Jamie Lynn Waters
@jellawat.bsky.social
Generally urbanism, bikes, philanthropy, feminism and misc
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Thank you to @economist.com for the chance to write this week about philanthropic freedoms -- the freedom of expression, the freedom to give, the freedom to invest.
These rights are enshrined in the First Amendment. They have been bedrock for more than 2 centuries. And they are now under attack.
These rights are enshrined in the First Amendment. They have been bedrock for more than 2 centuries. And they are now under attack.
The American government’s attacks on non-profits are “a bad idea”, writes John Palfrey in a guest essay. “Taken together, they constitute a fundamental attack on freedom of expression”
Attacks on America’s non-profits threaten basic rights and social cohesion, writes John Palfrey
The foundation head says it’s not too late to fight back—just as free-thinkers did against McCarthyism
econ.st
November 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Thank you to @economist.com for the chance to write this week about philanthropic freedoms -- the freedom of expression, the freedom to give, the freedom to invest.
These rights are enshrined in the First Amendment. They have been bedrock for more than 2 centuries. And they are now under attack.
These rights are enshrined in the First Amendment. They have been bedrock for more than 2 centuries. And they are now under attack.
Reposted by Jamie Lynn Waters
I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
September 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
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Long-held freedoms—the freedom to give, the freedom to invest, the freedom to speak—are in question. But we can and must stand firm in our values and build a more inclusive future.
Read more in my annual essay for @macfound.org: www.macfound.org/about/reflec...
Read more in my annual essay for @macfound.org: www.macfound.org/about/reflec...
Returning to Fundamental Truths, Building an Inclusive Future - MacArthur Foundation
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...
www.macfound.org
May 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Long-held freedoms—the freedom to give, the freedom to invest, the freedom to speak—are in question. But we can and must stand firm in our values and build a more inclusive future.
Read more in my annual essay for @macfound.org: www.macfound.org/about/reflec...
Read more in my annual essay for @macfound.org: www.macfound.org/about/reflec...
Reposted by Jamie Lynn Waters
Friends in philanthropy: let's Unite in Advance. #CourageIsContagious #UniteInAdvance
nonprofitquarterly.org/unite-in-adv...
nonprofitquarterly.org/unite-in-adv...
Unite in Advance: Philanthropy Coalition Launches Solidarity Campaign - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
We’re announcing a public sign-on statement to support philanthropy’s freedom to give. We are united to protect our freedom to express ourselves, to give, and to invest in our communities. Join us by ...
nonprofitquarterly.org
April 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Friends in philanthropy: let's Unite in Advance. #CourageIsContagious #UniteInAdvance
nonprofitquarterly.org/unite-in-adv...
nonprofitquarterly.org/unite-in-adv...
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This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.
I know this sounds like pedantic scolding but I really do believe that doubling down on the idea that criminal records are a meaningful distinction is like carefully digging a pit that we can be shoved into.
April 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.
"We’ve seen this before in American history and across the globe. Weaponized oversight. Intimidation dressed up as transparency. It is not new. But our response must be." @macfound.bsky.social
Friends in philanthropy: let's Unite in Advance. #CourageIsContagious #UniteInAdvance
nonprofitquarterly.org/unite-in-adv...
nonprofitquarterly.org/unite-in-adv...
Unite in Advance: Philanthropy Coalition Launches Solidarity Campaign - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
We’re announcing a public sign-on statement to support philanthropy’s freedom to give. We are united to protect our freedom to express ourselves, to give, and to invest in our communities. Join us by ...
nonprofitquarterly.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"We’ve seen this before in American history and across the globe. Weaponized oversight. Intimidation dressed up as transparency. It is not new. But our response must be." @macfound.bsky.social
A) Everyone should have protected free speech. No one should being kidnapped, imprisoned, and/or sent to a country that is not their home.
B) There are millions of American citizens who can't prove their citizenship.
It's not a longshot.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
B) There are millions of American citizens who can't prove their citizenship.
