a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 8h ago

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

thus do we understand half the reason for the NYT’s seething anti-Mamdani grudge

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 21h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Words cannot contain my rage about this. And it is journalistic irresponsibility to just go along with the tr*mp admin’s underlying assumption that college degrees are supposed to be pre-job training. Education is valuable for its own sake and so many reasons beyond what can be quantified.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

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As @reckless.bsky.social noted, it says something about our society that tech is willing to throw these features in their platforms to prevent AI content (some of which is fine) but need court orders before they’ll do anything about racism, sexism, homophobia, misogyny or the like

Glendon Mellow@flyingtrilobite.com · 6d ago

LinkedIn management: AI posts are costing too much and driving users away LI devs: we need to train our AI to appear closer to actual human writing LI marketing: we need a positive news story “Seems like AI slop” button was borne.

Haven’t been watching but I hope people understand that Rand Paul hates Fauci mostly because Fauci repeatedly embarrassed him so Paul is trying to return the favor.

The policy take-home of our new study, in 15 words: 🏭 Fossil fuels kill children 🔋 Decarbonization will slow malaria expansion 🦟 Malaria eradication will save lives everywhere 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The past and future impact of climate change on childhood malaria in Africa - Nature

Climate and econometric modelling reveal that human-induced climate change is shifting the burden of childhood malaria in Africa.

nature.com

“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

We knew more than a decade ago that these devices broke the social contract irrevocably and that people hate them. Remember "glassholes"? The push behind this tech ignores all the social evidence and it's just blind greed from Meta and anyone following them down this creepy garden path.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

“The vast majority of the talent and agents at our events felt that these were a violation of their privacy and were damaging and spoiling the interactions at the tables. Several expressed concerns that they might not continue to attend in-person events if they were being recorded in secret.”

Just an absolute shout out to everyone out there who helped manufacture doubt around the question of this guy being a Nazi, particularly after the Nazi salute.

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday.

ah cool we finally have cyberdyne hunter seekers from the movie dont create cyberdyne hunter seekers

TechRadar | the technology experts [Unofficial]@techradar.com.web.brid.gy · 2w ago

One former FDA official said if the agency lifted restrictions on peptides, “it would be a disruption of the societal pact we have had since 1962 that drugs will be studied to see if they work before they are marketed in the U.S.” (Published April)

RFK Jr. May Reverse a Peptide Ban He Calls “Illegal.” Former FDA Officials Say He Mischaracterized Their Work.

The agency's 2023 decision to place 19 peptides on the “unsafe” list was supported by numerous documented safety concerns, former officials said. Even though demand for peptide therapies has exploded since then, there's been little new science.

propublica.org

Is it possible that the Trump Department of Education created a national civics contest, then rigged the judging in the final when it looked like a Sikh kid who's the son of immigrants might win? They'd never do that, this administration has too much integrity. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

notus.org

i know textual milkshake ducking is supposed to take 5 seconds but under 24 hours is still quite a thing and…palantir, my dude‽ PALANTIR‽

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 2w ago

Ok so this “Worse on Purpose” guy with opinions about private equity ruining everything has also posted to LinkedIn about how great it is to work at Palantir (Metafilter was onto him in May: www.metafilter.com/213070/Worse...) - www.linkedin.com/in/keyanasapp - www.linkedin.com/posts/keyana...

I like to say they are structurally indifferent to truth

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 8mo ago

while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article

Dropbox is innovating: two layers deep of upsells!

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Whatever could be said about that claim when he made it in 1962, it soon became undeniable that government vaccine research, distribution, and mandates are objectively among the greatest achievements of civilization. Claiming otherwise is embarrassing, it's like saying you don't wash your hands.

Cato Institute@cato.org · 3w ago

"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus." — Milton Friedman. They were driven by individual liberty and free markets. And they always will be.

Hegseth's actions against Black and female officers is very clear race and gender discrimination. Any half decent business would fire him in the hopes they could stave off a million dollar suit.

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 3w ago

⚓ Rear Admiral Amy Bauernschmidt came up through the ranks the hard way, graduating from Annapolis, earning her wings, commanding a helo squadron, then a carrier, and now a carrier group. And because Low-T Peter just pulled her promotion, she'll never get her second star. Proud of you, Shipmate 🫡

A sizable chunk of the academic wing of so called liberal legal world has been warped by the memories Warren Court - a 16 yr period that just represented 6.4% of our country's history. Somehow they think we will magically get back to those years w/o structural reforms re size of the Court.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3w ago

Absolutely deranged understanding of American government and the current times. The number of Justices isn't even in the Constitution, it's a statute from 1869! It is, in fact, not essential our Republic has a hyper-partisan GOP SCOTUS that makes sure its favored candidates and policies always win.

Absolutely deranged understanding of American government and the current times. The number of Justices isn't even in the Constitution, it's a statute from 1869! It is, in fact, not essential our Republic has a hyper-partisan GOP SCOTUS that makes sure its favored candidates and policies always win.

Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 3w ago

I just listened to a panel with David French and someone from the Brennan Center vociferously argue against expanding the Court. French said it would lead to “the dissolution of the republic.” About a third of the audience applauded. We need to get a policy culture that’s willing to do what it takes

Going outside and taking deep breaths of woodsmoke to own the libs.

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fox host Brian Kilmeade dismissed the advice of the network’s own senior medical analyst, Dr. Marc Siegle, by saying there is “not a chance” he will wear a KN95 mask.

Oh come on. Dude financed a series of lawsuits designed to literally bankrupt and shut down critical media sites.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3w ago

Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

CDT’s Tom Bowman in @404media.co: “This is a classic bait-and-switch. Your town was pitched a tool to catch stolen cars and find missing kids.”

How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars

Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.

404media.co

the thing about ffmpeg is that it's one typo away from ffmpreg which is VERY different

I'm trying to decide if Hegseth tweeted this because he's too dumb to understand that the joke he's referencing mocks idiot leaders like himself... or because he somehow thinks that referencing the joke... somehow makes him look cool?

Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reader, I checked and checked again, and this is Secretary Hegseth’s actual account

I don't think a piece of writing has resonated with me this much in a very long time. Absolutely incredible work by Magdalene Visaggio. Please go give it a read.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 3w ago

Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...