It’s clear that the upcoming government funding deadline is one of the biggest opportunities yet for Democrats to fight back. The only question is if they’ll do it.
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It’s clear that the upcoming government funding deadline is one of the biggest opportunities yet for Democrats to fight back. The only question is if they’ll do it.
Solar microgrids look pretty great when the alternative is digging a super long trench to bury a power line so it doesn't start wildfires.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
I don't care what any of you say, this guy fucking sucks.
This choice amidst an occupation partially premised on homelessness and Bowser’s openness to increased policing during a federal occupation really serves to highlight how bad the political instincts are at the top of the party.
I would ask @bretdevereaux.bsky.social
The clock on his chest says the time is now
“School shootings are normalized. The lack of gun laws has created a violence epidemic here in the United States that is nowhere else in the world. This is domestic errorism.”
Follow the money to find the governor whose anti-rooftop solar stance isn't so surprising when he's collected nearly half a million in campaign contributions from utility companies. vist.ly/44s7u h/t @hencarnell.bsky.social for @motherjones.com
bsky.app/profile/tran... The Civil War never ended. Traitors returned to their homes, created vigilante groups, wrote oppressive laws, broke laws, built monuments, rewrote history, glorified another flag, and murdered black people without consequence. J6 was just a continuation.
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Keep thinking about this excerpt from Gödel, Escher, Bach about how it would be stupid to make an LLM-like AI do maths, because it would be slow, inefficient and inaccurate. This was written in 1979. NINETEEN SEVENTY-NINE
Being able to go for a walk in spaces shared with other people
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
spotted in union square, somerville. from the northstar agitprop collective #UnionSquare #SomervilleMA
I think it’s short-sighted because writing code is not the only task in software engineering. Maintaining code requires you to understand it, debug when it’s not working, and fix it, which you can’t currently get from LLMs
I think one of the things that confuses people about LLMs is that what they're very good at is stuff that we don't associate with computers - language and bullshitting - and what they're bad at is stuff that we do - logic, fact, counting.
A sermon about community organizing, a rich man alone with his large barns, and the generosity that flows when we know our neighbors...
Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
If this is how the IDF treats American citizens traveling with media attention, it brings even more credibility to the reports of their abuses of Palestinian civilians. I stand in solidarity w/ my brother Chris, the civilians in Gaza and all working towards peace and dignity for all. End this horror
They come masked and armed, waiting outside courtrooms and workplaces. One thing is clear in Trump’s ICE-ruled America: there is no safe place for legal immigrants. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports: https://trib.al/Pq7cuG2
I try to ignore it, but I snapped when a friend sent Ghibli-styled AI and replied with the video of Miyazaki calling a version of machine learning used for animation “an insult to life itself”
“I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” The last journalists remaining in Gaza are near death from forced starvation. There is enough food at the border to feed the entire population for 3 months. This is genocide.
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
Disappointed in my rep @liccardo.house.gov for voting for this Crypto is for corruption
In the Philippines soon afterward, the U.S. set up its first overseas concentration camps. Mosquito-borne malaria surged among detainees. As one soldier wrote: "Now this little spot of black sogginess is a reconcentrado pen, with a dead-line outside, beyond which everything living is shot..." [6/17]
As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
I’ll wait for the documentation, thanks! Happy to proofread
I was talking about what it would take to set one up in the South Bay Area (Mountain View). Do you share info about how your library is funded and organized?
Californians are debating secession again. The state actually has a long history of attempting to secede, and it's really not pretty. I'm so excited to share my first (but definitely not last) article for @flaminghydra.com!
This afternoon several trans clergy & allies from the Episcopal Diocese of California rallied with others outside Stanford Medical Center protesting “compliance in advance” with Trump admin demands to curtail care for people under 19, against medical evidence. ⚓️ wwwsfchronicle.com/health/artic...
Lots of centralized cloud technology is easy for users but subject to the whims of its owners. I can imagine libraries playing a part in a hosting a decentralized cloud
I plugged in a usb mouse via an adapter to an android phone for emergency functioning, but I’m not sure if that works on iOS and you would need the right adapter. Good luck
Full statement ufw.org/ufw-statemen... 2/
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/
Ag is a real job. It takes real skills, knowledge, & people who gaf about what they're doing. Stop treating agriculture like society's dumping ground.
Having a USDA Secretary who doesn't know any of this is wild!
But berries, fruit, tomatoes, etc that are eaten fresh can't be automated w current technology. I know because I worked for a lot of the startups that tried! There's no way to pick fast enough by machine to be commercially viable, without bruising so they rot before they get to the store.
Produce that's hard, OR destined for processing, can be picked by machine. So carrots, nuts, sour cherries for pie filling, berries & grapes that will be dried, tomatoes for sauce- those are picked by machine already. www.youtube.com/shorts/ojqPS...
