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Gavin Newsom vetoed a data broker privacy bill that our legislature passed last year that would have allowed Californians to opt out of all data brokers with a single click.

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

Absolutely not. Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score. Police don't kill too many Black kids." Score: Not toxic.🤦🏿‍♂️ "Police kill too many Black kids. Score: 80.28% toxic.😮

submitted 53 days ago • 37 comments

Swalwell says the House Judiciary republicans just voted to allow Trump to deport US Citizens. From IG:

submitted 56 days ago • 515 comments

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

submitted 72 days ago • 119 comments

🚨 How are DOGE cuts impacting your community? Under Musk's leadership, DOGE has implemented sweeping reductions in grants, contracts, and leases. Here’s a new tool I built that identifies grant and lease terminations by congressional district.

submitted 77 days ago • 6 comments

I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😻

submitted 78 days ago • 470 comments

First official electric power data release of 2025 is out, and US solar production continues to grow rapidly. It's up 43% from this time last year, nearing summer-2022 levels in winter of 2025

submitted 90 days ago • 27 comments

Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism

submitted 92 days ago • 327 comments

You know, I'm just a lowly tech comms flack, but there seems to be one faction of Dems being screamed at/in hiding, and one faction pulling crowds like this. Maybe the latter should be in charge?

submitted 95 days ago • 100 comments

Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand

submitted 95 days ago • 528 comments

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

submitted 96 days ago • 204 comments

In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like “you’re just virtue signaling, you’re just saying you have virtue, you’re just treating virtue like it’s a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being good”

submitted 107 days ago • 67 comments

The President of the United States is vowing to disappear students from college campuses who say things the government doesn't like. There are not enough alarms for this.

submitted 107 days ago • 128 comments

The United States is evolving into an AI-controlled "Network State," says a respected military analyst. Get ready for increased turmoil and "bursts of authoritarianism." www.thenerdreich.com/network-stat...

submitted 110 days ago • 4 comments

Imagine being a teenage girl now. Your male peers are all watching Andrew Tate and doing Nazi salutes and every week the most prestigious magazines in the world run a piece about how it’s a social emergency that you’re not having babies in the 10th grade.

submitted 115 days ago • 70 comments

Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 118 days ago • 143 comments

I've been thinking about this and I'll add one wrinkle: Bezos did not set out to by the Post for political propagandistic reasons. I think he bought it because 1) it was very cheap ($250M) and 2) maybe even because in 2013 he thought supporting journalism was the right thing to do. But 1/

submitted 118 days ago • 7 comments

This is LITERALLY what USAID does!!!

submitted 119 days ago • 131 comments