Trump's promise of mass deportations has Nebraska worried amid labor shortage Nebraska, one of the top beef producers, has one of the worst labor shortages in the nation. The incoming Trump administration has vowed to carry out mass deportations: how will Nebraska be affected?

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Also saying they don’t want to do anything that would threaten the dollar’s status as the world’s dominant reserve currency, source of American soft power; should be a check on how far they go with tariffs and trade wars, or wacky ideas like forming a crypto reserve.

Not much on this outside financial media. After running on reducing inflation, Trump officials now say the dollar is too strong (can buy too much with your dollars) leading to trade imbalances. There are complex economics considerations here, but they’re certainly not coming in as inflation hawks.

From California to Appalachia, America needs an Extreme Weather Resilience Act. Projects in every district: protect watersheds, forestry and fire management, hydrant pressure, floodwater management, energy independent microgrids for emergency shelter and relief staging, etc. “be prepared.”

1. From morning EST to evening PST, I receive an email roughly once every three minutes. Overnight the pace slows, but not all that much. If I did nothing but read email and reply 12 hours a day I could probably keep up.

A once-wonderful productivity technology is killing any hope of productivity.

Black Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler Predicted The Dystopia of the LA Fires By Studying History This week, her hometown of Pasadena has seen at least 5 killed, and 5 schools burned to ash.

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my heart broke watching Pasadena, Octavia Butler's hometown, where her middle school is named for her, burn. 5 schools have been damaged.

"Octavia knew"—so did Mike Davis—from studying history. denialism and targeting libraries got us here. what will we do?

An analogy I like. How much did steroids contribute to a single Bonds home run? Feels almost like an ill formed question. Every at bat was affected by steroids. Look at the frequency and intensity.

Fact check: What really happened with the Pacific Palisades water hydrants? Why did water hydrants run dry in the midst of a conflagration? City officials stressed that the shortage was due to low water pressure, not a complete lack of water. But what caused it, and can it be...

Congress should do an Extreme Weather Resilience Act funding projects in every congressional district to build levees, improve water storage and emergency systems, create energy independent microgrids around community centers that can be used for shelter and relief, etc.

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5. Now, I think, I seem more like a publisher with editorial responsibility, both morally and legally, than a mere platform. I think algorithmic message boosting on social media is like the photocopying case.

4. Now consider this. I have lots of bulletin boards and I want people interacting and looking at them. I know your enemy’s slander attracts attention. So I photocopy the flyer and post it on all my other bulletin boards.

3. The bulletin board is just a platform. Maybe if you ask me to take it down, I should, but plausibly I’m not responsible for its having been put up in the way that a publisher has editorial responsibilities.

2. Imagine I keep a community bulletin board. Like a literal physical bulletin board. Your enemy puts up a slanderous flyer about you. So far so good. I didn’t publish it, your enemy did.

1. Social media companies have long deflected legal and moral accountability by saying “we are a platform not a publisher.” But consider the following thought experiment…