The problem isn't as much the outrageous behavior of national leaders as it is a critical mass of the public just accepting it and shrugging it off.

EDITOR'S NOTE: "Impact is often supported by a newsroom’s outlet’s reach, how many people click on stories, how many this or that or the other. How many publications pick up your stories, how many awards do you win, how many people attend your events, and so on," Donna Ladd writes. buff.ly/BfafxQq

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State police on horseback and in riot gear are now charging at protestors at Delaney Hall. They are attacking protestors just like ICE. Mikie Sherrill should be ashamed.

May we rage when we must & rest when we can. May we build the peace we so desperately need. May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice peace requires. The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it. Shabbat shalom ❤️

The fact that ICE is threatened by crowds of people singing to the point that they now have to have state troopers at Delaney hall come protect them just shows you how threatened they are when people organize. That’s how we beat fascism, organizing together!

An entire industry is about to come down in sand and a lot of it was around folks telling people “ we weren’t smart enough to understand But the actual issue of how people never learn how to look away from the unclothed man to the actual effects AND why ….

One of ours did the same. Funny as hell. Cat wasn't having fun. So we're careful about bags with handles now.

All Iran had to do was say they'd placed the mines. That was enough to shut down traffic. Maybe they did mine the Strait? IDK. But no one in their right mind was going to be willing to take a chance on this.

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That answers their psychosis… what will need to be answered is everyone else’s refusal to adapt the actual strategies around psychosis in dealing with them

Had this pop up today attempting to post a famous pic of boxer Muhammed Ali standing over Sonny Liston in the ring. Guess the exposed skin triggered something?

It's a start.

Perverse incentives ftw.

This would actually have been considerably less cynical than actual Amazon workers, who used a few more tokens to vibe code the script in order to ensure they stayed at the top of the AI leaderboard

Interesting that this sort of thinking is going on. Good so far. One wonders what part of the existing economy will buy enough services to cover, say, 100 $10B full build out data centers, as an add on to the hypothetical A\ compute spend. Etc..

some weird stuff from @skywatch.blue lately

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Worth thinking about! It will also be very interesting to see Trump's reception 10, 20, 50 years out.

UW - Madison has over 500K living alumni. Our alums are fanatical about Madison & the university. I have seen exactly zero attempts to publicly mobilize this network in opposition to the federal budget cuts, foreign student restrictions, or any of the other existential threats. Again, mind-boggling.

Almost impossible not to conclude (if you hadn't already) that they haven't cared about actual academics in decades, because they now only care about colleges as an investment/asset that's directly interchangable with every other investment/asset they have

Pet peeve: it's always programmers, or developers, never managers, executives, investors, etc. assigned these laudable ends.

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

I don't enter into these kinds of debates either. Nothing in my scientific training equips me to argue with a conspiracy theory.

Paulina Mangubat stands by the "ugly f--k" tweet: “All we did was say what everyone else is thinking, which is, ‘Shut up—that’s not what people care about right now," she tells me: newrepublic.com/article/2111...

man if only we'd had some hint of Trump being a threat to voting by mail such as when the guy he put in charge of the post office pulled out mail sorting machines and had them beaten to pieces, but, alas, we had no such warnings & Democrats thought the guy was wonderful to work with

the thing that should be obvious from the GOP's sudden blitz of insisting that James Talarico is secretly a vegan or eats meat in an unmanly way is that the goalpost for what these people consider acceptable is a constantly shifting goalpost and you will always be on the wrong side of it.

I expect us to win. At first I thought institutions would step up, but I knew by April 2025 that wasn’t going to happen. We built @standupforscience.net to be the political machinery of the scientific ecosystem. Just because someone is in charge at a uni doesn’t make them a leader. Now we know.

Elephant returns a little kid’s shoe that fell into its enclosure.. 🥺

That doesn't mean Democrats should have NO forward looking agenda, or that their wonks should be relegated to some back room. But the policy should be synergistic with needed democracy reforms, not a way of avoiding them. www.offmessage.net/p/project-20...

Nashville is a union town - and baristas, local leaders, and community allies wont Starbucks forget it. ✊

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

I was just offered to be on a pilot TV show where people debate various "controversial" topics; they wanted me as an expert defending the reality of the moon landings. I turned them down flat. I will not elevate conspiracy bullshit into something debatable. Been down that road. It goes nowhere.

this is the cost of challenging fascism at its points of mass violence. I’m thankful to those willing to pay it and for all the people organizing, supporting, and making the case for prison abolition

Because it’s a lot harder to make something built to last (and withstand legal scrutiny) than it is to flood the zone with shit and tell someone else to try to clean it up. The fight is asymmetric, all statements like this say is “I wish it was as easy to do good things as it is to do bad ones”.

🦠 Analysis of Texas measles outbreak shows just how dangerous virus is – “About 1 in 5 cases were hospitalized and most of those developed complications.” – Looking at a study just out by Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report From Beth Mole at ArsTechnica

I take 2 lessons from this. We still have coordination problems to solve for the pro-democracy coalition. And Sen. Booker and Biden's policy alumni are not the leaders to solve them.

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Something I think the left-wing outbidding process on this website creating incentives to downplay or disown Obama kind of obscures is how intense and vile racism towards the Obamas got imho. Like, there is shit here that cannot be boiled down to muh working class forgotten man proletaramafiers.

It’s weird how AI is making authorship important from an “anti AI” perspective when we could also do this by being pro social . Playing wack a mole is less effective than purposely trying to encourage pro social pro human behavior

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That doesn't matter because the cleaning is just an excuse to get you to let people into your house. What they're actually looking for is data from the inside of people's houses so they can get 3D and camera data to train their models on.

Yes. See productive capital vs investment capital. An oldie but goodie is "Supermoney" by "Adam Smith(George Goodman)", published in ... 1972!!

'If your reaction to all of this is relief, you are reading it wrong. If your reaction is to double down on the strategic, the human, the unteachable parts of creative work, you are reading it exactly right.'

“Google Leonard Leo” needs to be THE grassroots campaign slogan to oust Susan Collins. The more Leonard Leo’s Maine Gestapo try to cover for him, the louder the Mainiacs need to get.

finally got a close up look at some puffins on Staffa last week 🖤

Man there are a lot of people out protesting at Delaney tonight. Thank you all. Special thanks to the teams manning the tents. You know who you are.

Don Lemon just shared that the DOJ filed for a search warrant and demanded the list of his paid YouTube subscribers. For now, the judge denied the request. When I was telling you why I got off Substack and moved ONEST to EU servers, I wasn’t kidding. Pay attention. Pls.

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And here we are.