I had a really nice time at the @ulunyc.bsky.social conference last Friday sharing about @nycplan.org's organizing work over the last couple years. The quest for 0.5% for NYC libraries continues!
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Software engineer by trade, trying to be a decent person in my time off. Just wanna make this watery rock a little better by my work and have some fun along the way
I was at this meeting, and I'm furious and disgusted. I'll have pictures, video, and thoughts to share tomorrow. Strongly suggest following and supporting the @newkingsdems.bsky.social if you live in Brooklyn.
Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 3d agoThe committee that makes up the Brooklyn Democratic Party held a chaotic meeting Wednesday to elect its leadership team using controversial new voting rules, as an appeals court deliberated on the legality of their actions mere blocks away. hellgatenyc.com/brooklyn-dem...
Incredibly important message from the heroes protesting NYU Langone's denial of health care to trans youth: "WAKE UP, WAKE UP, THIS IS YOUR FIGHT TOO "WHEN THEY'RE DONE WITH US, THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU"
This is a really scary clip and a great example of how insufficient infrastructure and dangerous driving puts even the most experienced and prepared riders at risk
Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 5d agoHow @emilylip.bsky.social nearly got "right hooked" by a truck driver in Queens last week — days before a girl was killed by a truck driver in Manhattan pulling a similar maneuver. youtube.com/shorts/0xjbt...
Only 18 more votes until this resolution gets adopted. Come on, NYC Democratic Socialists, let's get the party to commit to investing in public goods!!!
Fund Public Goods Not State Violence@mkranz.bsky.social · 5d agoHey, NYC DSA members! There’s currently a proposal to resolve to a commitment to 1% of the city budget for parks and 0.5% of the city budget for libraries. It still needs 55 more co-sponsors, so, if you’re a member, please vote! convention.socialists.nyc/proposals/08...
A UN fact-finding mission has claimed that a Feb. 28 missile strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran, that killed more than 150 people likely constitutes a war crime. Bellingcat was the first to identify the weapon that hit the school as a US Tomahawk missile.
Video Analysis Shows Two Waves of Bombings in Iran Elementary School Strike
YouTube video by Bellingcat
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🧵The billionaire-backed Common Ground Collective was just caught electioneering at a back-to-school event for its endorsed candidates—including fundraising consultant Kyna Lenhof. NB: 6 months ago, Lenhof had this to say about another race where CGC was spending big to spread misinformation. 🤔
Hey, NYC DSA members! There’s currently a proposal to resolve to a commitment to 1% of the city budget for parks and 0.5% of the city budget for libraries. It still needs 55 more co-sponsors, so, if you’re a member, please vote! convention.socialists.nyc/proposals/08...
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Tomorrow is the final deadline for my children’s school fees. 💔 Only **£160** remains to keep their education going. I’m hoping, with your kindness, we can complete this small remaining amount before tomorrow. 📚❤️ Every little contribution brings us closer. 🙏
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And this works issue by issue. Look what people who consider themselves on the Lefts are saying and doing re trans people. They are taking a centrist so called position so accepting bigotry in the name of political expediency.
How is what Dreher is saying here different from what you are hearing from some white "centrist" pundits? And sadly some of the white dude bros of the Left(s)?
Elon Green@elongreen.bsky.social · last wk.yes, Rod Dreher, I too am infuriated that Jamelle Bouie is Black.
BECAUSE THEY TAKE MONEY FROM AI COMPANIES
Politico@politico.com · last wk.Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI
This is fucking bleak. While I feel old reading about some of the specifics, the dynamics are so damn familiar. Side note: the buried assertion that it’s surprising boys & men from “wealthy families with support systems” wouldn’t do this is bananas. That’s exactly who I’d expect to engage in abuse
Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 2w ago“It doesn’t help that X, the burnerverse’s platform of choice, is famously subject to little moderation. Since Musk’s acquisition, it‘s become the ideal petri dish for coordinated harassment. ‘They’re also financially incentivized by followers, by views, by clicks…they’re making money off this.‘”
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REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.
