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The Silicon Valley Consensus: a persistent but fragile pattern for overbuilding, overvaluing, and overinvesting in tech to enrich networks of capitalists & advance their (reactionary) political projects. 1st iteration focuses on AI capex, first half today. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-silico...

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I have a theory about why, beyond just being people, much of US scientific leadership was caught so flat-footed and is displaying Neville Chamberlain-tier wet kleenex resolve in defense of our institutions and values.

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February book club: Anti-Black Racism, Sexism and Systemic Discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Commission read: sencanada.ca/en/info-page... #Books #BookClub #Indigenous #IndigenousReads #Cdnpoli #AntiBlackRacism #BlackHistoryMonth #TRC57

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A missing Indigenous child was found dismembered, but you probably won't see those outside of the Indigenous community talking about it. Even our children don't matter to people.

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Hey! Don't forget NOT to use the iOS Patreon app to buy things or subscribe to memberships because the app store now has a 30% fee which either the creator is covering themselves or is increasing the price on whatever you're buying (patreon emailed me today to tell me I could choose which)

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 10 days ago • 253 comments

There is a not small chance that Trump musk and the Republicans literally force the world along with the citizens of this country who are against them into an alliance that looks a lot like a resistance movement during a world war and that it tips over now into the overt violence against us all.

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Universities nationwide used pro-Palestine protests to expand surveillance, @shayssen.bsky.social reports. New technology & support from law enforcement & federal agencies allow universities to monitor student activists like never before. prismreports.org/2025/02/26/u...

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Check out the full Factually! episode with @edzitron.com wherever you get podcasts! » Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... » Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3FSj... » YouTube: youtu.be/wAUTbQ4rPI4

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Instead of legislating kidnapping, confinement and torture for adults, Alberta should be repealing the Protection of Children Abusing Drugs (PChAD) Act. Why won't Alberta, famous for moral panics around kids, protect the many hundreds treated this way each year? drugdatadecoded.ca/survival-of-...

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Now THAT's a review! Energetic frustration infusing the physics of neural networks, gene regulatory networks, and protein conformational fluctuations! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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A disappointing, confused and obviously incomplete “fully costed” platform. No money for transit, the $40B 407 promise conspicuously absent, and $3.65B more in giveaways to grocers than to the housing crisis.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

From a disability perspective, a great deal of the putative benefits of AI for neurodivergent folks (which doesn't just include autistic folks or those with ADHD btw) could be better provided by PEOPLE. And I'd much rather the capacity and funding go to people.

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If you’re wondering who the Elon Musk staffers are, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has several Musk staffers, including Amanda Scales, Brian Bjelde, Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski.

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If I was the cops and a judge agreed I violated charter rights and needed a warrant to do something I didn’t have; but that it just didn’t matter; I would continue to violate charter rights and not bother to get a warrant.

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Gaza's Ongoing Humanitarian Catastrophe www.readtheorchard.org/p/gazas-ongo...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it

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It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

submitted 27 days ago • 98 comments

Here you go, y'all. This is Darren Beattie, Trump's newest appointee to the state department. Posting white extremist talking points on main.

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

NIH’s Notice of NIH interest in Diversity (NOT-OD-20-031) has been removed from the NIH website. This was issued in 2019 and expanded its definition of diversity and included: underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities, disability, disadvantaged background (eg, rural/low-income), women.

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American contractors will be staffing a Gaza checkpoint. People who recall the War on Terror currently screaming forever www.reuters.com/world/inside...

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But I'm sure Microsoft is concerned about "AI Safety" y'all!

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A Hamas sympathizer is anyone who believes that Palestinians are entitled to act upon their right, established in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2625, to resist their oppression and dispossession.

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Want to know what media groups sold out their writers, editors and graphics teams to OpenAI so you can make actionable steps to avoid them like the plague? Mashable got you. Latest addition linked in comment below.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Calgary’s Annual Valentines’ Day Memorial March Friday, February 14th 6:30pm at Scarboro United Church #mmiw #mmiwg #mmiwg2 #TwoSpirit #Trans 🏳️‍⚧️🍓🏳️‍🌈🪶 Go to for more: facebook.com/events/s/cal...

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This is a really interesting article outlining the long game of the Cons. Some familiar to now names appear. Danielle Smith goes back a long way with Stephen Harper. thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Read this 2021 article by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social in the context of assisted suicide. “[…] disabled lives are burdens on the economy; our murders, though tragic, are understandable; our existence, disposable, and our deaths merciful.” www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/0...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday, in protest of Harvard University's response to the genocide in Gaza and deepening repression of campus activism against it, I submitted a letter of resignation from my job there. Here is that letter.

submitted 40 days ago • 87 comments

The shutting down of medical research and communication, withdrawal from the WHO, and dismantling or restricting the DHS and Medicare/Medicaid are all eugenics efforts. It's important to contextualize that, and to take it very seriously. #disability #chronicillness

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

What we are all experiencing is called "resilience targeting." It is a deliberate attack favored by many of todays shitlords, and is a fairly well known theory in disinfo and climate circles; it's just that everyone seems to be in denial that it's an attack. Today might be a good day to read up

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ICE is raiding schools; Navajo are threatened with “deportation,” in the first hints of an ethnic cleansing campaign; the federal government is resegregating with snitch tags on everyone who resists; the NIH is frozen; private institutions are acquiescing rapidly… It is day 4.

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A violent criminal? A threat to society? A danger to democracy? No, no and no. This is someone being punished again and again for giving a damn about humanity and the living world. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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