who sat in boxes breathing in the darkness under the bridge, and rose up to build harpsichords in their lofts,

Join North #CambMA Pro-Housing Meetup Sunday Aug 3 Organize with www.abciepac.org to elect a pro-housing city council Aug 3 Sunday 2-4pm

Things at old school GITMO are going quite well. Why do you ask?

Best part of visiting @lshtm.bsky.social means seeing the ORIGINAL broad street pump! Not the public replica, but the actual pump that spread actual cholera in Soho in 1854! One day, I dream this will be in a public museum focused on John Snow! #EpiSky

Anyway, everyone should relax about potential US military action. As we all learned from SignalGate, there's a robust and well-structured interagency process with explicit, written guidance from the commander in chief regarding the use of military force.

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

"A venture capitalist, Marine Corps veteran and Charlie Baker-era MBTA executive" JFC, that last one alone should disqualify anyone from any office anywhere.

These people are the best of us.

As Philip K. Dick put it, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

Have you ever looked at a weather map online? Or seen a nice visualization of weather forecast model output? If so, NSF Unidata almost certainly made that possible in one way or another. Modern meteorological education would not be possible without the data, tools, and resources they provide.

In a stunning defeat for the #spyware industry, an Oakland jury has directed Pegasus maker NSO Group to pay Meta's WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages for routing its attacks through the company's servers. GIFT LINK wapo.st/4jLGYKz

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/06/m... "Former #CambMA city councilor Nadeem Mazen was arrested last month and is facing several charges including kidnapping after an alleged incident at a local hotel, police and court documents show...."

Curious who, if anybody, actually vetted this app for the government.

New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

I have introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump. When Trump ignores the Constitution, Congress, and the courts, he is not “fighting for America.” He is tearing it down and endangering our democracy.

From the last Trump term when a MA judge was charged with obstruction of justice for not turning over an immigrant to ICE. When people are scared to interact with the courts for fear of deportation it makes us all less safe. www.welcometohellworld.com/this-nation-...

Ed Martin's latest target: Wikipedia. The interim U.S. attorney and pro-Trump bulldog has sent a letter seeming to threaten the Wikimedia Foundation's tax-exempt status over allegations that it is "spreading propaganda." Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I'm a waymo Democrat in the sense that we need way more Democrats.

Today my new @mitpress.bsky.social book with Mark Brockway publishes! It explores the historical forces that gave rise to a shapeshifting, amalgamated figure of the liberal devil mapped onto a very broad conceptualization of “the left” and the Democratic Party mitpress.mit.edu/978026255227...

Today in weird statistical coincidences

Boston area folks: just learned about this ICE Hotline to report ICE activity in the area: 🚨617-370-5023 - 5am-9pm every day - English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Haitian Creole, more soon - operated by Luce Mass. more info: www.lucemass.org

To his everlasting credit, Tom Leherer placed his music in the public domain: tomlehrersongs.com/albums/

When explaining Palantir to people, I've said that when they start rounding up people, Palantir will be making the lists. I didn't expect that functionality to be quite so granular.

NEW: 404 Media has seen parts of a Palantir-powered ICE database that allows for highly specific filtering of people, which allows for searches of students, people with tattoos, from specific countries, by visa status, etc: www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...

1/5 After the #HandsOff protest in Boston, many people left their signs along the fence of the Granary, the cemetery where Paul Revere and Sam Adams are buried, as well as those killed in the Boston Massacre. I walked along and got pictures of many of the signs, though not all.

Thanks to the sponsors---a Saudi airline, a Saudi oil company and Chinese-owned TikTok, which is paying for an event at that drives profits to Trump resort, as Trump decides the fate of TikTok. Does that seem corrupt?

I'm sure PRC intel sitting on the OPM breach data would find this sort of thing quite useful.

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

Regime details Harvard extortion demands: No diversity, no masks, appointment of administrators who can work towards the Fuhrer and regular updates to the Sicherheitsdienst on punishments of students doing thought crimes www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

4/ When we compare the volume of events so far in 2025 against those in 2017, we estimate that March 2025 was a much more active month than March 2017, from what we were able to observe then and now.

Bill Kristol is doing it. You can do it too. You can stop writing false equivalence op-eds and donating to Third Way.

What's especially pernicious of Trump's invocation of "Jewish safety" in his attacks on higher ed is that (1) it is antisemitic in and of itself and (2) it is intentionally designed to foster antisemitism by making people associate Jews with the fascist regime.

But first, we have to take away things that people desperately need in order to pave the way for this future abundance.

This www.techpolicy.press/most-researc... by @eryk.bsky.social is good.

This is so so wild. Mercola is the OG of online health misinfo sitting on a $300 mil enterprise. And these tapes where he confers with an alien spirit on every decision from what gasses he inserts into his bum, to firing executives, to feeding his dog his own blood—shows he’s a true believer.

Posted for no particular reason. "Tell the truth and let the world decide."

Conspiracy theories have been flying about why the government hasn't released all the JFK assassination files. Tucker Carlson claimed "a very serious force" was stopping it. We spoke to a National Archives source who knows why: "just a shitton of staples to remove" www.404media.co/why-all-of-t...

I spent most of the last year spelling out in detail how this was going to happen they're going to redirect taxpayer money from a lot of locally-owned fiber ISPs (focused on service and affordability), and throw it at musk's expensive, ozone layer depleting, congested plagued satellite service

Thanks to the @waybackmachine.bsky.social we were able to find a copy of this report on Climate Literacy that was removed: web.archive.org/web/20250225... They don't want us to see it, so we should share it even more.

Utterly proud to have been a founding board member of @abettercambr1dge.bsky.social back in the day.

If you are curious about website traffic to a particular .gov, you can use analytics.usa.gov analytics.usa.gov/health-human...

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

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

I, for one, am waiting for the editorial calling for the repeal of zoning laws so that the real estate market can be "free".

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

For the record, the idea of the entire federal workforce flooding an OPM email inbox with their weekly task reports is insurmountable stupid.