From 1978–2025, top CEO compensation shot up 1,094%.
Meanwhile, the typical worker's went up just 26%.
We're working hard every day and they're hoarding it all at the top. Record profits should mean record pay for ALL workers.
As of last week almost all vendors in New York City will no longer have to worry about being given a criminal record for simply vending.
34 JAMES BALDWIN White people are astounded by Birmingham. Black people aren't. White people are endlessly demanding to be reassured that Birmingham is really on Mars. They don't want to believe, still less to act on the belief, that what is happening in Birmingham is happening all over the country. They don't want to realize that there is not one step, morally or actually, between Birmingham and Los Angeles. I pokes
White people are astounded by Birmingham.
Black people aren't.
White people are endlessly demanding to be reassured that Birmingham is really on Mars.
They don't want to believe, still less to act on the belief,
that what is happening in Birmingham is happening all over the country.
James Baldwin
Feeling chatty and want to talk to someone about why this matters?
Call your Council Member and tell them directly that you demand they fund our libraries at 0.5% of the city’s expense budget.
Use this simple script!
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My lawyers just filed a first-rate legal memo in my 26 Federal Plaza arrest case. The purpose is to shine the brightest spotlight possible on the grossly inhumane treatment of migrants at the facility. So we’re demanding “evidence discovery” and asking for a jury trial. (1/2)
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
a lesson to be taken from the Proton email situation is that Swiss law isn’t a get out of jail free card and the Swiss government is a 5 eyes affiliate
This is nearly a city of 10 million people. Imagine New York City being carpet bombed. Tehran has a larger population.
Someone just picked up the phone in @schumer.senate.gov's office. Call him now! This is not a drill!
I just got an email survey from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social asking his constituents (me) whether Congress should "vote to pass our War Powers Resolution requiring an end to President Trump's illegal regime change war".
RIGHT NOW is an especially potent time to spam your reps.
🌏👩🔬PAPER: Carbon dioxide overload suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years.
Humans evolved in 280–300 ppm of CO₂. Atmosphere now measures 427ppm.
Since CO₂ is a fully mixed gas in the atmosphere, CO₂ overload is building in every human globally. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
For Trump, a military conflict with Iran would distract from:
-Epstein files
-His deadly deportation agenda
-Losing on tariffs at SCOTUS
-Tanking polls
-His devastating (and unpopular) budget bill
-Millions of people protesting his authoritarianism
When he's cornered, he lashes out. Be warned.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday the artificial intelligence company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology.
As a Black man with Tourette Syndrome, the Public Advocate has some thoughts on BAFTA, Pt. 1:
Hear about his experience with Coprolalia, his thoughts on how BAFTA mishandled the moment, and the need for care for all who are harmed:
Full video: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs
It's been 4 years since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began. Since then, thousands of mothers in Ukraine are raising their children alone as a direct result of the ongoing war. As the fighting continues, it is mostly women who care for the country’s vulnerable children.
Meet the mothers of Ukraine.
My patience with graduates whose reaction to "AI will crash the economy" is not "oh, we should work hard on open source, policy, and figuring out how to help each other" but "f**k, you need to run through the doors so we can slam them close faster" has dropped to negative values. You have FAILED!
BREAKING: Approximately 4,200 NYSNA nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian reached a tentative agreement late last night to end the historic 6-week strike. Nurses bargained all day and made their voices heard. Congratulations, NewYork-Presbyterian nurses!
Children are suffering in a for-profit prison.
Send them home. Abolish ICE. And ban private, for-profit prisons forever.
As a writer, I want to be clear: making the thing is the fun part. Why would I want the robots to do the fun part? **I** want to do the fun part!
I want AI that washes and folds my laundry so I have more time to make art and feel joy.
A screenshot of my profile on UpScrolled. It has the same banner, which says "Reinvest!" And my profile picture. My handle is @ straw_man_aj, the same as BlueSky.
I'm off Meta platforms and on @upscrolled.bsky.social! Follow me there.
The thing many people fail to grasp—the thing you are sort of prevented from ever having a reason to grasp until you put the effort in to learn or life demands it of you—is that a world in which you see a lot of disabled people is simply a world in which more people survive disability.
NEW: Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling and near the Whipple Federal Building -- headquarters of ICE's Operation Metro Surge -- establishing an occupation demanding 'land back' in the form of “returning Fort Snelling” to the Dakota people. [Video]
**Colonizers have been ruining everything since we came to this shore.
Colonizer =/= Immigrant
"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules
📚⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @doctora-nature.bsky.social has grown as a writer, resulting in a book that exceeds its predecessor. She connects everything that feels overwhelming in the world at its single point of intersectional nexus, and provides us a universal solution - empower Indigenous women to lead policy.
A hardcover copy of the book "The Catch" by Yrsa Daley-Ward against a grey background.
📚⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"The Catch" by @yrsadaleyward.bsky.social (2025) is an extraordinary piece of fiction. I have longed for a novel about the responsibility of wanting to parent the children you create like this book describes in poetic clarity. Immediately receives an honored place in my 'favorites' shelf.
Brockman had to have INTENTIONALLY avoided inviting non-white scientists to these events where Epstein would show up because Epstein didn't believe in the intellectual equality of non-white scientists to white ones
If you're a white scientist in an all white space, ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY
anyone who has had to think through the tradeoff between "recall" and "precision" in machine learning will react to this with complete horror
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
