They have shown themselves to be concerned only about money and power. They view statements as instrumental: "Will saying this give me more money or power?" The truth-value of the statement is irrelevant.

. @josephcox.bsky.social talked with a former Flock government affairs manager who said the company lied about its pilot programs sharing data with federal agencies like ICE: www.404media.co/why-a-flock-...

Why a Flock Worker Quit: ‘They Lied’

Jonathan Paz’s job was to convince cities to buy Flock cameras. After initially being enthusiastic about the company, he started to get disillusioned.

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When I was a kid, they used to talk about how this is what life was like in the Soviet Union. There used to be something that people called "a right to privacy". Seems quaint and old-fashioned now. www.rwcpulse.com/redwood-city...

This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)

The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...

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Much of the motivation for reducing greenhouse gas emissions comes not from cost-benefit optimization, but from the understanding that we are doing something that harms others and that we therefore have a responsibility to stop doing that. 1/2

Republican is fascist, and fascist is Nazi. (True is false and right is wrong.)

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 3d ago

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

Capital expenditure on data centers is projected to be about $750 billion this year. US GDP is expected to be about $30 trillion, so data center investment is about 2.5% of total US GDP right now. Data center investment may be about 2/3 of total AI cost. accuristech.com/blog/ai-data...

How AI Data Centers Are Reshaping Electronic Component Supply in 2026

AI data center spending will exceed $600B in 2026, consuming 70% of global memory production and driving component shortages across every electronics sector. Learn how OEMs can prepare.

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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

More news about the Trump crime family. Isn't the entire Trump real estate business a money-laundering operation? And the entire Republican Party are enablers of or participants in this criminality. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to the president's family business.

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The Slaveholders' Rebellion of 1861-1865.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fascinating -- I did not know any of this www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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The Department of Justice and the White House are engaged in a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice. I hope this is prosecutable under state law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

DoJ appears to ignore New Mexico deadline for key Epstein ranch files

State attorney general set 31 July deadline for documents relating to abuse of girls at Epstein-owned Zorro ranch

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Another example of what happens when criminals run the justice system. These people must be brought to justice, and if not justice, at least a "truth and reconciliation" commission. It is not just the leadership, it is also the facilitators and foot soldiers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Inside the New York court where children face deportation without access to attorneys

About 20,000 unaccompanied minors will lose legal representation if the federal government ends a longstanding contract on Friday, kicking current problems into overdrive across US

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AMOC run amuck? Are you studying effects of an AMOC slowdown, what might happen if it slows down, or what we might do about it? If so, please submit an abstract to session GC016 at the 2026 Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco. agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr... #AMOC #climate #AGU

Inês Azevedo has been named the next director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, succeeding Chris Field on Sept. 1. A Woods senior fellow since 2019, her research spans climate change, air pollution and energy. Full announcement: stanford.io/4hGJ67W

My latest soundtrack for a Yann Le Bihan Mandelbrot zoom video. youtu.be/LMquYZdo48k?...

Elsewhere - Mandelbrot Zoom - Music by Art of Chance

YouTube video by Yann Le Bihan - Fractals

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Heritage Foundation government relations director Wingate arrested at Senate office buulding for firearms violation and possession of cocaine and fentanyl. The New York Times thinks this news is not fit to print. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Heritage Foundation exec faces drug charge after bringing ammo into Senate office

Chris Wingate, 45, of Alexandria, Virginia, was stopped after an X-ray screening revealed pistol magazine, affadavit says

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Does anyone have informed perspectives on this paper? Seems important if true, important to refute if false. "Our results provide the first observational evidence that low clouds have partially offset recent warming, ... " agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Sister Letty, the Catholic nun abducted by the Trump regime while on her way to Mass, says many are in her situation: spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Nun detained by ICE while walking to Mass says many are in her situation

Sister Leticia Ugboaja was released several hours after being detained by ICE on June 28 while walking to Our Lady of Sorrows Church in McAllen.

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Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in Ecuador open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in Ecuador

New evidence has emerged of U.S. Coast Guard activity in the aftermath of two strikes, further corroborating survivor testimony.

open.substack.com

If the main barrier to implementing good policy is not an information deficit, but rather that individual incentives are not aligned with global well-being, what are appropriate roles for academic researchers? How can information provision help to align individual incentives with global well-being?

Keep pounding Trump and the GOP on their failures on the economy.

This is a little niche, but here is a chart of the ranking points of the top-ranking WTA tennis player over the past decade.

Trump has never met a bone-saw murderer he couldn't do business with. #khashoggi www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

What is the US-Saudi Arabia nuclear deal and why is it causing concern?

The US will help Saudi Arabia establish a civilian nuclear program, but critics have said it could lead to domestic enrichment and set off a regional arms race

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When tech tycoons control our access to information ... theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...

Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.

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Freedom of speech is something Republicans favor, if it is speech that is helpful to their goals. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Prof Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being Dismantled

Border-surveillance researcher Iván Chaar López received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters. Still, he was denied tenure without explanation.

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This is amazing. Hard to believe that this can be a cost effective way to reduce net CO2 emissions but more power to them if they are right. At least it makes geochemical sense, which is a bar some other efforts have not risen to. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/sing... www.equatic.tech

Singapore is building what is expected to be the world’s largest ocean carbon removal plant, using electricity to turn seawater carbon into stable minerals that can last for millennia

The ocean currently absorbs about one-quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities each year, making it one of Earth's most important natural buffers against climate change. Now, scientis...

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ICYMI: The proposal to overhaul federal government grantmaking is the latest step in Vought's quest to wrest control of spending from Congress and hand it to the president - a potential outcome that should alarm us all: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/russell-voug... via @quittingcarbon.bsky.social 🔌💡

Russell Vought wants complete control over the $1.1 trillion in federal grants handed out each year

Local and state governments, scientists, and research institutions are alarmed by a Trump administration proposal that would give political appointees across federal agencies the power to kill grants ...

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Sometimes too much is made of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. If a Condorcet (pairwise ranked choice) voting system results in a unique winner, which in practice it usually does, then all of Arrow's criteria are satisfied. It is only the tie-break procedure that violates Arrow's criteria. 1/2

gizmodo.com/trump-quietl... That is, until this summer, when both of those resources vanished from the agency’s site, each now redirecting to “Page not found.” They were taken down by July 3, around the same time that the Department of Energy deleted more than 1,600 pages from the Energy Saver....

Trump Quietly Deleted the Government's Official Guide to Cutting Your Energy Bills

As the country sizzled through heat waves, the government removed some of its most actionable advice about how to conserve energy.

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