The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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“We have agreed” — how nice of them! Surely they’re doing this work pro bono right?
And in good news: “The treatments could be on the market and rolled out to patients as early as this summer…
‘I hope this will bring relief to patients not only in Japan but around the world,’ [said] health minister Kenichiro Ueno”
Every twist and turn of this vile administration is a new low.
Take a look at the early concepts and then give feedback here: www.menti.com/alowkw5ohqha
Not against making ebikes safer, but given how woefully few laws get passed each year by our state government, I'd rather see the time spent on things like: affordable housing; skyrocketing utilities; the environment; supporting education, homelessness, and food insecurity; and resisting the fed.
Cambridge Day article
“The challenges that we face right now in our state and country can feel overwhelming, but I know that we can make real progress because that’s exactly what we’ve done in Somerville.”
www.cambridgeday.com/2026/03/04/e...
I’ve said it before. This person has been selling snake oil. A legitimate government would have rejected her during the vetting process.
National Development, of Newton, MA, is currently storing ICE’s new $6.5M SUV fleet in ND’s parking garage at 800 District Ave, Burlington, MA.
Here is one row.
Wow. You’ve got huge hands!
Horrified by the death of our Massachusetts neighbor Emmanuel Damas in ICE custody. He was denied medical care for months.
I’m sending his family my deepest condolences. A family who has been robbed of their brother & son.
Emmanuel is at least the tenth person to die in ICE custody this year.
A picture of The Onion in print featuring this article posted on Twitter. https://theonion.com/anyone-else-have-those-weird-dreams-where-sobbing-future-generations-beg-you-to-change-course/
Grok being wrong: The Onion does have (hilarious) print editions, but this specific "Sam Altman" piece isn't from them—or any real outlet. It's a custom meme image made to look like one, floating around since at least February. Spot on for the satire though!
Wrong again, dumbass
To make matter better (for once instead of worse) that solar array will pay for itself and the heat pump in short number of years.
Clean energy is the only path forward. We can't wait for the fed to do the right thing, so it's left to states and cities like Somerville to lead the way in the US.
I was very happy to vote in favor of a new heat pump and what will be the city's largest solar array at 133 Holland Street.
Trump admits Epic Fury, which has cost U.S. over $31 billion, might not change anything. A Kuwaiti pilot accidentally shoots down U.S. F-15s, the CIA arms Kurdish forces, & Meta patents AI model to simulate dead users.
Your Daily #InstrumIntel for 3.4.26
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This war is an atrocity viewed from any angle.
Trump launched an illegal war without Congressional authorization. Bush at least made gestures before starting a useless war.
There's only one acceptable response: impeach the president and secretary of defense. Silence from Congress is dereliction.
I'd like to share my announcement ...that I'm sticking to city council.
I am very excited about Ben Ewen-Campen's run for state rep though. I'm in his ward and he's been a reliable, rational, and empathetic leader in the ward and the city.
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We definitely to exert as much energy as possible to kill this.
"History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."
— Terry Pratchett
Not shock to learn the racists are astroturfing on unimportant social networks
Per WIRED - a White House staffer has been ID’ed as running a big Twitter account that called the Obama apes video a “masterpiece” (and his wife works for Karoline Leavitt)
www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-...
Glad to hear it! I’m not trying to rain on the parade, but the headline definitely got thinking this was a much bigger and overdue announcement.
As the article notes we’ve sat on a board endorsed plan to electrified since 2019.
The surveillance report for these cameras can be found here: online.encodeplus.com/regs/somervi...
This grant was for fire department security cameras that face out to the public. I’d like to get them these cameras, but I don’t feel that it’s appropriate (esp. these days) to have them feeding into BRIC.
While this is definitely something to be excited about, I was disappointed to learn that this doesn’t mean electrifying parts of the commuter rail currently served by diesel.
“Financial disclosures show she made hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting wellness products, including specialty basil seed supplements, teas and elixirs, probiotic products … she at times failed to disclose that she could profit or benefit from the sales.”
