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Jen Fifield@jenafifield.bsky.social · 2w ago

1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇

Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · 3w ago

Meta's stock is going up after a 17 billion settlement over harming children. When the market can simply price in the cost of crime, the way we're seeing right now, it's clear that the law is no longer a deterrent to capital. We truly live in a world with one law for people and another for capital

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James Feigenbaum@jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I don't have it yet, but there's an econ history paper in these transcripts or transcripts like them (that we can now turn into textual data at the cost of pennies per hour)

Daniel van Strien@danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Open ASR models with speaker diarization are now fast and cheap: I diarized 174 hours of Apollo 11 mission audio (the real July 1969 NASA tapes) for $9.46 with a 0.9B open model. Search it, hear any moment on the original tape: huggingface.co/spaces/davan...

demo screenshot showing search results and play buttons next to transcripts
nfariousactivities.bsky.social@nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 4mo ago

”The NYT reviewed over 12 hours of cabinet meeting footage to analyze how his administration spoke to him…at least one of every six sentences either flattered Mr. Trump, gave him credit or criticized his political opponents.“ Each of those 3 is broken out by cabinet member. Quite the presentation!

How Trump’s Cabinet Speaks to Him: Praise, Accolades and Lots of Criticizing Opponents (Gift Article)

The New York Times reviewed over a dozen hours of cabinet meeting footage to analyze how President Trump’s administration speaks to him. Many pack their speaking time with praise and flattery.

nytimes.com

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿@notjustdna.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚢🦠 Thread still being written, but I want to get off on to something else, so sharing it now! 😊

Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · 4mo ago

After 15 years of reporting on infectious disease outbreaks, what continues to fascinate me about them is the challenge of making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius is a perfect example My story in @science.org is here (and a thread to come): 🧪 #IDsky

Lisa Fazio@lkfazio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

One year later - my reflections on what's happened to US science since the National Science Foundation grant terminations last year. The problem of misinformation isn't going away, but our ability to study and understand it is under attack. 1/ 🧪 www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

I researched misinformation, until the government stopped me | Opinion

A researcher's NSF grant termination reveals a broader attack on science funding and misinformation research, despite rising AI-generated falsehoods.

tennessean.com

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Aretha releases her version of Otis Redding’s “Respect” 59 yrs ago today. “I felt I could do something different with it,” she said. “The term ‘sock it to me’ was a big, big thing in our neighborhood — all the kids were saying it. The same goes for ‘TCB’, an acronym for ‘taking care of business.’”

kottke.org@kottke.org · 5mo ago

Perhaps the wackiest invention you'll ever see (that actually works): in the early 1900s, an engineer invented a self-balancing train that ran on a single track using a clever system of gyroscopes. [kottke.org]

The Brennan Self-Balancing Monorail

This is so cool: in the early 1900s, a mechanical engineer named Louis Brennan invented a self-balancing train that ran on a single track. This video demonstrates how the train worked using a clever system of gyroscopes.

kottke.org

Libération@liberation.fr · 5mo ago

Philippe Artières, historien : «Le caractère massif des dossiers Epstein nous fait croire à leur exhaustivité» Le directeur de recherches au CNRS tente de qualifier les millions de documents révélés par la justice américaine sur les agissements du criminel sexuel. Interview :

Philippe Artières, historien : «Le caractère massif des dossiers Epstein nous fait croire à leur exhaustivité»

Le directeur de recherches au CNRS tente de qualifier les millions de documents révélés par la justice américaine sur les agissements du criminel sexuel. Et s’interroge sur les discours et les imaginaires sociaux qui la traversent.

liberation.fr