“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
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“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
Vonnegut's GHQ pieces and board
This game that Kurt Vonnegut designed and failed to sell before becoming an established author is actually pretty great. Surprisingly dynamic and strategic. Plus a great little booklet on the history of the game with plenty of archival materials.
A gift link to that excellent piece. bsky.app/profile/seth...
New Yorkers built a movement around the belief that every family should be able to afford a dignified life. Today, as Governor Kathy Hochul and I mark our commitment to universal childcare, we're proving that a movement of the people can transform how government serves the people.
☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone
“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
That link is showing up as a "Page not found" for me.
Facial recognition errors can have life-altering consequences. In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, CDT’s @jakelaperruque.bsky.social warns that ICE’s new approach — treating AI matches as definitive IDs — violates currently-understood DHS policy and endangers civil liberties.
The man was on a DoorDash delivery run at the time that another Portland resident filmed his arrest.
Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity"
Gift link from @bloomberg.com
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In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer.
We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple.
It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
257. The Commission recommends that all Member States: (a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip; (b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide; (c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law; (d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide; (e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. 258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: (a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants; (b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.
If this is interesting to you, check out some research on the use of bikes in disaster response from my colleague Dr. Sarah Kirkpatrick!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Looking over the data shows an odd trend: Mamdani's victory was built on the backs of people who don't own cars." www.jalopnik.com/1895759/nyc-...
Put this on a billboard.
The beautiful Breonna Taylor should have celebrated her 32nd birthday today. Never forget her. ❤️🕊️
It is possible to build machine learning systems which punch up instead of punching down.
Haliburton, as called in:
Brazil, France, Iceland, U.S. (in Spanish), Albania, U.S. (ESPN Radio), Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, the Netherlands, Türkiye, Canada, and Croatia:
Big tech's energy consumption has skyrocketed bc of AI ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
A new study details the evolutionary change of Anna's Hummingbirds, finding their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to get the most from common feeders.
AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this
If Republicans were proud of their bill, they'd debate it in the light of day.
Instead, they're trying to move it under the cover of night like the cult of cowards that they are.
They know that ripping away healthcare and food assistance from millions is harmful and unpopular.
