Reposted by Matthew HaugenClimate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 8hNEW: Climate policies must deliver for working people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis. Today, we're releasing Immediate Relief, a set of policy proposals to cut costs, protect rights and survival, and expand leisure and access: stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/immediate-re... 086
Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 8hHere in Birmingham, our electricity bills are 41% higher than Huntsville's because we have an awful investor-owned utility (that has the state government in their pocket) and Huntsville has public power www.al.com/news/birming...al.comComeback Town: Birmingham residential electric bills are 41% higher than Huntsville’sBirmingham cannot change its electric utility overnight. But Alabama can change the way that utility is regulated. 1124
Reposted by Matthew Haugensick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 03/10/2026jaw dropped when I read this www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w... 5572105
Reposted by Matthew HaugenTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Country rube stuff 101: if they talk fast, they got their hands in your pocket. 61104183
Reposted by Matthew HaugenGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026this is a well-reported piece with an awful lot written between the lines, and one of the things that jumps out at me is just how ill-informed these people are. the trucker, his partner, his mother — they can’t even agree *amongst themselves* on a shared understanding of events 19818142
Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It is cool that the UK finally has the world's first good green party 022
Reposted by Matthew HaugenDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!! 2533120
Reposted by Matthew HaugenSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 02/10/2026"The word got around that finally, there was a real gangster in town." I reviewed this week's excellent MobLand, in which Tom Hardy's fixer Harry Da Souza meets his match in Johnny Flynn's gregarious, shaggy-haired, track-suited mob boss Frankie Cooperdecider.com‘MobLand’ Season 2 Episode 3 Recap: Frankie Say RelaxFor a guy whose job it is to know all the angles, boy, there are a lot of angles Harry doesn’t know at the moment. 2134
Reposted by Matthew HaugenPatrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My newest in Zeteo UK looks at the elements of ecocide in Gaza: the impacts on land, air, and water that the Israeli assault has produced. 063
Reposted by Matthew HaugenDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by CongressThe move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 8830741175
Reposted by Matthew HaugenJoan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The # of kids covered by Medicaid/CHIP since Jan 2025 continues to decline As of August 2026, the ⬇️ was 2.575 million 2026 is a more rapid ⬇️ than the already large ⬇️ in 2025 This is very worrying bcuz drops in child Medicaid enrollment usually means kid uninsured rate is ⬆️ 14222
Reposted by Matthew HaugenMoira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“We hope that other cities will take it as a lesson: We don’t have to bow down [to] the fascist deportation machine. We certainly don’t have to let its perpetrators benefit from our local economies and infrastructure." - Alderman Andre Vasquez 15416
Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"The problem with AI, however, is that it’s moving so fast—both socially and technically—that assumptions formed in one phase may not retain their validity into the next." bentarnoff.substack.com/p/on-the-pac...bentarnoff.substack.comOn the pacing of frontiersEverybody’s talking about “pacing the frontier.” A funny phrase. 000
Reposted by Matthew HaugenCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14237881252
Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Great piece by @kennystancil.bsky.social revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/reversing-...revolvingdoorproject.substack.comReversing Voughtism; or, Creating a Pro-Worker Government to Save LivesThe Trump regime is dismantling the federal government’s ability to protect you. Undoing the Vought-led onslaught is a matter of life-and-death, and it would be good politics. 030
Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It is hard for me to take AI "existential risk" people seriously when they do not care about things like this www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...wsj.comGoogle Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too FarThe risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash. 091
Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I haven't read the permitting reform bill yet (seems like there's some good stuff), but I want to once again suggest to fellow clean energy advocates that saying or implying that biodiversity, endangered species, & other non-climate environmental issues do not matter is both detrimental & incorrect 27515
Reposted by Matthew HaugenJacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026just makes me sick, blood is on so many companies' hands 1238
Reposted by Matthew HaugenAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I keep hearing from sources about these but had no idea it was THIS many. of course these are also the orgs that squawk about the importance of "academic freedom" www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comInside the anti-climate campaign against researchersA POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide. 07329
