"Roosevelt fought the robber barons. Pinchot fought the timber trusts. They built this agency as a shield for the American public against the exact forces that are now being handed the keys."

the other thing to appreciate about this is the identification of "need for cognition" as a trait affecting AI use. people with low need for cognition struggle to understand those of us who actually enjoy cognitive effort and experience it as rewarding. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_fo...

BREAKING: An Israel-backed terror group called "the United States of America" has blown up a bridge in Iran

Man paid as little as €1.61 per hour awarded €80k by #WRC “Mr Barot alleged that he paid his employer a large sum of money that he had to borrow on the promise that he would have a good job. He was…led to believe that he continued to owe his employer…” www.rte.ie/news/busines... #spéirghorm

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN AND COMPLETELY BLOCKADE THE L3 HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES ARMS FACTORY IN BRIGHTON, UK

Keep calm. Examine the evidence. The evidence shows that there is nothing to fear in the existence of LGBT persons, and much to celebrate in the diversity that they bring to our common humanity.

I take a little bit of pride in having felt a repunance for Ben Affleck before it was popular

Boston University’s student paper, The Daily Free Press, reports about the multiplication of pride flags on campus following the administration’s attempted crackdown on free speech.

• Jonathan was napping when the fake news went viral • He remains hale and hearty despite being blind from cataracts and losing his sense of smell • Still has a strong appetite for bananas and is actively trying to mate with two younger tortoises www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

New pic of Jonathan the Tortoise alive and well at ~193 years old 🐢 He’s sitting next to an open BBC tab — an outlet that fell for the hoax (via The Guardian)

“The CPS guidance makes clear that a Trans+ person not disclosing their gender to a sexual partner will not always be a crime, but the limits of this are unclear.” Laws continue to undermine the autonomy and privacy of trans people, especially when they encourage the punishment of “gender fraud.”

I’m pretty sure that’s more public toilets than the council have across all of Dublin #speirGhorm

The far-right have called a rally in Coleraine this weekend, this is the peaceful counter. 'The Causeway Trade Union Council is organising a peaceful counter-demo to show that the north coast stands for peace, solidarity, and inclusion. Where: Coleraine Town Hall When: 2PM, Saturday 4th April'

A pretty solid motion! “The government’s refusal to acknowledge the existence of trans & non-binary children, its weaponisation of schools to restrict access to knowledge and to put trans & non-binary children at risk of abuse, is an attempt to erase and eradicate trans & non-binary children.”

The UK Gov: Trans people don't exist, they're all autistic. Also the UK Gov: autistic people don't exist, they're all lazy.

"We sneered while telling you that you're gonna lose your job if you don't learn to code. We also wanted to take away your ability to be an artist and supported the machine that steals your work more than we would ever support a real human being. Why don't you like this? Why don't you like us?"

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

couldn't come up with better PR for transgenders than "underground transgender mafia successfully heisted 12 tonnes of Kitkats"

Trans day of screaming into the Void

A new study from the Economic and Social Research Institute has found that recent increases to the minimum wage did not lead to low-paid workers losing their jobs

Really important thread.

Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954. Today they voted to bring it back — exclusively for Palestinians.

More than 100 Palestinian detainees have already died in Israeli custody since October 2023. Dozens are still disappeared. Over 9,300 Palestinians sit in Israeli detention right now, including 350 children. Hundreds could face execution under this law.

The bill was devised by Itamar Ben Gvir, who wore noose-shaped lapel pins in the run-up to the vote. Ben Gvir was convicted in 2007 of racist incitement against Arabs and support for the Kach group, a designated a terrorist organization by both Israel and the United States. He wrote the law.

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

"Did you fix that blocked u bend?" Yes boss, I fixed it good and proper

The number of people willing to trade away a full heart for a full wallet is a bit saddening.

An expensive, malformed hammer that assures you it is driving in every nail, while it destroys the environment, that is

AI is a hammer and the stock market thinks everything on earth is a nail and they’re on the cusp of realizing that this is far from true

Wow!!! 'A new water-based, eco-friendly battery based on tofu brine.' It is important to note that battery breakthroughs like this seem to happen all the time in academia, but not all “make it” to market. interestingengineering.com/energy/china...

🧵It’s crucial that Americans closely watch the next two weeks in Hungarian politics. Trump is really, really invested in making sure Orban wins the April 12 election. So are Bibi, Milei, Wilders, and AfD head Alice Weidel. They’ve all shown up to campaign. Vance likely going next week. 🧵🧵🧵

Some protest placards at today's pride.

The internal world of a trans child trying things with plastic scissors is often more layered than those who haven’t lived it can grasp. It isn’t always defined by simple despair. I know, because I tried it. But this situation is different. It’s exactly as grim as you imagine.

Best message I’ve seen all day. #NoKings

"'Men who get girls at parties - what's your secret?' According to the ad where this question presented itself to me, the answer is an edible gummy." Our FactCheck editor @stemcdermott.bsky.social explains how Facebook has been feeding him ads for 'relationship hacking' products.

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

a good thread but I want to add: literally all of every sport favors people with genetic advantages but no one complains when cis men have them Michael Phelps’ muscles produce HALF the lactic acid as an average cis man, meaning he can go twice as long before tiring is that unfair? nobody cared

I have written a follow up clarifying some things, because way too many people are taking the ambiguity and nuance in my first post as a way to join a pile on directed at me. www.burnsnotice.com/on-yesterday...

You don't run them for a profit you run them because people who live places need to be able to get places 😭 www.rte.ie/news/ireland... how do people in #waterford get to #DublinAirport now? #speirghorm

They started a war of choice for absolutely no reason, with no real strategy and no real preparation, and the end result will be a global situation that is, in every single way, worse than what it was when they started.

Girlguiding didn’t have to do this to its trans members. There was another way “Great work, Guides; you’ve taken some members you had no idea even existed, and expelled them from your organisation with effect from September.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"... Look at those names and nationalities. South Africa, Burundi, Kenya, Algeria. Add Dutee Chand (India) and Santhi Soundarajan (India) and Pratima Gaonkar (India). The women who get publicly subjected to eligibility disputes are overwhelmingly women of color from the Global South. ..."

Why can’t THIS be the lead story in the news tonight? Humanity has this incredible planet & most don’t even care. We’d rather compete with each other & murder each other. apnews.com/video/watch-...

"The IOC already tried mandatory sex testing. For decades, every female Olympic athlete was screened. In all those years, it never caught a single person deliberately misrepresenting their sex. What it did was destroy the careers & lives of women with intersex conditions they didn’t know they had."