Sage
@gleaningsage.bsky.social
Outdoor enthusiast, dog-lover, USian, feminist, anti-racist. Interested in sustainability, biology, psychology, travel and other cultures, and avoiding infectious diseases.
I must be doing something right because this made me think of all these fine podcasters doing the work @kavehmd.bsky.social and @maintenancephase.bsky.social and @iwriteok.bsky.social and @sarahtaber.bsky.social
Will Weldon@oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 2d agoTop ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
If AI kills a whole bunch of people and causes untold others to suffer through some sort of apocalypse, it's less the companies would be worrying about regulations and more they should be worried that governments won't enforce normal private property laws.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d agoThese are the types of catastrophic scenarios I keep warning about. They stop well short of human “extinction” but would easily cause regional or global instability and suffering, perhaps even mass death. But what is the concern among the AI companies themselves? Regulation.
Yes, when the "researchers" say that AI could destroy humanity, it's stuff like this (& of course climate crisis) rather than some existential thing. Hallucinating a nuclear war that becomes an actual nuclear war is another option
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d agoThese are the types of catastrophic scenarios I keep warning about. They stop well short of human “extinction” but would easily cause regional or global instability and suffering, perhaps even mass death. But what is the concern among the AI companies themselves? Regulation.
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
Yes, sad, but also exemplifies what plenty of women say about not wanting kids. When you have to fight your partner on even the most basic child-raising activities, it's just endless exhaustion.
🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 3d agothis is so fucking sad
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
phoenixnewtimes.com
Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.
Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage
Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.
404media.co
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
projects.propublica.org
Less than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Why Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the Ballot
Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.
bloomberg.com
Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 4w agoANGIE NIXON DID NOT COME TO PLAY. LETS GOOOOO! Click below and donate to her campaign for us senate❤️✊🏽 secure.actblue.com/donate/frien...
I was early on in getting email and could always tell when a family member got email for the first time because they would send the kidney story, and so I would have to describe why it was bunk.
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · last wk.But without an Internet to broadcast one's opinions on, stupid has more of a confined physical blast radius. This may have perhaps limited the average person's total daily exposure of "other people's stupid." A dose-limiting effect. (One could still enjoy one's own homegrown stupid, of course.)
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
But sure, centrist Dems think Dem Socialists are more of a threat than fascism
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
And even the "perfect" victims are often downplayed. Witness Brock Allan Turner's rape of his victim: out in the open where two men witnessed and reported it. And yet, went to trial and got an extremely minor sentence. Later changed his name to Allan Turner to try to hide from his past.
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · last wk.Socially and in the legal system, our understanding of responses to sexual violence is purposefully uninformed and therefore limited to only “perfect” victims (who don’t really exist), so that we don’t have to actually combat sexual violence or believe victims or hold perpetrators accountable.
Why can't we do the Haber-Bosch process using the hydrogen from water instead of methane?
What if every mayor and member of every city council was a Mamdani type? Every governor and member of every state legislature? Every member of Congress? Every president? Like just think about that for a minute. Every elected official just doing stuff people want instead of being crappy.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w agoLast month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.
Replace "AI" or the specific name of the AI with "their dog" and it sort of sounds like the appropriate level of seriousness
CNN@cnn.com · 2w agoNvidia has launched a new tool to help keep AI agents from going rogue and operating outside the control of humans. https://cnn.it/3VjRDEP
the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else
Ugh. If they want to remake some dark British story for kids, they could do a Dickens tale but that takes place in 2020s United States. David Copperfield but a foster kid caught in the system. Oh wait, just option Barbara Kingsolver's novel.
Mobius Stripper@mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 2w agoFinally, we're getting the darker and grittier version of Mary Poppins. I'd like to see you claim Hollywood is out of ideas now!
they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoMURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊
*tucks in my back pocket for the next time some 'vote blue no matter who' Dem starts in on the whole 'but DSA wats to abolish the Senate!' sealioning convo*
Meredith Shiner@meredithshiner.com · 3w agoI had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
Seriously hope that @iwriteok.bsky.social knows about this! Could be summed up by what if Action Park met Something Awful in the Pacific Northwest?
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 3w agoWe're not losing recipes we're creating whole new legal precedents
Yes it's good this is seeing the light of day. It would have been better to see the light of day during the primaries, when these corrupt people could have lost elections. Or even better if the Biden admin had done anything to address the corruption
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w ago13/ By the end of 2024, FBI agents had enough evidence to pursue a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers of both political parties. They asked their supervisors to approve a new investigation. Then Trump returned to the White House.
Troy Jackson responds: “This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, & then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time & has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.”
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w agoSen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Couldn't a person just hold up a photo of someone with an approved face and gain access that way?
Le Ca-ghoul@lecagle.bsky.social · 3w agoyou are *not* prepared for what this technology company is called, nothing can prepare you
Thank fuck. Honestly so tired of hearing his stupid annoying voice when they stick a clip in while I'm listening to a podcast summarizing the news (because I'm sure not listening in realtime to that asshole, ugh)
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3w agothe footage of the president speaking at a news conference and you can't hear him because it's the press he banned who bring the sound equipment is too on the damn nose because guess what we wouldn't have if people hadn't kept insisting on handing this asshole a microphone over & over & over again
