Rodrigo Saldaña Zárate
@rodrigosz0.bsky.social
Yes, I came over from twitter.
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New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
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According to Amnesty International, Trump’s “efforts to intimidate, silence, & punish protesters and critics, restrict the press & reshape access to information, & systematically erode the rule of law are creating a human rights emergency.”
www.thewhig.com/opinion/beij...
www.thewhig.com/opinion/beij...
Beijing and Washington assault press freedom
In authoritarian states, press freedom and freedom of expression are suppressed and journalists are persecuted for telling the truth.
www.thewhig.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
According to Amnesty International, Trump’s “efforts to intimidate, silence, & punish protesters and critics, restrict the press & reshape access to information, & systematically erode the rule of law are creating a human rights emergency.”
www.thewhig.com/opinion/beij...
www.thewhig.com/opinion/beij...
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What it's like to work with AI: a 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
What it's like to work with AI: a 🧵
Looking forward to @skepchick.org, @acollierastro.bsky.social, maybe @katblaque.bsky.social and @councilofgeeks.bsky.social talking on a video about "chatbots make you do work you would normally pass to someone else", or as a VERY pro-AI friend put it: "increased productivity increases burnout".
Whatever the productivity gains promised by LLMs, they result in heavier workloads—and that leads to workers experiencing “cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making.”
All this from the notoriously pro-worker rag [checks notes] Harvard Business Review: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
All this from the notoriously pro-worker rag [checks notes] Harvard Business Review: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
hbr.org
February 12, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Looking forward to @skepchick.org, @acollierastro.bsky.social, maybe @katblaque.bsky.social and @councilofgeeks.bsky.social talking on a video about "chatbots make you do work you would normally pass to someone else", or as a VERY pro-AI friend put it: "increased productivity increases burnout".
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"That workload creep can in turn lead to cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems." hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
hbr.org
February 10, 2026 at 8:47 PM
"That workload creep can in turn lead to cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems." hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
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Whatever the productivity gains promised by LLMs, they result in heavier workloads—and that leads to workers experiencing “cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making.”
All this from the notoriously pro-worker rag [checks notes] Harvard Business Review: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
All this from the notoriously pro-worker rag [checks notes] Harvard Business Review: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
hbr.org
February 9, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Whatever the productivity gains promised by LLMs, they result in heavier workloads—and that leads to workers experiencing “cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making.”
All this from the notoriously pro-worker rag [checks notes] Harvard Business Review: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
All this from the notoriously pro-worker rag [checks notes] Harvard Business Review: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
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There's a meta-point here, which is key: Commercial AI tools are built for bosses. It's very obvious, and very simple. This manifests in every part of their design and implementation and use, and it's no wonder they cause burnout.
Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general metal exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/a...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
simonwillison.net
February 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
There's a meta-point here, which is key: Commercial AI tools are built for bosses. It's very obvious, and very simple. This manifests in every part of their design and implementation and use, and it's no wonder they cause burnout.
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"...which they're gonna need now that we've doubled their insurance premiums & gutted Medicaid."
Q: What do you tell Americans who are concerned that repealing the endangerment finding comes at a host to public health and the environment based on science?
TRUMP: I tell them don't worry about it. This was all a scam. They'll have more money to spend for healthcare.
TRUMP: I tell them don't worry about it. This was all a scam. They'll have more money to spend for healthcare.
February 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"...which they're gonna need now that we've doubled their insurance premiums & gutted Medicaid."
The gay hispanic twink saying the quiet part out loud again. Women are making us sympathetic?...
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You're so close, Nicolás.
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You're so close, Nicolás.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 3:38 PM
The gay hispanic twink saying the quiet part out loud again. Women are making us sympathetic?...
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You're so close, Nicolás.
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You're so close, Nicolás.
Conservatives since 2019: we need to protect the real victims of the Epstein Files, the Epstein billionaire class.
Conservatives since the 1970's: we can't raise the age of consent or repeal "marry your rapist" laws because we need to protect 12 year old girls from having access to abortion.
Conservatives since the 1970's: we can't raise the age of consent or repeal "marry your rapist" laws because we need to protect 12 year old girls from having access to abortion.
February 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Conservatives since 2019: we need to protect the real victims of the Epstein Files, the Epstein billionaire class.
Conservatives since the 1970's: we can't raise the age of consent or repeal "marry your rapist" laws because we need to protect 12 year old girls from having access to abortion.
Conservatives since the 1970's: we can't raise the age of consent or repeal "marry your rapist" laws because we need to protect 12 year old girls from having access to abortion.
February 12, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Conservatives since 2019: we need to protect the real victims of the Epstein Files, the Epstein billionaire class.
Conservatives since the 1970's: we can't raise the age of consent or repeal "marry your rapist" laws because we need to protect 12 year old girls from having access to abortion.
Conservatives since the 1970's: we can't raise the age of consent or repeal "marry your rapist" laws because we need to protect 12 year old girls from having access to abortion.
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The reason people are losing jobs in other countries but Trump's cabinet guy is not is "normalization", not some kind of moral "fall from grace".
The elites did not plan for the Epstein Files to be published, but the "normalization" project has been underway since Reagan, depending on how you count.
The elites did not plan for the Epstein Files to be published, but the "normalization" project has been underway since Reagan, depending on how you count.
Wellness grifter Peter Attia's emails w/ Epstein surfaced in the latest release. Just a few short years after Epstein's initial arrest for procuring a child for prostitution, Attia was responding to redacted photos, comparing Epstein to the Dos Equis guy & expressing his desire to visit his island.
New CBS "Celebrity Dr." Peter Attia Emailed Jeffrey Epstein: "P*SSY IS, INDEED, A CARB!"
YouTube video by Brittany Page
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:40 PM
The reason people are losing jobs in other countries but Trump's cabinet guy is not is "normalization", not some kind of moral "fall from grace".
The elites did not plan for the Epstein Files to be published, but the "normalization" project has been underway since Reagan, depending on how you count.
The elites did not plan for the Epstein Files to be published, but the "normalization" project has been underway since Reagan, depending on how you count.
Reminder to read the book "someday, when it's safe, everyone will pretend they were always against this".
But also, normalizing the Never Trumpers like all the Meidas Touch people or Liz Cheney or Ana Navarro is the "let's go back to 2009 and make the exact same choices again" Warren is derided for.
But also, normalizing the Never Trumpers like all the Meidas Touch people or Liz Cheney or Ana Navarro is the "let's go back to 2009 and make the exact same choices again" Warren is derided for.
How long before the people who supported all of this pretend they never did? How long before they're tossing their MAGA hats, unfollowing every Trump family account, deleting photos of themselves at the rallies, and trying to convince the rest of us they were never part of the problem?
February 11, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Reminder to read the book "someday, when it's safe, everyone will pretend they were always against this".
But also, normalizing the Never Trumpers like all the Meidas Touch people or Liz Cheney or Ana Navarro is the "let's go back to 2009 and make the exact same choices again" Warren is derided for.
But also, normalizing the Never Trumpers like all the Meidas Touch people or Liz Cheney or Ana Navarro is the "let's go back to 2009 and make the exact same choices again" Warren is derided for.
And we're fed these feel good stories to prevent us from asking more structural questions.
In this video, a woman says she had to borrow gas money to get to work, but calculated how many miles she had to drive and how much she had left over to help a homeless man and his dog at risk of freezing to death outside.
And billionaires whine about paying taxes.
youtu.be/N8-xHbEy2EE?...
And billionaires whine about paying taxes.
youtu.be/N8-xHbEy2EE?...
Small town rallies together to help unhoused man during winter storm
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
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February 11, 2026 at 6:34 PM
And we're fed these feel good stories to prevent us from asking more structural questions.
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Nothing says “we’re not fascist” like threatening to defund organisations that disagree with you.
February 11, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Nothing says “we’re not fascist” like threatening to defund organisations that disagree with you.
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The coffee places Mom knows of don't allow dogs inside & it's cold out. After some searching, Good news, we found a few small shops that do allow dogs inside for pupcups. They're a bit further, but we will try those very soon instead of Starbucks. Our ears are open and we hear you. #dogsofbluesky
February 11, 2026 at 12:53 AM
The coffee places Mom knows of don't allow dogs inside & it's cold out. After some searching, Good news, we found a few small shops that do allow dogs inside for pupcups. They're a bit further, but we will try those very soon instead of Starbucks. Our ears are open and we hear you. #dogsofbluesky
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No surprise there.
February 10, 2026 at 10:22 PM
No surprise there.
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does.
Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.
We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.
This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.
We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.
This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
February 11, 2026 at 9:37 AM
I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does.
Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.
We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.
This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.
We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.
This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
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RCMP say seven people are dead in a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC, where a suspect has also been found deceased with that is believed to be a self-inflicted injury.
Eight dead in school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC, police say
Police said in an earlier statement that the "original suspect" was believed to be dead, but officers were working to determine whether a second suspect is involved.
www.nationalobserver.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:12 AM
RCMP say seven people are dead in a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC, where a suspect has also been found deceased with that is believed to be a self-inflicted injury.
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well, there's been a school shooting in upper BC where my grandparents live.
they're safe, and the shooter is dead, but I'm hearing 25 people were shot and 9 or so people are dead so far.
it's just hitting the news now.
you just never really know until it's right next to you huh
they're safe, and the shooter is dead, but I'm hearing 25 people were shot and 9 or so people are dead so far.
it's just hitting the news now.
you just never really know until it's right next to you huh
February 11, 2026 at 2:22 AM
well, there's been a school shooting in upper BC where my grandparents live.
they're safe, and the shooter is dead, but I'm hearing 25 people were shot and 9 or so people are dead so far.
it's just hitting the news now.
you just never really know until it's right next to you huh
they're safe, and the shooter is dead, but I'm hearing 25 people were shot and 9 or so people are dead so far.
it's just hitting the news now.
you just never really know until it's right next to you huh
That's why it's so important that AIPAC Shakur send ICE a sternly worded letter.
Donald Trump and the Republicans are threatening to destroy representative democracy while killing civilians, taking massive bribes, destroying alliances, and exploding costs. That's why it's so critical that the Democrats find candidates who are inspiring enough to get me to vote.
February 11, 2026 at 2:47 AM
That's why it's so important that AIPAC Shakur send ICE a sternly worded letter.
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CATL presenta batería con carga de 12 minutos y una vida útil de 2,4 millones de km.
ecoinventos.com/catl-present...
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CATL presenta batería con carga de 12 minutos y una vida útil de 2,4 millones de km
Las pruebas muestran que la batería de 5C mantiene el 80% de su capacidad tras miles de ciclos de carga rápida, incluso en condiciones de calor extremo.
ecoinventos.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:12 PM
CATL presenta batería con carga de 12 minutos y una vida útil de 2,4 millones de km.
ecoinventos.com/catl-present...
ecoinventos.com/catl-present...