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🚨BREAKING: Ninth Circuit AFFIRMS lower court decision striking down Arizona voter suppression law H.B. 2492 which imposed unconstitutional and burdensome proof of citizenship requirements. A big victory for our clients and the voters of Arizona. A stinging defeat for the RNC.

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Your bookshelf is a database 📚📊

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wrote about the scourge of non-English-language propaganda and misinformation across the U.S., and why any serious effort to reestablish a durable liberal-media apparatus has to be multilingual in nature: slate.com/technology/2...

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NEW: Arizona Republicans urge U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to reconsider the DOJ’s stance in a lawsuit challenging two state laws requiring extremely strict proof of citizenship to vote, which the Biden DOJ previously said violated federal law.

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How will we vote by mail without a postal service? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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" #Trump admin halts legal rep for 26,000 immigrant children Trump admin halted a program providing nearly 26K children —about 4,000 of whom live in Calif—w immigration lawyers. Some are just mos. old, many don’t have parents or legal guardians in the United States" www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

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In logic there is no "but" operator; it's just "and". The "but" only adds an implication of contrast in natural language: it does not affect the truth value of the conjunction.

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John Roberts and other fox news granpas have themselves to thank for Trump toadies flirting with ignoring court orders www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 18 days ago • 33 comments

This is a powerful and must read thread by the brilliant @neillewisjr.bsky.social.

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Good where-things-are piece by Katherine Stewart, and I'm glad to see it in the NY Times. In particular, thinking of the Trump governing coalition as 3 main prongs: the oligarchs, the fanatics, and the mass of Trump voters. The latter includes some who didn't sign up for what the former are doing.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

The Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning workshop (@deem-workshop.bsky.social) will be back at #SIGMOD2025! ✨ 🔗 Check out the CfP: deem-workshop.github.io 📝 Submission deadline: March 21 📢 Notifications: April 25 Join us for the 9th edition in Berlin! #DEEM2025

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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!

submitted 21 days ago • 434 comments

As ever, @yann-lecun.bsky.social is on target. He is the sensible voice in AI: “If we want eventually to build things like domestic robots and completely autonomous cars, we need systems to understand the real world.” And now they do not. Not yet. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

« appending "Wait" multiple times to the model's generation » is our current most likely path to AGI :) See the fresh arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393 by Niklas Muennighoff et al.

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Thinking about this lately as I encounter systematic and scoping reviews that use bibliometric type analyses as 'proof' that an area of study is 'new', rather pay attention to shifting terminologies.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

… in facilities long overdue for modernization.

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📣 The #CSCW2026 deadline (@acm-cscw.bsky.social) has been posted. Big change this year. There is only one deadline for 2026 and it is May 13, 2025. 📣 Please spread the word! #CSCW #CHI #HCI #socialcomputing cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

If you are a PhD student in computer science who is directly impacted by the last two weeks of orders, please know that it's ok to not be in a headspace for research If anyone is pushing you to be productive despite it all, please reach out to me, or SIGPLAN CARES, or computingconnections.org

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

This is a gentle reminder that open-source software can still collect data and send it to a dedicated server.

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Sell offs this big and fast don’t happen if there aren’t folks already worried an equity is overvalued

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

Smaller, faster, cheaper has always been the trend in technology though, idk how it’s catching Silicon Valley by surprise.

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What’s striking about the current civil rights backlash is how old it is. What does race have to do with anything? Why can’t we just judge things on the merits? Hasn’t it gotten much better? James Baldwin was fighting these ideas back in 1965, and they were old then! youtu.be/hzH5IDnLaBA?...

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Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "It is insulting to ask our servicemembers to uphold the absolute highest standards, only to turn around and lower the standards for Pete Hegseth to lead them."

submitted 33 days ago • 81 comments

Really cool discussion from @yann-lecun.bsky.social on the difference between language models and mental models of the world. techcrunch.com/2025/01/23/m...

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Here is Governor Newsom’s press office responding to Donald Trump with some facts, again —

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

Update on DNC race: significant momentum in the last few days. Nine governors have now endorsed our campaign. Our whip count has jumped up to 151. We’re now virtually tied with Chair Martin heading into the final week. Wind at our back. Clear path to victory.

submitted 34 days ago • 13 comments

NEW: Trump freezes the DOJ’s civil rights division, which enforces anti-discrimination, voting and election laws. While the division can continue working on ongoing cases, the pause blocks it from pursuing new cases, indictments or settlements.

submitted 34 days ago • 41 comments

an utter menace.. Tillis or any other R up in 2026 should get the boot if they vote to confirm www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 34 days ago • 74 comments

Trump's DOJ told legal service providers who receive federal funds to "immediately" stop providing legal orientation and other work intended to support immigrants at immigration courts. This could leave immigrants without access to basic legal info and representation. abcnews.go.com/US/doj-order...

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🔍 Collaborative editing in Jupyter now allows real-time document modification, powered by Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs). David Brochart explores new possibilities with CRDTs, including a suggestion system, AI collaboration, and full notebook state recovery. youtu.be/VXXLnmGqAO4

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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in his farewell address: "You know, I was taught at West Point to pray that I would 'choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong.' And I have tried every day as Secretary to live up to that teaching." It's a prayer for America right now.

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chosen "…because of Trump's high profile feud with the city's Democratic Mayor…"

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🧵 This is the story of how we helped Yassamin Ansari secure victory in Arizona's 3rd. Her campaign was historic, as she sought to become the first Iranian American Democrat in Congress and the youngest woman to serve in the House.

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It's so essential for reporters to start reporting on Harris voters. Their refusal to is presenting a false portrait of American voters. Here, for example, is the 2024 election in the Phoenix area. If you lived out there a few decades ago, this is a mind-boggling Democratic shift from then.

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