I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths
from this recent Dorsey interview:
The Illinois Emergency Management Agency is on the ground to offer support and help assess the full extent of the storm damage in Kankakee last night.
The State of Illinois is ready to stand with you every step of the way.
“When Patricia Martinez was asked by an employee of the Mexican Consulate in San Bernardino to sit down, she thought her husband had been deported.”
Instead, it was to tell her that her husband had died hours earlier while in ICE custody.
www.calonews.com/featured-top...
“Eisenhower recognized that economically dispossessed people were natural targets for political and religious extremists.”
And here we are…
The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.
Waste! Fraud! Abuse!
bsky.app/profile/tusk...
Waste! Fraud! Abuse!
excited for the inevitable DNC fundraising email begging for money to "fight this lawless, dangerous administration"
lol
“Several years ago, nephrologists attempted a first-of-its-kind effort: remove race from a key clinical algorithm, and attempt to undo the harms… A new study found the change had big results, impacting 27% of Black patients and resulting in 5.3 more transplants per 1000 Black candidates.”
Markwayne Mullin has never served in the military or law enforcement. He made a living in the construction industry and his only academic credential is an associates' degree in the trades. He's done MMA and he thinks that combat sports makes him the same as the military. It does not.
The actual finding here is about research methodology and doesn't debunk previous studies that find no association between Tylenol and autism.
You should not report studies like this in a way that implies RFK Jr has a point!
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC: "Home Health Aide $23,000 I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them? Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."
It's all so clear
Andy Ogles seems unable to comprehend the basic values the United States was founded on – like religious freedom under the First Amendment.
Muslim Americans are our neighbors, colleagues, and friends. They belong here, but this vile Islamophobia doesn’t belong in Congress.
“Montana Republican Tim Sheehy voted to scrap solar tax credits after installing panels and battery storage at his Bozeman home.” www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Daylight Savings Time sucks and should be abolished.
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int...
President Trump Attends Dignified Transfer At Dover Air Force Base For National Guard Members Killed In Syria DOVER, DELAWARE - DECEMBER 17: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Alternate crop) U.S. President Donald Trump salutes as a U.S. Army carry team moves a flagged-draped transfer case containing the remains of lowa National Guardsman Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar at Dover Air Force Base on December 17, 2025 in Dover, Delaware. Iowa National Guard members Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar and Ayad Mansoor Sakat, a U.S. civilian working as an interpreter, were killed during a recent ambush by an Islamic State (IS) gunman in Syria. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Yeah, that's 100% footage from December
TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops.
CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...
Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
Mary Chapin Carpenter and @themountaingoats.bsky.social team up on two new tracks
Just a reminder to men writing about anything that they should read lots of women
just a reminder to white people writing about anything that they should read lots of Black and Brown people
just a reminder to cis people writing about anything that they should read lots of trans people
just a r
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
