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The top economics journal in the world nearly published an article that, to all appearances, is 100% bullshit. It claimed that AI accelerates scientific discovery. An MIT PhD student appears to have used generative AI to fabricate the whole thing, data and all.

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After being hired to promote Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program, Deloitte Consulting priced reports about its own marketing performance at $300,000 a month. A final report, which was due in February, could cost the state nearly half a million. ➡️ Read the full story: propub.li/3YOiJ66

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Moody’s downgraded the credit rating of the US for the first time since 1917, stripping the country of its last perfect credit rating. The move could rattle financial markets and push up interest rates, creating an extra financial burden for Americans already struggling with tariffs and inflation.

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Via @acvollers.bsky.social and @stateline.org: People with intellectual or developmental disabilities have suffered abuse, neglect and even death while under the care of private equity-owned providers, according to a recent report from watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Project.

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Question for an #entymologist where does the first mosquito of summer come from? #academicsky

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I’m reliably told this is cutting edge research with lots of commercial and defense applications that no one in their right mind would shutter.

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If the U.S. can indiscriminately detain German citizens who are traveling to a third country, it makes you wonder what is the point of these nation-states. Germany did nothing. And paying to detain and feed people who are attempting to leave the U.S. proves that the whole point is filling jails.

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Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

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Yikes. This won't end well.

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Just got a minor traffic ticket while riding around a relative on a green card in the passenger seat. Always a nerve-wracking experience but glad it wasn't her driving.

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Investors now own 30% of metro Atlanta’s single-family rental homes

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I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention. "Ms. Petrova is a Russian scientist who works in a lab at Harvard Medical School. She told her story through a Times Opinion editor, Alex Ellerbeck, over multiple calls from an ICE detention center." 🦋 archive.md/A6ZeA

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From The Overhead Wire Daily Newsletter - Wednesday's Most Read # 1 - This Maui neighborhood built modular housing for fire survivors in just 100 days link.theoverheadwire.com/rnmc8 Fast Company

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In a big win for the poorly regulated and potentially seriously harmful mercenary #ADINT industry www.wired.com/story/cfpb-q...

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52% of Jewish voters believe Donald Trump is at least somewhat antisemitic (69% say he is racist and fascist) jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...

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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

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🧪 The NSF grant terminations hit women, racial & ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities the hardest. E.g.: --Female PIs were 58% of canceled grants (but 34% of all active grants) --Black PIs were 17% of canceled grants (but 4% as base rate) A closer look shows this is structural... 🧵

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For those in Santa Cruz, we’ll be discussing technofascisms tomorrow May 13th at 3:30!

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There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

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Based on reporting, we are expecting to see Republicans call for the biggest Medicaid cuts in history AND the biggest SNAP cuts in history — paired with enormous tax cuts that disproportionately go to the rich

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Welcome to the RFK Jr public health era.

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Some thoughts on yesterday, which was a HUGE climbdown for the federal government 🧵 The feds totally underestimated how tremendously popular Mayor Ras Baraka is. There's a reason why he's pulling first in the gubernatorial race.

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Scenes are repeating across the United States, passersby and local residents confront & resist Trump's ICE regime troops as they’re spotted kidnapping their neighbours. The regime continues its campaign of ethnic cleansing, appearing at homes and businesses masked and without warrants. #3E #StopICE

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Selling our glorious federal PUBLIC lands, is a crime to our national heritage. It’s legislative subterfuge to benefit the ultrarich at the cost of wilderness. These wildlands provides so much more if left to the public and the living earth.

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My new phone came with all the AI bullshit so I decided to try Google Gemini by asking it for info on a relatively obscure topic. And it continually lied to me. Over and over. I asked it to stop lying and just say idk if it didn't know but it kept on straight up lying lol. What is the point of this?

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Don’t even think about it.

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I think it's important to stress that the Mayor was arrested AS HE WAS TRYING TO DO HIS WORK.

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BREAKING: Rümeysa, our union sister who was snatched by ICE, is free today. We stood up for our union family and demanded justice! When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us. #4the1st ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

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DOD Library Purges: DOD announces that all academy & war college (etc) libraries are to pull books meeting certain Library of Congress subject codes, set aside and Pentagon committee will be developing final review criteria to possibly remove. www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/p...

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The end of NSF and American science expertise as we know it is here.🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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This is fucking terrifying.

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The last of the fully public loss datasets is gone.

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".. The US in February made just $4.3 billion in new, binding funding commitments to state and local governments, a 57.5% decline from the same month a year earlier .." @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Sold my car yesterday & am a little nostalgic about it. 14 years ago, I was a bike commuter having my first kid. The hospital was very adamant that I have a carseat - or I wouldn't be allowed to bring the baby home. I bought a carseat and a car too, just in case. Such a long time ago.

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This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

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www.atlantahistorycenter.com/blog/kenan-r...

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The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative said it will move away from funding affordable housing groups to focus on science initiatives. nbcbay.com/lDCeh0X

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Idea: the streetcar ppl could fund a coop for a GSU history grad student to liase with the Hilton, Westin, etc. and offer a mobile tour for every conference that comes through town.

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