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Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social · 2w agoREBUILD needs funding to keep going and I am helping to raise $40,000 by December 31. if you can make a personal donation, please support here: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
Good morning and I hope you’re having a great day. I am about to ruin it with this long form story I did on how private equity is ruining cookies but also people are building shit cookie companies to get money from private equity on @weareravenous.com. www.weareravenous.com/the-curious-...
The Curious Case of the Soulless Private Equity Cookie
If you’re going to pay more than $5 for a single cookie, it should at least have some soul.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed multiple online resources for companies on how to measure the carbon footprint of their supply chains, called Scope 3 emissions. Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
EPA Removes Online Scope 3 Emissions Guidance for Companies
As the Trump administration rolls back environmental rules, it’s also taking down resources that help corporations understand their environmental risk.
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“In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a ‘pre-crime’ approach… In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs.” @drboguslaw.bsky.social:
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
prospect.org
"“Public housing residents shouldn’t have to choose between becoming homeless and being subjected to constant electronic monitoring inside the privacy of their own homes,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director of ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project" www.aclu.org/press-releas...
ACLU and New Hampshire Legal Assistance Sue Housing Authority Over Electronic Surveillance of Residents | American Civil Liberties Union
The Concord Housing and Redevelopment Authority has amassed hundreds of millions of data points recording movement, sound levels, and other information...
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This is TODAY at 4:30, friends in NYC! See you there!!!
Rise and Resist@riseandresist.bsky.social · 3w agoMt Sinai has violated the Hippocratic Oath and sacrificed the health of Trans and Gender Nonconforming youth by capitulating to the Trump admin. A coalition of TGNCNB and LGBTQIA+ activists, and allies will stand up for our youth against @mountsinainyc.bsky.social . JOIN US!
You can tell this is true because when Michelle Obama made healthy eating and exercise her issue as First Lady, this same movement failed to coalesce around her and in fact she met a ton of resistance from the same people who made RFK Jr possible
krat@kwholesaler.bsky.social · 3w agoMaha is just another astroturfed front in the American Reactionary Movement. This movement is responsible for every public health crisis: climate, automobile deaths, gun violence, homelessness, poverty. Its the Don't Tell Me What To Do movement. They are few but they're mobilized for war.
at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project
Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · 3w agoAt the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...
I've been Black long enough to have at least some built-in 'yup, people be racist, and yet we move' defense systems But ngl shit can still sometimes be...jarring! Like seeing this, openly and shamelessly, and knowing Gorsuch had him in his chambers, and that he helps pick federal judges. Sickening!
Anil Kalhan@akalhan.bsky.social · 3w agoWhen Neil Gorsuch sends us his people....
Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2024/03...
The little-known AI group that got $660 million
Powered by a massive cash infusion from a cryptocurrency mogul, the Future of Life Institute is building a network to fixate governments on the AI apocalypse.
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Our elite press corps consistently refuses to state the obvious: that Illegality is something almost all of Trump’s major policy moves have in common: https://presswatchers.org/2025/04/the-trump-regime-should-be-covered-as-a-criminal-enterprise/
The question I am left with after reading this isn't about AI; it's about opportunity and how race and place determine it: If Black African students are writing essays that get the US students into college, then shouldn't those Black African students have a chance to go to those same colleges too?
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 3w ago
People of color are disproportionately affected by California’s restrictions on reunification services for formerly incarcerated parents. 11.4 percent of Black children in the state have an incarcerated parent, compared to 1.8 percent of white children.
California Could Give Formerly Incarcerated Parents a Chance to Get Their Kids Back - Bolts
People who lost parental rights helped pass a bill to reform California
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I believe that you can still RSVP to attend. I have a meeting that conflicts but am going to try to make it for the final few minutes to celebrate with everyone who has made and sustained this group over the past 3 decades. Stop by if you're in NYC.
Victoria Law@victorialaw.bsky.social · last mo.30 years ago, I co-founded Books Through Bars NYC, which sends free books to incarcerated people across the US. Join us on Sunday, 9/13, to celebrate. (Please RSVP by 9/4) www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-bookst...
Such a good read. And nuanced. “Quality software is not about how many features something has or how quickly it is built but rather how cared for it is by the designers, developers, and product people who work on it”
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 3w ago"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...