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“A single generative AI text query consumes energy at four or five times the magnitude of a typical search engine request.

Generating a single image using AI consumes the same amount of energy as charging a phone to full power.

Training one large AI model consumes nearly five times the lifetime..”

Environmental Impact of AI | NEA

As you are making decisions about the use of AI in your classroom, it is important to understand the environmental impact of AI's use.

www.nea.org

November 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM

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Asha Rangappa

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Someone is making an ad with a montage of Trump verbally attacking journalists, right? (Ideally going back to Trump 1.0.) That should basically play on repeat from now until next November. I am so sick of this

November 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM

Denton 🇺🇸

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"The wisdom goes that the more compute you have or the more training data you have, the smarter your AI tool will be."

"That method is running out of runway; data is finite, and [orgs] already have access to a massive amount of compute," says Ilya Sutskever.

www.businessinsider.com/openai-cofou...

OpenAI cofounder says scaling compute is not enough to advance AI: 'It's back to the age of research again'

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said during a "Dwarkesh Podcast" that companies need to find a productive way to use the massive amounts of compute.

www.businessinsider.com

November 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM

Denton 🇺🇸

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Trump promised to protect women, but due to his corrupt incompetence, Sarah Beckstrom is now dead.

#remove47 💙🇺🇸

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21h

BREAKING: President Donald Trump says West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from wounds in the Washington, D.C., attack.

Afghan national charged in Guard ambush shooting drove across US to carry out attack, officials say

An Afghan national has been accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guard members just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence.

bit.ly

November 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM

Denton 🇺🇸

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Trump is responsible for Sarah Beckstrom's death, just like he was for Ashlee Babbitt's.

#remove47 💙🇺🇸

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 21h

Update: One of the National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday has died.

President Donald Trump announced this evening that 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom succumbed to her injuries.

The other victim, Andrew Wolfe, is still hospitalized, as is the alleged shooter.

November 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM

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Alt CDC (they/them)

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Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍂🥧

Have some anti-vax family at your table?

Here is a summary of 14 studies that found no association between vaccines and autism.

h/t @drtomfrieden.bsky.social

Fourteen Studies That Find No Association Between Vaccines and Autism

Primary Research: Vaccines and Autism

1. Hviid A, Hansen JV, Frisch M, Melbye M. Measles, mumps, rubella vaccination and autism: a nationwide cohort study. Ann Intern Med. 2019;170(8):513-520.

This nationwide Danish cohort study of 657,461 children found no increased risk of autism associated with MMR vaccination, even among children at higher genetic risk for autism.

2. Madsen KM, Hviid A, Vestergaard M, et al. A population-based study of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination and autism. N Engl J Med. 2002;347(19):1477-1482.

In a cohort of over 500,000 Danish children, there was no association between MMR vaccination and the development of autism or autistic-spectrum disorder.

3. Taylor LE, Swerdfeger AL, Eslick GD. Vaccines are not associated with autism: an evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies.

Vaccine. 2014;32(29):3623-3629.

This meta-analysis of five cohort and five case-control studies (over 1.25 million children) found no relationship between vaccination - including MMR, thimerosal, or mercury - and autism or autism spectrum disorder.

4. Parker SK, Schwartz B, Todd J, Pickering LK. Thimerosal-containing vaccines and autistic spectrum disorder: a critical review of published original data. Pediatrics. 2004;114(3):793-804.

A systematic review of epidemiologic and pharmacokinetic studies concluded that thimerosal-containing vaccines are not associated with autism spectrum disorder.

Primary Research: Vaccines and Autism

5. Honda H, Shimizu Y, Rutter M. No effect of MMR withdrawal on the incidence of autism: a total population study. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2005;46(6):572- 579.

This Japanese population study showed that autism rates continued to rise after the withdrawal of MMR vaccine, refuting a causal link.

6. Fombonne E, Zakarian R, Bennett A, Meng L, McLean-Heywood D. Pervasive developmental disorders in Montreal, Quebec, Canada: prevalence and links with immunizations. Pediatrics. 2006;118(1):e139-150.

