Jamie Lynn Waters
@jellawat.bsky.social
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Generally urbanism, bikes, philanthropy, feminism and misc
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John Palfrey
about 1 month ago
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.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
3 months ago
I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
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John Palfrey
7 months ago
Long-held freedoms—the freedom to give, the freedom to invest, the freedom to speak—are in question. But we can and must stand firm in our values and build a more inclusive future. Read more in my annual essay for
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www.macfound.org/about/reflec...
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Returning to Fundamental Truths, Building an Inclusive Future - MacArthur Foundation
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...
https://www.macfound.org/about/reflection-annual-essays/2025/president-essay
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8 months ago
Friends in philanthropy: let's Unite in Advance.
#CourageIsContagious
#UniteInAdvance
nonprofitquarterly.org/unite-in-adv...
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Unite in Advance: Philanthropy Coalition Launches Solidarity Campaign - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
We’re announcing a public sign-on statement to support philanthropy’s freedom to give. We are united to protect our freedom to express ourselves, to give, and to invest in our communities. Join us by ...
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/unite-in-advance-philanthropy-coalition-launches-solidarity-campaign/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=linkedin&utm_source=socialnetwork
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Josie Duffy Rice
8 months ago
This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.
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"We’ve seen this before in American history and across the globe. Weaponized oversight. Intimidation dressed up as transparency. It is not new. But our response must be."
@macfound.bsky.social
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8 months ago
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A) Everyone should have protected free speech. No one should being kidnapped, imprisoned, and/or sent to a country that is not their home. B) There are millions of American citizens who can't prove their citizenship. It's not a longshot.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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"A country that has pushed one group out of its political community will eventually push out others. The Trump administration’s barrage of attacks on trans people can seem haphazard, but as elements of a denationalization project, they fall into place."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing (Gift Article)
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/trump-trans-denationalizing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4k4.5Yet.nipct4WnlLSB&smid=nytcore-android-share
9 months ago
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Tauriq Moosa
9 months ago
You need to understand the damage & horror a disgruntled or bigoted border agent can cause you, EVEN IF YOU HAVE CITIZENSHIP. The status of being in a country is just a category on a system: It doesn't become magically protected even if you have a BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
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This has been rattling in my brain recently. Whence ambiguity? (excuse the egregious umlauts of the New Yorker, to wit: "Rather than allowing us to reëxamine history, this obsessive reënactment in factsevers us from it.")
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
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The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies
Buzzy films from “Anora” to “The Substance” are undone by a relentless signposting of meaning and intent.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-new-literalism-plaguing-todays-biggest-movies
9 months ago
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John Palfrey
9 months ago
Thank you
@drwolfe.bsky.social
for holding up this important debate: how much, not if, to increase how much we give away -- as foundations, families, individuals???
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Taylor Lorenz
9 months ago
"What’s happening in the US is some sort of weird hybrid of the kind of power grabs we’ve seen in the tech industry, combined with a more traditional collapse of democratic institutions. The destruction is far more systematic and dangerous than many realize.”
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Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/
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Actually basing choices on 'merit' and 'competence' wouldn't result in the leadership they think it would.
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John Palfrey
10 months ago
A new intervention in
@macfound.bsky.social
headquarters asserts the continued presence, resilience, and vibrancy of Native peoples in Chicago and the Midwest. We invited a few collaborators on the project to share their experience and reflections:
www.macfound.org/press/perspe...
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“Nwi Yathmomen”: An Intervention in the Marquette Building
https://www.macfound.org/press/perspectives/nwi-yathmomen-an-intervention-in-the-marquette-building
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AI is fixin to have more rights than people. What if we weren't afraid of regulating tech?
apnews.com/article/pari...
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JD Vance rails against 'excessive' AI regulation in a rebuke to Europe at the Paris AI summit
U.S. Vice President JD Vance has told a Paris summit on artificial intelligence that the Trump administration will “ensure that AI systems developed in America are free from ideological bias,” and tha...
https://apnews.com/article/paris-ai-summit-vance-1d7826affdcdb76c580c0558af8d68d2
10 months ago
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Just overhere looking up Sword of Damocles to make sure I'm using it correctly.
10 months ago
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If the US gov is bringing back empire and colonialism, make the territories states. Change the flag. Expand voting rights. Hand out passports like candy.
