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According to my dad, he used to see Roberta Flack at his local bar playing pinball all the time back in the ‘70s. She mentions her pinball habit in this 1978 interview soulmusic.com/roberta-flac...

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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New: All 50 states have now introduced right to repair legislation. A really amazing milestone for a grassroots movement. Wisconsin just became the last state to do it: www.404media.co/all-50-state...

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(Bloomberg) - Microsoft Corp. has begun canceling leases for a substantial amount of datacenter capacity in the US, a move that may reflect concerns about whether it’s building more AI computing than it will need over the long term, TD Cowen said in a report. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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We had company for last night’s family record party and managed to play a 4-person board game without Garbo having to “play”

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Some Dead Moon Night plans are in the works for October's celebration of PDX's best DIY punk rock band! This early audio story of mine commemorates the 1st DM Night. Talks w punk legends Poison Idea’s Jerry A, Mudhoney’s Steve Turner, DM’s Kelly Halliburton & more! redtailmedia.org/wp-content/u...

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Feels like universities and companies are both finding convenient excuses to make the cuts they want to make (to the humanities, to DEI and RAI efforts) anyway

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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

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"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

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If you like Severance, I hope you'll listen to Techtonic, my podcast/radio show. I'm questioning tech & its promises, w/help from brilliant guests like @hypervisible.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social & more. Podcast: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/t... More: techtonic.fm

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

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"The Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday...the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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The National Science Foundation fired all its experts. The National Science Foundation. Fired. All of its. Experts. And they weren't even told to! The leadership worked toward the Fuhrer and went beyond the cuts demanded of them in anticipation of many, many more firings—up to half its staff.

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📬🚨 HUGE NEWS 📬🚨 Trump plans to fire the USPS governing board, merge the Postal Service into the Commerce Department. It would disrupt 55 years of non-political mail service, and threatens to upend trillions of dollars of ecommerce and the 250 year-old US mail system.

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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

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It was a little surreal but also heartening to be at a business school’s clean energy conference, where people seemed to care in earnest about sustainability, and to talk to engaged design students about the environmental impacts of AI

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The National Park Service just took down Marsha P. Johnson's page. www.nps.gov/people/marsh...

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These are legal immigrants the Trump administration is fucking over for no reason other than cruelty and racism www.npr.org/2025/01/28/n...

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Our takeaway from the Paris AI Action Summit: It's time to start thinking about how we can work against "AI governance" when it fails to include impacted communities Our new essay in @techpolicypress.bsky.social with @anabrandusescu.bsky.social @davidthewid.bsky.social & @christelle.bsky.social

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🚨🚨🚨 Yesterday, the NLRB’s Buffalo office (Region 3) received word from its landlord that GSA—acting on behalf of DOGE—had unilaterally cancelled the Region’s five-year lease, without any prior notice to the Agency. The Region has been given 90 days to vacate the building.

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Lmao the title of this episode: “Petro-masculinity versus the planet” Thanks to @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social for having me on the show!

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“What is both surprising and alarming is how many research-supporting organizations and institutions outside of the federal government have immediately capitulated to these bans – despite the fact that it’s not even clear whether these orders are legal.“ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/19/d...

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To share a tiny bit of joy this morning, the Black History Month event at my kid’s elementary school was super cute, with delicious food, community, and Basquiat coloring sheets

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Republicans once embraced ‘green banks.’ Trump is trying to raid them. EPA chief Lee Zeldin has launched an attack on the agency’s $20 billion clean energy loan program. grist.org/politics/tru... #GreenBanks #Climate #Banking #Trump #EPA

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🎉 Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 has reached Ep 50 🎉 Dr. @tamigraph.bsky.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social & me to look into tech bros’ unhinged ideas about energy & the environment & the techno-fascism of it all. www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Thx to @whatulysses.bsky.social for production!

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Posting this for no reason at all

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Incredibly delulu to think that midterms will turn the tide (or happen at all) or that tweaking a few words to comply with the fascist EOs will save your pet project

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The idiocy of all of this Exclusive: FDA staffers told that 'woman,' 'disabled' among banned words; White House says it’s an error www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...

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A deportation flight leaving the U.S. Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children.

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Does a class action lawsuit do anything in a country without laws?

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I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

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New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

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Tell these stories. Tell your stories. Send them to the press. Send them to your Members of Congress.

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About that…any fellow NSF PIs have any info they can share? Has anyone actually heard anything since the layoffs?

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Normal routines becoming untenable like wtf are we doing here

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