Analysis of autism prevalence in Montreal found no change in autism rates despite a decrease in MMR vaccination coverage, arguing against a vaccine- autism association.

7. DeStefano F, Price CS, Weintraub ES. Increasing exposure to antibody- stimulating proteins and polysaccharides in vaccines is not associated with risk of autism. J Pediatr. 2013;163(2):561-567.

A case-control study found no association between the total antigen exposure from vaccines in the first two years of life and the risk of developing autism.

8. Uno Y, Uchiyama T, Kurosawa M, Aleksic B, Ozaki N. The combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines and the total number of vaccines are not associated with development of autism spectrum disorder: the first case- control study in Asia. Vaccine. 2012;30(28):4292-4298.

This Japanese case-control study found no association between MMR vaccination or the total number of vaccines received and the development of autism spectrum disorder.

9. Price CS, Thompson WW, Goodson B, et al. Prenatal and infant exposure to thimerosal from vaccines and immunoglobulins and risk of autism. Pediatrics. 2010;126(4):656-664.

A US case-control study found no increased risk of autism associated with prenatal or early-life exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines and immunoglobulins.

Primary Research: Vaccines and Autism

10. Smeeth L, Cook C, Fombonne E, et al. MMR vaccination and pervasive developmental disorders: a case-control study. Lancet. 2004;364(9438):963- 969.

This UK case-control study found no evidence of an increased risk of pervasive developmental disorders, including autism, following MMR vaccination.

Systematic Reviews: Vaccines and Autism

11. Gidengil C, Goetz MB, Newberry S, et al. Safety of vaccines used for routine immunization in the United States: an updated systematic review and meta- analysis. Vaccine. 2021;39(28):3696-3716.

This updated systematic review and meta-analysis for the AHRQ found high- strength evidence that the MMR vaccine is not associated with autism.

12. Maglione MA, Das L, Raaen L, et al. Safety of vaccines used for routine immunization of U.S. children: a systematic review. Pediatrics. 2014;134(2):325- 337.

A systematic review for the AHRQ concluded that the MMR vaccine is not associated with autism, based on high-quality evidence.

13. Dudley MZ, Halsey NA, Omer SB, et al. The state of vaccine safety science: systematic reviews of the evidence. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020;20(5):e80-e89.

This review summarized systematic reviews on vaccine safety, consistently finding no evidence of a link between vaccines and autism.

14. Halsey NA, Hyman SL. Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autistic spectrum disorder: report from the New Challenges in Childhood Immunizations Conference convened in Oak Brook, Illinois, June 12-13, 2000. Pediatrics. 2001;107(5):E84.

This expert panel report reviewed available evidence and concluded there is no credible evidence supporting a causal relationship between MMR vaccination and autism spectrum disorder.

November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM

Denton 🇺🇸

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Former Tesla AI head and an OpenAI founder, Andrej Karpathy "decided ... to read a book" with "a committee of artificial intelligences, each offering [a] perspective [and] critiquing the others" -- turned out to be "something far more significant than a weekend toy."

venturebeat.com/ai/a-weekend...

venturebeat.com

November 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM

Denton 🇺🇸

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~28 House Repubs won their seats by under 10 points in the 2024 election.

All those members are at risk of losing their seats in next year's congressional election.

Here's to hoping a handful read the writing on the wall, do a MTG, and retire early.

Can't wait until Nov, need Dem majority ASAP 💙🇺🇸

November 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM

Denton 🇺🇸

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#BoycottSpotify 🚫 ICE

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Spotify is running ads to recruit for the regime’s secret police. Stop paying for or using Spotify until the ICE ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM

Denton 🇺🇸

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"For lawmakers preparing billion-dollar reskilling and training investments, the index offers a detailed map of where disruption is forming down to the zip code."

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/m...

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce

Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.

www.cnbc.com

November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM

Denton 🇺🇸

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"Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it."