10 months ago
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Illegal, dangerous, unnecessarily expensive, and no one benefits from any of it. What a time for doomscrolling
10 months ago
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"Okay, but we can't automate everything" -me, when I cleaned my litter robot today.
www.superhuman.ai/p/saturday-t...
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Saturday Trendspotting: Litter-robots and creatine gummies
https://www.superhuman.ai/p/saturday-trendspotting-litter-robots-and-creatine-gummies?utm_source=superhuman&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=saturday-trendspotting-litter-robots-and-creatine-gummies&_bhlid=293934aa94aba82810c8e66c8e4eeeba3098de7e
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I think there might be an easier solution, than automating *appeals* for insurance denials
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/13/h...
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New AI tool for fighting health insurance denials could save hospitals billions, and help patients
Waystar announced a new generative AI feature that aims to help hospitals quickly fight insurance denials.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/13/health-waystar-generative-ai-new-tool-will-help-fight-health-insurance-denials.html
11 months ago
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A little dose of AI realism for ya: "this technology is based on [hidden] work, on precarious work, on the exploitation of millions of workers." Milagros Miceli from
@dairinstitute.bsky.social
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
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Milagros Miceli, researcher: ‘It’s not true that AI is going to automate everything. It requires the manual and precarious work of millions of people’
The expert from the German Internet Institute warns that the rise of tools such as ChatGPT will increase the demand for people who generate content for little money to enrich databases
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-01-11/milagros-miceli-researcher-its-not-true-that-ai-is-going-to-automate-everything-it-requires-the-manual-and-precarious-work-of-millions-of-people.html
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"What I am experiencing is something more like the constant mundanity of dystopia that surrounds the direct horror but is decidedly also bad."
www.404media.co/were-fine-lo...
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‘We’re Fine’: Lying to Ourselves About a Climate Disaster
The dystopia of Los Angeles' fires are horrifying, mundane, and everything in between.
https://www.404media.co/were-fine-los-angeles-wildfires/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
11 months ago
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Coming back to the office after a long break, feeling both refreshed and confused by the acronyms I wrote on my to-do list before the holidays! Cheers to a new year of decoding jargon, for yourself and others 🥂
11 months ago
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Love how *extremely online* and also very mainstream this whole thing is
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pony pony huckabuck
12 months ago
so what is that silly man going to *do* with his private pyramid time
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Erin Fogg says Free Link
12 months ago
Fascism isn't coming, fascism is here, and has been
www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024...
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Inside America's homeless encampment sweeps
Homelessness is on the rise. So are encampment sweeps. What does this mean for our cities and the people living on their streets? It’s our latest collaboration with the investigative newsroom, ProPubl...
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/12/12/homeless-encampment-sweeps-portland-propublica
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babelglyph, MLIS
12 months ago
"I believe that everyone, at least once in their life, should know the joy of being locked in a byzantine financial struggle to own InfoWars" I'm listening.
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Better Streets Chicago
over 1 year ago
“…there’s something troubling about a highway running down the middle of a park system…especially a park system that established the idea that a waterfront should be recreational space,” “We invented the idea—and then we threw a highway at it.”
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Lake Shore Boulevard? Fixing the Mistake on the Lake
Kam Buckner is one of a loose coalition of Lakefront politicians and transit, pedestrian and bike advocates urging the Illinois Department of Transportation and the Chicago Department of Transportatio...
https://www.newcity.com/2024/07/26/lake-shore-boulevard-fixing-the-mistake-on-the-lake/
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You know it's a good week when the work texts are: "who needs coffee when you have chaos?!"
over 1 year ago
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People don't want pink slime content!
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over 1 year ago
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I'm so into this interview. Featuring the question: "Why do you write even though you don’t like to write?"
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Kelly Link Is Committed to the Fantastic
The MacArthur-winning author on the worthwhile frivolity of the fantasy genre, how magic is and is not like a credit card, and why she hates to write but does it anyway.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/kelly-link-is-committed-to-the-fantastic
over 1 year ago
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badly-drawn sleigh 🛷
almost 2 years ago
the internet, where irony goes to die
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Emily M. Bender
almost 2 years ago
'AI' does not designate a coherent set of technologies. It's a marketing term. So when they say they're using 'AI', they might be using a spreadsheet or they might be misusing an LLM. Calling their 'AI' 'responsible' doesn't clarify that either.
