Wouldn't it be a more efficient use of limited air traffic control resources to prioritize commercial traffic over private, and impact fewer people? Oh yeah, can't inconvenience the billionaires and corporate execs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/t...
Who Didn’t Suffer During the Shutdown? People Flying Private.
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Wouldn't it be a more efficient use of limited air traffic control resources to prioritize commercial traffic over private, and impact fewer people? Oh yeah, can't inconvenience the billionaires and corporate execs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/t...
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"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
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A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:
Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:
Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
Word of the day: 'dummymander' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
The Redistricting Fight You Haven’t Heard About
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Word of the day: 'dummymander' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Given Pam Bondi's refusal to answer important questions, she should be held in contempt of Congress. But, oh yeah, it would require Republican votes to do that.
October 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Given Pam Bondi's refusal to answer important questions, she should be held in contempt of Congress. But, oh yeah, it would require Republican votes to do that.
I am enormously proud to have Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov as my senator (and fellow MIT alum). This interview clearly explains why: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/m...
Sen. Alex Padilla Says His Viral Moment Was a Sign of Things to Come
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I am enormously proud to have Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov as my senator (and fellow MIT alum). This interview clearly explains why: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/m...
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Posted on the wall of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum since 2003. When are people gonna wake up and fight back?
September 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Posted on the wall of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum since 2003. When are people gonna wake up and fight back?
This is about as un-American as anything I have seen lately. Media freedom ratings for the US, never as good as they should be, should be flashing red right now.
September 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is about as un-American as anything I have seen lately. Media freedom ratings for the US, never as good as they should be, should be flashing red right now.
How much will be spent changing signage, letterhead, websites, etc from Defense to War? Will agencies like DIA and DTIC need renaming? Will terms like DEFCON need to change? What happens if the courts decide Trump didn’t have the authority to do this? This is the opposite of government efficiency.
September 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
How much will be spent changing signage, letterhead, websites, etc from Defense to War? Will agencies like DIA and DTIC need renaming? Will terms like DEFCON need to change? What happens if the courts decide Trump didn’t have the authority to do this? This is the opposite of government efficiency.
Just received my renewed US passport. Honestly surprised that there isn't a picture of Trump on it somewhere.
August 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Just received my renewed US passport. Honestly surprised that there isn't a picture of Trump on it somewhere.
Why is it that every time I see the term "Alligator Alcatraz" my mind keeps reading it as Alligator Auschwitz? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Jokey Names for Detention Centers Face Criticism for Insensitivity
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Why is it that every time I see the term "Alligator Alcatraz" my mind keeps reading it as Alligator Auschwitz? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
At long last, the four-volume NIST SP 800-63-4, Digital Identity Guidelines, has been released! Looking forward to the online workshop discussing the documents. www.nist.gov/blogs/cybers... #SP80063
Let’s get Digital! Updated Digital Identity Guidelines are Here!
www.nist.gov
August 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
At long last, the four-volume NIST SP 800-63-4, Digital Identity Guidelines, has been released! Looking forward to the online workshop discussing the documents. www.nist.gov/blogs/cybers... #SP80063
For some strange reason I’m just not in a mood to celebrate the 4th this year.
July 4, 2025 at 4:49 AM
For some strange reason I’m just not in a mood to celebrate the 4th this year.
Why does the scaffolding on the Supreme Court building make it seem like even the building is ashamed of their recent rulings?
June 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Why does the scaffolding on the Supreme Court building make it seem like even the building is ashamed of their recent rulings?
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Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
adamkinzinger.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
Sad that my senators have yielded to the cryptocurrency bros.
All Dem yeas on GENIUS: Alsobrooks (MD), Booker (NJ), Cortez Masto (NV), Fetterman (PA), Gallego (AZ), Gillibrand (NY), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), Kim (NJ), Lujan (NM), Ossoff (GA), Padilla (CA), Rosen (NV), Schiff (CA), Slotkin (MI), Warner (VA), and Warnock (GA)
June 18, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Sad that my senators have yielded to the cryptocurrency bros.
This makes the potential corruption clear: those supporting the GENIUS Act are putting $ ahead of their principles.
"'If Dems bail on [the GENIUS Act], they will get 0 dollars going forward,' said Avichal Garg, a managing partner at the venture capital firm Electric Capital, which focuses on digital asset technology like cryptocurrency. 'It would be political suicide for them not to support it.'"
A secret group chat reveals that Democratic strategists plan to support the pro-crypto GENIUS Act for political gain, despite acknowledging it’s a Trump corruption giveaway. www.levernews.com/dems-crypto-...
June 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This makes the potential corruption clear: those supporting the GENIUS Act are putting $ ahead of their principles.
We need this, and we need it at the federal level too. Officers involved in immigration raids need to be identifiable by arrestees so they can be held responsible for rights violations. Are they afraid we’ll find out if they were Jan 6 participants? sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator...
Senators Wiener & Arreguin Announce Legislation To Prohibit Local, State & Federal Law Enforcement From Covering Their Faces & Require Stronger Identification
Official website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11.
sd11.senate.ca.gov
June 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We need this, and we need it at the federal level too. Officers involved in immigration raids need to be identifiable by arrestees so they can be held responsible for rights violations. Are they afraid we’ll find out if they were Jan 6 participants? sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator...
During the first Trump administration, a lot of us read (and attended performances of) Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here”. I haven’t heard it mentioned much lately, but the parallels to current events seem much stronger. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can'...
It Can't Happen Here - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
June 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
During the first Trump administration, a lot of us read (and attended performances of) Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here”. I haven’t heard it mentioned much lately, but the parallels to current events seem much stronger. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can'...
This confirms my suspicions that the US H-1B program is seriously broken, both with respect to bringing in "the best and the brightest" and the path to permanent residency that follows, often involving what amounts to several years of indentured servitude to their current employer.
The immigration pipeline that takes those with H1B visas through to the green card process six years later is broken. @alecmac.bsky.social explores it in his latest for @propublica.org: propub.li/4ku9gtn
The Tech Recruitment Ruse That Has Avoided Trump’s Crackdown on Immigration
Every Sunday, newspapers are full of ads for tech jobs that aren't really looking for applicants. They reveal an aspect of U.S. immigration law that hurts both domestic and foreign workers — yet has e...
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June 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This confirms my suspicions that the US H-1B program is seriously broken, both with respect to bringing in "the best and the brightest" and the path to permanent residency that follows, often involving what amounts to several years of indentured servitude to their current employer.
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🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨
🌪️23 LIVES WERE LOST OVERNIGHT AS TORNADOS HIT KY.
KY has one of several regions in the US without 24/7 National Weather Service coverage, due to DOGE cuts. W/out overnight monitoring, ppl don't receive weather warnings.
THIS is how science cuts cost lives.
shorturl.at/JgTjU
🌪️23 LIVES WERE LOST OVERNIGHT AS TORNADOS HIT KY.
KY has one of several regions in the US without 24/7 National Weather Service coverage, due to DOGE cuts. W/out overnight monitoring, ppl don't receive weather warnings.
THIS is how science cuts cost lives.
shorturl.at/JgTjU
Multiple deaths reported in Somerset and London due to late night tornadoes UPDATED
The towns of Somerset and London have been hit particularly hard with many homes and buildings damaged in the early morning hours.
www.weku.org
May 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨
🌪️23 LIVES WERE LOST OVERNIGHT AS TORNADOS HIT KY.
KY has one of several regions in the US without 24/7 National Weather Service coverage, due to DOGE cuts. W/out overnight monitoring, ppl don't receive weather warnings.
THIS is how science cuts cost lives.
shorturl.at/JgTjU
🌪️23 LIVES WERE LOST OVERNIGHT AS TORNADOS HIT KY.
KY has one of several regions in the US without 24/7 National Weather Service coverage, due to DOGE cuts. W/out overnight monitoring, ppl don't receive weather warnings.
THIS is how science cuts cost lives.
shorturl.at/JgTjU
I am SO tired of getting fundraising text messages from congressional and senate candidates elsewhere in the country. Three so far today, and it's just noontime. I replay STOP to each one, but they all come from different phone numbers.
May 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I am SO tired of getting fundraising text messages from congressional and senate candidates elsewhere in the country. Three so far today, and it's just noontime. I replay STOP to each one, but they all come from different phone numbers.
“I saw an eagle that could have been a vulture” seems like a commentary on the current regime.
May 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“I saw an eagle that could have been a vulture” seems like a commentary on the current regime.
Our family's long and enjoyable relationship with state parks got featured by @californiaparks.bsky.social recently: www.calparks.org/blog/lifelon...
A Lifelong Journey through California's State Parks
www.calparks.org
April 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Our family's long and enjoyable relationship with state parks got featured by @californiaparks.bsky.social recently: www.calparks.org/blog/lifelon...
Protect the Internet Archive. It is critical infrastructure. chng.it/ymyNxDnR5k
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Defend the Internet Archive
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April 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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