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be

The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.

www.theverge.com

November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM

Denton 🇺🇸

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"Explosive [House] Report Details How Trump is Exploiting the Presidency to Enrich Himself and His Family While Dismantling Anti-Corruption Safeguards and Pardoning Corporate Cronies"

#TrumpIsATraitorAndCriminal
#ReleasetheEpsteinFiles
#remove47 💙🇺🇸

democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

New Report Exposes the Trump Family’s Multi-Billion-Dollar Crypto Empire, Fueled by Self-Dealing and Corrupt Foreign Interests

Washington, D.C. (November 25, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released a new staff report revealing how President Donald Trump and his family have transforme...

democrats-judiciary.house.gov

November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM

Denton 🇺🇸

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Trump circle of corruption 🤮🖕

jstovrpar1 @jstovrpar1.bsky.social · 2d

25 of the worst people on the planet. Assembled to loot and destroy America.

November 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM

Denton 🇺🇸

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Warner Music "settled its infringement lawsuit against AI music generation platform Suno. ... [WMG is the first major record label] to officially partner with [Suno], sharing goals of “compensating and protecting artists, songwriters, and the wider creative community.”"

variety.com/2025/music/n...

Music Industry Moves: Warner Music Group Inks Deal With Suno; Settles Copyright Lawsuit Against AI Music Generator

Warner Music Group has settled its infringement lawsuit against Suno and announced a new partnership with the AI music generation platform.

variety.com

November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM

Denton 🇺🇸

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Meta "itself estimated its platforms were involved in a third of all scams in the US" as the company "drastically cut safety staff" at Facebook and Instagram, "including for FTC mandated reviews, even as it dumps unimaginable sums into its generative AI projects“

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US senators call for investigation of scam ads on Facebook and Instagram

Hawley and Blumenthal cite Reuters reporting that Meta estimated platforms were involved in third of all US scams

www.theguardian.com

November 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM

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Ro Khanna

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Some consultants rolled their eyes when I lead the fight to expose the Epstein Class. What they were mocking was someone willing to stand with survivors and up to Trump.

I ignored them, fought anyways, and we won. www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/21/e...

Taves: To win Epstein files, Rep. Ro Khanna befriended Republicans, ignored fellow Democrats

The Silicon Valley congressman says some from his party rolled their eyes when he originally pushed his transparency bill.

www.mercurynews.com

November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM

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FinTwitter

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FITCH: PEOPLE WITH LOW CREDIT SCORES ARE FALLING BEHIND ON THEIR CAR EMI PAYMENTS MORE THAN EVER BEFORE 6.65% OF SUBPRIME AUTO LOANS ARE OVER 60 DAYS LATE, THE HIGHEST LEVEL EVER RECORDED

November 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM

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Kyle Cheney

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JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM

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Rolling Stone

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Rolling Stone ranked Jimmy Cliff's 'The Harder They Come' original soundtrack as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time: "This album took reggae worldwide."

Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

November 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM

Denton 🇺🇸

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I want this for Trump so bad

#remove47 💙🇺🇸

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has told a judge Sunday he violated his ankle monitor due to a nervous breakdown and hallucinations.

Brazil's Bolsonaro says 'hallucinations' led him to violate ankle monitoring and cause his arrest

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has told a judge Sunday he violated his ankle monitor due to a nervous breakdown and hallucinations.

bit.ly

November 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM

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The Atlantic

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Earlier this year, the United States deported 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador and paid its government to imprison them. Now two human-rights organizations have found that all of those men were physically abused, Conor Friedersdorf writes:

What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador

Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.

bit.ly

November 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM

Denton 🇺🇸

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“It's a coalition of almost everyone against a few extreme tech billionaires who are trying to buy unfettered power . . . .”

“States protecting our citizens is overwhelmingly popular and bipartisan.”

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

From Steve Bannon to Elizabeth Warren, bipartisan backlash erupts over push to block states from regulating AI

Sharp critiques of efforts to limit state AI laws have MAGA populists and progressive advocates joining forces in an unexpected coalition.

www.nbcnews.com

November 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM

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Kara Swisher

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A must read from @anandwrites.bsky.social. This line —
“The clubby deal-making and moral racketeering of the Epstein class is now the United States’ governing philosophy” — is spot on. How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...