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Opening remarks on “AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstanding Challenge”
On Thursday 9/28, I had the opportunity to speak at a virtual roundtable convened by Congressman Bobby Scott on “AI in the Workplace: New…
https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/opening-remarks-on-ai-in-the-workplace-new-crisis-or-longstanding-challenge-eb81d1bee9f
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See this film!! If you're in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, or Washington, D.C.: this Saturday at 10:30am there is a free screening near you!
www.eventbrite.com/e/origin-x-s...
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ORIGIN x Seat 16
A film by Academy Award-nominee Ava DuVernay.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/origin-x-seat-16-tickets-798885697627
almost 2 years ago
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Helen De Cruz
about 2 years ago
One unexpected thing in my qualitative study w natural scientists (one-hour interviews) is how deeply, deeply sad the climate scientists are. They say things like "you have enough information from us, why won't anyone act?" -- the psychological distress these people are enduring is very great.
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It's marathon week in Chicago, and I had the opportunity to share my thoughts in the Chicago Sun-Times on why we need to be more inclusive of transgender women in sports.
chicago.suntimes.com/2023/10/6/23...
about 2 years ago
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It's MacArthur genius day!
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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2023 MacArthur Fellows
Meet the 2023 MacArthur Fellows: 20 inspiring individuals using creativity, curiosity, and care to build a more just and sustainable future. The Fellows are ...
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL--2YSCQMx2owUW75AzSJM0MtU5pB_I0j&feature=shared
about 2 years ago
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Today's happy hour discussion: Do you like your hobbies / work or are you still just trying to get a good grade?
about 2 years ago
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I'm not personally into dnd, but so many of my friends are, and this story is just a beautiful gut punch
www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/m...
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The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row
For a group of men in a Texas prison, the fantasy game became a lifeline — to their imaginations, and to one another.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/magazine/dungeons-dragons-death-row.html?unlocked_article_code=35Splud9dXnZxT5WCD5Aql7KxepW5VUOw4vBmDLwVIGmUzqZ8PLAicErX_zW6UsCMuNpZfppryqi0Pw3TrQhPOWewG4-x1wA8fs4ba6iorKdDPr0OfPfuskYuYycwJpP6ZzC5ZEMNx0Jswj_ivfAbTFrfKOCwSl8zpTN4dd2IIFs6_ciq5eM6nqsK4ZX02LVVvwfcRZ4sPceHLVnTNXp2WsTSxaPimx6KgIlGz6w42sptlSWVUBDuq-EVW15MXsg_zSXUJxponIiw0F2w0VUZi_4aQkRa_CIouUNEmwFh6fDCKvCpF5LwD8Mv6AsrPJ4V8A-EWjxfCKaSZVLqdjXd0vyM1Xr&smid=url-share
about 2 years ago
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Meredith Whittaker
over 2 years ago
English edition of a very fun interview discussing surveillance, AI, and why Signal is so important👇
https://schweizermonat.ch/when-ai-systems-are-used-they-are-usually-used-for-surveillance/#
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«When AI systems are used, they are usually used for surveillance» – Schweizer Monat
The President of the messaging app Signal, Meredith Whittaker, warns about the application of Artificial Intelligence. It’s important not to give big corporations linked to governments a free pass…
https://schweizermonat.ch/when-ai-systems-are-used-they-are-usually-used-for-surveillance/#
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Uncanny Magazine
over 2 years ago
Every day is Halloween, Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine Issue 54 Part 1 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET!
www.uncannymagazine.com
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A set of lights went out in my office and about 10 people were like "the power is out! Do we go home???" But someone had simply bumped a switch. People really don't know how the lights work in an office, and also I love that "do we go home?" energy
over 2 years ago
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Marisa Kabas
over 2 years ago
guy: i’m not gonna buy into woke gender ideology same guy: this cup is a girl
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over 2 years ago
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"Sometimes the proper place for something is the past, and the thing just does not yet know it." In Alabama, White Tide Rushes On
www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/o...
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Opinion | In Alabama, White Tide Rushes On
Bama Rush is like royal watching through Mason-jar-tinted glasses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/opinion/bama-rush-tiktok-race.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
over 2 years ago
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melissa
over 2 years ago
bro the Vatican is literally a 15-minute country
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mtsw
over 2 years ago
the entire internet is gonna be this stuff by the end of the year and youll have to like, call a librarian on the phone in order to find reliable information again
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Had a construction meeting for a project today that was 100% women, and never have I been more of a Barbie.
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