I say again, "These surveillance regimes will not keep you or your children safe because they are actively preying on you": Rather than the predators, people focus on rigidly controlling children's ability to explore the world, from no third spaces to tracked online life,thus making Them targetable

Achai@achai.bark.how · 2w ago

the push for ID checks online is designed to make children easier to target; Meta is one of the companies lobbying for these types of legislation. the whole idea is to continue to target children as a lucrative market by assuring parents that giving children unmanaged tablets is safe.

Today's blog post: The Department of Justice has lost 20/20 cases, demanding control of voter registration from states. The Bayesian posterior Beta distribution now estimates their median probability of success at 3.2% in any further such efforts. www.someweekendreading.blog/doj-smackdow...

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · yesterday

NEW: The DOJ hit a significant milestone — its 20th loss out of 20 in its sweeping legal effort to access state voter rolls after a judge dismissed its case against Colorado. The court ruled the department did not provide a sufficient justification for needing the rolls, as required by federal law.

Another blog post from a couple days ago: Trump is systematically denying federal disaster aid to blue states, but not to red states. The plot over time is quite damning. www.someweekendreading.blog/trump-disast...

Blog post from a couple days ago: I voted in the Massachusetts Democratic primary & directly dropped off w/my town clerk. After a couple days, the Mass Secretary of the Commonwealth's web site now says it has been accepted & is ready for counting. www.someweekendreading.blog/voted-2026-p...

I'm going to alienate some people now. Abortion is a critical part of gynecological care. Full stop. Hormonal birth control is used by many individuals simply to regulate difficult menstrual cycles. Legislators who don't understand the minutiae of reproductive biology should SHUT THE FUCK UP.

I look forward to the days when we can all stop thinking about Trump, his cronies, and his threats. I've been forced into thinking about him -- negatively -- for the last decade.

Stephen F. Knott@stephenknott.bsky.social · yesterday

"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump administration concedes it canceled research grants in blue states

The administration said 284 research grants were canceled because they were in states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024.

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That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power.

What “do your own research” sounds like to actual researchers: www.someweekendreading.blog/did-my-own-r...

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2d ago

when people say "do your own research" they generally mean "do not trust anyone with any relevant training or experience"

During the course of Trump 2.0, I’ve had the recurring feeling that we’re living through a time that’s all too familiar to the First Red Scare. Thanks to @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com for helping me get this article ready for publication!

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 3d ago

“The moment in which we find ourselves is not without precedent. For nearly 150 years, antipathy—if not outright hostility—toward grassroots activism that takes aim at the status quo has been the norm.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-third-re...

Question: Tell me what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Here are the answers from two popular open-source Chinese AI models.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 3d ago

"Most tech analysts are aware that Chinese models have Chinese Communist Party controls built into them, but the problem is often understood too narrowly. Many assume that these models simply refuse to answer politically sensitive questions..." www.worldpoliticsreview.com/china-ai-mod...

Welcome to the resistance: meet the workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer's AI mandates: aftermath.site/ai-resistance-...

Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..

hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 4d ago

*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…

Also to say it again: bsky.app/profile/week...

Childermass Stan@andrewjballou.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’ll say it again: if your business model depends on stealing other people’s work, your business shouldn‘t exist.

Jubilee now.

@migas7.bsky.social · 4d ago

Interesting take about uses for data centers. Not benign.

Similarly when private equity acquires housing, hospitals, and roads.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d ago

Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

A GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Well. Some of them are dragons. Mostly wyverns, though. It’s just science.

Tammy Komoff@tammykomoff.bsky.social · 5d ago

I agree!

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

This is just crazy. I mean, STUPID high levels of crazy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Rep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"

Dismantling a Nobel-winning team essential for protein research in medicine... in order to fund the BS engines. O tempora. O mores.

Laura Howes@laurahowes.bsky.social · last wk.

Alas poor AlphaFold, we knew you well... This is not entirely surprising to me, as it wasn't clear what more AF could do outside of what Hassabis is trying to build with Isomorphic. But I am interested in people's thoughts here #chemsky #biotech 🧪 www.ft.com/content/61b2...

The Danube's low enough people are finding mammoth bones in it.

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 6d ago

Des os de mammouth découverts en Bulgarie dans le lit du Danube, dont le niveau est exceptionnellement bas à cause de la sécheresse

Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0

It’s a Fair Question….. “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?”

It just... never stops.

Angry Staff Officer@pptsapper.bsky.social · last wk.

So September will be 25 years since 9/11 25 years from Pearl Harbor was 1966 which had…Massive civil unrest over racial discrimination/violence and police brutality, and an escalating war with no clear end in sight.

This Fauci hearing is the biggest explosion of right wing brainworms I've ever seen. Years of debunked and absurd antivax and "gain of function" conspiracy theories expressed as incoherent screaming at an 85 year old man. It's absolutely demented and embarrassing to watch.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS

In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...

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Somewhere a university academic is being told to "do more with less" by someone whose job title didn't exist two reorgs ago.