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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 15/04/2025
🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making. When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵 english.elpais.com/internationa...
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Ethiopia’s forgotten war is the deadliest of the 21st century, with around 600,000 civilian deaths
Estimates by European institutions and academics say over half a million non-combatants have died during the Tigray conflict as a result of a government blockade that kept out humanitarian aid
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/05/2025
great little documentary on corky lee streaming for free on pbs. highly recommend you check it out. paid for by viewers like you www.pbs.org/show/photogr...
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Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story
Photographer Corky Lee’s quest to document Asian American history, culture, and activism.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/05/2025
The federal government is trying to kill 150,000 trans people in the United States. I can count the number of cis people talking about this on one hand.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/05/2025
This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social
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Moderna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccine
Moderna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Philip Montoro @pmontoro.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We're within sight of $5,000 today! Let's see if we can get over that line. Thanks for donating and sharing!
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 27/01/2025
my hometown is a rural agriculture backwater in north mexico and we regularly receive trade envoys from china for our exports. america has more or less allowed china to cultivate significant trade relations and other major bilateral exchanges throughout latin america. it's honestly super funny.
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 27/01/2025
pretty sure my IRA is torched by this but even so: lol
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 27/01/2025
1,179 people arrested total. 566 people arrested "were only detained because they lacked legal authorization to remain in the U.S." When ICE claims they are only arresting "criminals," they are trying to redefine "criminal." Which is kind of the point of the category: it can hold anyone disfavored.
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ICE makes close to 1,200 arrests in one day
Nearly half of those detained don’t have criminal records, according to a senior Trump administration official.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/01/2025
Most of the money that researchers spend is on paying other researchers. In other words, canceling research funds is taking money out of local economies by removing people and their spending power from them. 🧪
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/01/2025
It is in fact possible to dunk on shitty people in/adjacent to the US government without engaging in hipster racism/sexism/disablism/etc. I believe in you. You can do it.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Generative AI is essentially copy paste but with large datasets analyzed probabilistically. Maybe that's useful but it's not intelligence and doesn't justify the absurd amounts of investment it's attracted
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Was the hundreds of millions of dollars we've burned through wisely allocated? Perhaps not. But did we learn a valuable lesson? Also no.
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Toure @toure.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Trump's 1st big raid caught 956 undocumented immigrants. Trump's big initiative was to deport... 1,000 people? This great nation of 335 million people was being held back from greatness by 956 undocumented immigrants?
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Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.
Matt Yglesias gleefully using the r-slur.Noah Smith gleefully using the r-slur.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Weird how worried Wall Street is about DeepSeek, weren’t they just saying AI innovation is good even if it harms some people in the short term
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/01/2025
Hey, while we're talking about erasing history: In 1949 the US military held its first Aeriel Gunnery Competition, later known as "Top Gun." The best of the best competed in dogfighting and other skills. The team that won, was the 332nd: The Tuskegee airmen. So they refused to announce a winner🤡
James Harvey III, Tuskegee airman, leader of the team that won the US military's first aerial gunnery competition for combat aviators. AKA, Top Gun. James Harvey is a handsome Black man in WW2 uniform with an indomitableble look of calm confidence.Tom Cruise in an aviation suit and Rayban aviator sunglasses from Top Gun.
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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Closing in on 200 individual donations to my contribution to the Save the Reqder campaign, can we get there by midnight cst?
The Save the Reader donorbox campaign page that shows 172 individual donations to my contribution
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/01/2025
There is no such thing as a good billionaire deadline.com/2024/08/opra...
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Oprah Winfrey To Host ‘AI And The Future Of Us’ ABC Special With Open AI CEO Sam Altman, Bill Gates, FBI Director Christopher Wray, More
Oprah Winfrey is taking a deep dive into AI with a new hourlong special AI and the Future of Us, with Open AI CEO Sam Altman, Bill Gates and more.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Corporations are becoming more powerful than nation states, U.S. intelligence admits
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Big Brother Becomes Little Brother
Corporations are the new nation state, U.S. intelligence admits
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As ICE targets undocumented people in and around my city, I am proud of Chicago organizers and community members who are working to protect our neighbors. If you are discouraged in these times, remember that people of conscience are taking action and that there are many ways you can join them.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Axios, an hour ago: DeepSeek could be an extinction level event for venture capital firms
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/01/2025
And it’s been confirmed:
washingtonpost.com
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
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Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs
'The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar. In Fiscal Year 2024. of the nearly $10 trillion that the Federal Government spent, more than $3 trillion was Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans. Career and political appointees in the Executive Branch have a duty to align Federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through Presidential priorities. Financial assistance should be dedicated to advancing Administration priorities, focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America, eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American energy and manufacturing, ending wokeness" and the weaponization of government, promoting efficiency in government, and Making America Healthy Again. The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.
This memorandum requires Federal agencies to identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's policies and requirements. For example, during the initial days of his Administration, President Donald J Trump issued a series of executive orders to protect the American people and safeguard valuable taxpayer resources, including Protecting the American People Against Invasion (Jan. 20, 2025).
Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid (Jan 20, 2025), Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements (Jan. 20, 2025). Unleashing American Energy (Jan. 20.
2025). Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (Jan. 20.ent these orders, each agency must complete a comprehensive analysis of all jal assistance programs to identify programs, projects, and activities that any of the President's executive orders. In the interian, to the extent applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency nay be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial
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pause will provide the Administration time to review agency programs of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the he temporary pause will become effective on January 28, 2025, at 5:00
rehensive analysis. Federal agencies must immediately deadlines for assistance programs arising while the les must report this information to OMB along with an directs Federal agencies to pause all activities associated
conducting merit review panels
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any programs projects or activities subject to this pause. Each agency must pause. (i) issuance of disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards, and (il) other relevant
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grant and ptions allowing Federal agencies to issue new awards or take other case basis.
To the extent required by law, Federal agencies may continue nistrative actions. such as closeout of Federal awards (2 CFR 200.344), or expressly required by law
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
One way to win the economic competition with China would be to make apps that don't suck shit. Have you considered that
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Sorry you can't afford to own a home, we had to beat China in the race to develop a better plagiarism app
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
i love dispelling the myth that american tech companies deserve to overconsume with little to no oversight bc we're the best and the brightest, i love everyone actually finding out we are not even that good at this shit
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onion person @junlper.beer · 27/01/2025
it says a lot about an industry if a free and open source alternative to every product on the market can destroy 1 trillion dollars of “value” in one day lol
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Workers at a Philly Whole Foods have just released the results of their union election—AND THEY WON!!!! 130-100, baby! 🦅 Philadelphia is now home to the first unionized Whole Foods Market in the U.S. One down, 500 more to go!
Region 4-Philadelphia conducted a ballot count today for 297full-time and part-time employees at Whole Foods in Philadelphia, PA to vote on union representation by UFCW Local 1176 Keystone State.
 
Workers voted 130 to 100 for union representation. There were three challenged ballots that won’t be counted, because they aren’t determinative to the outcome of the election. The employer must begin bargaining in good faith with the union. Parties have five business days to file objections to the election. If no objections are filed, the result will be certified.
 
Total number of eligible voters: 297
Void ballots: 1
Votes for union: 130
Votes against representation: 100
Challenged ballots: 3
Total valid votes cast: 233
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 23/01/2025
I'm sitting here watching people argue that's we're here because we didn't abandon Palestinians enough, we didn't abandon trans people enough, we didn't abandon immigrants enough, we weren't anti-Black or ableist enough, and people, WE'RE HERE BECAUSE WE ABANDONED PEOPLE AT ALL.
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Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We have been defanged by the idle politeness this society demands, to the point where if you call someone out for doing something bad or selfish, the argument then becomes about you calling them bad or selfish, not the harm they did. Do we see now how that is just abuser culture & leads to fascism?
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/01/2025
Hey everyone! Incredible news! Trans Scouts selling GS cookies this year on my list have sold over 50,000 boxes of GS cookies! If you want girl scout cookies, consider buying from a trans girl scout this year! They'll mail them to you! This is literally my fav thing to do every year :)
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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It is absolutely WILD to live in a country where it is a well-known FACT that authorities will absolutely lie to you. Police, ICE, CBP, TSA, of course politicians, and the president. It is so well known, in fact, that it is in all of the info on how to defend ourselves when you encounter them.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 22/01/2025
I bet in all the chaos YOU forgot Pamela Paul is out at NYT. But not us, dear reader. We will not cease in the good work of being annoying at the paper of record, even in times of greatest stress and strife. Thus we present a farewell and look back at Paul's transphobia, by @alyssaur.bsky.social.
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Farewell, Pamela Paul — Assigned
Insiders say Pamela Paul is soon to be out of the New York Times’ Opinion section… so let’s talk about all of the awful stuff she wrote about trans people!
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/01/2025
linkedin's never seen the elon musk weird nerds meme and when it finally starts getting tactically deployed it's gonna go off like a nuke
the elon musk weird nerds meme
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
a not insignificant number of media people should be reflecting on their role in elevating rufo to this level of prominence. he couldn't have done it alone.
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Lathrop Homes redevelopment project got a TIF boost from City Council. buff.ly/40jyjWY
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Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
people keep tagging me in fuck around and find out content like I haven’t been talking about how pandemics lead to fascism since 2020. The “find out” portion isn’t just for everyone who doesn’t consider themself a liberal—it’s for them too. Haven’t masked in 4 years? FAAFO.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/01/2025
nominally “liberal” mainstream media is now running cover for an out and about fascist. these are dark times we are living in and we truly cannot rely on these fascist sympathizers anymore
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If for NO REASON WHATSOEVER you woke up wanting a clickable/zoomable/hoverable map of ICE offices and detention facilities in the continental US, I've got ya. Preview image (not clickable) is below and here's the link. Sharing is caring! rawcdn.githack.com/chadtopaz/ic...
Screenshot of interactive map showing locations of ICE offices and detention facilities
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