Dr Emma L Briant

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

Because of Jesus this is all so bad.

If the US ever gets out of this moment, the first thing it needs to do is introduce some kind of rules governing self-serving presidential pardons...

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

FIU professors weigh showdown with DeSantis over ‘censored’ sociology course Faculty now must decide whether to defy Gov. Ron DeSantis or adopt a top-down proposal they say waters down honest classroom discussions about identity and structural inequality.

Faculty now must decide whether to defy Gov. Ron DeSantis or adopt a top-down proposal they say waters down honest classroom discussions about identity and structural inequality.

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The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

a NH legislative seat isn't in itself a big deal...but the fact that Ds keep flipping R seats kind of is.but they haven't really created narratives about it, so it doesn't register.

US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Music is the soul of the movement.

“Hands Off! Melt ICE” drops March 23!

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I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

"The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familiar with the process."

A shocking number of people responding to this video clearly did not watch the video. David is extremely opposed to the Trump administration's terrorization of immigrant communities. He is describing serious problems with the current laws which make accountability difficult.

What Tucker Carlson’s ‘fire’ lefty merch tells us about the modern influencer economy. “What are the moral repercussions of buying dope merch from an ontological enemy?”

I wrote about Tucker Carlson's dirtbag left "NY Commie" and "I ❤️ NICOTINE" merch, the Right's efforts to infiltrate your feeds, and the dream of the modern influencer — to move from content to shelf-stable goods.

☭ Gift link ☭

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Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency released a draft for a new permit that would allow data centers across the state to release untreated wastewater and stormwater dire…

AI is better than humans because AI doesn’t get cancer. So let’s build data centers that we know will cause humans to get cancer. It’s a win all around.
www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

The Coalition for Independent Technology Research has filed a lawsuit with the @knightcolumbia.org and @protectdemocracy.org challenging a US State Department policy to revoke or deny visas of non-citizen researchers because of their work studying the societal impacts of technology. (1/4)

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

NEW: My Udemy course 'Propaganda & Disinformation for Beginners' has helped students in 26 countries worldwide strengthen their armour against disinformation since it launched 2 years ago. Techniques Cambridge Analytica used to secretly profile millions have become a vastly profitable industry.. /1

Algorithms and democracy - Sitra Download Publication details Title Algorithms and democracy Writers Ilkka Räsänen, Kristo Lehtonen, Bálint Dercsényi, Laurence Fenn, Sujatha Krishnan-Barman, Cindia Li Publisher Sitra Year of publicat...

The whole study can be read here - it's in English.

www.sitra.fi/en/publicati...

A study of social media content 18-24-year olds see in #Finland, #France and #Romania shows that algorithms overwhelmingly feed them right-wing political content - whether or not the users are interested.

Three country average for right wing content was 58% - in Finland, 67%!

yle.fi/a/74-20214134

Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

Plus I had to repeat a lot of content like I think I did The Vikings three times, but also was expected to know things I hadn't covered. It wasn't fun!

We moved a lot so it was always "Emma is starting to settle in and make friends now" followed six months later by "it's a shame Emma will be leaving soon because she's just started to catch up and make friends"

This is how terrorists are made. These sailors' sons and daughters will hate the U.S. for their entire lives.

#GBNews, toxic & fact-free as ever.
Also: “indigenous”?
Thomas (Aramaic name, popularised by a middle-eastern religion) Corbett (French) Dillon (French). Mass migration into Britain after the Norman Conquest? More than 100k English people died as a result of Norman repression. That kind of genocide?

Omg I don't think I could tolerate Rory Stewart at 3x the speed

Hahaha ! Indeed!

British podcasts also use more humour.