@fostercricket.bsky.social
Posts things that interest me, fascinate me, or make me think. Typically, will be climate change, economics, and governance.
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Fascinating article on research productivity vs. innovation in the AI era. The danger: If used without critical thinking, AI might lead to a vast increase in research publications, while actual scientific progress stagnates. Quality over quantity matters! www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s... 🧪
Could AI slow science?
Confronting the production-progress paradox
www.aisnakeoil.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Fascinating article on research productivity vs. innovation in the AI era. The danger: If used without critical thinking, AI might lead to a vast increase in research publications, while actual scientific progress stagnates. Quality over quantity matters! www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s... 🧪
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Younger Democratic candidates across the country are running to replace party elders. The candidates have grown tired of lawmakers holding office past their prime and say fresh faces can reach more voters.
Young Democrats have called for a rebrand. They're vying to replace the party's old guard
Younger Democratic candidates across the country are running to replace party elders. The candidates have grown tired of lawmakers holding office past their prime and say fresh faces can reach more voters.
bit.ly
July 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Younger Democratic candidates across the country are running to replace party elders. The candidates have grown tired of lawmakers holding office past their prime and say fresh faces can reach more voters.
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25 dead so far across Texas from flooding. Local authorities are blaming poor forecasting.
It’s all so tragically predictable and criminally negligent.
It’s all so tragically predictable and criminally negligent.
NEW: Mass layoffs began today at NOAA.
Workers were fired by email at the agency which runs the National Weather Service, National Hurricane Centre & Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.
Services are already shutting down.
The most dangerous regime in the world for US citizens is now their own.
Workers were fired by email at the agency which runs the National Weather Service, National Hurricane Centre & Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.
Services are already shutting down.
The most dangerous regime in the world for US citizens is now their own.
Layoffs hit federal climate, weather agency NOAA
The cuts could affect NOAA's weather forecasts, climate research and other functions.
www.axios.com
July 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
25 dead so far across Texas from flooding. Local authorities are blaming poor forecasting.
It’s all so tragically predictable and criminally negligent.
It’s all so tragically predictable and criminally negligent.
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"some of these AI experts appear to mirror their products: they are able to produce remarkable results while having an understanding of them that is, at best, skin deep and brittle."
@philipcball.bsky.social nails it! Elected representatives and educ. administrators must stop falling 4 the grift.
@philipcball.bsky.social nails it! Elected representatives and educ. administrators must stop falling 4 the grift.
I got tired of the nonsense some AI leaders were coming out with, and so I wrote this for @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
The dangers of so-called AI experts believing their own hype
Beware the tech leaders making grandiose statements about artificial intelligence. They have lost sight of reality, says Philip Ball
www.newscientist.com
July 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"some of these AI experts appear to mirror their products: they are able to produce remarkable results while having an understanding of them that is, at best, skin deep and brittle."
@philipcball.bsky.social nails it! Elected representatives and educ. administrators must stop falling 4 the grift.
@philipcball.bsky.social nails it! Elected representatives and educ. administrators must stop falling 4 the grift.
If R are just now getting upset about this… they’re a bit late to the game
Brendan Buc has worked for two Republican speakers: "Congress is no longer in the business of thoughtful legislating. Its role has been reduced to putting political points on the board for the president."
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...
Opinion | Is This Really How We’re Legislating Now?
www.nytimes.com
July 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
If R are just now getting upset about this… they’re a bit late to the game
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As the GOP prepares to enrich the mega rich by adding trillions to the debt and cruel budget cuts, it’s worth noting that a Democratic admin probably would have made them even richer through sound economic policy and by not by throwing the markets into a panic every few weeks.
July 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
As the GOP prepares to enrich the mega rich by adding trillions to the debt and cruel budget cuts, it’s worth noting that a Democratic admin probably would have made them even richer through sound economic policy and by not by throwing the markets into a panic every few weeks.
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WSJ editorial board: “The President is using government to intimidate news outlets that publish stories he doesn’t like. It’s a low move in a free country with a free press.”
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
Opinion | Trump’s Lawfare Against the Free Press
He suggests prosecuting CNN, while pressuring a settlement out of CBS.
www.wsj.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
WSJ editorial board: “The President is using government to intimidate news outlets that publish stories he doesn’t like. It’s a low move in a free country with a free press.”
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes being tortured in the El Salvador mega prison, where Trump sent him without due process — admittedly by mistake.
As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.
As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.
July 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes being tortured in the El Salvador mega prison, where Trump sent him without due process — admittedly by mistake.
As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.
As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.
