Surprised that Trump hasn’t asked for some deep red state to be named after him. If it was Texas, he might even inherit the motto, “Don’t mess with Trump.”

Protesters in Mountain View

Wouldn't it be a more efficient use of limited air traffic control resources to prioritize commercial traffic over private, and impact fewer people? Oh yeah, can't inconvenience the billionaires and corporate execs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/t...

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach: Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. … America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Word of the day: 'dummymander' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Given Pam Bondi's refusal to answer important questions, she should be held in contempt of Congress. But, oh yeah, it would require Republican votes to do that.

I am enormously proud to have Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov as my senator (and fellow MIT alum). This interview clearly explains why: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/m...

Posted on the wall of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum since 2003. When are people gonna wake up and fight back?

This is about as un-American as anything I have seen lately. Media freedom ratings for the US, never as good as they should be, should be flashing red right now.

How much will be spent changing signage, letterhead, websites, etc from Defense to War? Will agencies like DIA and DTIC need renaming? Will terms like DEFCON need to change? What happens if the courts decide Trump didn’t have the authority to do this? This is the opposite of government efficiency.

Just received my renewed US passport. Honestly surprised that there isn't a picture of Trump on it somewhere.

Why is it that every time I see the term "Alligator Alcatraz" my mind keeps reading it as Alligator Auschwitz? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

At long last, the four-volume NIST SP 800-63-4, Digital Identity Guidelines, has been released! Looking forward to the online workshop discussing the documents. www.nist.gov/blogs/cybers... #SP80063

For some strange reason I’m just not in a mood to celebrate the 4th this year.

Why does the scaffolding on the Supreme Court building make it seem like even the building is ashamed of their recent rulings?

Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...

Sad that my senators have yielded to the cryptocurrency bros.

This makes the potential corruption clear: those supporting the GENIUS Act are putting $ ahead of their principles.

We need this, and we need it at the federal level too. Officers involved in immigration raids need to be identifiable by arrestees so they can be held responsible for rights violations. Are they afraid we’ll find out if they were Jan 6 participants? sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator...

During the first Trump administration, a lot of us read (and attended performances of) Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here”. I haven’t heard it mentioned much lately, but the parallels to current events seem much stronger. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can'...

This confirms my suspicions that the US H-1B program is seriously broken, both with respect to bringing in "the best and the brightest" and the path to permanent residency that follows, often involving what amounts to several years of indentured servitude to their current employer.

🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 🌪️23 LIVES WERE LOST OVERNIGHT AS TORNADOS HIT KY. KY has one of several regions in the US without 24/7 National Weather Service coverage, due to DOGE cuts. W/out overnight monitoring, ppl don't receive weather warnings. THIS is how science cuts cost lives. shorturl.at/JgTjU

I am SO tired of getting fundraising text messages from congressional and senate candidates elsewhere in the country. Three so far today, and it's just noontime. I replay STOP to each one, but they all come from different phone numbers.

“I saw an eagle that could have been a vulture” seems like a commentary on the current regime.

Our family's long and enjoyable relationship with state parks got featured by @californiaparks.bsky.social recently: www.calparks.org/blog/lifelon...

Protect the Internet Archive. It is critical infrastructure. chng.it/ymyNxDnR5k

We’re not sure what separates the Trump admin from the “terrorists” it claims to be fighting. You watch whats happening and can’t even process it—what the hell is going on is all we can think. Our Constitution grants everyone within this country the same legal protections, regardless of citizenship.

I’m of course very concerned about Mr. Abrego Garcia but let’s not forget the many others that were sent to El Salvador without due process. I’m sure at least some of them are innocent too.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

This is absolutely horrifying. I wouldn't be surprised if this was happening in North Korea, but this is the United States of America. www.propublica.org/article/rume...

Headlines podcast from @nytimes.com said “tens of thousands of people took to the streets” this weekend. That’s low by a factor of about 100.

Another super-plausible Onion article.

Closely inspecting the list of tariffs/countries posted by the White House, Trump did not put tariffs on Russia. Ukraine's tariff is 10%, the EU's is 20%, and every American ally is on the list. But not Russia.

When someone is deported to El Salvador as the result of an administrative error, it is not acceptable for our regime to react with, effectively, “oopsie”

The word “terrorist” is a meaningless tool of imperial narrative control. Want to bomb some people? Designate them as terrorists. Want to silence protesters and dissidents? Say they’re supporting terrorists. Want sweeping surveillance powers? Say you need them to fight terrorism.

A Skadden attorney resigned today, citing the firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump amid pressure campaign on law firms. “[I]f my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,” the former Skadden lawyer, Brenna Trout Frey, wrote on LinkedIn.

Trying to delete my 23andMe data before they go bankrupt, but I get a Site Error any time I try to go to my Settings page to do that. I really hope that's an honest error and not a scheme to prevent people from deleting their data.

Measles outbreaks are back. Grocery and gas prices are up. Bird flu is spreading. All our allies hate us. Air travel is getting unsafe. The stock market is tanking. The government is about to shut down. And he’s only been President for six weeks. This is just the beginning.

If the “what did you do last week” emails get fed into an AI system, will we learn something about whether AI can detect sarcasm?

Does anyone discuss anything other than politics on Bluesky, or is it just the accounts I chose to follow?

What, me worry?

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad. GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE. youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...

Eight years ago, many of us were reading and attending performances of "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis. Concerned that I'm not hearing much about it lately, even though we now have Proud Boys and Oath Keepers released from prison who can function as Trump's Minute Men.

Celebrating inauguration week by installing new solar panels to lessen my dependence on fossil fuels. #solar

Flying my Canadian flag today in support of Canadian sovereignty. #Canada #inauguration

@n1dq.bsky.social Why does this cover make me think of self-deluding networks?

News media: Please stop presenting interviews with people who lost their homes in the #LAfires. We get it; it’s unbelievably sad. Let them mourn their losses in peace.

Planning to fly the Canadian flag at home on Inauguration Day out of solidarity with Canada's sovereignty.

@pwnallthethings I noticed that I was paying for your Substack where it doesn’t look like you have posted in several months. I unsubscribed. Are your posts somewhere else?