There are ample professional disincentives to spilling the inner workings of a court; even misconduct is rarely disclosed. Only reason to demand NDAs is if the Justices are engaging in conduct so egregious that the legal profession would recognize the need for court employees to disclose it.

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

DHS in Portland used Hexachloroethane gas a few days ago, really dangerous stuff in your lungs, acutely and long term. Need a combo respirator filter to help with it. most NATO countries consider it an illegal chemical weapon now. Evidence the feds have tried to hide their use of it previously.

Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five (or rather: five of the) classes you took at university. 1. Idéhistoria A 2. Homologisk algebra 3. Inblickar i mekanik: planetbanor och robotar 4. Systèmes temps réel. 5. AToPLaC: Advanced topics in programming languages and concurrency

Redan nu griper och utvisar polisen barn, demonstranter och människor som trodde att de hade en säker framtid i Sverige. Redan nu har vi en betydande väljarkår som jublar när andra får det svårare och skulle välkomna en diktatur. Jag vet inte var det skulle kunna leda och vill inte komma dit.

But more broadly, this highlights a fundamental weakness of Microsoft’s design. If MS can easily produce this to law enforcement, then anyone who compromises their cloud infrastructure (and customer service infrastructure, or can forge a plausible LE request) can potentially access that data.

Det finns få saker jag månar så mycket om som barns rättigheter. När jag började skriva om förslaget till sänkt straffbarhetsålder visste jag att många vara kritiska. Men att i princip alla remissinstanser ställer sig frågande till vad regeringen grundar sina beslut på är spektakulärt.

If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋

This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.

The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest. In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵 scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...

me: oh god it can't get worse can it roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

Third-party network-wide algorithmic feeds: enabled by the ATproto architecture!

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Holy shit, this is kinda huge if you're into the social sciences

Överskott i statsbudgeten är någon annans underskott. Det här samtalet med Peo Hansen om pengar, välfärd och migration behöver ses av många fler: youtu.be/GeUWyVhNHzE

I’ve joked before that Rationalism is to Silicon Valley as Scientology is to Hollywood. And that’s… not a joke, actually. The rationalist community is very influential and more than a little cult like. Eliezer Yudkowsky is the L. Ron Hubbard of rationalism. This book is his Battlefield Earth

It's Fiver Friday! #FiverFriday

To decolonize & democratize economic structures one needs to understand how to remove the chokehold of inflation & abusive market power. For that one needs to understand Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Fadhel Kaboub explains in this 8-minute clip. youtu.be/pDPT6uUg8ro

Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: 5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

this is a history of the pre-trump era that tries to show how seemingly abstract, theoretic ideas about what liberalism *is* - that's it's a neutral arbiter - really lowered our readiness when the threat came newrepublic.com/article/1992...

I may spend too much time online, but I didn\t know about these guys.

So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do. This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won. 11/end

Community credit money for an activist community!

Malicious uses of LLM-based AI services: reports from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Peer review meltdown in one diagram. Greater emphasis on glamour journals leads people to try their luck with mediocre papers. This drains the review pool (they often have to be re-reviewed elsewhere). That drops the accuracy of peer review, creating more incentive to submit mediocre papers…

Trump-era polsci as distilled on social media, in 59 parts ending with a ☢️💥

Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.

The really cool thing about this service is that if Bluesky the company were to shut every one of our servers down hard, this can still migrate your account to a new pds and keep going. Really awesome stuff for decentralization

"Politiker har först lagstiftat fram en marknad som gynnar friskolor. Sedan har de köpt in sig i den själva. Det är inte bara kladdigt - det är perverterat, odemokratiskt och farligt... vinsterna är stora och hotet från politiken minimalt." tankesmedjanbalans.se/koncernernas...

I'd been hoping for the different factions behind the putsch to fall apart either due to the resistance or to decisions favouring one over the other: this is a very good start. Hope that DOGE crumbles without him. Cheers! 🍻

Utbildningsministerns syn på lärosätenas förhållande till staten:

The hidden provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-hidden-provision-in-the-big-ugly

Currently the state only extends its power to issue money to banks and financial institutions (as credit). Why not increase the independence of regional governments and government agencies such as universities by extending money issuing powers to them? moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/21/u...

Better late than never: Uppsala University "calls on the Swedish government to condemn Israel’s actions, to immediately resume its funding of UNRWA and to actively work within the EU to take all measures (including imposing trade sanctions on Israel) to prevent a genocide." www.uu.se/en/news/2025...

Riksrevisionen sågar det statliga arbetet för att främja cykling. Uteblivna insatser har både bromsat cyklandet och lett till fler onödiga trafikskador bland cyklister, konstaterar myndigheten

Musk is toxic in many ways.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Note that the Nazis did this with ghetto currency. Again & again Israel embraces Nazi Germany's tactics, strategies and goals. I'm the grandchild of holocaust survivors; my solidarity is with my people who fill the mass graves of Eastern Europe and the Palestinian people experiencing genocide today

When 6 nats (400x) of right-wing bias is not enough.

Some would say this is a list of people who found common cause with obvious fascists and are now trying to tiptoe away from the consequences of their actions, much too late

A great read on what happens when DOGE comes knocking.

"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."

My new post mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information. Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully! christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...

Central banks pay their government's bills in the same way every time: by marking up the reserve account (deposits with the central bank) of the bank of the recipient of the payment. So they never become insolvent in the local currency. Bond sales just move deposits into bond (savings) accounts.

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An MBA mostly teaches how to wield managerial power against your employees?