If you aren't angry then you aren't paying attention.
Good morning. Anxious about that big presentation today? Just remember: somewhere, someone confidently presented a map that relocated multiple African countries at a major international health conference. You'll be fine.
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
theguardian.com
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
wsj.com
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities. www.wired.com/story/ices-n...
ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’
One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.
wired.com
I consistently remind myself that we know and understand less than 5% of the total matter and energy in the universe. This counters the seduction of despair.
My kid works at a library and found this note sticking out of a book. Dear Scarlett's parents, good job raising a rockstar. 😁
Hey y’all, if you do nothing else today, RETWEET THIS. I am 1 person & I fundraise all year online from your fave celebrities to random wealthy to grants to ensure I can give women scholarships. There is a NATIONAL education crisis & I want women to go to school. thurmanperryfoundation.org
paradox para = beyond, outside of dokein = to think oxymoron oxys = sharp, keen mōros = foolish Happy Birthday, John Ashbery!
Sometimes, not even that. I've been building an authoritarian tracker tool, and in doing so, uncovered filters Claude has been using to protect the government from negative sentiment keywords. It tells me it only does this so my work will hold up better against hostile readers 🙄
Sorry, can’t come into work today. I’m alive, and it’s terminal. 🤷🏽
Reminder that internet traffic about the logo change was bot driven. MAGA just wants something to hate and it’s spoon fed to them every time. www.nrn.com/casual-dinin...
Cracker Barrel’s logo controversy was driven by bots
Research from PeakMetrics found that 44.5% of X posts about the Cracker Barrel rebranding controversy were posted by bots
nrn.com
The double pendulum isn’t random and it is not broken physics. It is deterministic chaos, a system governed by precise rules that can still behave unpredictably. It’s one of the most iconic and widely studied examples of chaos theory in physics, mathematics, and engineering. IG: @quantumdigest
Not all heroes wear capes. Some meant to but wind up in gorilla masks instead. Thank you to Joyce Kozloff and all the other Guerrilla Girls, whether or not you ever come forward. What you did was so, so important.
Founding member of Guerrilla Girls reveals her identity
One of the founding members of feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls has revealed herself to be American painter and sculptor Joyce Kozloff.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
We have DARVO’d tech so bad we expect people to fight billion dollar bot farms and editorial manipulation .. by telling them to watch what they repost and “not to fall for AI”
Your fave's fave@actually.roiskinda.cool · 2w agoThis. It's one of the main reasons I do my own thing after trying to talk to people about this for years. People really don't want to hear about a solution that makes things *easier*
How many of these are just Palantir, DHS, or Military shell companies? So thirsty.
This is a really great model for how to build and model philanthropy and mutual aid at a scalable level. Thanks for stepping up and showing us how it can be done responsibly and collaboratively with local mutual aid groups, coalitions, and community.
ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 2w agowell, I never expected to be published in a Stanford journal, but the McKnight Foundation asked me write my thesis to the philanthropic world after the MN ICE surge: when there is an emergency, just... give money to people on the ground doing the actual work. as fast as possible. radical, I know.
I'm not sure about this time line where I feel taco bell is more trustworthy than the FDA.
Irish libraries need to move with the times instead of always lagging behind current trends.
I've been working on a project to figure out what word filters LLMs use to censor news and journalism. Because Claude fought with me about phrases like "extrajudicial killings", I asked it to help me figure out what terminology to use vs avoid. It built the logic itself. Refactor confirmed it:
socking users with a $1500 "we don't have the capacity to deliver what we promised" surcharge is very innovative
Some Starlink Customers Report Getting Hit With Massive Demand Surcharge
The surcharges follow price increases earlier this year for millions of the SpaceX-owned service's customers.
cnet.com
I’ve been thinking on this and concepts like lustration and transitional justice tribunals that have been created at the end of other authoritarian regimes to restore public trust in democracy and rid government of any and all involved should be in play. We need model legislation yesterday.
I’m interested in any political imagination for accountability. It has to be proactive & retroactive. It has to be spectacular. And, ideally, it would leave so many of them broke that it actually becomes a deterrent. Being poor is truly all they care about not because they don’t care about prison.
There’s poop on the lettuce. There’s worms in the beef. There’s glass in the bread. What kind of Upton Sinclair timeline is this
i say again that I criminally underestimated how far men would go to avenge metoo carolinapublicpress.org/76059/names-...
Names of accused in university sexual misconduct cases no longer public record, thanks to NC budget
New NC budget included provision that previously failed to pass, intended to make details of university sexual misconduct cases private.
carolinapublicpress.org