"Being moved into the Death Master File can be devastating to someone who is still alive because it can cut off their financial access. Last year, career staff warned that falsely giving people death dates could be catastrophic, though the administration overrode those objections."

Pro tip: Firefox now includes a built-in VPN with location selection. You can mask your IP address and reduce tracking at the network level, not just on sites.

When people say 'AI isn't a bubble because the technology isn't going away', it just shows they don't know what a bubble is. The internet didn't go away. Railways didn't go away. Tulips didn't go away. An asset can be overvalued, even if its useful.

I honestly hate the concept of debating. I'm not interested in adversarial communication with someone who has already decided they lose something if they learn something.

Most countries dream of a single MIT-caliber research center. The US has dozens and we're bleeding them dry.

A privilege to work on this with Perry. Even before Callais, we had challenges—aging CBC that hasn’t cultivated the next gen, a centrist turn of Black mayors, district representation that doesn’t matter under national polarization Callais destroys even that. We need a new inside-outside strategy

a real one.

yo

People got really angry at me when I wrote this on Mastodon a few years ago, but it's true: post-consumer plastic recycling is functionally a myth, not just in the U.S. but globally. Odds are vanishingly close to zero that your plastic, faithfully put in the recycling bin, will ever be recycled.

Phasing out methane gas is something Charlottesville has considered at points. From a climate and health perspective, it’s a very good idea. And as this points out, it’s also an equity issue.

Historian here this is literally about gutting the Reconstruction amendments especially the consequential 14th amendment piece by piece.

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

Straight up theft. Not much different than taking tax money out of the federal treasury in wheelbarrows.

This article, it seems to me, thinks it is describing a massive tectonic shift in public epistemology when it says Gen Z determines truth when an originating emotional response is cemented by social reinforcement. Well, if there’s a BIG shift, this ain’t it. This is how it has always been done.

just talked to a state CIO the other day who’s entire budget is getting eaten by this change and now needs to figure out how to quickly pivot

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

When it comes to finding an EU anthem, the strategy of going with one of Beethoven's most recognizable bangers as opposed to commissioning some sort of new Europudding tune was a stroke of genius.

Put another way, gutting the Voting Rights Act was to gut Black representation in the government. Proposed solutions that don’t center that representation aren’t really getting at the problem at hand.

Now that’s a sunny side-up spin on inflation!

To make way for their new gerrymander eliminating Memphis’ majority-black district, Tennessee Republicans are set to repeal a law that bans middecade redistricting. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

Protected bike lanes in Charlottesville will results in hundreds more daily bike riders in the city and county. Many people are eager to bike, but unwilling to do so until we have the right infrastructure in place.

Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.

That’s us, Virginia — paying way more to power our homes!

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Denton County and its economy are built around the University of North Texas. Denton County also went 56/43 for Trump in 2024. That's because most voters there wanted to get rid of immigrants. Now, as international students disappear, the university is collapsing. They burned down their own house.

Grateful to Governor Spanberger for trusting me to serve in this new post on the State Board of Elections — ensuring fair, secure, and accurate elections for all Virginia voters. Never to be taken for granted!

96-year old Dolores Huerta made a gutting confession today. She deserves to be heard in her own words. Even the most righteous movements find ways to make space for misogyny. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Watch to the end. “There were no books.”

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Attacks leave dead vs killed

Charlottesville: Swords Into Plowshares needs your input. How should we recast the bronze ingots from the melted Lee statue? How can we reclaim public space? Come meet the design firms, see their proposals, view photos of the melting. 6pm Saturday, March 14 at the Jefferson School. www.sipcville.com

The statue is gone, and what comes next is up to you. From March 14 - May 30, @jsaahccville.bsky.social invites you to help shape the future of the Lee statue's melted bronze as we consider proposals from MASS Design Group, PUSH Studio, and Hood Design Studio. www.eventbrite.com/e/swords-int...

A folk logic about it is starting to develop. People may not understand the monopolies and geopolitics of renewable energy at a gradual level. But they can see data centers, hear data centers, and read their electric bill statements. They are angry.

Today's @gelliottmorris.com post is really eye-opening with respect to Dems' optimal midterm strategy ... www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

True in public service, too.

My head hurts.

Our grasp on reality is slipping. The response rate to the survey behind the unemployment rate (and the rest of the household survey) is now lower than during the pandemic. The decline in response rates during the first year of the Trump Admin 2.0 was larger than at any time outside the pandemic.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

I used to live in a big house in Boston with a bunch of Air Force Academy grads granted leave from active duty to study at MIT — aerospace engineering & cybersecurity. Some of the smartest, highest-character men I’ve ever met. Heartbreaking that our country is no longer proud to produce them.

We need to raise the bar on research code right now. 1) documentation and tests are dead simple now. 2) creating benchmarks integrating across multiple implementations 3) have agents double check your work / fix broken tests 4) fix outstanding bugs in major scientific packages

Independents say 2:1 that Bad Bunny "better represents America" than Donald Trump www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Let’s build some houses.

❄️ Cville SOS ❄️ Is there somewhere closer than RVA that sharpens skates now that the Main St Arena is closed?

“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.” — Miles Davis

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I once asked my late uncle what he thought ended the legal Jim Crow era. He immediately responded that the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964 were the moment Jim Crow died. When I asked him why he said: “When White folks fight White folks, it changes everything. Enough was enough.”