Mel Conway
@conways-law.bsky.social
Libertarianism scales up perversely. Every political phenomenon is a network effect. See page 2 of https://melconway.com/resume.pdf pdf of pinned thread: https://melconway.com/Home/pdf/EngineeringMind.pdf
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.
The largest nurse and healthcare professional strike in Massachusetts history is underway in Boston this morning.
This is what an actual true patriot looks like. God bless you and protect you for your courage!
On Birthright Citizenship: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” -Justice Ketanji Brown 💅💕
We the people of the United States are engaged in an asymmetric *state-capture* war. We are losing this war. 1/48
Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2mo agoRIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
Our water is too valuable to waste. Yet more than 500 planned data centers are headed to drought-stricken areas. We deserve a say before our water is handed over to these corrupt bigshots.
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
The horn of Africa is grieving because their -Their farms are no longer yielding -Advancement of desert is alarming -Our major rivers are drying -Proliferation of pest and pathogens -Development of tropical diseases. -Our crop are dieing out. Climate change is a reality.
Factual thoughts: Scott Pelley and Henry Schuster were embedded with my Marine infantry unit in 2009—it was incredibly violent in Helmand. They told our story well. Years later, my unit suffered multiple suicides, they came back to cover that too.
The science is brutally clear: • 1 million species at risk of extinction • 70% of wildlife populations lost in 50 years • 2024 was the hottest year on record (again) This is not a “future problem.” This is a now problem created by now choices. #RespectNature
🚨 Alarm bells are ringing in the Horn of Africa. Farms are no longer yielding, pests are spreading, and tropical diseases are emerging. Climate change is real, and it’s destroying lives. #ClimateCrisis #GlobalAction
They saw what happened to leaders like @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and rather than join and defend him, left him twisting in the wind, largely on his own.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.
Pope Leo XIV just published an encyclical on artificial intelligence. Not a statement. An encyclical, the Catholic Church's highest form of teaching, reserved for matters of fundamental human dignity. It's called Magnifica Humanitas. And Section 100 says this:
Tonight! A special broadcast of Rachel Maddow's recent live event at the 92nd Street Y: A conversation with Steven J. Ross, author of "The Secret War Against Hate" 9pmET on MS NOW
Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...
The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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