So. I've been on field manual labor crews where most of my coworkers were convicts. I've also worked with a lot of tech companies on automating farms. And this press conference is incredible. Rollins hasn't the foggiest clue what she's on about.
There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle. But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.
rare W for COINTELPRO from a legendary conversation between Bhakti Shringarpure and Mahmood Mamdani (h/t Silke-Marie Weineck)
He has refused his Assent to Laws… For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world… For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury… For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences… A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Trump and Republicans in Congress are trying to pull off one of the biggest heists in U.S. history. The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is robbery, plain and simple. And it’s being committed by the billionaire class and the politicians they put into office.
Supreme couruption Completely illegitimate
the Supreme Court is illegitimate. Period.
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.
Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim: ⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C ⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade ⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance ⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2 essd.copernicus.org/...
Bots are doing damage to servers hosting open source software as well
Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO
As Brad Lander is detained by federal agents while escorting someone in a courthouse — a reminder of his comments speaking up against the conditions at Rikers a few weeks ago:
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
✊ International students
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.
We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵
Thank you to everyone all who shouted, waved, protested, cheered, and shared community on #NoKingsDay! In Palo Alto, thousands of us had an impromptu town hall at Rinconada Park – this is what democracy looks like!
If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.
I was, of course, born radicalized--came out of the womb quoting Marx--but even so, being part of a huge protest in Washington DC in 2003--tons of people then lots of terrifying cop brutality--and then the next day absolutely NOTHING in the press shook me
Sidewalks and bike lanes are good infrastructure for democracy.
This video shows the drive past a 7-mile-long No Kings protest which lined El Camino in South Palo Alto, Los Altos, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and police abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
Thousands on thousands turned out for today’s No Kings rally in Palo Alto! A Big, Beautiful, Boisterous rally in support of democracy and America! 🇺🇸
I can confirm that there was a big crowd in San Mateo. Good energy, lots of people, signs and honking by passing cars
New — I wrote about the injustice unfolding before our eyes as rich reality stars are pardoned for their crimes while law-abiding immigrants are rounded up and caged by ICE, and the way communities are rising up to say fuck no.
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Not just Alameda County, I see San Mateo County received over $1 million in 2024 from SCAAP despite the Board of Supervisors voting in 2023 to restrict use of county resources to assist immigration authorities www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/boa...
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
299 early bird price for microinverter 1099 if you add 2x400W rigid panels ($1/W just for panels) 1899 if you add 4x400W (still $1/W)
Microinverter here: us.ecoflow.com/products/str... There are bundles listed, but they charge a lot for their solar panels
I’ve been waiting to see Enteligent’s direct DC car charger take off enteligent.com
I think the $599 is the list price for the microinverter, though it’s currently on sale for $299. Solar panels not included, but still a nice price point
@liccardo.house.gov thank you for signing this demand to restore humanitarian aid to Gaza carbajal.house.gov/uploadedfile...
Is there a heart rate monitor that you recommend? I’d like to add some cardio alongside my strength training and read about cardio / HRM on tacticalbarbell (on your rec)
Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "My whole point here is if you deprive one man of his constitutional rights, you threaten the constitutional rights of everybody ... if you threaten the rule of law for one person, you threaten if for everybody in America."
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
“I feel like something is happening generally in America,” she said, in an interview over a video link. “Something bad is happening. I don’t think everybody understands.”
Repeat after me: these budget cuts are theft. Our elected officials are stealing from us. They work for us, and they are breaking what we hired them to protect.
This chart was made in America by skilled artisans. It also provides important context for understanding our current tariff situation.
I had money in Washington Mutual in 2008 and First Republic in 2023. The FDIC kept me from losing all my money in these accounts
They’re coming for everyone’s money
“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Ability to destroy tape archives from before your crime is a dream scenario for a cybercriminal
First, Steves finds a way to talk about institutions and oligarchy that is dirt simple: 1. Institutions are PUBLIC WEALTH. They are our shared wealth, dammit. 2. Billionaires can't stand wealth they don't control. 3. So they are going to dismantle our public wealth to better bleed us dry
Mary, a Kenyan HIV outreach worker, has 4 children of her own. When a colleague was murdered, she took in the 4 orphans, one HIV+. In Jan, the US suspended the programs supporting the family. The kids were thrown out of school; today, they were evicted. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...
People who recognized him as a “Tony Stark” equivalent who makes big exciting tech. Into tech gadgets? The greenness of EVs attracted a lot of environmentally conscious folks too
How is academia supposed to help 'defend democracy' when it is itself an aristocracy?
More useful things Senate Democrats could do: - Hold a joint press conference demanding Trump and Musk restore constitutional governance - Hold a joint press conference demanding Musk resign from DOGE - Announce a Congressional boycott of X
Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful: - Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored - Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored - Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored
"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore." -#CesarChavez #WeFeedYou
The AI-generated Ghibli filter memes are an insult to Miyazaki, who referred to AI as an “insult to life itself” youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...