For-profit sober living is wildly under-regulated & I’ve lived the consequences. I paid to be held “accountable” for my disease - but mostly it exploited the fact that I was sick & poor & could be easily exploited for free labor (to “offset” rent) under the guise of recovery. www.shoshanawalter.com

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, I think we can all agree on one thing: billionaires don’t need another present.

We Choose Workers Over Billionaires this Holiday Season · May Day Strong

We know how to stand against authoritarianism - it's denying our consent and taking the fight to key companies who are aiding the destruction of our democracy and attacking workers for profit and powe...

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This is why supporting great journalism is so important. Publishers like @propublica.org @404media.co and organizations like @dataforprogress.org are crucial. Without the amazing work of these folks (and other similar organizations), our democracy is toast.

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America

Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

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Luis has been a Duke University Employee for 19 years. On September 8th, he’s going to be fired through no fault of his own.

ChatGPT is like my toxic ex — arrogant, wrong, void of empathy, and it’ll never buy me a romantic dinner.

somewhere out there a tech bro is imagining eyeglasses that stop working if you cancel your subscription

Perhaps the defining feature of the modern “manosphere” weirdos is that they believe in a masculinity that has no obligations but solely benefits. I’m not saying older ideas of men as providers or chivalry were all that virtuous; they usually concealed patriarchal control…

we cannot let the “black box” of AI, which by nature cannot be questioned or investigated, make decisions for the most vulnerable people in our society without having those same people included in the development of this new technology.

Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · 2y ago

The launch report from @techtonicjustice.bsky.social shows "the dark side of ‘government efficiency’ via technology," says D&S Executive Director Janet Haven. It's "a stark warning of what is truly at stake.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The launch report from TechTonic Justice quantifies how 92 million low-income people in the US have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI. We’re excited about this new effort, which will be a critical partner in the fight for accountable AI. www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...

The closest known black hole to Earth is just 1,560 light-years away.

Neptune, the furthest planet from our sun, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget