@kayladuskin
PhD Candidate at the University of Washington (@ischool.uw.edu) Studying online information integrity and platform governance with the Center for an Informed Public (@cip.uw.edu). Offline, catch me in the Cascades 🏔️.
Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history.
Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.
But NYT has decided this is just not newsworthy.
Excited for more information on ICWSM 2026. Do you have an estimate for when the CFP will come out?
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
you're free to cover whatever topic you wish, as long as it's the topic I want. that topic? freedom
As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
Politicians are by and large not movement leaders - they are the ones who see where the movements, and votes, are going.
That's a feature and not a bug - so be the movement they will need to follow, and be accountable to.
"We don't get in the business of litigating what's right or wrong, we get in the business of executing what we're instructed to do." The Nuremberg defense coming directly from the COO of Fermilab.
After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed.
www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...
Musk has received $13B in government contracts over the last 5 yrs. With all his fuss about the $9B/yr in overhead to the more than 2,500 universities conducting lifesaving research, I am curious when he is going to turn DOGE on his own contracts and ‘efficiencies’.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
"Research is my passion"
Olympia WA. More people than I expected!
Slightly annoying how many of the comments are like, "This is written so broadly it's going to even affect ME over here in chemistry" or whatever. We need to (always) stand together as scientists whether you're the target or the collateral damage.
Man in red sweater shrugging with the text "guess I'll die" overlaid.
Academics rn waiting on an NSF webpage to dole out their fate instead of organizing in any coherent fashion.
euphoric photo of dolphins jumping under a rainbow
this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!
When times feel a bit grim, I like to think about the 14th Century, which featured The Great Famine (1315-1317), The Black Death (1347-1351), The Great Schism (1378) and The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). That always cheers me up
Today is the #FAccT2025 abstract deadline! 🤩
Get your abstracts in by 11:59 PM Anywhere On Earth.
time.is/Anywhere_on_...
This is why I am dedicated to Overleaf, which does the alphabetizing for me 😆
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Would love to read more on this, is there a preprint or publication I can take a look at?
