The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.

And like, 2 million and change tons of CO2 is not nothing, but I would personally prefer governments start by banning private jets, which produce 17 million tons of CO2, over organic eggs.

A very important hearing that highlights the ongoing issues related to fast-tracking mega IPOs into major US indexes. #CorpGov

Americans for Financial Reform@ourfinancialsecurity.org · last mo.

Today Rep. Maxine Waters & Natalia Renta, AFR's associate director of corporate governance & power, sounded the alarm on how new changes to the rules governing passive investments will harm workers, retirees and families. Full testimony on AFR's website: buff.ly/F3KuPTX

In honor of his apparent victory: @bradlander.bsky.social eats a hot dog on the Cyclone

Some math: Starlinks last ~5 years They launch in 20-29 per launch Goal: 12,000 Satellites Assuming they replace 1/5 per year, or 2400 per year, at ave 24 per launch, that is 100 launches a year. At $74M per launch (per Starbase), that's $7.4 billion in launch costs + $500M to $1G in satellites

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

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If it looks like work, why isn’t it treated like work? Check out this new blog post from Pia Garavaglia which explores the impact of AI on work, and who counts as a 'worker' in today's economy: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/if-it-look...

A new article from Data Syn looking ahead to June's ILO Conference where governments, employers, and worker representatives will come together to negotiate what could become the first global standard on decent work in the platform economy. datasyn.substack.com/p/from-recog...

“Alone We Are Powerless; Together We Are Strong.” A recap from the 05.10-05.12 Global Platform Workers Solidarity Project convening in Nairobi. Read more: www.iccr.org/alone-we-are...

Breaking: The NYS Assembly, dominated by democrats, just voted for a Trumpy energy agenda that guts the NY climate law. The climate law delayed action by 7 years, but a court had ordered Hochul to implement it… so she moved to gut it and the legislature is obliging. 🤦🤦🤦

50% of American workers say they want to join unions, but 10% of workers are IN unions. Where’s the disconnect, you might wonder? The game is rigged. www.epi.org/publication/...

U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance

Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining for better pay and working conditions. We estimate that employers spend roughly ...

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Really moved by the interview with Wallace Shawn, one of about oh I dunno I wanna say four living celebrities I love and admire. www.interviewmagazine.com/film/wallace...

Wallace Shawn Isn’t Ready to Die

With his retrospective currently playing at the Metrograph, the 82-year-old actor proves he has one of the most iconic filmographies. Even if he can't exactly remember most of it.

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this is a masterpiece

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

He’s still doing 2-hour one-man plays at 82. An inspiration. www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-int...

‘A lot of people don’t think I can act’: Wallace Shawn on Hollywood, therapy and speaking out on Palestine

At 82, the character actor is as frank and fired-up as ever with two hit stage shows and a summer blockbuster on the way. He’s embracing being odd, he says, even if everyone doesn’t quite get it

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I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.

Today we released "Excessive Executive Compensation: Investor Guidance" spotlighting the ways exec. comp trends are distorting the wider economy. Our guide provides concrete examples of how investors can help rein in excessive pay through their proxy voting & engagement www.iccr.org/iccr-issues-...

Imagine every interaction with a public official—from people working lines at the airports, to cops, to the people responsible for keeping your power on at your job—requires an exchange of some petty cash. Just the constant friction of graft to not get fucked over. It's bad.

The SOC Investment Group urges shareholders to vote NO on Items 3 and 4, the resolutions to ratify the actions of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board at the Mercedes-Benz AGM on April 16. Mercedes consistently breached their own human rights and labor protection commitments. #CorpGov

Very cool that data centers increase the temperature around them up to 16 DEGREES for a radius of 6 miles. Bc the surrounding families will use more energy to cool their homes. And uh oh, there goes another blackout!

Fortune @fortune.com · 4mo ago

AI infrastructure is significantly warming the areas around them, creating a “data heat island effect” with the potential to impact hundreds of millions of people living nearby, a new working paper from the University of Cambridge found. https://bit.ly/4m8eUTB

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

The data from your Meta Ray Bans is used to train Meta's AI, which most people don't understand means that humans are looking at the most intimate details of their lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says

Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

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(2/11) You know dynamic pricing—think Uber rides, flights, or concert tickets that surge based on supply and demand. “Surveillance Pricing” takes this to the next level: using your data to set a “price for you” based on your predicted breaking point. This is, increasingly, everywhere.

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

Tomorrow, a FL Senate committee will hear a bill (SB 1236) that would incentivize employers to make it harder for workers in the private sector to form unions & discourage neutrality. It's similar to model legislation drafted by ALEC that's been passed (in some form) in AL, GA, & TN 🧵

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

Utility watchdogs accuse PGE of skirting new law meant to make data centers pay for rising demand. PGE is trying to spread part of the costs onto regular ratepayers, contrary to recent law requiring separate rate class for data centers oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/15/u...

Utility watchdogs accuse PGE of skirting new law meant to make data centers pay for rising demand • Oregon Capital Chronicle

PGE doesn't plan to simply assign the costs of energy investments needed to support data centers, to data centers.

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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress