A good context read (archive.is/35gr7) on the water issue and relative impact: in different regions, and compared with other human and industrial activity. In addition, it's worth comparing the practices of corporations (e.g., xAI vs. Google); some _are_ more reckless than others.

Bernadette Meehan has dedicated her career to mission-driven roles and public service work. Her background is closely aligned with Wikimedia's vision of free knowledge for all. Meet the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/welcome-ceo

Comcast tried repeatedly to destroy the Chattanooga network, whether it was lawsuits, fake disinformation spread among locals by fake "consumer groups," or bullshit lies and distortions spread by all the "Libertarian free market" think tanks they fund

A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community. From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:

We just released a major update to Dangerzone, it's now easier to install and use than ever before! If you're a journalist, use Dangerzone to sanitize documents you receive from sources and protect yourself from malware.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Tune in again the following issue for the next centrist "How did we get here?" story, from the people who regularly do their part to normalize the worst of the worst.

An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention. Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.

IT'S ALIIIIIVVEEEEE www.kickstarter.com/projects/mal...

This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

NYT reveals precisely how it would cover: - creationism in schools: "challenge scientific orthodoxy" - state-funded quack medicine: "challenge scientific orthodoxy" - conversion therapy: "challenge scientific orthodoxy"

It was the same University (Weber) that did this: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

For the last centrist liberal who still doesn't get it, this is precisely what fascism is: unbridled contempt for the law and the courts; the raw pursuit of power to abuse others.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

For the airplane + red aurora + big dipper fans. 😍

Real cruelty against folks who aren't white not enough for you? Facebook dot com has you covered with their new offering: SaaS - Sadism as a Service. There is a sickness here, and it's not just about the use of AI.

You are permitting the DHS to post authoritarian propaganda on this app and suspending a journalist and scholar of authoritarianism for riffing on Johnny Cash in response to an article about Johnny Cash. You are silly and unserious people.

My companion piece explains the film’s context: USAID’s dismantling is estimated to have already killed 600,000 people, ⅔ of them children. Officials simply deny any harm, while halting data monitoring and firing inspectors general who’d have documented it. 2/ www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Hi there. Time for a proper #introduction. Permacommons is a new initiative to build shared resources with #AI assistance. We're starting with open source software. We've expanded on our motivation in this inaugural blog post: permacommons.org/posts/2025-0...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I just published Chabeau 0.6.0, an open source chatbot TUI. For now you still need the Rust toolchain to install it (`cargo install chabeau`). New in this release: in-place message refinement, and editing of assistant responses. github.com/permacommons... #AI #LLM

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Yet another way Trump is screwing working families: this was a FREE tool we set up so folks could file taxes directly, without paying an expensive service. So who does cancelling it benefit? The answer is not working Americans, but it sure is big corporations who profit off them.

this was for a colorado measure guaranteeing universal free lunch for kids. funny how a short two-column table can say so much in so little space.

The billionaire class uses its power to persuade ordinary people that it is rational and sensible to let the hungry starve and the sick suffer and die. One version of that story is that any politics other than the privatization of the social contract is doomed to fail. It is a lie.

Folks, my team at @boltsmag.org is bringing you all the results all night... but they're not at 100K followers yet. Let's get it there! If you've been enjoying our election coverage, press that follow button!

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

What if, and stay with me, the barbaric and imperious way the United States responded to 9/11 is an enormous part of how we got here

Frankly, there are now many such stories among folks doing highly complex technical work. AI exhibits, as @emollick.bsky.social and others have noted, "jagged" capabilities (sometimes remarkably good, sometimes catastrophically bad). That's a more complex story than "useless hype" or "AGI soon".

Yes, I’ve been indicted. But I don’t want people to lose sight of what got us here. Thank you for having me, @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss why these atrocities need to end and why there needs to be real accountability.

Funding nonprofit news -- investigative outlets like @propublica.org, specialized ones like @insideclimatenews.org, or carefully edited newsletters like HEATED -- has never been more important or more urgent.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

This is the refugee policy of an aspirational ethnostate.

Judge exposed as political operative threatens journalist by alluding to connections with criminal gang that has gained control of US government.

“We made a calculated a bet that our audience would show up for us,” @wired.com’s @katie-drummond.bsky.social says at @freedom.press’ webinar on the magazine’s decision to unpaywall FOIA-based reporting in March. “That bet paid off above and beyond what I could possibly imagine.” Watch live 👇🏽

We now have legal fees on top of our campaign expenses. You can help us stand up to the Trump administration by chipping in here: katforillinois.com/legal

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that large parts of Westminster remaining on X - a platform that tolerates and amplifies extremism and racism - has led a great many people to normalise what previously was unacceptable.

There’s a @briancassella.bsky.social shot for this from just today!!

I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality. www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...

Tuesday will be 50 days since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees issued an order allowing the Trump administration, essentially, to target working-class Latinos in its massive immigration raids. What has happened since has been as bad, if not worse, than experts warned on Sept. 8.

Spotify customer service is immediately ending conversations if you ask about them airing ICE advertisements on the platform. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #BoycottSpotify

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.