“The cuts to EPA staffing are ‘the biggest blow that agency has ever had’, says Christopher Sellers at Stony Brook University in New York, who interviews EPA scientists for the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative.” Read the article: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Once again, investor self-interest cuts through the hazy curtains of PR with the real news.

Such a great article with thoughtful and insightful questions and answers about what it means to create protocols (and products using protocols) in this space. Essential reading for every atproto hacker (or even critic) out there.

Excellent! "They are memorializing a vision of this country ... that will be what guides us in the future.” "Having such unsparing language on the record provides both the public and other legal advocates stronger footing to lean on when they individually choose to speak out and engage."

if you told 17 year old me how thoroughly, world-historically vindicated ICP would be within a couple decades...

NEW: Campaign for Accountability files bar complaint against Lindsey Halligan, alleging that she violated multiple rules of professional conduct related to the prosecution of James Comey and Letitia James. Read the complaint: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

AI is going to consume 13-15% of the nation's energy in 3-5 years. For what? For what?

The Trump administration’s systematic targeting of US knowledge infrastructure spans the entire production chain, from soup to nuts. Without reliable statistics, research funding, or accessible data, information asymmetries will surely increase, writes Amelia Acker.

"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

It’s a sign of the times that the only Americans who will be able to obtain damages for constitutional violations are these corrupt Senators whose rights weren’t violated at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

I mean, if the present and/or past are any indication...

UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in: - A 46% false fraud rate - Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped - Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I'm no Canadian, but that seems like it makes a lot of sense?

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Does this mean they'll have to swear in Grijalva, at least?

This is one of those things that sounds right until you spend literally any time learning about the differences between the requirements of fiduciary privilege (standards, duties, independent oversight, heightened civil liability) and the, uhm, character of AI companies.

#digitalpolitik The UK is just mad that China has been successful where they have, to date, failed.

“In reality, because targeting is so easy, we have seen governments use surveillance malware to spy on a broad range of people, including relatively minor political opponents, activists, and journalists…”

This is beautifully written and, as a person who lives in DC, familiar.

This right here.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Remember: Accounting fraud does not exist without a functional administrative state and courts willing to enforce existing law. Otherwise its just sparkling corruption. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

story link www.thebanner.com/community/ho...

Do they literally want mass rioting? This is how you speedrun mass rioting.

Yep. I think it's pretty likely we're close to an AI crash. Bear Stearns starting the 2008 crash was poetic enough (especially, looking back, the Epstein ties). But if Palantir was the Bear Stearns of the AI crash, it'd be such poetic justice.

"If it pleases the court, our position is that the poor people should go hungry"

Meta makes about $7 billion a yr from running ads for scams/banned goods, company docs show. Most comes from ads suspicious enough to be flagged by Meta’s warning system. But unless system determines it's 95% certain ad is fraud Meta won't ban it; instead it only charges advertiser a higher ad rate

And this: article cites a recent @cdt.org survey, where, "17% of teachers reported that student information such as grades, attendance and discipline information was shared with immigration enforcement, and some school staff were reporting members of the school community to ICE of their own accord."

So, war crimes, then?

This is one of those systems that's a problem when it does and when it doesn't work.

This, with the new, gold Oval Office sign transposed on the desk and the Veep theme song playing in the background.

Welcome back phrenology bsky.app/profile/econ...

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Ellis is done. The preliminary injunction has been entered. Ellis grants plaintiff's request to certify the lawsuit as a class action, which means it applies to more than just the named plaintiffs and includes all nonviolent protestors as well as those engaged in news gathering & religious practice

Give this man the FIFA Peace Prize. 🥇

There are many ways individuals and organizations can resist oppression, including technologists and tech policy advocates, who must use their skills to identify and interrupt the use of technology in service of authoritarianism, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Dia Kayyali.

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Kavanaugh kidnapping.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

On average, 13 points

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

No one gives broligarchs more nightmares than Lina Khan. This is gonna be great to witness.