Reposted by Matthew HaugenPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Economic issues not cultural wars' produces a party that both loses elections and abandons moral causes and vulnerable people. That’s not a theoretical argument—it’s the story of the Democratic Party of my entire adulthood." newrepublic.com/article/2159...newrepublic.comWhy Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy. 616460
Reposted by Matthew HaugenYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 30/09/2026I've added a new feature to Transit Explorer—the database of the world's fixed-guideway transit systems: The ability to compare cities, side by side, at the same scale. Here, for example, is Washington vs. Chicago, and Singapore vs. London! Play around: www.thetransportpolitic.com/transitexplo... 418140
Reposted by Matthew HaugenSnowden St. @snowden.st · 29/09/2026don’t get headline sniped, these are standard plans from a liberal/progressive policy standpoint. 1124350
Reposted by Matthew HaugenChristopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 29/09/2026there are going to be so so so many stories of disasters when agents with full access to users' everything make huge mistakes there is no harness or minder on earth that can catch every single edge case 58817
Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When did "technology" come to mean "digital technology" in common parlance? 270
Reposted by Matthew HaugenAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement 6403116
Reposted by Matthew HaugenDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I struggled to finish reading this important and horrifying reporting www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comThe Babies Left Behind in AmericaThe United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis. 614187
Reposted by Matthew HaugenDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Republicans want people to use more gasoline, no matter what it costs them, so that fossil industry profits will rise. No, really. This is not a culture war. That’s why they’re making cars burn more gasoline. 13710
Reposted by Matthew Haugenceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh 291834342
Reposted by Matthew HaugenAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Corporate libertarian donors worked to capture US universities. Donor networks bypassed faculty oversight. Federal funding weaponized after corporate capture. Climate research targeted bc threatens fossil fuel. Faculty collective action critical counterforce. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 0258
Reposted by Matthew HaugenAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” 282158854
Reposted by Matthew HaugenDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14195342206
Reposted by Matthew HaugenTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Then, if you’re able, try to get your body moving. You’re going to need your senses and movement is good for your brain. If you have kids in your care, protect their developing brains and their image. That’s all I can say about that. 41255140
Reposted by Matthew HaugenTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain. 52532661
Reposted by Matthew HaugenMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026An acute reminder that we don’t live in a free country as long as American tech oligarchs continue to maintain their power.hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 23838260
Reposted by Matthew HaugenRockefeller Republicans for Zohran @shanefain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’ve always felt this way, but visiting Cuba really solidified it for me, the UN is an institution worth fighting for, and we need an America willing to give it more power. 37615
Reposted by Matthew HaugenWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103544411
Reposted by Matthew HaugenColin @colin-fraser.net · 24/09/2026OpenAI created autonomous hacking software and left it running for hours and days with no one watching 817725
Reposted by Matthew HaugenRude Law Dog @esghound.com · 24/09/2026wtf is going on here? Oracle sending out Force Majeure notices with the credit market already looking shaky for them and then saying nah all is well 🍿🍿🍿🍿 1217619
Reposted by Matthew HaugenRachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026chat is this good www.axios.com/newsletters/... 41815220
Reposted by Matthew HaugenEmily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think I’ve underestimated how radical it is to be an “actually, we don’t need more data” guy in the age of AI 329545
Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's wild that NYC doesn't have trains from their airports 4122
Reposted by Matthew HaugenAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026they are increasingly connecting the dots on who benefits when their cognitive capacities are stolen and the history of cultural production enclosed 220642
Reposted by Matthew HaugenLe 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 Matthew HaugenData & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In a D&S letter to Congress today, the organization weighs in on the recent AI safety panic, cautioning legislators against companies’ proposal to collude and “pace the frontier.” Read on for our recommendations and AI evaluation framework: datasociety.net/research-lib...datasociety.netLetter to Congress on Pacing the Frontier - Data & SocietyRecent incidents concerning rogue AI agents committing cyberattacks have catalyzed a unique moment of political attention on AI safety and regulation. In a letter to Congress, we caution against narro... 071
Reposted by Matthew HaugenAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I shall cleverly do some poll tested insincere triangulation to get some rubes to vote for me vs. look at this rudderless amoral freak who will say anything to get elected 011121