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In a mere matter of days, we can house migrants, but not our homeless. Because being cruel is always the motivation. #AlligatorAuschwitz
July 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
In a mere matter of days, we can house migrants, but not our homeless. Because being cruel is always the motivation. #AlligatorAuschwitz
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the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.
July 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.
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Today, we celebrate 60 years of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), an agency dedicated to protecting workers from discrimination and promoting equal opportunity for everyone.
July 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Today, we celebrate 60 years of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), an agency dedicated to protecting workers from discrimination and promoting equal opportunity for everyone.
@lizdye.bsky.social: Trump constantly calls immigrant gang members an existential threat to America. And yet there he was mugging in the Oval Office with Bukele, a leader whose entire regime is in bed with MS-13. www.publicnotice.co/p/abrego-gar...
Abrego Garcia is a fake gangster. Trump and Bukele are not.
Trump's filthy deal with El Salvador is an indictment of him, not the deportees.
www.publicnotice.co
July 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This may be the dumbest thing I’ve read.
Some of the BBB is downright evil. Some is just throwing hundreds of millions at dumb shit like this.
July 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This may be the dumbest thing I’ve read.
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"They'll get over it" - Mitch McConnell
"Everybody dies" - Joni Ernst
"Minutiae" - JD Vance
MAGA politicians have zero empathy for the plight of ordinary Americans who depend on these programs.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
"Everybody dies" - Joni Ernst
"Minutiae" - JD Vance
MAGA politicians have zero empathy for the plight of ordinary Americans who depend on these programs.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
J.D. Vance Dismisses Kicking Millions Off Medicaid: 'Minutiae”
Vice President J.D. Vance said the reconciliation bill kicking millions off Medicaid is “minutiae" compared to securing ICE deportation funding.
www.rollingstone.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"They'll get over it" - Mitch McConnell
"Everybody dies" - Joni Ernst
"Minutiae" - JD Vance
MAGA politicians have zero empathy for the plight of ordinary Americans who depend on these programs.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
"Everybody dies" - Joni Ernst
"Minutiae" - JD Vance
MAGA politicians have zero empathy for the plight of ordinary Americans who depend on these programs.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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More than 14 million people could die over the next five years because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to an analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet.
USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say
An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
nbcnews.to
July 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
More than 14 million people could die over the next five years because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to an analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet.
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The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
June 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
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A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years.
The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).
The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years.
The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).
The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).
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absolutely massive red flag when the only way you can get the straggler on board with your trash fire bill is to promise it doesn't apply to their state
Alaska SNAP Carve out is in, Medicaid Carve out didnt pass Bryd Bath
July 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
absolutely massive red flag when the only way you can get the straggler on board with your trash fire bill is to promise it doesn't apply to their state
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How messed up do you have to be to say that stripping health coverage from up to 16 million people, removing food from kids, and raising taxes on some low-income people is “immaterial”?
July 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
How messed up do you have to be to say that stripping health coverage from up to 16 million people, removing food from kids, and raising taxes on some low-income people is “immaterial”?
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“Nearly 200 countries agreed to try to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C… But countries have continued to burn record amounts of coal, oil and gas and chop down carbon-rich forests - leaving that international goal in peril.”
Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, top scientists warn
The Earth could be doomed to breach a key climate target in as little as three years, scientists warn.
www.bbc.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“Nearly 200 countries agreed to try to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C… But countries have continued to burn record amounts of coal, oil and gas and chop down carbon-rich forests - leaving that international goal in peril.”
😬 La manifestation is what I learned about real quick living in Paris. They happen for any labor dispute. I’ve always thought we could learn a lot from our French brethren.
June 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
😬 La manifestation is what I learned about real quick living in Paris. They happen for any labor dispute. I’ve always thought we could learn a lot from our French brethren.
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“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.
June 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.
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live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.
June 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.
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“Defund the police” is also a climate justice issue because LAPD helicopters alone burn 761,000 gallons of jet fuel in a year per a jalopnik article from 2023.
www.jalopnik.com/lapd-spends-...
www.jalopnik.com/lapd-spends-...
LAPD helicopters are starting to buzz around again tonight.
LAPD statements so far are vague and riddled with lawyer-speak, and our Mayor should order the police chief to provide full & live transparency regarding LAPD operations.
LAPD statements so far are vague and riddled with lawyer-speak, and our Mayor should order the police chief to provide full & live transparency regarding LAPD operations.
June 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“Defund the police” is also a climate justice issue because LAPD helicopters alone burn 761,000 gallons of jet fuel in a year per a jalopnik article from 2023.
www.jalopnik.com/lapd-spends-...
www.jalopnik.com/lapd-spends-...