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Bethan

@bethan.bsky.social

neurosalty desert rat / tech policy & sci fi nerd / regulatory PM for some game studios / mender / former USARNG

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Bethan@bethan.bsky.social · 4h ago

I am so sleepy. I could nap under my desk for 30 minutes, or go get a decaf mocha. I’ll get the mocha but only because people are judgy.

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 6h ago

ICYMI: ICE added an estimated 920,000 DNA profiles to the FBI's criminal database in a single year. Most of the people swabbed have no criminal conviction. CBP records show 492 children under 14 sent to the FBI. 21 of them were five-year-olds. One was 4. By @dmehro.bsky.social

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

wired.com

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 7h ago

Across the living surface of coral, a frantic dance of survival takes place. The tiny dancers are hairlike cilia, and new research into these microscopic structures is revealing just how active corals are in determining their own fate. www.quantamagazine.org/corals-spin-...

Corals Spin Tiny Vortices to Get Oxygen, but Not if It’s Too Hot | Quanta Magazine

New research is helping biologists understand how an overlooked aspect of coral physiology may affect their fate under climate change.

quantamagazine.org

MIT Technology Review@technologyreview.com · 15h ago

NASA's Roman telescope carries the first space-bound "active" coronagraph, which doesn't just block starlight—it measures and suppresses glare, improving sensitivity to exoplanets by up to 1,000 times over current instruments.

Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA’s new space telescope could unveil Jupiters like our own

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be the first space telescope to use an “active coronagraph” to block out unwanted starlight.

trib.al

Derek Powazek@fraying.bsky.social · yesterday

And when they play the division card - “but trans athletes!” - we model inclusion. “A better America for all Americans, including our beloved trans family.” When they scapegoat immigrants we say “America is awesome and we will welcome people who want to do the hard work of becoming American.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · yesterday

“Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.” apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump accounts were closed in 2021 due to concerns over possible money laundering, Capital One says

Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering.

apnews.com

Udi Ofer@uofer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal: DHS has been tracking down Americans at work and on the road who are critical of immigration policies, spending millions on contractors to surveil First Amendment protected speech and create political dossiers. Outrageous. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics

The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

wsj.com

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d ago

Celebrate AOC's beautiful path to the 2028 presidency, as proclaimed by Andrew and Tristan Tate's lawyer. 'McBride saw it as a given that MAGA couldn’t afford to lose his clients, writing on Instagram, “AOC will be the next President without the Manosphere and Andrew Tate.” '

“Andrew Tate was a material participant in ensuring President Trump’s victory,” McBride says. “And if Trump doesn’t support him, and if the next people who are going to be running for office potentially are just like, yeah, down the river he goes, that young cohort of people will break with the Republican Party in the next election.” McBride saw it as a given that MAGA couldn’t afford to lose his clients, writing on Instagram, “AOC will be the next President without the Manosphere and Andrew Tate.” “If your superhero is betrayed by somebody,” he tells me, “the person who’s betrayed them, how can you support them ever again?” https://www.vanityfair.com/story/andrew-tate-extradition-trump-manosphere?
Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2d ago

Digital ID scrapped. DSIT shuttered. AI policy reshuffled. New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is already making moves to change the government’s approach to tech policy. Justin Hendrix asks James Ball, Gavin Freeguard, and Rachel Coldicutt to make sense of the "muddle."

Taking Stock of the UK Tech Policy 'Muddle'

A conversation with Tech Policy Press fellow James Ball, State of the Future's Gavin Freeguard, and Careful Industries' Rachel Coldicutt.

buff.ly

Derek Powazek@fraying.bsky.social · 2d ago

I genuinely cannot stand elected representatives posting to this website as if they’re not the ones with the fucking power. Stop posting and start legislating, Ro.

Ro Khanna@rokhanna.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Trump Administration is sending billions to Amazon, Apple, Walmart, and other big corporations to refund them for Trump’s tariffs. American households were estimated to lose over $1,000 to tariff price hikes. Here's an idea: refund working families before big business.

Bethan@bethan.bsky.social · 3d ago

Just now I saw one of the giant thickish beige spiders. It saw me too, based on the way it paused while walking across the wall and leaned away from me. I thought: if it hides before I get back with a cup, then I don’t have to try and catch it.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 6d ago

Goodbye, Minneapolis, Chicago. Hello, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., pop. 2,300 The inhumanity of mass deportation hits small-town America as a tiny borough with just 4 cops partners with ICE and pulls over dozens of drivers, turning over 32 for deportation My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...

This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch

Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.

inquirer.com

Jeffrey Vagle@jvagle.me · 3d ago

Another axiom of innovation (channeling Langdon Winner, Donna Haraway, Lewis Mumford, Sheila Jasanoff, et al): Technologies bring with them the worldviews of their creators.

evil maid@lenazun.bsky.social · 3d ago

in the best of cases the police in my country make sure to take their sweet time, then blame you for whatever happened. your house is not secure enough, you're walking around the wrong places, how dare you open your car window, this area is known for crime.

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is “one of the most catastrophic events we've seen in our lifetime here in Spokane," KHQ anchor @KHQSean says, noting it's impossible to know many homes have already burned. Now it's sunset. "Tomorrow morning is going to be devastating for our community," @KHQLeslie says.”

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 4d ago

Harrowing scenes on Spokane's local TV stations tonight – as thousands of structures are threatened by fast-moving fires – here are some of the live streams KHQ: khq.com/live/ KXLY: kxly.com KREM: krem.com/watch H/T to @brianstelter.bsky.social

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Chevron just announced its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell clocked its second-highest quarterly profits. And while ExxonMobil's profits came in beneath what Wall Street analysts had expected, it still managed to double its earnings compared with this time last year.“ Tax them into oblivion.🤬

Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices

Chevron reported its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell had its second-biggest quarter, and ExxonMobil doubled its earnings compared with the same time last year.

npr.org