Rebecca Ramaswamy
@rebeccaramaswamy.bsky.social
She/her. Civil rights attorney. AL-based. Views my own.
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I hate this so much
“By the end of the year, Delta plans for 20% of its ticket prices to be individually determined using AI, president Glen Hauenstein told investors last week.”
“Over time, the goal is to do away with static pricing altogether…”
“Over time, the goal is to do away with static pricing altogether…”
Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket
The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.
fortune.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I hate this so much
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I'm truly exhausted by tech. I don't want to keep up with all of the digisec stuff, the AI stuff, etc. etc. Put your stuff on a platform and they decide to shut down. Send your large files to someone and the company decides to usurp your ownership of your own work. It's just exhausting.
July 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I'm truly exhausted by tech. I don't want to keep up with all of the digisec stuff, the AI stuff, etc. etc. Put your stuff on a platform and they decide to shut down. Send your large files to someone and the company decides to usurp your ownership of your own work. It's just exhausting.
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The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism.
@labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
@labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universi...
www.labornotes.org
July 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism.
@labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
@labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
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reporting that a mayoral candidate accurately filled out his college application as if he engaged in misconduct would reflect a low point for a publication that had any remaining dignity
July 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
reporting that a mayoral candidate accurately filled out his college application as if he engaged in misconduct would reflect a low point for a publication that had any remaining dignity
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Newsletter: It's time for a radical new approach to tech CEOs: mocking them, because they talk like idiots and provide little value to society outside of their dedication to shareholder value. They sound stupid, they do nothing, and it's time to fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
Make Fun Of Them
Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak?
I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?
Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long p...
www.wheresyoured.at
June 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Newsletter: It's time for a radical new approach to tech CEOs: mocking them, because they talk like idiots and provide little value to society outside of their dedication to shareholder value. They sound stupid, they do nothing, and it's time to fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
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I’ve seen enough, abolition is the centrist position
Net approval of ICE:
All: -17%
DEM: -80%
IND: -32%
GOP: +60%
Quinnipiac / June 24, 2025
All: -17%
DEM: -80%
IND: -32%
GOP: +60%
Quinnipiac / June 24, 2025
June 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’ve seen enough, abolition is the centrist position
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the difficult thing for a lot of legal experts to comprehend is that the part you understand is often not the important part
June 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
the difficult thing for a lot of legal experts to comprehend is that the part you understand is often not the important part
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We continue to live in a society that ignores the greatest dangers to children (cars, guns, environmental toxins) while looking for someone to blame when they die.
My thoughts go out to Jessica Ivey and Samuele Jenkins. Letting your 10 yr. old and 7 yr. old children walk home is not a crime!
My thoughts go out to Jessica Ivey and Samuele Jenkins. Letting your 10 yr. old and 7 yr. old children walk home is not a crime!
Samuele Jenkins and his wife Jessica Ivey sit in jail grieving their 7-year-old son, Legend, who was hit by a car and killed on May 27.
They're charged with involuntary manslaughter and child abuse for allegedly letting Legend and his 10-year-old brother walk two blocks alone.
nbcnews.to/4kVmMq4
They're charged with involuntary manslaughter and child abuse for allegedly letting Legend and his 10-year-old brother walk two blocks alone.
nbcnews.to/4kVmMq4
June 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
We continue to live in a society that ignores the greatest dangers to children (cars, guns, environmental toxins) while looking for someone to blame when they die.
My thoughts go out to Jessica Ivey and Samuele Jenkins. Letting your 10 yr. old and 7 yr. old children walk home is not a crime!
My thoughts go out to Jessica Ivey and Samuele Jenkins. Letting your 10 yr. old and 7 yr. old children walk home is not a crime!
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100% of Black people self censor at work. Its a job site not your personal safe space, snowflake.
June 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
100% of Black people self censor at work. Its a job site not your personal safe space, snowflake.
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The effort the dems are putting in to block Mamdani and get a sex pest elected instead is truly disgusting. Cuomo was a bad politician who killed people and wasted public funds and enriched his cronies but these people really will go to any length to tear down a brown democratic socialist.
June 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The effort the dems are putting in to block Mamdani and get a sex pest elected instead is truly disgusting. Cuomo was a bad politician who killed people and wasted public funds and enriched his cronies but these people really will go to any length to tear down a brown democratic socialist.
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The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.
June 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.
