From Portland, Oregon to Washington, D.C., NDAs for government employees fly in the face of a basic notion that a government should be accountable to its people. These tricks don't serve the public interest, and further impede the work of the press. Accountability is impossible without transparency.

I completely agree with Kate here, regarding why people feel Bad about the Economy:

[RIKER]: “Another hit! We’ve lost auxiliary power!” [DATA]: “Yes. That outcome is consistent with shields remaining inactive.”

[RIKER]: "Direct hit! Hull breach on on decks 4-11." [DATA]: "Ah I see the problem. The problem was I did not actually raise the shields." [PICARD]; "Raise them now!" [DATA]: "Absolutely, Captain— This is an excellent opportunity to discuss overall defense preparedness in a wholistic manner."

[PICARD]: "Red Alert! Mr. Data, shields up!" [DATA]: "A wonderful decision, Captain—that makes a lot of sense. Prioritizing defense is a strong & decisive call. There are a few ways we could approach shielding here depending on the level of threat anticipated." [PICARD]: "Just raise them."

Erdogan ordered Turkey’s police to raid the opposition party’s HQ days after a kangaroo court ousted the opposition leader.

We cannot keep ignoring Turkey’s descent into authoritarianism. We must stand for the people's right to democracy for allies & adversaries alike.

ICE's treatment of detainees at Delaney Hall in New Jersey is the latest in a long line of abuses we've seen across the country.

When @kim.senate.gov stood up & called out these abuses, they pepper sprayed him.

Not another dime for this lawless agency.

Heat in the UK doesn't hit different. Humidity isn't exclusive to the UK nor are stone buildings (I live in one). The reason we get their complaints every summer is both because they refuse to invest in A/C including in public spaces & the heat waves come on fast allowing no acclimation /1

"based on what I've heard" (vs "based on what I've read" which its much easier to get a chain of reference for) is the tell. just obvious lies from snout to asshole.

This little girl should not have to be doing this but there she is. 🧡 May God forgive us.

Everyone I know who knows about the computer, especially ones who have worked in the tech industry, is an actual, literal Luddite in the historical sense of the word now.

In addition, literal stacks of M4000 chemical bombs, used by the Assad regime to drop sarin on civilians in 3 recorded incidents, were found and photographed. Yet more evidence everything we published at Bellingcat based on our open source investigations of chemical attacks was accurate.

The first 18 months of bluesky were just chains of quote tweets with people going I wish you would step back from that hedge my friend and I wish you would step back from that wedge (salad) my friend and then the next two years were the Algerian war of independence

This is good news—but the fight for fair representation is far from over. This month, I stood shoulder to shoulder with leaders in Alabama pushing back on racist gerrymandering, and I will continue to stand with our neighbors across the nation whose right to vote is at risk.

Korean retail stock traders are insanely out of control and the Korean regulator just cleared domestic listing of levered ETFs. 50% of korean men below 40 are basical frothing WallStreetBet degenerates and when this cycle turns the social tsunami will be catastrophic

A different but somewhat parallel example: in Albuquerque, there was a statue of the conquistafor Don Oñate in Old Town until 2020. Oñate's subjugation of the Acoma pueblo was so violent that the Crown banned him from returning to New Mexico. Or, as Sister Catherine puts it,

Guys the judge flipped over the stained couch cushion in a 13 year old's effort to hide the misconduct.

Alex Byrne will be there. Byrne is, in my opinion, not just a dedicated anti-trans activist that worked with the Trump regime to provide the academic cover to strip away legal protections of trans people: he is also very bad at doing philosophy, and caused irreparable damage to MIT’s reputation

I like to say "we already know enough to act." What do we need to do? Plant trees, run more buses, make it easier to not drive, for starters. These are obvious things that can be done in an ongoing and incremental way

Anti-trans hate group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine & Clinical Advisory Network for Sex and Gender are holding a joint conference July 5-6 at an undisclosed location in London. I profile anyone involved in SEGM, so let's look at the new profiles: www.transgendermap.com/issues/acade...

I wrote about Elon Musk's attack on Lupita Nyong'o, and how it is important to put that in the context of the fact that Musk launched an actual ongoing genocide against non-white people which has already killed hundreds of thousands. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/musk-attac...

It's absolutely insane how the Nasdaq changed rules around its exchange to include SpaceX just 15 days of trading, allow less than 5% of free float, and require a weighting of multiple its float in the index. This is the largest wealth transfer in history from everyone's retirement to Elon.

