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I won a prize from the Harvard Shorenstein Center for my newsletter, Popular Information. “Legum has built a model of journalism that combines meticulous investigative reporting with clear, accessible explanations of how power operates—and who benefits."

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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Vigil for Renee Good here in front of Wisconsin’s capitol building right now:

@maas.engineering is it just me or does the "Get font" button on open-foundry.com not work? I just tried in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.

What does not fit in this thread? Well, Typst! Today, Typst has reached and exceeded 50K stars on GitHub. We could not have asked for a greater closure of the year! Thank you: We could not have done it without you! 🫶

Chinese military strategists must be loving this. “Yes, sail your giant corruption-built missile targets into the South China Sea. We are scared of railguns. Ahh.”

“Too much need for AI to make it all work…” is a bizarre statement given how many countries enacted UCH before the foundations of deep learning were even established in research.

This is the most rational and useful response in the whole thread

Telling, but tiny sample size and no indication of any geographical distribution.

China didn’t steal American jobs, CEOs of multinational corporations gave them away. AI won’t steal American jobs, CEOs will make a choice to cut labor to save a dime. We all have an obligation to take a stand for American workers.

Do not do it

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

@ai2.bsky.social Why is the only option to log in to playground.allenai.org to use a Google account?

I think it's pretty simple. He is a narcissist TV guy who has been the center of attention for his entire life because he inherited money and our media outlets are obsessed with wealth. He likes being around people who are popular because he gets to be a part of the attention directed at them.

What is going on

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Yes but let's admit that "memebrane" is actually a pretty good term for our collective, social media-addled consciousness though.

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This is so odd. Why would you dump money into one software company when all of the tens of AI software companies depend on the hardware companies that number in the single digits? Maybe they are betting on OpenAI getting that too-big-to-fail taxpayer-funded bailout?

“We looked him in the eye. We did a warrior’s handshake. We drank mead from the same chalice. I know I can trust this man to grant a vote that we can’t possibly win so that we can blame progressives for our failures. I believe in John Thune.”

Eliminating reposts from my following feed has made a massive improvement in its quality. Can’t believe it’s not the default.

@booker.senate.gov and @kim.senate.gov had both better be no on this cop out.

@govtrack.us does a massive public service with a tiny team, they deserve more support. I ordered a blue tee!

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Private prison industry is booming.

These are consecutive issues from the same period. It makes sense to me that Spidey would re-use the same jokes on different hoods. They don't know.

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I understand the argument here, but it is a bit misleading. Inflation is a measure of reduced purchasing power of *goods and services*, while interest rates reduce purchasing power of *debt*. (Would be curious what a real economist, maybe @justinwolfers.bsky.social thinks of this)

Where the f**k was all this reporting from the Times & the Journal on Trump & the world’s most famous child rapist in 2016, 2020, & 2020? Where were the effing Dems & their oppo research? How on earth has it taken this long for this stuff to come out?

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

This is such an excellent embodiment of how feckless the @democrats.org are. The graphic shows the opposite of the message!

WATCH — @anakasparian.bsky.social unleashes on Shabbos Kestenbaum: “No, I’m gonna let you filibuster, b*tch… I can’t stand it. It’s unbearable.”

In April, Mayor @justinmbibb.bsky.social and the City of Cleveland released its latest Climate Action Plan outlining a 5-year plan to reduce emissions by 63.3% from 11.7 MMtCO2e (million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent) to 4.3 MMtCO2e by 2030.

1. Trump says that the letter to Epstein is fake because the letter is "not the way I talk." Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the letter is "not at all how he speaks or writes." JD Vance said the same thing. Does the letter sound like Trump? I investigated.

The truest statement on parenting. One of the other things they don't tell you is: how many duplicate items you buy. Changing pads? One in every room and vehicle. Hand sanitizer? 50+ bottles. Weighted straw cups? By the pallet.

The absolute dumbest thing about Yglesias’s argument here is that climate-aware industrial policy *is* materially beneficial for workers. “air pollution in Middletown was responsible for up to 67 premature deaths, more than 20,000 cases of asthma symptoms” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I don’t believe it’s different. Either by fact (there’s nothing in the files and DT is just paranoid) or by malice (his goons in the FBI will destroy evidence). But this is a clear-eyed take on the situation. Content never sleeps.

We all know what has to come next: The Colbert Report Returns (aka The Return of the King)

This administration’s reactionary attitude is creating extreme risk for American technical leadership in compute, energy, and manufacturing in the future.

1. The media is normalizing Trump's corruption. There is a massive scandal that almost all media outlets are ignoring. It involves a new Trump Tower that will be constructed in Bucharest. Follow this thread for details. popular.info/p/the-medias...

Very helpful basis of facts around such a conspiratorial issue.

As immigration enforcement ramps up to unprecedented levels, and agents crawl all over the streets of our cities looking for innocent people to round up, we must be clear on the fact that this is not law enforcement. It’s just authoritarian cruelty. www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-cou...

Is the Fed being active on Bluesky some sort of low-key rebellion against the threats towards Powell? In any case, love to see it.

"I will happily join an old-school united front with liberals and the left against skull-measurers, IQ-worshippers. It's really the most terrifying politics there is." What I told @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social of @vox.com a few weeks ago. Count on it.

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