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Software engineer and physics student; researching space stuff @Caltech and @NASA-JPL ✊🏴‍☠️
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Forwarding Elon’s email to security as suspected phishing

I spent some time reading Elon’s tweets this morning (one of my least favorite activities) and it’s hard to overstate how much he and his allies have constructed an alternate reality for their audience to believe in. In their world, Elon is a superhero fighting government fraud, like fanfiction

FUND THE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM SUPPORT LIBGEN AND THE ARCHIVE BUY PHYSICAL BOOKS RESIST

We wrote about how Musk is using X as a propaganda tool to demonize each of the agencies and programs that DOGE targets for cuts, providing air cover for his engineers' incursions — with the truth as collateral damage. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... w/ @drewharwell.com

Orwellian

Lowering prescription drug costs considered harmful www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Friends checking in: "How are you enjoying winter break?" Me, not taking a winter break:

It is common for whistleblowers and labor activists to struggle to find work afterward. It is unprecedented that the discrimination is caught and prosecuted. This win shows the scope of the NLRA goes beyond unions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Scoop: Mozilla has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle an NLRB case in which the US labor board alleged it refused to hire former Apple software engineer Cher Scarlett because of her prior labor activism www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It is common for whistleblowers and labor activists to struggle to find work afterward. It is unprecedented that the discrimination is caught and prosecuted. This win shows the scope of the NLRA goes beyond unions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I am safe. I am watching for the evacuation orders, as where I am there are small fires that started burning in the last couple of hours just blocks away. Fire dept. has it under control for now. Everything is on fire, and it is apocalyptic outside. I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Happy holidays 🎄

Happening now: Amazon Labor Union workers and supporters are rallying outside JFK8 on Staten Island ahead of a midnight strike due to Amazon refusing to come to the bargaining table following a Dec. 15 deadline. #STRIKEMAS

I have been reading @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social since I was a little girl, so seeing my own picture up with all those inspiring (so)heroes on the BBC 100 Women list really takes the cake🎂 Thank you for including me! 🥹

Gather the research Read the documents Annotate Break down Run thematic analysis Create an outline Think about quitting Write Stare at the word count Think about quitting Write …

💜 Hey! I need some help. A child who evacuated Gaza needs life-saving brain tumor surgery. He’s got to raise $4000 by Dec 8. I am matching up to $500 total *AND* if you DM me a screenshot of your receipt I will publicly post a hot take on a topic of your choice! tiny.cc/HelpBakr

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UnitedHealthcare has the corner on declines for healthcare coverage. While I don't believe in the death penalty, retribution, or vigilante justice... there's a reason people cheered when Ted Bundy was electrocuted.

One finals research project/paper down, two to go

This seems wildly irresponsible for a browser

Please stop using GPTs as search engines. They are a map of relationships between patterns in language. That's it. George Bush did not pardon his son Neil. It's unreal that this has not yet been pulled from publication. www.justice.gov/pardon/pardo...

You can get sent to jail for stealing toilet paper but if you hire a dozen children to work overnight shifts at your slaughter house your company pays a fine

Libgen who

LOL: Congressman says "we have to have the stomach" to cut Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare but when asked about cutting the military budget, suddenly he's opposed. Q: Do you believe the defense budget should be cut? Rep. Rich McCormick: "I'm not a big fan of that."

I’d block them and three more would pop up in their place

Artificial neural networks are just calculus!!! Everything is just calculus in trench coat!!

I bought a puck light that turns on and off by tap. It has the added bonus that it turns on and off by cell phone notification, apparently.

I changed my Twitter handle once and it was instantly parked and a few weeks later the person who parked it immediately began to construct an account impersonating me. I was only able to get it back by pointing out they followed themselves on their real accounts.

Kash Patel: We will prosecute journalists www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/p...

"It's an illness that they know the cows have, and many cows have died but the boss cared about the cows, not the workers," Ibanez told the Times. "They never told them they have to go to the doctor to get a check-up." www.latimes.com/environment/...

Do. not. take. 28. units. in. a. semester.