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These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

submitted 45 days ago • 194 comments

Only thing better than starting your own state is taking over an existing one. - Thiel, paraphrased

submitted 62 days ago • 3 comments

Read our social cost of carbon meta-review machine-learning something something open access in @pnas.org here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

I read this @arnabdatta.bsky.social OpEd as an apology for a vision of decarbonization that includes ongoing fossil-fuel production. Like all apologies for bad, unworkable climate ideas it misrepresents both the state of play & the costs of its own prescriptions. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...

submitted 76 days ago • 17 comments

Fossil fuel production is still not decreasing. Worse, it is increasing. The latest analysis from BloombergNEF (see graph below) shows that global production in 2023 was about 1.9% higher than in 2022. The US is the country which increased production (oil and gas) the most…

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

the thing with UnitedHealth is that you have to go pretty damn far up the financial hierarchy of this country before you find someone who has not been screwed by health insurance or had a close friend or family member who was

submitted 78 days ago • 149 comments

There are 14 BILLIONAIRES that are part of the second Trump administration

submitted 78 days ago • 555 comments

NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.

submitted 80 days ago • 47 comments

just kind of thinking about the fact the nyt sent a breaking news alert when a college kid said something dumb about Zionists but not when Amnesty International said it had determined that Israel is committing genocide

submitted 80 days ago • 29 comments

Important read from Taylor Owen in @techpolicypress.bsky.social 'On the Coming Merger of Tech and State Power' www.techpolicy.press/on-the-comin...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

I am collecting examples of the most thoughtful writing about generative AI published in 2024. What’s yours? They can be insightful for commentary, smart critique, or just because it shifted the conversation. I’ll post some of mine below as I go through them. #criticalAI

submitted 83 days ago • 102 comments

I asked more than three dozen tech companies that sell, possess, or help analyze personal data whether they would help facilitate Trump's promised mass deportation operations—Only six responded, and only one said no theintercept.com/2024/12/02/l...

submitted 82 days ago • 41 comments

The Syllabus has an interesting new page on The Post-neoliberal Moment with a range of curated syllabi on (to simplify) the relationship between #bigtech #platforms & #neoliberalism Well worth a browse www.the-syllabus.com/ts-spotlight...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Researching and reporting my story about how truly horrible Facebook has become genuinely rattled me, and changed how I looked at the internet permanently. It's important to understand how messed up they are. www.wheresyoured.at/killingfaceb...

submitted 87 days ago • 94 comments

10 years ago a single bathroom bill passed in north carolina received so much pushback from all angles that the fucking NBA boycotted the state btw. that’s where we were then versus now. cool cool cool

submitted 94 days ago • 35 comments

The Climate Apartheid By Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.bsky.social "While the wealthy are able to insulate themselves from the worst effects of climate breakdown, the poor are forced to bear the costs of a crisis they did not cause". tribunemag.co.uk/2024/08/clim...

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

- Stripping 1.5+ million people of temporary status - End of refugee resettlement - Cutting legal immigration and adding new visa bans - Overall slowdown of legal immigration - End to asylum through Kafkaesque rules - Brutality against asylum seekers - Increased arrests, detention, and removals.

submitted 96 days ago • 29 comments

The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem. 
I went deep into the 122 page report and broke down the key findings and what they mean www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...

submitted 96 days ago • 108 comments

10 years ago Musk warned AI weapons would "delete humans like spam" now he's one of the loudest champions of military contracting, framing it as the ultimate test of patriotism for Silicon Valley For more on Trump and Silicon Valley's realignment dig into: theintercept.com/2024/11/17/t...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating article on what was known by the public and lawmakers regarding the climate change problem as early as the 1960s and 70s.

submitted 97 days ago • 10 comments

"Our estimates suggests that an increase of 0.05 rating points in Fox News viewership, induced by exogenous changes in channel placement, has increased Republican vote shares by at least 0.5 percentage points in recent presidential, Senate, House, and gubernatorial elections."

submitted 97 days ago • 23 comments