Reposted by erikrMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026HUGE: The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes have both voted to impose a three-year moratorium on data center construction on tribal lands — temporarily banning dara centers on 8,000 square miles. The Cherokee Nation, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and the Kickapoo Tribe have all imposed similar bans. 41261330
Reposted by erikrAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030931087
Reposted by erikrPopular Information @popular.info · 24/09/2026“The top donors in American politics have poured in more than $1.7 billion to influence this election cycle so far, and the latest numbers show a last-minute rush of money from benefactors of the GOP.”washingtonpost.comMeet the megadonors pouring more than $1.7 billion into the 2026 electionsBillionaires and Elon Musk, who recently temporarily achieved trillionaire status, make up the top individual donors. 86446
Reposted by erikrDr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 25/09/20262027 is a huge year! 70th anniversary of the IGY, 60th anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty, 50th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1 and 2, and 100th anniversary of the famous/infamous Solvay conference! 🧪 🔭 WomenInSTEM 47215
Reposted by erikrMaryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...scrippsnews.comInteractive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labelsPork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for. 11527461296
Reposted by erikrEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026... and much, much more from MANY voices. When the EA claim "no one has been warning you about this stuff" they are doing a double erasure: 1) Of the people doing the warning 2) Of the actual harms they are warning about bsky.app/profile/emil... >> 418859
Reposted by erikrLe Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026you are *not* prepared for what this technology company is called, nothing can prepare youwkyt.comUK installs AI facial scanning technology at residence hallsThe University of Kentucky is installing artificial intelligence facial scanning technology on several campus buildings. 391128393
Reposted by erikrOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/06/2026> This becomes utterly damaging pedagogically when we assume the ‘output’ of an assignment, the essay or horrifically the grade, is the essence. The point is for students to engage with the subject matter and sharpen their writing skills... doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 38122
Reposted by erikrTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026How did he pass is job interview? The same reason he's all over the press & everyone in the "left" is captured by these people. I'm gonna call it like it is, once again, its ******RACISM********* Y'all can't imagine that WE are the experts. 12831233
Reposted by erikrWiep Hamstra @wiep.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Interesting that theft, abuse, pornography, destruction of knowledge, billions burned, women attacked, teenagers killed did not count so much to the privileged. Because ‘AI is the future’. But now a male and white mathematician is robbed of his work (also bad!), some feel ‘betrayed’. 🤔 15120
Reposted by erikrHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026I really want to hear from the dozens of journalists who wrote glowing profiles of Alpha School in the last few years. Actually scratch that. I never want to hear from them again.futurism.comAI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their WorkThe controversial AI-focused private school Alpha School is making its students do some unusual things before enrolling. 361282309
Reposted by erikrDr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026NASA's live coverage of the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope begins in about 1/2 an hour, 8.20 pm AEST! Watch here: 🧪 🔭nasa.govNASA Live - NASANASA live: Follow live television broadcasts on NASA+, the agency's streaming service, and NASA's social media channels with this schedule of upcoming live events including news briefings, launches an... 213141
Reposted by erikrGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This is what the angels sound like when you get to heaven 🦋 3401
Reposted by erikrKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 31/08/2026The belief that you can is why all of those billionaires-built bunkers in New Zealand but climate change is not a SINGLE threat. It is a umbrella of threats - some we are only starting to understand - and some of which are cascading. 214314
Reposted by erikrKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 31/08/2026You cannot build a bunker for climate change. 1733645
Reposted by erikrMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/08/2026they dream of dictatorship laundered through (their) digital tools 24012
Reposted by erikrGreedling @greedling1729.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Toby Buckle had a great article about this newrepublic.com/article/2042...newrepublic.comThe Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and MalignedCall them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool? 24010
Reposted by erikrEqual Justice Initiative @eji.org · 28/08/2026On this day in 1955, two white men abducted and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.calendar.eji.orgAug. 28, 1955 | Emmett Till Abducted and Murdered in Mississippi DeltaLearn more about our history of racial injustice. 4282167
Reposted by erikrDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I work hard to incorporate Tribal policy into my general public policy classes because too often the field forgets that Tribal Nations exist. Using this and the Miccosukee this semester as useful cases. 2435145
Reposted by erikrAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 17/08/2026Working people, not CEOs, make this country run every day. It shouldn’t be this hard to live and make ends meet. Workers are not asking for luxury. We’re asking for some breathing room. aflcio.org/paywatch 25026
Reposted by erikrSophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comThe Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue. 34520205
Reposted by erikrRacket @racketmn.com · 28/07/2026“We’ve got some of the best fish in the world right in our backyard, and nobody's selling it." racketmn.com/minnesotas-o...racketmn.comMinnesota’s on the World’s Largest Lake—Why Don’t We Eat More Lake Superior Fish? - RacketWe posed that verbatim question to fishermen, regulators, fishmongers, historians, documentarians, restaurateurs, and biologists. 0102
Reposted by erikrMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Reading about the new X Money account reminded me of this story and how just because a tech company middleman says your money will be in an FDIC-covered account doesn't mean it's actually insured or you'll ever see it again once the shit hits the fan.youtu.beHow Millions of Americans Got Tricked Into Using a Bank That Isn't a BankYouTube video by More Perfect Union 25612
Reposted by erikrDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026How about that "viewpoint diversity," huh? Wooooo. Anyway. Yeah: just like we told you it was. "White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants" apnews.com/article/cali... 05420
