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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...

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Judge Abelson wrote that Trump’s order was both potentially discriminatory, penalizing private organizations based on their viewpoints, and written so vaguely that groups had reason to fear “arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.” www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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when the crowd cheers for the Nazi salute, what you have is a crowd full of Nazis

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On top of everything else it's excellent data since the post office scans every bit of mail

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"You don’t destroy your lead pipeline for best-in-class talent if your motivation is to make the government more efficient,” said Max Stier, president and CEO of Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on improving government.

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The premise “a European man named Laszlo and his wife navigate America over the decades with varying success” could be two very different things

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Right whales may live up to 150 years. Until now, it's been hard to estimate the lifespan of such long-lived animals because whaling decimated their populations in the 1800s. It could take hundreds of years more for their populations to recover. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

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Remote interviews are not going to be useful anymore, joining a long list of talent identification techniques that AI is invalidating (like take-home essays, etc.). I don’t think institutions are adjusting fast enough.

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Filing: Trump Media reports 2024 revenue down 12% YoY to $3.6M and a $400M net loss, up from $58.2M in 2023; the company has a $6.6B market cap (Jordan Novet/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! Feb 14: Q: Why aren't there more Black computer science grads? Or any STEM grads? A: Lots of systemic racism reasons, but one of the biggest ones is college sports. Here's why I was part of the group that sponsored the California NIL bill. Read the whole linked thread

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The ordinarily cautious and conservative ABA is blowing the whistle: The break-the-glass moment has arrived. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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Despicable. So many people in the US are choosing to go the way of Gov. George Wallace in 1963: "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!" Truly and utterly despicable.

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A new report shows 14% of North Americans still play on video games consoles released before the year 2000. A similar number have listened to a cassette in the past year, with 11% still using a fax machine. (Read more: Time Extension)

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AI is proving to be exceptional at amplifying existing biases, even subtle ones. "....elite surnames consistently increase AI-generated perceptions of power, intelligence, and wealth, which in turn influence AI-driven decisions in high-stakes contexts." www.media.mit.edu/projects/alg...

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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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this is the "merit" two-step. first, you strongly imply or state outright that the presence of anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white man is unfair "DEI," then you argue that just because an institution is all-male and lily-white doesn't mean there is discrimination. that's just merit!

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Useful tracker of current litigation www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

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If you work for the federal government and are tempted to take Musk’s “buyout” offer please know that you’re never going to see that money.

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I don't know if this is literally true. But it helps to clarify some arguments that @mcopelov.bsky.social and I are pulling together about the political economy of crypto and state power. If tech billionaires are massively overleveraged on two products that nobody wants, only the state can save them

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

submitted 20 days ago • 68 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

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For all federal employees: Before you are locked out of your systems, ensure you have copies of unclassified performance appraisals, awards & other relevant personnel docs. If you have access to your office, grab your more important personal items sooner rather than later.

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I really don’t think it’s happenstance that pretty much every remaining institutional safeguard broke down within 15 years of Citizens United

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“NPR has identified dozens of defendants with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking.” www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

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Update: It's day 12 of the Golden Age, and the war in Ukraine is still raging and a dozen brown eggs at the Giant cost more than $9.

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For those keeping count at home, Meta lets folks incite gender-based hate in the name of free speech, but if one of its employees dares to tell the truth about what its CEO says then there is zero tolerance.

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At 20W, the human brain consumes approximately 3,000 kWh by the age of 18, or $300 at 10c/kWh. - Sebastian Thrun AI has a long way to go!

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OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property www.404media.co/openai-furio...

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What do sociologists say

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If anyone knows of any extra-help, substitute librarian or library worker jobs (especially in the Bay Area) please kindly send them my way! (: I’ve applied to a couple of places, but either haven’t heard back or they went with someone else. Long live libraries! ✨💚📚

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Monarchy speedrun is already at “meddlesome priest,” pretty good time

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AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

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When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

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Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

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Getty captures tech titans Zuck, Cook, Sundar and Bezos in church prayer service this morning for Trump's inauguration www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...