As civil rights groups warned 7 years ago.

"The use of force shocks the conscience." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

How NDAs keep AI data center details hidden from Americans: Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Mamdani announces transition team: All-female team led by Elana Leopold, a known Dem strategist; also Melanie Hartzog, who once led the NYC’s health and human services and budget offices; former dep mayor Maria Torres-Springer, and Lina Khan, the former FTC commissioner who campaigned with Mamdani

This person took this when they called the race

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Voting closes at 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, and the winning name will be announced on Wednesday. www.krqe.com/news/albuque...

The Biden administration worked hard to accomplish this new free IRS filing system. It’s astounding that one should have to pay fees in order to pay their taxes. But this rent seeking is entirely consistent with the economic policies of the current administration that benefit the most wealthy.

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the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Dolly Parton releases “9 to 5” 45 yrs ago today. “I knew what it was like to be a working woman trying to make a decent living, trying to be taken seriously. .. I wanted a song that sounded playful on the surface but spoke to that frustration .. A song about women .. saying, ‘We deserve better.’”

“Just that bill right there, that's more than our mortgage, our insurance, most of our food. That's what we're paying per month to live. We can't afford to double what it costs for us to live just to have health insurance." #PostYourPremium https://bit.ly/43d3LIW

Today, New Mexico launched its universal childcare initiative. Last month I wrote about it for Roosevelt Institute -- historic state endeavors like this should show lawmakers at all levels of government that Americans are sick and tired of waiting for bold action on childcare. shorturl.at/Sm2tZ

Europe's lag in tech is also an opportunity to rethink what tech is good for. Martin Sandbu rightly argues for more homegrown digital services to serve both productivity and democracy. www.ft.com/content/01e7...

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

I’m here for this Finnish content

Without the night shift, there is no morning.

Finally made a #Blackademics starter pack! Let continue to build community here. This is part of #Blacksky so please show your appreciation to the architect, @rudyfraser.com

Worth revisiting what I wrote in 2022 after Trump dined with Nick Fuentes. As I said then, all of this was foreseeable: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The WSJ piece notably omits that Palantir CEO Karp holds a PhD in philosophy/social theory from Goethe University—home of the Frankfurt School—mentioning only his Haverford BA and Stanford JD.

At the community college and regional state college level, corporations and businesses have been trying to do this for decades on the tax revenue dime as "workforce development." Some of them have decided to fund it from their own $$....

Resembles college but without a degree which hinders their opportunity to find commensurate employment elsewhere. Educational version of a company town...

It's the Company Store but for education. Intellectual scrip.

In which Palantir recruits high school students for fellowships by telling them to skip college because its holds little value and then puts them through a cherry-picked curriculum that oddly resembles… college

The twist in this story is that the A-level student found it back in 1977 but we have only rediscovered this fact 50 years on www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Please consider these generally unknown details.

You know it’s really bad when the bunch who exposed the Alexei Navalny poisoning plot are now focusing on the federal tactics in Chicago’s neighborhoods and suburbs

This isn’t a call-out—it’s a call to action. Families are losing vital benefits and going hungry while too many look away. Farmers and ranchers, your hands feed this nation—now your help can too. Donate surplus. Partner local. Feed the people. Judge less. Act more. 🌱 #TrumpShutdown #FundSNAP #Resist

“.. One furloughed Defense Department worker, who visited a Virginia distribution site .. said it was her first time seeking help from a food bank. “I usually donate,” she said. “The roles are reversed.” @politico.com #SNAP www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

This is the photo.

This game is insane. (Counting on Tuesday night to be much more decisive, much earlier in the evening)

Nigeria; huge oil reserves Venezuela; huge oil reserves Nothing to see here.

First, Trump canceled Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka's US visa, and now he's threatening to invade the whole country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism. bsky.app/profile/larr...

Thank you to @economist.com for the chance to write this week about philanthropic freedoms -- the freedom of expression, the freedom to give, the freedom to invest. These rights are enshrined in the First Amendment. They have been bedrock for more than 2 centuries. And they are now under attack.

This struck me as one of the best instances I've seen of a Dem politician—in this case, @joeneguse.bsky.social—taking a badly-framed press question & both *calling it out* as a badly-framed question & answering it with passion & smarts. bsky.app/profile/cory...

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

Deeply instructive conversation for so many reasons: Alondra Nelson, Biden’s Head of Science and Technology Policy, talks AI, Trump’s research funding cuts, and how memes replaced Happy Days pca.st/episode/0966... #Internet #HealOurCulture #AI #ethics #EthanZuckerman #Science #CultureWar

RLHF

Can't wait to spend the rest of my life yelling words of encouragement at my useless $20,000 robot like it's a 6-year old adhd kid trying to play softball.

“.. the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion .. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Empire State Building wearing its pumpkin costume.

A fitting enough epitaph for the human project.

In discussions of AI and jobs, we put too much emphasis on the technology and not enough on the corporate leaders who are actually making decisions about what they want to do with AI & its implications. It is a time where CEO vision matters a lot, and you can see a contrast in Amazon and Walmart

Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social & Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social are Senior Advisors to the International AI Safety Report, a follow-up the first Jan '25 Report. The new report covers major breakthroughs in AI capabilities since the first publication. Read the report in full online👇

New from me: A recent report about robot vacuum cleaners sending maps of people’s homes to manufacturers is just the latest in a series of stories about privacy issues with these machines :: Friend link - stribs.medium.com/is-your-vacu...

Optimus vibes

In 2025, "escaped lab monkeys are not carrying the plague" counts as good news