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"If signed, the bill takes effect January 1, 2027, at which point any existing local ordinances, resolutions, programs, or policies deemed to relate to LGBTQ+ people and other “DEI” activities would be immediately void."
Plot of net CO2 emissions for four mitigation scenarios (4 curves, 4 colors); from the year 2000 to 2600 on the x axis and from -5 to 10 CtC/year on the y axis.
"Figure 1. Comparison of four idealized mitigation scenarios and their implications for long-term net-negative CO2 emissions ... Panel a shows the mean annual net CO2 emission pathways for each scenario. "
There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now
Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline.
Please share.
tcpipeline.org
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian
1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.
Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.
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So is programming. Which is why "vibe coding" is bunk. You have to think through exactly what you want the program to do, and only writing the code will force you to actually think it through properly.
Writing is thinking.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
I wrote my PhD dissertation on the algorithmic risk profiling system Ryogens which was launched in several councils in England in 2003 (!) Goal of system was to alert schools, health, police and housing services of at-risk-children & improve communication www.researchgate.net/publication/...
They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.
sigh
“Amalia had been healthy before immigration officers arrested her family… Amalia’s health quickly deteriorated [in Dilley]. On Jan. 18, she was rushed to a children’s hospital where doctors treated her for pneumonia, Covid-19, RSV and severe respiratory distress.”
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The Montana secretary of state is a fascist handmaiden
Thanks so much to @mprnews.org for covering #Comics4Liam. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Which idea doesn't have a long history?
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Our initial analysis is up.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
8th circuit gives ICE go ahead to use force against peaceful demonstrators, a decision which will immediately lead to injury.
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.
New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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This gets me back to one of my main critiques of academia, which is that most people go where the funding is, particularly in science, and it leads to so much harm when a particular field or methodology or style of investigation is overfunded.
1/ We found that deep sequence models memorize atomic facts "geometrically" -- not as an associative lookup table as often imagined.
This opens up practical questions on reasoning/memory/discovery, and also poses a theoretical "memorization puzzle."
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Gemini:
"The author contends that the “meat condition”—specifically electrochemical processing—must be taken seriously as a potential necessary condition for consciousness, even if we cannot yet explain why."
I then asked what's the difference if e.g. homeopaths would use similar arguments.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.24796
/LeanCat: A Benchmark Suite for Formal Category Theory in Lean (Part I: 1-Categories)/
Rongge Xu, Hui Dai, Yiming Fu, Jiedong Jiang, Tianjiao Nie, Hongwei Wang, Junkai Wang, Holiverse Yang, Jiatong Yang, Zhi-Hao Zhang
in case you missed it:
beginning thursday, chicago police will ban unhoused people on the sex offense registry from seeking shelter on the cta—the latest in an escalating series of attacks on unhoused people under mayor brandon johnson’s administration.
I saw an academic unironically suggest that instead of assessing students’ understanding and competence through their writing of essays, arguments etc., we can assess the “quality” of their prompts, and I feel us slipping further and further into dystopia.