It's not a longshot.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
March 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A) Everyone should have protected free speech. No one should being kidnapped, imprisoned, and/or sent to a country that is not their home.
B) There are millions of American citizens who can't prove their citizenship.
It's not a longshot.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
B) There are millions of American citizens who can't prove their citizenship.
It's not a longshot.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
"A country that has pushed one group out of its political community will eventually push out others. The Trump administration’s barrage of attacks on trans people can seem haphazard, but as elements of a denationalization project, they fall into place." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing (Gift Article)
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"A country that has pushed one group out of its political community will eventually push out others. The Trump administration’s barrage of attacks on trans people can seem haphazard, but as elements of a denationalization project, they fall into place." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
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You need to understand the damage & horror a disgruntled or bigoted border agent can cause you, EVEN IF YOU HAVE CITIZENSHIP. The status of being in a country is just a category on a system: It doesn't become magically protected even if you have a BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
March 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
You need to understand the damage & horror a disgruntled or bigoted border agent can cause you, EVEN IF YOU HAVE CITIZENSHIP. The status of being in a country is just a category on a system: It doesn't become magically protected even if you have a BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
This has been rattling in my brain recently. Whence ambiguity?
(excuse the egregious umlauts of the New Yorker, to wit: "Rather than allowing us to reëxamine history, this obsessive reënactment in factsevers us from it.")
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
(excuse the egregious umlauts of the New Yorker, to wit: "Rather than allowing us to reëxamine history, this obsessive reënactment in factsevers us from it.")
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies
Buzzy films from “Anora” to “The Substance” are undone by a relentless signposting of meaning and intent.
www.newyorker.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This has been rattling in my brain recently. Whence ambiguity?
(excuse the egregious umlauts of the New Yorker, to wit: "Rather than allowing us to reëxamine history, this obsessive reënactment in factsevers us from it.")
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
(excuse the egregious umlauts of the New Yorker, to wit: "Rather than allowing us to reëxamine history, this obsessive reënactment in factsevers us from it.")
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
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Thank you @drwolfe.bsky.social for holding up this important debate: how much, not if, to increase how much we give away -- as foundations, families, individuals???
For @insidephilanthropy.com, a look at three funders's moves to boost their payout rates. What's the real value of MacArthur's #SetItAtSix decision? What does it mean to be "fiduciarily responsible" in these critical times? #philanthropy #nonprofitcrisis #trumpmuskcuts
As Crisis Drives Payout Bumps, One Small Funder Bucks Conventional Wisdom
Amid the unfolding federal funding crisis, the MacArthur Foundation announced a payout rate increase to at least 6%. The Woods Fund Chicago is aiming for 15% next year.
www.insidephilanthropy.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Thank you @drwolfe.bsky.social for holding up this important debate: how much, not if, to increase how much we give away -- as foundations, families, individuals???
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"What’s happening in the US is some sort of weird hybrid of the kind of power grabs we’ve seen in the tech industry, combined with a more traditional collapse of democratic institutions. The destruction is far more systematic and dangerous than many realize.”
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
www.techdirt.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"What’s happening in the US is some sort of weird hybrid of the kind of power grabs we’ve seen in the tech industry, combined with a more traditional collapse of democratic institutions. The destruction is far more systematic and dangerous than many realize.”
Actually basing choices on 'merit' and 'competence' wouldn't result in the leadership they think it would.
March 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Actually basing choices on 'merit' and 'competence' wouldn't result in the leadership they think it would.
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A new intervention in @macfound.bsky.social headquarters asserts the continued presence, resilience, and vibrancy of Native peoples in Chicago and the Midwest. We invited a few collaborators on the project to share their experience and reflections:
www.macfound.org/press/perspe...
www.macfound.org/press/perspe...
