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Learn about the impacts of cuts to science from the scientists themselves. silencedsciencestories.com

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Don't conservatives often argue that we shouldn't do anything about our emissions until China does? www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

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Does anyone want "ai" embedded in gmail to write emails for you? Does anyone want to receive an email from someone that they didn't actually write? The only use cases for ai in email I can think of: 1. spam detection, 2. categorization

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Some interesting analysis of the (now hacked) Signal clone that the Trump fascists were using. micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...

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These are dark times. It's good to see #Foolproof back on some of the bestselling Amazon charts, we need to arm every citizen around the world with the tools to dismantle disinformation and propaganda. If you can't afford a copy, I'll send you one for free. Resist 💪 www.amazon.com/Foolproof-Mi...

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Trump's response to the climate emergency is like a child who covers his eyes and thinks that the monster can't see him.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

My pixel 6a has become practically unusable this am. Swipe gestures don't really work anymore. It is impossible to swipe down twice to the full settings menu. Impossible to swipe up twice to close an app. Weird because it doesn't look like it took an update last night but it had rebooted.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

The darkest green area to the NW is where I was just about to go for a bike ride. #fml

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 61 days ago • 615 comments

Pete Hegseth? Mike Waltz?

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I logged off of Facebook when they changed their moderation policy to allow hate speech specifically towards trans people. Should have done it a lot sooner. pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/z...

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Good Lord. Somehow I missed this. www.commondreams.org/news/can-ice...

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As a former Google employee I am happy to see this article. I did internal activism when I learned Google was contracting with oil and gas companies because that violated the AI principles. Now those principles have been deleted. www-thenation-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.then...

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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

submitted 67 days ago • 11 comments

"States rights" for restricting bodily autonomy of women but not for restricting fossil fuels?

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Yeah, so when you see Musk claiming that doge cuts are needed "or the us will be insolvent" you know that's utter BS. And the trillions in tax cuts are still coming? www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/u...

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From @bostonglobe.com, a recap of #HandsOffBoston and other New England #HandsOff events today: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/05/m... #Boston #MAPoli #Massachusetts

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Boston resistance is 🔥🔥🔥❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜✊

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Brian Eno tells it like it is. "Don't we love life because we love seeing everybody else enjoying it as well?" youtu.be/hh7Cxt_PKqw?...

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Wondering if the West diving headfirst into the darkest waters of fascism isn’t prep for the massive backlash once people truly get what big oil, banks, Gov, Corp news media have done/allowed to happen to the planet. We’re at 1.5C right now & roughly 10 yrs from unimaginably horrific 2C.

submitted 88 days ago • 75 comments

Expanding private jet operations at Hanscomb would undo most of the climate mitigation measures Massachusetts has done: solar, hear pumps, induction stoves, etc. www.thenation.com/article/envi...

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I use Signal and about a month ago I shared this in several groups I am part of there. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Ignoring this or pretending it isn't true is a civilization ending strategy. I keep hearing the voice of a climate activist who said (while being arrested): "What will we tell our children when they ask us why we didn't do anything to stop this while we still had time?"

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One of these people is a radical and institutes policies that cause violence. The other is the most excellent and exemplary leader and Mayor of Boston. #BostonStrong www.wcvb.com/article/trum...

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Mapping changes in temperature: every decade from the 1850s to 2020s

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“Mumford’s wariness of urban cars was rooted in a simple observation: Cities lacked room to accommodate lots of them. As he wrote [a LONG time ago], compared to other forms of conveyance, cars “happen to be, on the basis of the # of people it transports, by far the most wasteful of urban space.”

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NEW: Minnesota Republican state Senator Justin Eichorn, co-author of the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" bill that just made headlines, was arrested yesterday in Bloomington for allegedly soliciting sex with a 16-year-old girl. minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/18/g...

submitted 99 days ago • 372 comments

How do brandalism activists create these billboard sized prints? Just wondering.

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Encouraging: 3% of people in the UK use an e-cargo bike at least once a month, but 11% of non-users say they could imagine doing so. www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

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The Brits don't pull their punches (from Reddit)

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A professor of environmental sciences gives a quick punchy take on the "eye-popping" numbers re. how clean air promotes economic growth. An EPA analysis of 20 years of the Clean Air Act (1970-90) found the economic benefits of the regulations were about 42X greater than the costs. No pay wall.

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Zeldin says the mission of EPA is to "lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home and running a business." That is false, not as a matter of ideology or political preference, but as a matter of law. This is pure authoritarian "up is down" stuff.

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“For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally,” Musk 04/27/22 Fast forward to winter 2025: Newly collected data (n=1,500) reveals how X has become a right-wing echo chamber. (More details in April)

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Bay Staters have a sense of decency www.universalhub.com/2025/bay-sta... #Massachusetts

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

It sure seems like this changed the election outcome and those on power now will only accelerate these tactics. prospect.org/politics/202...

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The shocker here is that 44 percent approve of his handling of the economy. Like by what metric? thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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"Columbia University’s administration deserves to be eaten by bears feet-first, and I hope their institution is remembered forever for throating the boot as America fell." www.thenation.com/article/acti...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

It would be kind of ironic if Republicans start massively buying EVs.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Will more dissenters be disappeared? Will Trump deploy a militia army if we protest? Will there even be a midterm election?

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The way this works is that you either defend Khalil's First Amendment rights, no matter what you think about his specific views, or else you acquiesce to a totalitarian dystopia where the government can disappear people for expressing opinions opposed by the regime. There's really no middle ground.

submitted 106 days ago • 9 comments

I expect an E0 soon requiring every US citizen to buy a Tesla because of it's not illegal to not buy one it should be. BTW I have a Hyundai Kona EV and love it.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Wait, so Trump loves EVs now? I'm so confused but probably not as confused as these guys. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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