“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

White folks, you are not John Brown & I’ll tell you why. John Brown listened to Black people. He took commands from Black people. He put his life on the line for Black people. You who praise him do none of this. The elementary part of learning to interact with us is beyond you. Much less caring.

The idea of "overturning" or "repealing" the 14th Amendment was a pretty fringe proposition until recently, but it wasn't unheard of. Obviously the former Confederates wanted to do that. But it was also a white nationalist talking point in the Cold War era. This is 1988.

I'm reminded of the number of times in graduate school and during my early career where I heard supposedly rigorous scholars dismiss work on racism as too radical or unserious. “Things have changed” they assured me.

Hantavirus to the left of me Norovirus to the right Stuck in the middle with flu

“Experts tell us the risk are low” -Can be spread through coughs and sneezes -40% mortality rate - No treatment available -3 people have already DIED from it -Incubation can take weeks before symptoms start to show Seems like risks are only low cause they don’t want another lockdown.

If Cuba is such a failure, why has the U.S. gone so far to try to collapse it? For six decades, the U.S. has tried and failed. Now, the U.S. government is literally trying to use starvation as a weapon to punish 10 million Cubans. This can only be rationalized through dishonesty.

Same people who insist we *must* somehow be lying or exaggerating about racism. The gaslighting aspect of the whole enterprise is both goofy and spooky.

Because niggas are pissing me off thinking that retroactive action to a proactive Nazi party with government clearance is going to be sufficient. We need to be making that worst case scenario plan NOW as opposed to putting all this hope into a clearly insufficient system.

I think that we have to be honest about how warped a lot of people's values are and that capitalism is at the root.

What a cool idea! Keep the pressure! @redactedreadingroom put all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files bound together in 3,437 volumes of books, on display in a new exhibit in Tribeca. David Garrett, one of the organizers, says the goal is to push for the release of all of the files. #Pinks

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

trump is breaking y axes left and right

People donating to an airline that has access to investors yet doxx, block, & harass regular people seeking mutual aid is evil. This has ENRAGED me all day. I’m talking millions of dollars in a matter of 4 days. Suddenly yall understand organizing & mutual aid? I have nothing nice to say.

apparently relevant again

“The bill, which already passed overwhelmingly through the state’s Republican-dominated House of Representatives, could subject unhoused people to fines, jail time, or even unpaid labor if they are found sleeping outdoors.” truthout.org/articles/lou...

“8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will” was the slogan of the workers who were killed in Haymarket Square while on strike in 1886. On the anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, we carry their strength in our fight for economic justice and workers’ rights.

Does anyone know of a tidy dataset with a large number of common multi-item self-report psychology scales? Ideally clinical. The data does not have to be within-subject, just a variety of common scales with decent N. I have: - Bainbridge et al - AIID dataset - Ideologies 2.0 dataset

I listened to Kelly's conversation with Rebecca Solnit and I recommend it. I was particularly struck with what Solnit says here: truthout.org/audio/hope-i...

"A more just world may never come as compensation for our efforts, but the commitment to fight for it is itself the substance of a life oriented towards liberation."

Single motherhood encompasses a lot more than ppl typically think, it’s Widowed mothers Separated mothers Divorced mothers (Abandoned) mothers Co-parenting mothers mothers who chose to have a baby w/o a partner (adoption, surrogacy etc.) some have partners who aren’t capable (drugs, jail, etc.)

We getting reparations. We burning down plantations. We coming for massa's head with a sickle. This ain't no joke. Black folks proved our right to take part in all there is to offer here exceedingly & countlessly. Nobody in black robe, in a white robe, in a legislature, got anything to say about it.

You want to know why some of y’all get side-eyed?! We are standing at the edge of the greatest rollback of Black voting and political power in over 150 years. Not abstract. Not theoretical. Real. Black representation across the South is on the chopping block.

They’re now frenziedly working to disenfranchise as many Black people as they can as quickly as possible.

Is anyone going to mention that Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett were all young lawyers on the Florida recount case in 2000 when George W. Bush stole the election? They should have recused themselves on all voter suppression & election stealing cases, but such cases are their raison d'etre.

Segregationists are wasting no time

Harriet Tubman, with a group of people, “stormed building where Charles Nalle was being held for 2nd time &, through gunfire, liberated him.” #tdih 1860 in Troy, NY, Tubman helped rescue Nalle, held under horrific Fugitive Slave Law. Read ⬇️ 🎨 by Mark Priest 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ha...

Everybody ought to unionize

In Memphis, Tennessee, Elon Musk’s xAI operates over two dozen methane gas-burning turbines without legal permits to power its data centers, Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, polluting the nation’s largest majority-Black city with toxic emissions. The NAACP is suing xAI for violating the Clean Air Act.

Psychology textbooks still misrepresent famous experiments and controversial debates

“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it” so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

The FCC is soliciting feedback on whether to push the TV ratings system to ban trans and nonbinary characters from children's TV shows. www.imdb.com/it/news/ni65...

The Police Benevolent Association is suing the Civilian Complaint Review Board in an effort to return to an era of secret police misconduct records.

Please. Please. Please be mindful of your stress levels. I know shit is wild everywhere we turn yes, and I want y’all to live beautiful healthy lives

This was one of the formative incidents in my young life. And I watched almost an entire city of people across racial lines absolutely lose their minds. It was the equivalent of a lynch mob and the NY press was leading the way.

These data centers are delayed because of supply chain problems w/ chips that AI has caused & I wager most of them will never get built because political opposition will kill then before they break ground. Closest thing to poetic justice since Janet Jackson was rocking those box braids.

Justin Fairfax wanted to be remembered as a rising star. A trailblazer. The second Black man elected statewide in Virginia. He wanted the Emmett Till comparison to stick. It will not. I will not let it, and neither should you. open.substack.com/pub/goldieta...

More than half of Windrush compensation claims rejected by Home Office, report finds

I’m sure I don’t need to say how crucial it is to keep this family housed. Together we can do this.

Sama'a and her girls endure things every day that most of us can only imagine in our worst nightmares, but we can help by sending money for food, clothing, and medicine. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/157569

Public pension funds in over half of U.S. states hold billions of dollars in Palantir stock, according to @Sludge. Public workers in several of these states, like Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon, are protesting the fact that their pension funds are being funnel to this dangerous company.

In this conversation, @jaybeware.bsky.social and I discuss the likely impact of oil supply constriction on the tech industry: www.youtube.com/live/lBML_4s...

Palestinian Prisoner’s Day: What happened in Palestine on April 17, 1971? https://aje.news/5nrcju

"The truth of history may be utterly distorted and contradicted and changed to any convenient fairy tale... one cannot study Reconstruction without first frankly facing the facts of universal lying.” - W.E.B. DuBois. www.teachreconstructionreport.org/textbook-cri...

The collapse of the gulf stream will be catastrophic for the entire planet. The crisis in the earth's circulation system continues to be ignored while politicians promote massive oil/gas expansion. We are killing our children's future. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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