Fascinating article on research productivity vs. innovation in the AI era. The danger: If used without critical thinking, AI might lead to a vast increase in research publications, while actual scientific progress stagnates. Quality over quantity matters! www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s... 🧪
Younger Democratic candidates across the country are running to replace party elders. The candidates have grown tired of lawmakers holding office past their prime and say fresh faces can reach more voters.
25 dead so far across Texas from flooding. Local authorities are blaming poor forecasting.
It’s all so tragically predictable and criminally negligent.
"some of these AI experts appear to mirror their products: they are able to produce remarkable results while having an understanding of them that is, at best, skin deep and brittle."
@philipcball.bsky.social nails it! Elected representatives and educ. administrators must stop falling 4 the grift.
If R are just now getting upset about this… they’re a bit late to the game
Line graph showing total wealth of Forbes 400 from 1982-2024 in billions of dollars. Y-axis ranges from 0 to 5,000 billion. Background shaded red during Republican administrations (Reagan, Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Trump) and blue during Democratic administrations (Clinton, Obama, Biden). Graph shows steady upward trend with notable growth during Democratic terms. Text boxes indicate average total growth: 16.5% for Republican administrations, 57.1% for Democratic administrations. Percentage changes labeled for each presidential term, with Biden showing +64.6% growth through 2024. Data source: Forbes 400 lists, 1982-2024.
As the GOP prepares to enrich the mega rich by adding trillions to the debt and cruel budget cuts, it’s worth noting that a Democratic admin probably would have made them even richer through sound economic policy and by not by throwing the markets into a panic every few weeks.
WSJ editorial board: “The President is using government to intimidate news outlets that publish stories he doesn’t like. It’s a low move in a free country with a free press.”
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes being tortured in the El Salvador mega prison, where Trump sent him without due process — admittedly by mistake.
As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.
In a mere matter of days, we can house migrants, but not our homeless. Because being cruel is always the motivation. #AlligatorAuschwitz
the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.
Today, we celebrate 60 years of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), an agency dedicated to protecting workers from discrimination and promoting equal opportunity for everyone.
This may be the dumbest thing I’ve read.
"They'll get over it" - Mitch McConnell
"Everybody dies" - Joni Ernst
"Minutiae" - JD Vance
MAGA politicians have zero empathy for the plight of ordinary Americans who depend on these programs.
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More than 14 million people could die over the next five years because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to an analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet.
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
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A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years.
The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).
absolutely massive red flag when the only way you can get the straggler on board with your trash fire bill is to promise it doesn't apply to their state
How messed up do you have to be to say that stripping health coverage from up to 16 million people, removing food from kids, and raising taxes on some low-income people is “immaterial”?
“Nearly 200 countries agreed to try to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C… But countries have continued to burn record amounts of coal, oil and gas and chop down carbon-rich forests - leaving that international goal in peril.”
Not sure how many but way more than the 500 people anticipated.
#NoKings in Vienna VA. DC suburb. Not sure
It’s got to be on purpose? They think this is a good look on media 🤷🏻♀️
😬 La manifestation is what I learned about real quick living in Paris. They happen for any labor dispute. I’ve always thought we could learn a lot from our French brethren.
“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.
live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.
“Defund the police” is also a climate justice issue because LAPD helicopters alone burn 761,000 gallons of jet fuel in a year per a jalopnik article from 2023.
www.jalopnik.com/lapd-spends-...
The more I understand the forthcoming climate disaster and how absolutely beneficial migration is for economics. Open borders just make sense
The correct response to state violence is more protest, more people. Make it clear that a free people cannot and will not be oppressed.
This should have been illegal (it’s been independent since 1998 by law and Presidents don’t have the authority to dismantle). It’s horrific the silence on it. We are literally 🔥 all soft power here. Aid, Science, education, health, & more… sacrificed for billionaires tax cuts
