AI is the wrong tool to tackle complex societal & systemic problems. AI4SG is more about PR victories, boosting AI adoption (regardless of merit/usefulness) & laundering accountability for harmful tech, extractive practices, abetting atrocities. yours truly www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-...

We just got confirmation that in June of this year, there was actually NET JOB LOSS. The first time since 2020. Wonder who the president was during both of these times...

Just murdering and mutilating some North Korean fisherman to hide our secret bugging mission, no biggie

have been also learning lately that data centers primarily draw water from public drinking water systems with huge implications for access, infrastructure quality, cost of buildout, and water rates for residential customers who already usually subsidize industrial use, in addition to capex

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

I am so scared when I am cooking that I never wear oven mitts because I can’t operate a fire extinguisher in those

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

Which kind of former coder are you: baking bread, too many synthesizers, or woodworking?

Trump has fired the Labor Statistics Commissioner after a weak jobs report. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

Job growth over the past three months has fallen to its lowest in more than a decade – and the unemployment rate for Black workers is especially ominous. Our analysis on the July jobs report from AFL-CIO chief economist @darrickhamilton.bsky.social: aflcio.org/press/releas...

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

This is worth a watch. She is spot on.

Not my field. But I'd rather see Democrats (and Republicans) focus on this more than Jeffrey Epstein.

Grok says Elon Musk tweaked the AI to "dial down the woke filters" and now it is apparently a full-blown Nazi

That’s right. The billionaire bailout bill forces your tax dollars to pay for concentration camps and masked thugs to disappear your neighbors without due process. 16M people will be thrown off healthcare to pay for that, along with tax breaks for the rich.

Please share widely and help however you are able. Fatima is the only member of her family whose continued stay here wasn’t approved, due to timing and the current political climate. She is facing removal to Afghanistan as a woman, alone. She is an incredible human, and she deserves better.

AOC: You are not aware that the Trump Department of Justice is investigating the largest insurance company in America for fraud of Medicare Advantage that you have jurisdiction over?

AOC during Zohran for Mayor rally: "There are people out there who say, 'If you go out and make this endorsement, your political career will be over.' And to that I say: I don't care. We will never get to a better place if everyone is just worried about themselves. If it's over, so be it."

The contrasting images of a DC ghost town/military parade and 1800 American cities and towns with well-attended protests is going to drive Trump batty.

In what way is this ✌️federal law enforcement✌️? In no way, of course. Which means police should be arresting these agents right now for state crimes (kidnapping, assault, felonious threats), and the FBI should be arresting them for federal crimes (deprivation of rights under color of law). Nobody is.

the enemy of my enemy is also my enemy but while they fight we can replenish ourselves. I recommend popcorn

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

House Republicans have voted down a measure that would stop ICE from using federal resources to detain or deport U.S. citizens. Yes, I said U.S. CITIZENS.

An autistic woman tried, for many years, to warn you about the impending “argh” of every-fucking-thing, it has been confirmed.  www.patreon.com/posts/126621...

"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

1. Jose Hermosillo is US citizen who was wrongly jailed in an immigration detention facility for 10 days The administration says he "turned himself in" to the Border Patrol and told them he was a Mexican who crossed the border illegally. I interviewed Hermosillo. He says the government is lying.

I’m already in hell. Might as well repost.

#EggRoll2025 was a vomit-inducing display of capitalism and Christian nationalism from "the fertilization president" who claims to be "bringing religion back." The #AltGov fam made a game called #OvaryRoll send a message to the bad eggs in the White House. Try it! Ovaryroll.com

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

The entire AmeriCorps agency has been placed on administrative leave

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

Eugenics has entered the chat, invited by the guy who sawed the head off of a whale, ate road kill, injected himself with drugs, & had his brain bits eaten by a worm.

Elder millennials watching traders freak out about a global economic collapse that will wreck tens of millions of lives and livelihoods, possibly irreparably

I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat

But will not be using the tax system to get rich people to pay taxes.

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Holy shit: the weirdo running Social Security added administrative burdens to service delivery in Maine after its Governor disagreed with Trump over trans athletes. The idea that public services should be provided consistently and honestly seems beyond them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

If you call because your social security check didn't arrive you are a "fraudster". Unbelievable. You paid into SSA your whole life. That money is yours. In 2025 SSA benefits represented ~31% of income of people over 65. Seniors NEED this. #factcheckfriday #eattherich www.ssa.gov/news/press/f...

This is bad: Immediate Measures to Inc American Mineral Prod Within 10 days the Sec of Int shall identify and provide..a list of all Fed lands known to hold mineral deposits and reserves.The Sec..shall prioritize mineral production and mining related purposes as the primary land uses in these areas

Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown post doctoral fellow who is a legal immigrant, was detained solely for sharing pro Palestinian views on social media. He was detained under the same provision as Mahmoud Khalil. He's already been moved to Louisiana. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org