in front of their children and then get mad that we don’t thank them for “keeping us safe.” Hell isn’t hot enough for these assholes.

Canada is waking up to the risks of relying on US tech giants for its digital infrastructure, writes Emily Osborne. As Canada pursues a sovereign cloud, clarity and control —not marketing—should guide the path to digital independence.

Many people are saying the Republicans shut down the government to bulldoze the White House without permission and build the Epstein ballroom.

Women can’t keep their “maiden” name, except she does. Why do hypocrites keep winning so damn much?

LLMs can be useful for some things, but simulating human research participant responses isn’t one of them

They don’t want to pay higher taxes for education, either. I, too, would like a pony. On a boat.

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

“Making Americans look like climate moderates” might get some attention!

Are you using an AI browser? Researchers found that these browsers are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks and "that these vulnerabilities are a systemic challenge facing the entire category of AI-powered browsers." brave.com/blog/unseeab...

Someone should do the funniest thing ever and ask Platner to denounce bad tippers who are also Nazis. www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Much of the White House's East Wing was torn down to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom. “They’re wrecking it,” said political scientist Martha Joynt Kumar. “And these are changes that can’t be undone. They’re destroying that history forever.” https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like? In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox. 🧵

Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing? Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

Hop is the thing inflatable- That marches in the streets- And shimmies to the tune without the words- And never stops at all!

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

Congrats to every Republican who warned about the massively dangerous pro-terrorist “I Hate America” rallies who now gets to see their words featured in a Daily Show montage with images of sweet little grandmothers waving little American flags