“Nwi Yathmomen”: An Intervention in the Marquette Building
www.macfound.org
February 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A new intervention in @macfound.bsky.social headquarters asserts the continued presence, resilience, and vibrancy of Native peoples in Chicago and the Midwest. We invited a few collaborators on the project to share their experience and reflections:
www.macfound.org/press/perspe...
www.macfound.org/press/perspe...
AI is fixin to have more rights than people. What if we weren't afraid of regulating tech?
apnews.com/article/pari...
apnews.com/article/pari...
JD Vance rails against 'excessive' AI regulation in a rebuke to Europe at the Paris AI summit
U.S. Vice President JD Vance has told a Paris summit on artificial intelligence that the Trump administration will “ensure that AI systems developed in America are free from ideological bias,” and tha...
apnews.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
AI is fixin to have more rights than people. What if we weren't afraid of regulating tech?
apnews.com/article/pari...
apnews.com/article/pari...
Just overhere looking up Sword of Damocles to make sure I'm using it correctly.
February 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Just overhere looking up Sword of Damocles to make sure I'm using it correctly.
If the US gov is bringing back empire and colonialism, make the territories states. Change the flag. Expand voting rights. Hand out passports like candy.
February 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If the US gov is bringing back empire and colonialism, make the territories states. Change the flag. Expand voting rights. Hand out passports like candy.
Illegal, dangerous, unnecessarily expensive, and no one benefits from any of it.
What a time for doomscrolling
What a time for doomscrolling
February 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Illegal, dangerous, unnecessarily expensive, and no one benefits from any of it.
What a time for doomscrolling
What a time for doomscrolling
"Okay, but we can't automate everything" -me, when I cleaned my litter robot today.
www.superhuman.ai/p/saturday-t...
www.superhuman.ai/p/saturday-t...
Saturday Trendspotting: Litter-robots and creatine gummies
www.superhuman.ai
January 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"Okay, but we can't automate everything" -me, when I cleaned my litter robot today.
www.superhuman.ai/p/saturday-t...
www.superhuman.ai/p/saturday-t...
I think there might be an easier solution, than automating *appeals* for insurance denials
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/13/h...
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/13/h...
New AI tool for fighting health insurance denials could save hospitals billions, and help patients
Waystar announced a new generative AI feature that aims to help hospitals quickly fight insurance denials.
www.cnbc.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I think there might be an easier solution, than automating *appeals* for insurance denials
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/13/h...
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/13/h...
A little dose of AI realism for ya: "this technology is based on [hidden] work, on precarious work, on the exploitation of millions of workers." Milagros Miceli from @dairinstitute.bsky.social english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Milagros Miceli, researcher: ‘It’s not true that AI is going to automate everything. It requires the manual and precarious work of millions of people’
The expert from the German Internet Institute warns that the rise of tools such as ChatGPT will increase the demand for people who generate content for little money to enrich databases
english.elpais.com
January 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A little dose of AI realism for ya: "this technology is based on [hidden] work, on precarious work, on the exploitation of millions of workers." Milagros Miceli from @dairinstitute.bsky.social english.elpais.com/technology/2...
"What I am experiencing is something more like the constant mundanity of dystopia that surrounds the direct horror but is decidedly also bad." www.404media.co/were-fine-lo...
‘We’re Fine’: Lying to Ourselves About a Climate Disaster
The dystopia of Los Angeles' fires are horrifying, mundane, and everything in between.
www.404media.co
January 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"What I am experiencing is something more like the constant mundanity of dystopia that surrounds the direct horror but is decidedly also bad." www.404media.co/were-fine-lo...
Coming back to the office after a long break, feeling both refreshed and confused by the acronyms I wrote on my to-do list before the holidays!
Cheers to a new year of decoding jargon, for yourself and others 🥂
Cheers to a new year of decoding jargon, for yourself and others 🥂
January 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Coming back to the office after a long break, feeling both refreshed and confused by the acronyms I wrote on my to-do list before the holidays!
Cheers to a new year of decoding jargon, for yourself and others 🥂
Cheers to a new year of decoding jargon, for yourself and others 🥂