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Essential reading from Emily Tavoulareas, one of the founders of the US Digital Service (since cannibalized and weaponized as DOGE) www.techpolicy.press/doge-underst...

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what i did last week: - read a book - read another book - read a few journal articles - wrote a paper - read another book

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The Mid Guy Theory of History

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my other pottery update from this week: i just pulled a shot of espresso into my own little homemade espresso cup. i think i'll make more of these with just a pop of color around the rim, rather than a fuller glaze. but the JOY! the utility!

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When people want to talk to me about the backlash against US higher ed but don't want to mention racism, this is one of the key reasons I become very annoyed (Also the data used to create this post had its contract canceled this month so are won't be able to track things like this in the future)

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AI models from Microsoft & OpenAI were used by Israel's military to help choose bombing targets in #Gaza and #Lebanon, an AP investigation finds. It’s one of the first times commercial AI has been used in warfare. My latest with Sam Mednick and Garance Burke ... apnews.com/article/isra...

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not sure i love the marbled glaze look but it will be so fun to eat out of my very own bowl

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All these bros conveniently forgetting that the U.S. government was instrumental in creating the Internet through NSF grants to universities and research hubs through the 80s and 90s.

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My Chicago history buffs who were alive at the time… genuinely curious. did everyday people and the media like and adore Harold Washington while he was in office?

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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester.

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Probationary employees are receiving termination notices today at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Notices have already started going out, per agency source.

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there are SO many people who rely on the records here but i have a feeling it's the hemingway fans who will be especially pissed

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Every fired park ranger is more wholesome and sincere than the last fired park ranger

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The Trump administration’s downsizing and disbanding of federal agencies has hit efforts that improve election security and monitor foreign influence. That could create gaps for America’s enemies to exploit the next time the country holds a major election. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Black history is only offensive if you side with enslavers, segregationists, and other racists. It slaps if you have morality.

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- ordered cheap copy of book a month ago - have vague recollection of book arriving - cannot for the life of me find the book - have torn apart every bookshelf in this house - have searched behind and under furniture - must have book read by tuesday night - gave up & placed emergency ILL hold

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i appreciate @jpt.sh, and owe him much, but i truly hope that there is no third wave of civic tech we need to move past the idea that technologists, merely because they are technologists, have something special and valuable to say about how our civics, politics, and social life are organized.

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It's hardly a surprise that a lot of the most essential writing today comes from ex-pats who know what it's like to live under an authoritarian regime

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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when i started posting the "excuse me" pictures here, instead of where they used to go, on the other site, bluesky threads were still buggy, so i started quote posting. but maybe i should switch back to one long thread? please advise

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excuse me

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A little more than $300 from reaching $25k on my part of the Save the Reader fundraiser, donate today if you can and thanks donorbox.org/save-the-chi...

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i know cat logic is impossible to understand but what satisfaction could the little guy possibly get out of sitting on a wet sweater that is laying flat to dry

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The thing that you might want to read about in this article is how the KKK in Colorado basically took over the government and fired a bunch of people and disbanded a bunch of public health organizations. You might also want to read how it all ended.

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I'm amazed some progressive bro hasn't already started a podcast interviewing government workers who've lost their jobs.

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this could be us

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