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Largest trans survey ever finds the top reason transgender people stop transitioning is transphobia
“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community,” the survey found.
“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community,” the survey found.
Largest trans survey ever finds the top reason transgender people stop transitioning is transphobia
“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community,” the survey found.
www.advocate.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Largest trans survey ever finds the top reason transgender people stop transitioning is transphobia
“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community,” the survey found.
“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community,” the survey found.
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The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily
June 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily
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You cannot play director or choreographer for moments of organic mobilization. I'm sorry, but even someone who understands the dynamics of what's happening (which many of you clearly don't) cannot do that. This is raw political will. You cannot direct that energy from behind a fucking screen.
June 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
You cannot play director or choreographer for moments of organic mobilization. I'm sorry, but even someone who understands the dynamics of what's happening (which many of you clearly don't) cannot do that. This is raw political will. You cannot direct that energy from behind a fucking screen.
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It's frustrating because there were real mistakes during the pandemic! But you're not allowed to have adult conversations led by scientists in this country. You need to start with the premise that "extremists on both sides got things wrong" and work backwards.
The credulity that The Daily and other mainstream media organizations are giving COVID revisionists is simply astounding. There are plenty of experts who would be happy (ok, maybe not happy, but willing) to provide evidence-based rebuttals, but they don't get this platforming 🤦
This book is *psychotic*. Revisionist, fact-free propaganda from the very first page. I know I shouldn’t be at this point, but it’s shocking that the authors were featured on The Daily
June 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It's frustrating because there were real mistakes during the pandemic! But you're not allowed to have adult conversations led by scientists in this country. You need to start with the premise that "extremists on both sides got things wrong" and work backwards.
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"These people are all petulant, vindictive idiots who actively harm everyone around them and should be nowhere near power" is a hypothesis that explains both the micro and macro dynamics here.
HOW DOES THIS NOT MATTER? The forces at work here are precisely the forces gutting healthcare and passing tariffs and fucking over millions of Americans.
Treating it like an inconsequential blip *creates* the situation where it falls out of the news cycle and doesn't inform voters.
Treating it like an inconsequential blip *creates* the situation where it falls out of the news cycle and doesn't inform voters.
June 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"These people are all petulant, vindictive idiots who actively harm everyone around them and should be nowhere near power" is a hypothesis that explains both the micro and macro dynamics here.
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You don’t have stories like this in countries with national healthcare systems
He needed air. The price was $539.
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler
In our new series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu...
www.nbcnews.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:57 AM
You don’t have stories like this in countries with national healthcare systems
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“I’m not surprised that nobody turned in their colleagues,” a retired EPA worker said.
His former co-workers understood the importance of addressing pollution that disproportionately impacted communities of color, he added. “That’s part of the mission — it has been for decades."
His former co-workers understood the importance of addressing pollution that disproportionately impacted communities of color, he added. “That’s part of the mission — it has been for decades."
Trump Asked EPA Employees to Snitch on Colleagues Working on DEI Initiatives. They Declined.
EPA staff didn’t use a tip line set up by the Trump administration to identify and assist in slashing programs focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
www.propublica.org
May 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
“I’m not surprised that nobody turned in their colleagues,” a retired EPA worker said.
His former co-workers understood the importance of addressing pollution that disproportionately impacted communities of color, he added. “That’s part of the mission — it has been for decades."
His former co-workers understood the importance of addressing pollution that disproportionately impacted communities of color, he added. “That’s part of the mission — it has been for decades."
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You really think you’ll ever be done with Trump if the same people keep getting put in charge of the opposition
It’s not that. We are sickened that Trump gets a pass for the same/worse. So, happy to talk about Biden, but after we are done with Trump.
May 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
You really think you’ll ever be done with Trump if the same people keep getting put in charge of the opposition
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This part, people. This part.
You really think you’ll ever be done with Trump if the same people keep getting put in charge of the opposition
It’s not that. We are sickened that Trump gets a pass for the same/worse. So, happy to talk about Biden, but after we are done with Trump.
May 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This part, people. This part.
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The question of whether Trump is primarily symptom or cause is settled by the fact that Trump’s most uncritical lickspittles on the Court are the two he didn’t appoint
The Supreme Court holds that fascism is bad. Thomas and Alito dissent.
May 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The question of whether Trump is primarily symptom or cause is settled by the fact that Trump’s most uncritical lickspittles on the Court are the two he didn’t appoint
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this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.
Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
May 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.