a long time ago i followed @sgillies blog and the moment he announced he had left a job we hired him to work at mapbox, a major coup. now is the time for you to do the same thing for your company, i guarantee you will not regret it: https://sgillies.net/2026/04/24/laid-off.html

Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.

For those of you who love space exploration: we have robots exploring all across the solar system, and they can’t make anybody any money, they just discover cool stuff, so billionaires aren’t interested. Rovers and orbiters at Mars, orbiter at Jupiter, missions on the way to distant asteroids…

The long lines at airports now falls squarely on Speaker Johnson's shoulders. The Senate unanimously passed a bill to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard. But Speaker Johnson is refusing to let the House vote on it. If you miss your flight, remember, this shutdown is on him.

On the value organizing using your own brain: 🧵 For my PhD, I read a mountain of books and over 2,000 European printed and manuscript maps & atlases c.1450-1650 (and some older ones). I identified 200-ish maps/atlases with distinctive imagery of peoples of the Americas (not just stick figures). 1/

🌍What would my home region look like in a different climate? ClimSat is a diffusion autoencoder for climate-conditional satellite image generation by a #CRC1502 member. It can simulate how landscapes might appear under different climatic conditions. 📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.sr... 🎥 youtu.be/YAPaGKBGJ3g

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

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Too many “middle ground” AI arguments—“I have concerns, too, but we have to adapt”—proceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of “inevitability” which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.

JFC I've heard that Fetterman is considering supporting the SAVE act. It's a disaster of a bill that would create sweeping disenfranchisement. Whoever your senators are, I don't care, call them. I don't wanna hear if you think they definitely will or won't support this, take 3 minutes & call.

Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”

Concentration camp things happening at the concentration camps

"106,636 years of federal work experience were lost across the 10,109 employees with Ph.D.s who departed STEM or health roles 1 January–30 November." It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.

Net zero sustainable development remains the only established path to reversing this trend for ever hotter days. It is imperative politicians regain the initiative towards it. @nature.com  @ox.ac.uk @oxmartinschool.bsky.social 

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:

Masked government agents are conducting “show me your papers” stops, detaining 5-year-olds to use them as bait, and brutally murdering U.S. citizens. Call it what it is — fascism. History will not look fondly on politicians and so-called "leaders" of this country who stood by and enabled this.

Let's be perfectly clear: every single Republican in Congress who allows this to continue without removing this president and prosecuting these lawless ICE murderers, is declaring their allegiance to a tyrant, and themselves enemies of the very Constitution they swore to defend.

Reminder: ICE’s budget has not been renewed — the House voted, but not the Senate — It will take 10 Democratic votes to stop it Pressure your senators

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. 📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ

The regime’s paramilitary forces are conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing.

NEW: On heading into year two of the second Trump administration, and the necessity of pushback. The Minnesota pushback to "Operation Metro Surge" shows the power that the people maintain in the face of Trump's authoritarianism. Tonight, at Law Dork:

You know what we used to call "purity tests" before the internet and wreckers fucked everything up? Standards. As Winifred said down thread: if your only standard for a representative is a letter before their name, you will continue to get played.

Translation: don't annoy my donors. Until Democratic leadership visibly sticks to its values & demonstrates integrity, they will continue to languish in low approval and weakness. As others in this thread say, the idea of rich flight has been shown a myth elsewhere eg MA

Academics’ enthusiastic (and often uncritical) embrace of LLMs and generative artificial intelligence will be a factor in the junkification of research. You can’t outsource thinking nor the cognitive task of gradually absorbing knowledge. Nor discernment and creativity.

Atwood on the nail #ReneeGood laughed (gently) at Jonathan Ross So he killed her, making sure with 3 shots Then called her a “fucking bitch” as her car veered out of control & crashed A hate crime US #misogyny is as grim as that of the #Taliban Just manifested differently Women die from both

What I call climate 'appeasement' - the idea that climate breakdown isn't actually going to be that bad - is growing fast, and presents as great a threat as climate denial Climate appeasers denigrate reality as alarmism, so fostering inertia and inaction We are in deep, deep, sh*t - fact

Well put.

Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.

Trump is gonna run into the same problem Putin did. He'll get emboldened wrecking a bunch of weaker countries, and then he'll move on to one he shouldn't have fucked with.

So this piece of crap squatting in the White House has decided to engage us in war to gain oil. This is not about drugs. This is about control. This is about him not being held accountable for his crimes. How much does it take until we act against him?

The "Lost Science" series from the NYT is an infuriating and heartbreaking must-read. What a security disaster -- more Americans are in harms way because of the loss of programs like this one:

THE MARKETS HAVE "CHOSEN" CLEAN TECHNOLOGY. IT IS ONLY GOVERNMENTS THAT ARE PROPPING UP DIRTY ENERGY. STOP VOTING FOR THEM. #GreenParty #BCGreens

Turns out people still actually link climate change to stuff happening in their actual lives and care about action being taken on it, despite the now widespread idea that we need to stop mentioning it to be successful www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We are allowed to say this out loud now: the people who are pushing for a centrist weakening of climate ambition are serving the fossil fuel industry. Doesn't matter whether they know it or not - what matters is the impact they have. And their impact is a red carpet for coal, oil and gas

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Another brief clip from yesterday's rapid response livestream regarding what's at stake with the potential loss of NCAR, and what we can do about it: "What would we lose if the National Center for Atmospheric Research is dismantled? Quite a lot."

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

Even if you've never been on a boat, and never plan on being on a boat.... This still needs to worry you! 80% of the world's goods are transported by boat at some point in the supply chain. Cargo ships would be impacted by this, and it will then impact our supply of essential goods.

DOJ data shows 97% of people ICE detains in Chicago for deportation have NO CRIMINAL RECORD. Trump vowed to target “violent criminals.” He lied. The past month: 8 immi judges fired, “remigration now” Nazi policy & deportations against court orders. #SEIUPartner #DeICETheseFlights @seiu.org

Maybe we will actually get tired of winning

No one is going to want to come here

People often ask: what can ordinary people do to stop populists like Trump and Smith from running roughshod over democratic norms? Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people." Anything that punctures that myth helps. +

This is the correct take on the whole Zillow fiasco (and fire maps, and hurricane maps) 2023 PCAST report essentially called for this as well - it's been a recognized gap in capacity for years bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...

Companies like OpenAI are burning through money at an ungodly rate, while failing to turn an actual profit. If you don't see how these companies view higher-ed (in particular institutional "partnerships" and licensing) as nothing but an emergency cash lifeline, I don't know what to tell you.