Leaked Files from Putin’s Troll Factory: How Russia Manipulated European Elections: vsquare.org/leaked-files...

AI is bad and ruining human knowledge, sorry to those trying to convince us otherwise.

I don’t think enough cis women appreciate how much all of this noise around ‘bathroom bans’ will affect us. (I also think it’s notable that after a chat between me, a cis woman and Steph, a trans woman, a correspondent text in to ask ‘why wasn’t there a woman in the conversation, for balance?’)

Ought to become impossible for the whole “we don’t need a union we’re all family” thing to work after seeing sector wide layoffs on the promise of a talking box.

Had to repost 😅 #noai

I like the idea that Hutts are like any immigrant family and Jabba refuses to speak anything but Huttese at home and his kids are like jacked zoomers that are a full foot taller than him and only speak Huttese specifically when explaining how the Samsung remote works on the phone.

Make sure you know your wet bulb limits, and keep an eye on temp and humidity. If it hits 30C wet, your only job is to Not Die. No matter what the fools around you say. (And if you’ve got any way to get one of the Aldi 150€ portable ACs? Do it. One cool room> none.) www.calctool.org/atmospheric-...

Also it's really tiring to be a dick all the time, I look at some people who have really committed to the bit and I, like, how do you not always need a nap, you spend so much energy on this

As they launch a major restructuring, it's important to remember that this guy and his hand-picked team do not see themselves as public servants, and whatever their long-term goals are, their priorities do not include democracy, peaceful space exploration, or science.

I've had enough social media that prioritizes outrage or experiments on what makes users addicted I long for an app that does whimsical experiments like access determined by your current local weather or instantly banning anyone who uses a rick and morty avatar

i think you have to understand an argument like the one in this book as fundamentally about stitching together an electoral coalition because as an analysis it falls painfully short, i.e. at what point in our history were americans ever united in “common purpose?” bsky.app/profile/chri...

South Korea's GDP is 1/15th the size of the US, and its retail investing community has materially altered US equity markets, as their speculative dollars are fed into the worst AI adjacent US stock promotions and trends. It's really stunning

AMAZING NEWS: the British Film Institute are adding some episodes of Philosophy Tube to their Archive of National Importance. Future generations will have the chance to see the show long after YouTube is gone. This is a HUGE honour, I can’t really think what a higher one would even be??! 😮

BREAKING: Three-judge district court reaffirms earlier rulings, even in light of Callais, that Alabama’s 2023 congressional map cannot be used because it is “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination” and that the court-ordered map is, again, to be used in the 2026 elections.

you and TAP should be ashamed of feting this bigoted horseshit

Murphy will throw anybody under the bus if he thinks it might be politically expedient. Immigrants, trans people, women as a whole. I think it's bizarre to always act like the immediate past does not exist for politicians when they want to pivot. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/the-reason...

Thank you @evanurquhart.bsky.social for interviewing me The GoFundMe Comms team reached out on Friday asking for permission to share my story with journalists...and noone reached out Shows why trans led journalism is so important for getting our stories told 🏳️‍⚧️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...

ICE back at Delaney Hall, arriving in a bearcat followed by about 6 SUVs. Agents are wearing ballistic helmets, some with batons out holding a line as others behind remove a barricade. About two dozen agents in total.

You might remember us from five minutes ago telling you NFTs and crypto was the future then running off with all your money. Here we are again with another fucking thing that sucks.

Sweltering in the UK heatwave?? Why not visit your Local Archival Repository! Low temperatures and humidity GUARANTEED* And we throw in the history for free😍 *by regulatory standard BS4971:2017 Archives - Where the records are cool and so are you.

Armando Iannucci (‘The Death of Stalin’) and Simon Blackwell (‘Veep’) are writing the script for ‘PADDINGTON 4’.

ah, if only there was a extremely skilled international system backed by US funding that could address this

New @hrw.org report exhaustively details how an Emirati private security company with close ties to the highest levels of the UAE government recruited Colombian mercenaries, trained them at a UAE military base, and deployed them for the siege and capture of El Fasher, Sudan.

anthropic is in a way more dangerous than openai because they've duped people into believing they're actually the Good Guys and the others provide perfect foils for that assertion b/c they're so comedically villainous. But anthropic is not and will never be anything remotely like good

instead of developing shitty tech like LLMs tech should have spent the last 30 years developing greater and more intricate versions of MYST

This is absolutely a factor in the logic of the most noxious techbro AI Will Impoverish Everybody I Don’t Like, evangelists, yes.