I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

FYI, if you try to measure the strength of civil society (what Hahrie, Milan, and I call civic opportunity in our 2023 Nature Human Behaviour paper), you may want to consider using our org-, county-, and ZIP code-level datasets published in Scientific Data: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On est quoi, une bande de Belges?

this'll bring back american manufacturing, for sure.

Hacking isn’t magic, it’s logic, and it’s a skill that can be learned and taught and practiced like any other

NEW: ICE purchased custom-made vans from a company called TechOps Specialty Vehicles (TOSV) that are equipped with fake cellphone towers designed to spy on phones. TOSV president said the company integrates the cell-site simulators into their vans, but does not manufacture the surveillance tool.

Imagine someone started a group that combed through political donations and posted target lists of professors who donated to Republicans. Then, people used that target list to harass and threaten those professors. That group would probably not be welcome on campuses any longer and for good reason.

Would genuinely like to see the model or the math that gets you here.

less posting, more class prep and tetris 99

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

As we wrote in @techpolicypress.bsky.social: "workers are being displaced by AI in the workplace, but that displacement... is a market-oriented move by firms to brag about becoming AI-first, while finding cost-savings by laying off employees." www.techpolicy.press/dont-be-fool...

If you're in London or plan on visiting in the next few months, go see the Design & Disability exhibit at the V&A--it's absolutely phenomenal. The thought that went into it--from the tactile map and texture markers to its expansive understanding of what counts as design--is everywhere apparent.

“What is your research question?”

I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.

The example I always use is that governments everywhere have just accepted the massive rise in phone scams as something that can't be helped, but demand we trust them with micromanaging the country's demographics

it's entirely possible to imagine a scenario where Ds win control of govt in 2028 but refuse to hold ice agents accountable and even try to ramp up deportations.

Aw yeah that’s what charts were designed for

Okay, look, we can disagree about the regime but I think we can all agree the Stephen Miller is a fascist, full stop.

Whichever Democrat wants to run against Trump in 2028 should declare that any DHS personnel involved in acts like this will die in a prison cell and their families will be sued penniless by the victims and their families.

Anon learns sampling theory

i genuinely think this game is going to stand as a timeless work of art exactly because of reviews like this

The early years of the Michigan-Wisconsin series were marked by catastrophic collapses of the stadiums they played in. In the Ann Arbor game, players actually helped rescue people from the wreckage. Chicago (1902) and Ann Arbor (1905)

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

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Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road. "Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!" source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register

Kash Patel's challenge coin is a key that unlocks a secret cooler of the stalest Keystone Light you've ever seen

I saw a funny video where a guy said "if the US wants to sell citizenship for $5M, then can I sell my citizenship and get the fuck out of here?" That raises an interesting point in economics - if there was a free market for people to trade their citizenship, what value would be placed on them?

is fiction a superstimulus?

While he's ranting, NL lands tails TWENTY NINE TIMES IN A ROW - a 0.00023% chance.

we are such a deeply, profoundly broken society, and nothing proves it quite as reliably as literally everything Elon Musk touches

look, i'm really sorry, but every time one of you posts or reposts about the AT Protocol, I think it's an Evangelion post and then I realize it's not and I get sad.

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

transferring the tariff revenue (regardless of how you do it) doesn't make up for the deadweight losses, plus the revenue was already earmarked for making up for revenue losses from taxes on the wealthy. so... anyway.

If anyone knows of an article describing this class action suit, I couldn't find it with some simple keyword searches.

We looked back on the "backlash" against American Eagle ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and her "great jeans." Right-wing media declared that liberals were outraged and thought the ads were racist -- even the White House joined in. If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.

i miss myspace tom. he never posed with sinks. he never posted waffles.

Bonica used to have to analyze data to show this kind of pattern, but now they just come out and say it

Put it all together, and the Fed and Goldman estimates suggest that each week of the shutdown will reduce 2025's annual GDP by about one-hundredth of one percentage point, and it will have no effect on next year's GDP. (I'm not endorsing the estimate, just explaining it.)

Trump's CEA is circulating its estimate of the economic cost of the government shutdown. But, BREAKING: It's wrong. It makes a simple arithmetic error. And it's dishonest. Surprising, I know. 🧵

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/priors #smbc

The Trump admin is systematically reworking all parts of govt to reward allies and punish enemies. We see this with DOJ prosecuting enemies and letting allies slide, mergers allowed/barred, FCC threats to licenses, and now in the budget. A quintessential feature of 20th century European fascism.

I get this reply a lot. I think people who don't study computer science genuinely do not understand how it's taught. You *have* to understand logic gates. In Berkeley, students are also made to learn assembly. Less about the language, more about principles. www.theargumentmag.com/p/chatgpt-an...

i guess my plans for getting the new 24h of lemons car ready for PittRace in the spring are unnecessary: one of the best track facilities in the country has been sold, apparently to a private developer using the site (and its power and water facilities) to build another datacenter. cool, cool, cool

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At one point, the camera turned back and you see it’s the ENTIRE class chasing that dude off, wow.

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

Black folk will tell you: The 1st thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.🤷🏿‍♂️ They lie because there's upside in it for them, and no downside. No matter how many times they get caught lying, newspapers will print their next lie as the gospel truth.🤡 And people stop caring before truth hits