CNN@cnn.com · 3h ago

Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. https://cnn.it/4yWTjTJ

free halloween costume ideas for your most evidence-based policy-pilled friends

ATTN: data scientists, social scientists, or researchers of any kind who rely on Census data. my DMs are open!!

For Virginia's new energy plan to be successful, state institutions will need the right capacity—people, tools, and processes—to deliver. fas.org/publication/...

Virginia Has an Energy Plan. Now It Needs the Tools to Deliver It.

Implementation will not be easy. Several of the plan’s critical strategies challenge established utility business models.

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people who name their dog maverick… i’m against that/them. i consider them my enemy. people who name their dog mochi are on thin ice (taste issue) but they are redeemable.

new from me: among the convicted at salem were two people who were definitely actually doing witchcraft (by the legal standards of the time) you should also watch + share on my instagram (katek0hn) and tiktok (57001a) so i can become the world's #1 fun fact influencer. invest at the ground floor.

creative commons pics that go hard

Google Earth has recently begun blurring out military sites in South Korea. Read more in the debut blog by our team's newest @scovillepf.bsky.social fellow, Sachi Barnaby, on @scientistsorg.bsky.social:

Now You Don't: Excessive Military Secrecy On Google Earth

This is not the first time Google has agreed to censor imagery at the behest of governments, but be warned: obfuscation at this broad level poses a direct threat to the public’s ability to monitor and...

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kinda weird that earlier this year NYT published an interview where peter thiel straight up calls us the antichrist then a few months later the uses the same "one world or none" campaign as the basis for AI policy recommendations but forgets to name us. reheat our nachos ig.

Federation of American Scientists@scientistsorg.bsky.social · last mo.

1945. The U.S. built and dropped two atomic bombs. Three if you count the gadget. Also 1945: Manhattan Project scientists formed an organization (us btw) to prevent further use of nuclear weapons and put that power in civilian – not military – hands. They succeeded. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...

shoutout to the new york times editorial board for conveniently failing to mention that "public campaign by scientists" was lead by an organization that still exists today and is actually working on policy solutions to AI as an existential risk 🤪 anyway 👇

Federation of American Scientists@scientistsorg.bsky.social · last mo.

"A public campaign by scientists" It's okay, you can say our name. You can even watch one of our videos from 1946 on YouTube! We think it rips still. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM7-...

u can now watch this www.instagram.com/p/DdEiIMAxfvG/

kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · last mo.

working on a video about how i won america's most beloved trivia game show at the tender age of 24 and u know i had to include some ronald reagan assassination attempt trivia

working on a video about how i won america's most beloved trivia game show at the tender age of 24 and u know i had to include some ronald reagan assassination attempt trivia

it would be extremely funny if your last words were "i would slap the jackson 5 out of you" before getting friendly fired in a giant black van outside of a popeyes in washington DC

trying my hand at this scipolcomm stuff over on FAS-tagram. follow along if you are interested in... * the state of federal data * climate & energy policy * nuclear weapons transparency * learning new things :) * science and democracy 🔗 instagram.com/p/Dc1xZyphron/

DEATH TO AI SLOP. LONG LIVE THE CREATIVE COMMONS. Here is a handy guide I put together on understanding CC licensing frameworks and how to access millions of free images on the world wide web with one weird trick (crediting the creator)

my favorite trump admin sideplot is the OPM director trying to become a social media star. he just posted a 12 minute video of him answering questions no one has ever googled before.

hi @molly.wiki on trash future you and the hosts say you are unable to find a use case for the pervert glasses that are not for pervert videos. i would like to submit the only non-demented case for the meta glasses: golden retriever POV

are you a mamdani-pilled state capacity nerd with a propensity towards riffing in slack? then you'll want to pounce on this rare opening to join DC's hottest government capacity team⤵️

Federation of American Scientists@scientistsorg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're hiring a Senior Associate to help make government capacity go brr. If you know someone (or are someone) perfect for this role, send them our way ➡️ fas.org/career/senio...

and what if i said this doesn't go far enough we should make meta pay for a tobacco master settlement-style public health/education campaign to get people off social media

WIRED@wired.com · 2mo ago

In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement. www.wired.com/story/meta-w...

And what if we said Meta's next $17B settlement should be used to stop further harms *before* they happen? What if we didn't let big tech paper over wrongdoing with giant checks? Meta should have to pay the public to break from its addictive products, like big tobacco did. fas.org/publication/...

Settlement Wins Against Big Tech Should Underwrite Digital Resilience Funds

Protecting the public from the tech industry's predatory business models and the next wave of AI harms is an enormous challenge, but we have the evidence that trying to build a healthier digital cultu...

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ok if my stalker is going to wittingly abuse his authority as a cop to follow and harass me could he at least come up with a better line than "Why aren’t you following me on Instagram?"

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"I mean, I saw a shiny thing, teasing and all that," the cop said in the footage. "I knew that when I put that [into the system], I was like ‘Fuck.’

With the introduction of Flock and other surveillance constellations, everyone should know how face recognition technology works. That is, how poorly even the best FRT algorithms perform inside and outside of laboratory settings.

Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: Flock has said for years its cameras don’t identify or track people. We obtained the code for its police AI and rebuilt parts of it. The tool can find witnesses, surface associates, search people by race or physical description, and flag vehicles by how they move. W/ @dell.bsky.social

Great framing of one the major challenges confronting the Left's broader reconstruction effort. The way I've been thinking about bridging the gap is by focusing on the problem of power disparities. I applied this framework to the issue of regulatory public participation. fas.org/publication/...

Towards a People-centered Regulatory Democracy

If properly implemented, a comprehensive reform program to accomplish regulatory democracy that is people-centered and power-conscious could be essential for addressing complex policy changes such as ...

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New from me: what would a grand coalition for government reform look like post-Trump? It should include both people who care about democratic backsliding and state capacity. But right now these groups aren’t really talking to one another. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-could...

Three times this month, US officials said they need new nuclear weapons that a normal person would use—"that are cost-benefit rational to a normal person", "that common sense indicates you could actually use." Not sure which president they're referring to, but they doth protest a bit much.

nyt today vs kate exactly a year ago lol. invest in kate!

while local govts across the country are hiding data center deal details behind NDAs, LANCASTER, PA has a public, transparency-reinforcing community benefit agreement that forces the developer to minimize noise/air/water pollution, plant more trees, and mandate continual public input and updates

someone on instagram asked me if i made this with claude code. no bitch!!! in fact now i'm playing flexbox froggy just to spite you

kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

here's what i made for html day! go hover around to see what i wrote k4thryn.neocities.org/html-day

An outsized amount of trackable space debris (over 1.2M bits of which clutter our night sky) is the result of a relatively small number of low-frequency, yet extremely high-consequence events: states shooting down their own satellites. We think they should stop doing that. fas.org/publication/...

Destructive Anti-Satellite Tests Score Low on Strategic and Military Benefits

In the current environment of declining trust and magnifying strategic competition, banning debris-creating tests is a concrete step towards stability that favors interests of all states seeking to co...

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