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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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I’m just Pam @pamelaworth.bsky.social · 13d

Derry Girls would be fun, but it’s Stephen King-themed 🎈 as in, we all float down here 🤡

I’m just Pam @pamelaworth.bsky.social · 15d

Dig deep enough into any well funded crapass movement against human rights and you’ll hit oil.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15d

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 15d

The next X years are going to be so tedious and dumb and painful.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

a Reichstag fire, but one of them every week

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I’m just Pam @pamelaworth.bsky.social · 18d

The feminine urge to uncontrollably guzzle Tylenol

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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 25d

Science and scientists are under attack like never before and we need all the tools in the toolbox to fight back. Here's my @nature.com book review of Science Under Siege. Thanks for speaking up for science, @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How did assaults on science become the norm — and what can we do?

An insightful book explores attacks on science from a historical and a personal perspective.

www.nature.com

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · Sep 9

One begins to suspect that very rich people are constantly and openly committing unspeakable crimes together, recreationally.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 29

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.

Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social

newrepublic.com/article/1996...

The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins

Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.

newrepublic.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Wondering what vaccines to get this fall or whether they will even be available?

Most will be, but maybe for the last time. Make sure your family is up to date while you still can.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

What Vaccines Can I Get this Fall?

Probably most of them, but maybe for the last time. Get them while you can.

open.substack.com

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I’m just Pam @pamelaworth.bsky.social · Aug 24

I’ve been thinking of how important it is to present a joyful alternative to many of our current craptastic realities! This helps 💜

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · Aug 24

I don't understand people picking fights, especially with trans folks, about a hypothetical Newsom nomination 3 years from now. Just fight for better alongside them. It's not hard. You have time. And there are more urgent fights than the 2028 election right now. Join those.

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · Aug 22

This is a very problematic stance. Population growth is only one component of the ecological crisis. A much more substantial problem is the fixation on economic growth to support wealth hoarding. The focus on population growth hits the poor more than the rich, when they are the least of our problems

Dr. J @justineverettphd.bsky.social · Aug 22

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I’m just Pam @pamelaworth.bsky.social · Aug 19

Sue me if I go too fast
But the sons of her opponents wish that she was their dad

#wutrain

Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · Aug 19

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · Aug 14

I have never seen anything like the NYTimes reaction to Momdani.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Aug 14

Mamdani’s salary has him in the middle-income band as a single person, per NYC’s housing dept. His wife’s income isn’t public but he’s around 130% of AMI. That’s a level that eligible to apply for some of NYC’s affordable housing lotteries. This is not in the article.

www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/ser...

Area Median Income - HPD

www.nyc.gov

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · Jul 29

As Zeldin speaks, the heat index at the bottom of the screen is showing parts of the country hitting feels-like temperatures of 121 degrees. Extreme heat is a leading cause of death from climate change, a toll that will increase as CO2 levels rise.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 29

Zeldin: "EPA is proposing to rescind the 2009 Obama EPA endangerment finding to eliminate all of the greenhouse gas emissions regulations that followed."

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I’m just Pam @pamelaworth.bsky.social · Jul 25

I’m not alone?!? I’m not alone!!!

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Jul 25

Pivot to video was such a curse. Now everything’s like obviously you’d rather watch a 40 minute video than read a sentence.

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · Jul 22

For the Epsteinth time, an 'underage woman' is called a CHILD.

Thanks for coming to my Pred Talk.

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Cambridge Public Health Department @cambpublichealth.bsky.social · Jul 21

We'll be handing out free Narcan, test strips, CPR face shields, and other harm reduction materials at the Central Square Branch of the Cambridge Public Library on July 25 from 1 – 3 p.m. Everyone can help save a life from opioid overdose!

buff.ly/iRGQxvo

@cambridgeday.com @universalhub.com

Image for the event. Illustrations of Narcan at the top.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jul 3

I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.

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I’m just Pam @pamelaworth.bsky.social · Jun 27

…love is a banquet on which we feed???

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jun 22

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

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