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I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

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The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

submitted 2 days ago • 342 comments

This is today:

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The rise of anti-sex policies from tech companies and governments over the past few years is really concerning

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs? I'm a longtime environment reporter interested in NOAA, EPA and USGS. Send me tips: lisasong.42 on Signal Here's what I cover and some examples of my work: www.propublica.org/people/lisa-...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Just watched the Trump Gaza video and whoever wrote a couple weeks ago about generative AI being the new aesthetics of fascism could not have asked for a better case in point

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

In hiring three reporters and two editors for a new politics team, @katie-drummond.bsky.social said “the bet that we made was that this sort of Venn diagram between business and politics would become increasingly vital for a publication like Wired to cover.” apnews.com/article/elon...

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

They justified this Tennessee drag ban using a legal designation: "harmful to minors" They justified book ban / library purges with "harmful to minors" Now they're using "harmful to minors" to push age-verification bills to censor the internet. Understand the connection. Fight them all.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Prepare the lawsuits against systematically biased algorithmic firing systems

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Praxis?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

How Microsoft completely failed one victim of non-consensual image abuse, not removing more than 100 explicit images for months. Everyone we spoke to for this story said the processes for removing non-consensual images are broken and big tech does whatever it wants (Resharing for the weekend)

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

To get a sense of some of the specific types of grant research being affected at universities by the anti-DEI McCarythism here is excellent student reporting with details…

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 8 days ago • 142 comments

Double-plus-ungood. It’s not just the particular terms or even the self-censorship by federal employees that’s scary. It’s the cultivation of an atmosphere in which language itself is a threat, your own tongue may be your enemy.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

The UK is forcing Apple to weaken encryption. Such demands have no precedent in democratic countries and would have far-reaching consequences not only for UK residents but for Internet users worldwide, write TechFreedom’s Berin Szóka and Santana Boulton. www.techpolicy.press/uk-encryptio...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

finally foamers are rising up

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

URGENT request for help: I need to build a case (soon) that justifies the "broader impact" of my research (yes, this is related to recent events in the US). If you have ever used Chartability or Data Navigator in your work in any capacity, I would love to know! Please email ([email protected]) or dm me.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Please repost + help beat the filter bubble: which country has the most robust #AI policy? Are the ethnographic/case study accounts of how AI policies are developed? Bonus points if it's peer reviewed and lay-friendly.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Governments and tech companies will not save us 👇🏻

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"Trump Withdraws Federal Approval for Congestion Pricing... The $9 toll is a burden on "working class" residents, according to DOT Secretary Sean Duffy, who ignored the millions of working-class regional residents who depend on transit." nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/19/b...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

submitted 11 days ago • 74 comments

Forgot the bag with pictures of sugar cane on it in my spice cabinet is MSG and almost made the worst cocktail of my life

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

Elon Musk is making wild claims that #DOGE has found evidence of massive Social Security fraud.... The reality is that Musk's young engineers don't seem to be able to understand COBOL databases while Musk is misrepresenting the Social Security data www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 13 days ago • 137 comments

one thing in AI is not new -- people taking one small part of a job, mischaracterizing it, ignoring all the other stuff, and then assume the AI can do the whole job on its own

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

No ❤️

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I recently gave one of the best talks of my career thus far, and thankfully it was recorded, so I figured I share that here! Thoughts/ideas/questions welcome! scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

LSA joined dozens of scholarly societies in signing a letter that begins, "American science and innovation have advanced humanity for generations... But today, science is under threat." We commit to championing integrity and conveying the importance of science. unitedsciencealliance.org

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Atlanta police have set up secret surveillance cameras outside of Stop Cop City activists' houses and gathering spots––and they refuse to answer any questions about the cameras www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 16 days ago • 100 comments

I know I’ll never get it but I’ll die waiting for that personal apology from every “centrist” who worried about liberal censorship.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

First they should contact me, my DMs are open, and I'm Brian Merchant on Signal

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Horrific. Reporters are beginning to collect the names of specific people that Musk and Trump have killed by abruptly terminating USAID—in this case Pe Kha Lau, a Burmese woman living in Thailand

submitted 18 days ago • 29 comments

GovWayBack. govwayback.com

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

A colleague just had to convince her institution that the FAIR data principles are not DEI.

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

100% to this. It’s been clear to anyone watching closely that there is a multi-pronged attack on U.S. universities & the playbooks we are using to address this attack are not up to the challenge of the moment. (That said, some have been better than others, and at least UW let my team fight.)

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

submitted 19 days ago • 934 comments

When Stanford IT staff and a pro-diversity group shared a list of words they encouraged others not to use, it was national news, despite the fact it never represented campus policy. When the government erases any mention, data or research related to words, will it be treated as a free speech issue?

submitted 20 days ago • 70 comments

Created a new Github repo for tracking various hand-curated and possibly scraped datasets for the second Trump presidency. So far, I'm tracking visits to his properties, golf dates and the population of the Guantanamo concentration camp. Any other suggestions? github.com/harrisj/trum...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

submitted 20 days ago • 723 comments

NSF’s decision to eliminate its fellowship for underrepresented postdoctoral scholars this year is systematically racist, as Trajan clearly explains in the thread below:

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Gambling ads should be treated like cigarette ads

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-pri...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

submitted 23 days ago • 51 comments