No surprise, but Speaker Johnson says he’s standing behind Max Miller — despite the very credible allegations of domestic abuse from Miller’s ex-wife and daughter. Absolutely vile human beings.
Roger Freedman
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Physics educator at UC Santa Barbara, textbook author, and San Diego Comic-Con OG. he/him/his
“Today is August 4, 2026.” Ray Bradbury’s classic science fiction story “There Will Come Soft Rains,” read by Leonard Nimoy. youtu.be/nmcURKn2sf8
August 4, 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains | Ray Bradbury & Leonard Nimoy | OEW Institute
YouTube video by OEW Institute
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the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Huge data sets compiled by Flock surveillance is what much of the AI data centers are needed for. Not your child's school history research project. You can find a map of data centers at Erin Brokovich's site www.brockovichdatacenter.com
Brockovich Data Center Reporting – U.S. AI Data Center Awareness & Issue Map
Interactive map of major AI data centers across the United States — built or being built. Understand the community impact and report issues in your area.
brockovichdatacenter.com
CurisQui 🦋 Anti-Fascist ❌👑@demokittygirl.bsky.social · 6d agoFlock cameras are already all over, even in small towns in the US. Local police can share your movements w state & federal law enforcement. Residents of Cape Girardeau know there are at least 38 cameras tracking their movements.. some are NOT happy. Find your local Flock Cameras DeFlock.org
On this date in 1909, the very first pennies featuring Abraham Lincoln’s likeness were circulated — the first widely circulated U.S. coins to feature a real person.
"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." -- James Baldwin, born #OTD 1924
At least this time when the lazy bastards used AI to do their job they didn’t blow up a girls elementary school.
To be clear- this is catastrophic for radio astronomy, not just in the UK. If you shut down a facility like this not only do we use access to the facility, dozens (hundreds?) of jobs are gone and with it expertise that never comes back. Please write to your MP if you’re in the UK! 🔭🧪🎢
Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · last wk.Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If Mitch didn't have a stroke, heart attack, break any bones then what exactly is he recovering from?🤔
The Trump administration has assessed that the Pentagon's drug interdiction program, which has now produced enormous casualty numbers, is having no affect on the actual interdiction of drugs from Latin America to the US. Its purpose is pure entertainment value, apparently.
Deadly U.S. boat strikes have failed to curb cocaine supply, Pentagon and DEA officials say
The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.
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Enten on the 67 point swing (!!!) against Israel among Americans: "We're not just talking about the Democratic base anymore. The general electorate has turned against Israel. This is not just a left issue. It's an American issue. The trend line is unbelievable."
Do not stop talking about the Epstein files. Do not stop talking about the Epstein files. Do not stop talking about the Epstein files. Do not stop talking about the Epstein files. Do not stop talking about the Epstein files.
Khanna: Katie Phang brought a lawsuit under the original Epstein transparency act, and the judge has ruled that Todd Blanche needs to release the remaining files. And he has been in defiance of already a federal judge's order
It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
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The insistence on historical accuracy that Republicans are imposing on Christopher Nolan's Odyssey was nowhere to be found when Mel Gibson had this guy playing Jesus Christ.
Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
Looking forward to the @aapthq.bsky.social summer meeting. Here’s my poster on AI in physics education. Thankful for such a great community to share these ideas with. #iteachphysics #aaptsm2026
"After Medicaid officials improperly shared data about millions of people in January with immigration officials, ICE then shared that data with the data analytics firm Palantir" Palantir runs the app ELITE, which ICE uses to find addresses and neighborhoods to raid. Outrageous but not surprised 😒
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly enraged that none of his staffers explained to him that the logic of his speech last night blatantly implied the only rigged election was the one he personally oversaw, and no one stopped him from telling the entire country he’s incompetent.
Things went sideways for Trump fast. Solomon is a conservative behind years of stories questioning the 2020 election & Russia role. Now he’s working inside the WH, reviewing intelligence & declassification records. He admits the intelligence community found no evidence of foreign manipulation.
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
Liquid gold for oligarchs = golden showers for everyone else.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w agoI’ve heard oil called “liquid gold” before but Trump apparently thinks the term is fitting for data centers too.