Reposted by erikrex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I was on a joint training exercise with the German military in 2008 and was chatting with a German NCO and for some reason World War 2 came up and this 30-something man had actual tears in his eyes talking about the guilt he felt as a German about a war that ended 30 years before he was born. 317232
Reposted by erikrEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This is laughable --- "reporting says", well yes, these reporters did a bang-up job anthropomorphizing the system they are talking about, and obfuscating the responsibility that OpenAI holds here. bsky.app/profile/mims... Some examples: 15520170
Reposted by erikrDC Public Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 18/07/2026A gentle reminder: libraries are still here, still free, still open to everyone. No appointment required. No subscription fee. Just walk in. 252956912
Reposted by erikrshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/07/2026yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction marketscnn.comPeople are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNNAs the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained. 5342261096
Reposted by erikrKelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development 240683920
Reposted by erikrAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 14/07/2026Black women are always always ALWAYS always EARLY.rollingstone.comThese Women Tried to Warn Us About AIRumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears 411940
Reposted by erikrDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 13/07/2026“DAC at the scale needed is mostly a fantasy” It is VERY USEFUL for scientists to say this out loud, as much as possible, since blind faith in carbon removal is one of the baseless ideologies justifying the continuation of fossil-fuel use among global policymakers. 610833
Reposted by erikrAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Don’t look away from Memphis. Don’t look away from Houston. Don’t look away at the nationwide ICE surge. The trump administration is counting on you losing interest and falling for its tweak in tactics. zeteo.com/p/trumps-vio...zeteo.com🆘 Trump’s Violent Crackdowns on U.S. Cities Are Still Happening. Don't Look AwayHorror in Minneapolis caused a reset of attacks on immigrants and liberals but the administration remains fascistic and lethal. In Maine, meanwhile, Graham Platner confirmed he'll withdraw Monday. 14800443
Reposted by erikrMeredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Thanks, I *do* hate it www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-app...pcmag.comFCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers HateThe FCC says the most controversial aspect of Reflect Orbital's Earendil-1 satellite, the giant mirror, falls out of its authority since the regulator mainly focuses on radio spectrum. 38411105
Reposted by erikrAmanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Mmmmmmhmmmmm 👀👀👀👀 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/o... 674064673
Reposted by erikrLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 08/07/2026headline game is strong at the reg. 111829
Reposted by erikrAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/07/2026Compare this to how long form pieces on trans people have been written, mostly scornful pieces on trans people. 439765
Reposted by erikrMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/07/2026In a hearing where residents grilled officials on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed an NDA with any party regarding developments that could affect the town? The majority of the township's officials refused to answer. 772436836
Reposted by erikrTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026All of this. Adding: HR is also code for the state. if you are an affluent man with inherited entitlement Mark describes here, you simply don’t encounter the state very often. Maybe the DMV. But most of these dudes work. HR translates state power by managing regulations and risk. 5801175
Reposted by erikrReuters @reuters.com · 08/07/2026Fatal ICE shooting in Houston sparks demands for transparency, independent investigation reut.rs/3QIzezNreut.rsFatal ICE shooting in Houston sparks demands for transparency, independent investigationThere were growing calls on Wednesday for an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of a man in Houston by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, the latest in a string of deadly encounters involving American immigration officers. 1010765
Reposted by erikrAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/08/2025No. Refusal is a perfectly rational response to gAI, and I’m quite fed up with the argument that ‘it’s here you have no choice’. There are many technologies that ‘are here’ and I do not use. 88616
Reposted by erikrAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/08/2025This is a fantastic conversation on exactly what the risks and pitfalls are "AI" in teaching, with Jessica Grose and Tressie Cottom. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...nytimes.comOpinion | A.I. Is Fueling a ‘Poverty of Imagination.’ Here’s How We Can Fix It. 45618
Reposted by erikrYvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I'm sorry, but the CEO of Meta has a very strange idea of what constitutes a problem that requires a solution. 1232741
Reposted by erikrEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/07/2026When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780... 16878315
Reposted by erikrWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 05/07/2026#OtD 5 Jul 1852 abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave a speech about July 4th: "The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me… this Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1052... 113651
Reposted by erikrOn the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 03/07/2026"We need to get rid of this talk that we're somehow this exceptional nation chosen by God,” @esglaude.bsky.social told @brookegladstone.bsky.social. “We need to grow up. We can't grow up if you don't admit who and what you are.” 425957
Reposted by erikrAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 792570840
Reposted by erikrJennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...gizmodo.comHere's Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate LatelyMeteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. 342205971
Reposted by erikrSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow. 8165851923
Reposted by erikrMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026NEW — The sentencing of the Prairieland demonstrators shows the brutality of Trump's war on dissent, but it's not without precedent, @kimkelly.bsky.social writes. History shows us the government has always punished anti-fascism. But this time we can change the narrative in real time. Read here:thehandbasket.coFrom Haymarket to Prairieland: How dissent has unleashed the long arm of the lawThe Prairieland sentencing has dark historical parallels, Kim Kelly writes. But we can change the end of the current story. 231704672