Micah Thurston
@thediabetic86.bsky.social
B.S. Biology conc. Physiology - M.S. Biomechanical/Assistive Tech Engineering - I am an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of enigma-wrapped paradox ♿️ 🏳️🌈 🧩🏳️⚧️ NB, any pronouns - AuDHD, T1d. Ableism’s worst nightmare
The US is cooked…
Technologically speaking
Technologically speaking
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The US is cooked…
Technologically speaking
Technologically speaking
So…
Instead of major banks feeling comfortable enough lending money to “guarantee” the financing of these AI companies, they want the average tax payer to do it?
Subsidizing our own unemployment
Instead of major banks feeling comfortable enough lending money to “guarantee” the financing of these AI companies, they want the average tax payer to do it?
Subsidizing our own unemployment
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
So…
Instead of major banks feeling comfortable enough lending money to “guarantee” the financing of these AI companies, they want the average tax payer to do it?
Subsidizing our own unemployment
Instead of major banks feeling comfortable enough lending money to “guarantee” the financing of these AI companies, they want the average tax payer to do it?
Subsidizing our own unemployment
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Not that they’ll listen to the courts
BREAKING: A judge says that Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voter registration form, siding with Democrats and civil rights groups.
Federal judge rules Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voting form
President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced. U.S.
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Not that they’ll listen to the courts
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BREAKING: A judge says that Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voter registration form, siding with Democrats and civil rights groups.
Federal judge rules Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voting form
President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced. U.S.
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
BREAKING: A judge says that Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voter registration form, siding with Democrats and civil rights groups.
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please help beautiful Kinda survive the winter 😭😭
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
please help beautiful Kinda survive the winter 😭😭
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“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten
Calling it a “spin-off” like energy infrastructure in the US is a 90’s sitcom, is the perfect metaphor for how private equity has turned our essential systems into a joke
An Indiana gas and electric company is launching a spinoff specifically to provide massive amounts of energy to data centers.
The spinoff company is reportedly exempt from many of the regulations typically required before power plants can be built in the state.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...
The spinoff company is reportedly exempt from many of the regulations typically required before power plants can be built in the state.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...
Critics decry company created to rush power to Indiana data centers
Northern Indiana Public Service Co. says the spinoff is needed to meet surging power demand. Others say it’s an excuse to bypass regulations that protect…
www.canarymedia.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Calling it a “spin-off” like energy infrastructure in the US is a 90’s sitcom, is the perfect metaphor for how private equity has turned our essential systems into a joke
What part of “Secret Police” did ya’ll not understand?
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
What part of “Secret Police” did ya’ll not understand?
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the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results
Seems difficult to know for sure that your “kinetic strikes” are hitting narco-terrorists, when you don’t even know their names
Defense Department officials do not know who they have killed in the military strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean, according to Democratic lawmakers.
DOD can’t say who its killed in military strikes against drug smugglers
Lawmakers left frustrated after a classified briefing with department officials.
www.politico.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Seems difficult to know for sure that your “kinetic strikes” are hitting narco-terrorists, when you don’t even know their names
Wasn’t aware that my generation still qualified for “kid” status
Where my child ticket discounts at?
Where my child ticket discounts at?
October 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Wasn’t aware that my generation still qualified for “kid” status
Where my child ticket discounts at?
Where my child ticket discounts at?
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What we can see clearly now is the social construction of whiteness and maleness is an ongoing process that allows adults to be “children” and open hate speech as “kids being kids” in stark contrast to the way that Republicans deem children who are minorities as adults or “enemy combatants”
October 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
What we can see clearly now is the social construction of whiteness and maleness is an ongoing process that allows adults to be “children” and open hate speech as “kids being kids” in stark contrast to the way that Republicans deem children who are minorities as adults or “enemy combatants”
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Nope. Nope. Nope.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.
We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.
We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.
The 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair heard that developments in AI audiobooks mean publishers will no longer have to decide whether to translate a book, but instead just choose which market to translate into 👇 #FBM25
AI audio means publishers ‘don’t have to choose whether to translate, only which market’, FBF hears
ebx.sh
October 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Nope. Nope. Nope.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.
We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.
We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.
Planted too many cherry tomatoes this year 🍅
August 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Planted too many cherry tomatoes this year 🍅
I think that given their basic needs of survival + the energetic cost of labor + a little extra to make the expended body budget towards labor worth while (because who expends energy on labor that doesn’t advantage them? Duh!)
Human beings could make advancements akin to miracles
Human beings could make advancements akin to miracles
July 31, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I think that given their basic needs of survival + the energetic cost of labor + a little extra to make the expended body budget towards labor worth while (because who expends energy on labor that doesn’t advantage them? Duh!)
Human beings could make advancements akin to miracles
Human beings could make advancements akin to miracles
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The US Tsunami Warning System has issued a tsunami advisory for California, Oregon, and Washington following the earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia.
July 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The US Tsunami Warning System has issued a tsunami advisory for California, Oregon, and Washington following the earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia.
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And the marketing world saw it for what it is from every close up, angle and when and what audio and text was heard and shown.
Operation Beige in effect.
Operation Beige in effect.
July 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
And the marketing world saw it for what it is from every close up, angle and when and what audio and text was heard and shown.
Operation Beige in effect.
Operation Beige in effect.
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Small, affordable, window-installed heat pumps promise to be a godsend for renters looking for efficient relef from heat waves as well as cold weather heatmap.news/sustain...
Window Heat Pumps Could Change the Game
A new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has some exciting data for anyone attempting to retrofit a multifamily building.
heatmap.news
July 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Small, affordable, window-installed heat pumps promise to be a godsend for renters looking for efficient relef from heat waves as well as cold weather heatmap.news/sustain...
Made it past the phone interview and now I get to meet the director of engineering tomorrow for an in person one
Wish me luck!
Wish me luck!
July 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Made it past the phone interview and now I get to meet the director of engineering tomorrow for an in person one
Wish me luck!
Wish me luck!
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"These are areas where Palestinians are allowed to be – we're [IDF] the ones who moved closer and decided [they] endangered us. So, for a contractor to make another 5,000 shekels [$1500] and take down a house, it's deemed acceptable to kill people who are only looking for food."
No. Words.
No. Words.
archive.is
June 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"These are areas where Palestinians are allowed to be – we're [IDF] the ones who moved closer and decided [they] endangered us. So, for a contractor to make another 5,000 shekels [$1500] and take down a house, it's deemed acceptable to kill people who are only looking for food."
No. Words.
No. Words.
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CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
Accountability now.
Open link next skeet.
"It's a killing field," one soldier said....no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire w/ machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then.. the shooting stops, they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire."
Accountability now.
Open link next skeet.
"It's a killing field," one soldier said....no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire w/ machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then.. the shooting stops, they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire."
IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
***
www.haaretz.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
Accountability now.
Open link next skeet.
"It's a killing field," one soldier said....no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire w/ machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then.. the shooting stops, they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire."
Accountability now.
Open link next skeet.
"It's a killing field," one soldier said....no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire w/ machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then.. the shooting stops, they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire."
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ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
June 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
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