David Winiecki
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David Winiecki
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· Nov 19
Inside Jordan warehouse where Gaza aid held 'after being refused entry by Israel'
Jordanian authorities and the UN say the majority of aid collected has been sitting in Jordan since March, with only a negligible amount of aid being allowed into Gaza because of Israeli restrictions ...
news.sky.com
Reposted by David Winiecki
Did your kid receive a children's book for the holidays? Better make sure it wasn't written by AI.
AI is coming for your toddler's bedtime story
Artificial intelligence poses an increasingly real threat to children’s literature—and children’s learning.
www.motherjones.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Did your kid receive a children's book for the holidays? Better make sure it wasn't written by AI.
This is interesting, especially the part about how Britain abolished slavery at great economic cost to itself, and the suggestion that we need more of that kind of leadership today.
www.levernews.com/rutger-bregm...
www.levernews.com/rutger-bregm...
Rutger Bregman On Democrats, Purity Politics, And Moral Ambition
David Sirota and Rutger Bregman debate moral ambition, getting the powerful to admit when they’re wrong, and the fate of the Democratic Party.
www.levernews.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is interesting, especially the part about how Britain abolished slavery at great economic cost to itself, and the suggestion that we need more of that kind of leadership today.
www.levernews.com/rutger-bregm...
www.levernews.com/rutger-bregm...
This is the most memorable conversation on affordable housing that I've heard in a long time, in my limited experience:
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/16/h...
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/16/h...
Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in “New Gilded Age”
New York City housing advocate Patrick Markee’s new book, Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age, looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability. Homelessness, which affects mi...
www.democracynow.org
December 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is the most memorable conversation on affordable housing that I've heard in a long time, in my limited experience:
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/16/h...
www.democracynow.org/2025/12/16/h...
If you live in the USA, send a message like this one (that I wrote) to your state representatives:
December 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
If you live in the USA, send a message like this one (that I wrote) to your state representatives:
Reposted by David Winiecki
Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra said DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
(Published Oct.)
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
(Published Oct.)
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra said DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
(Published Oct.)
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
(Published Oct.)
I think the reason my intuition that AI is bad won't go away, is that I think we just don't need it. We have enough workers, materials, and energy to build, train, heal, and grow everything we need, but we employ people in pointless work or not at all, and choose not to train them.
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I think the reason my intuition that AI is bad won't go away, is that I think we just don't need it. We have enough workers, materials, and energy to build, train, heal, and grow everything we need, but we employ people in pointless work or not at all, and choose not to train them.
If you do one thing for the planet and all of us who live on it, this year: stop eating beef.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
If you do one thing for the planet and all of us who live on it, this year: stop eating beef.
Reposted by David Winiecki
Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them
This may be really wrong, so give me better numbers and sources (or interpretations) if you have them, but if I understand correctly:
Global beef takes 250 trillion gallons of water per year.
Global AI is on track to use 2 trillion gallons in the next couple years.
Global beef takes 250 trillion gallons of water per year.
Global AI is on track to use 2 trillion gallons in the next couple years.
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
This may be really wrong, so give me better numbers and sources (or interpretations) if you have them, but if I understand correctly:
Global beef takes 250 trillion gallons of water per year.
Global AI is on track to use 2 trillion gallons in the next couple years.
Global beef takes 250 trillion gallons of water per year.
Global AI is on track to use 2 trillion gallons in the next couple years.
Modern software is shit. I just want to download this image from a google doc. OMG.
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Modern software is shit. I just want to download this image from a google doc. OMG.
Reposted by David Winiecki
How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
`git pull` with GitHub is down. www.githubstatus.com
GitHub Status
Welcome to GitHub's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
www.githubstatus.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
`git pull` with GitHub is down. www.githubstatus.com
Imprisoning and harassing people for low level drug and immigration offenses will not reduce crime, improve jobs, raise birth rates, reduce drug overdoses, shrink the deficit, or bring factories back. But public investment in childcare, education, healthcare, and housing, and taxing the rich, would.
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Imprisoning and harassing people for low level drug and immigration offenses will not reduce crime, improve jobs, raise birth rates, reduce drug overdoses, shrink the deficit, or bring factories back. But public investment in childcare, education, healthcare, and housing, and taxing the rich, would.
Reposted by David Winiecki
Children across the country are being traumatized by this administration.
Listen to this mother talk about how ICE raided her child's preschool. It's insane that this #ICELawlessness can happen in the United States of America!
Is this still the land of liberty?
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8D9PKcF/
Listen to this mother talk about how ICE raided her child's preschool. It's insane that this #ICELawlessness can happen in the United States of America!
Is this still the land of liberty?
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8D9PKcF/
November 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Children across the country are being traumatized by this administration.
Listen to this mother talk about how ICE raided her child's preschool. It's insane that this #ICELawlessness can happen in the United States of America!
Is this still the land of liberty?
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8D9PKcF/
Listen to this mother talk about how ICE raided her child's preschool. It's insane that this #ICELawlessness can happen in the United States of America!
Is this still the land of liberty?
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8D9PKcF/
Reposted by David Winiecki
Armed ICE officials chase teacher into Chicago daycare and preschool. @ahylton26.bsky.social has the latest.
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Armed ICE officials chase teacher into Chicago daycare and preschool. @ahylton26.bsky.social has the latest.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Thursday... “The average number of trucks entering Gaza daily since the ceasefire began is only 171, out of the 600 trucks that are supposed to enter daily according to the humanitarian protocol” www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-dec...
Israel declares Egypt border area a closed military zone; Mass graves in El-Fasher; Pelosi retires; Senate to vote on Venezuela war
Drop Site Daily: November 6, 2025
www.dropsitenews.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Thursday... “The average number of trucks entering Gaza daily since the ceasefire began is only 171, out of the 600 trucks that are supposed to enter daily according to the humanitarian protocol” www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-dec...
Raise taxes on the rich in Washington state. Some progress has been made the past few years, but in my opinion there's still a long way to go to be non-regressive and adequately fund the things we and our economy rely on.
www.kuow.org/stories/mone...
www.kuow.org/stories/mone...
Money crunch puts kibosh on WA state lawmakers’ wish lists
With the state strapped for cash, Democrats’ chief budget writer in the Washington Senate has told colleagues there’s no money available for new spending they might desire next year.
www.kuow.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Raise taxes on the rich in Washington state. Some progress has been made the past few years, but in my opinion there's still a long way to go to be non-regressive and adequately fund the things we and our economy rely on.
www.kuow.org/stories/mone...
www.kuow.org/stories/mone...
Reposted by David Winiecki
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/jkxd1493
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
app.sosha.ai
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/jkxd1493
I started listening to the @sciencevs.bsky.social podcast earlier this year and it's a new favorite, but sadly I think I have to stop listening to it for now because its logo says "a Spotify podcast" and I'm boycotting Spotify because they are running ICE recruitment ads.
November 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I started listening to the @sciencevs.bsky.social podcast earlier this year and it's a new favorite, but sadly I think I have to stop listening to it for now because its logo says "a Spotify podcast" and I'm boycotting Spotify because they are running ICE recruitment ads.
812,000 Arizonans don't have a representative right now because Republicans refuse to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The GOP must stop playing games with our democracy.
October 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
812,000 Arizonans don't have a representative right now because Republicans refuse to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The GOP must stop playing games with our democracy.