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Neal Patwari, Birthright Citizen
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Research in inequity of AI, wireless networks. Moves a lot. Puffer coat lover. "Strident... passionate" - reviewer #3. "Enough personality to make lectures worthwhile" - student eval. Professor at University of <State I'm in>, but I don't speak for them.
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wavewriter.bsky.social
We used to make this soup and call it "Ninja Turtle Soup" to market it to our kids, who loved it. Still love it, but now forbid us from calling it that

www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/6393...
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
wavewriter.bsky.social
Why do I have to refuse Zoom's AI Companion _every single meeting_ even though I check "Don't remind me again" and hit "Close"?
Start Al Companion to assist with your meeting Start meeting questions and meeting summary for everyone in this meeting. (checked box) Don't remind me again Close, Turn on
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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propublica.org
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
Article excerpt: Shortly after 8 a.m., Carreto’s phone rang. It was Carlos, telling her an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the truck on Interstate 4 near Tampa. The stated reason: cracks in their windshield. But Carreto was worried. She knew Florida police were collaborating with federal immigration authorities. Her fiancé was undocumented. She says she rushed to the scene and made it there just before the immigration officers. As she feared, Matias had been detained. But to her surprise, so had Carlos. He was just a kid. (ProPublica is only identifying Carlos by his first name because he is a minor.) Carlos was in high school. He’d been living in the United States for over two years and was working toward applying for legal status to stay long term. The government had given her, a legal resident, custody of him. Now he was in handcuffs. Why would they take him too?
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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benwinslow.bsky.social
INBOX: @sltrib.com's newsroom employee union announces its first contract. #utpol #Utah
SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake Tribune’s newsroom workers unanimously ratified the Salt Lake News Guild’s inaugural labor contract Monday — a first in the 155-year history of Utah’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, flagship newspaper. The vote was open to every member of The Tribune’s bargaining unit, which also includes staff at The Tribune-owned Moab Times-Independent and The Southern Utah Tribune. By the time voting closed Sunday afternoon, 93% had participated. Each of them voted in favor of the two-year agreement, which includes provisions that guarantee increased pay and benefits and bar management from disciplining employees over content engagement metrics, like page views. “We are grateful to all employees of The Salt Lake Tribune for the dedication they bring to our journalism every day. The bargaining process was respectful and thoughtful, and now we look forward to diving in on critical work together, ahead of The Tribune removing its paywall in 2026,” Tribune management and the Guild said in a joint statement. The members of the Guild’s bargaining committee (Bethany Baker, Jeff Dempsey, Paighten Harkins, Andy Larsen and Trent Nelson) met with Tribune CEO Lauren Gustus on Monday morning at The Tribune offices to sign the contract, surrounded by Tribune staffers. Negotiations began in February. We couldn’t be more excited to have come to an agreement on a contract with Tribune management,” said Andy Larsen, a member of the Guild’s Bargaining Committee. “We believe this contract adds significantly to the long-term strength and stability of The Tribune and for the workers who make independent news in Utah possible.” “When Tribune workers voted to unionize more than a year ago, we said we wanted to ensure a supportive workplace, where talent is nurtured and cultivated and staff is paid enough so that our chief concern is how to best cover Utah — not how to afford to live here,” Bargaining Committee member Paighten Harkins said. “We rejected discipline over page views, and we wanted a seat at the board table where decisions are made. With this contract, we got all that and more.” Key contract provisions: • A standard salary floor of $60,000 for new hires of The Tribune and $54,000 for The Moab Times-Independent, as well as higher salary floors for experienced staff based on tenure at the paper; • Across the board annual cost of living raises and merit-based raises, with the opportunity for up to 5% total in annual raises if all goals are met; • Revenue share with employees if The Tribune beats annual financial targets; • Guaranteed protections against unjust discipline and severance pay in the event of layoffs; • Restrictions against disciplining or terminating employees based on page view quotas; • Increased employer contributions to employee retirement plans and more parental leave, personal days and vacation; • Guarantees that staff will be included in developing new artificial intelligence and social media policies, as well as in selecting health insurance policies; • A seat for a Guild representative to take part in Tribune Board of Directors meetings We couldn’t be more excited to have come to an agreement on a contract with Tribune management,” said Andy Larsen, a member of the Guild’s Bargaining Committee. “We believe this contract adds significantly to the long-term strength and stability of The Tribune and for the workers who make independent news in Utah possible.” “When Tribune workers voted to unionize more than a year ago, we said we wanted to ensure a supportive workplace, where talent is nurtured and cultivated and staff is paid enough so that our chief concern is how to best cover Utah — not how to afford to live here,” Bargaining Committee member Paighten Harkins said. “We rejected discipline over page views, and we wanted a seat at the board table where decisions are made. With this contract, we got all that and more.” Key contract provisions: • A standard salary floor of $60,000 for new hires of The Tribune and $54,000 for The Moab Times-Independent, as well as higher salary floors for experienced staff based on tenure at the paper; • Across the board annual cost of living raises and merit-based raises, with the opportunity for up to 5% total in annual raises if all goals are met; • Revenue share with employees if The Tribune beats annual financial targets; • Guaranteed protections against unjust discipline and severance pay in the event of layoffs; • Restrictions against disciplining or terminating employees based on page view quotas; • Increased employer contributions to employee retirement plans and more parental leave, personal days and vacation; • Guarantees that staff will be included in developing new artificial intelligence and social media policies, as well as in selecting health insurance policies; • A seat for a Guild representative to take part in Tribune Board of Directors meetings
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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sltrib.com
Remember last year when we said we would drop The Tribune's paywall if we raised enough money to support the transition to free? About that… 😁
The Salt Lake Tribune will drop its paywall next year, CEO tells donors at NewsMakers gala
After years of requiring people to pay for online news content, The Tribune announced an upcoming change during its 2025 annual NewsMakers Gala.
www.sltrib.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
By and large, however, the allegations against the other social media platforms are less detailed than those against Meta. The internal documents cited by the plaintiffs allege: Meta intentionally designed its youth safety features to be ineffective and rarely used, and blocked testing of safety features that it feared might be harmful to growth. Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as “a very, very, very high strike threshold." Meta recognized that optimizing its products to increase teen engagement resulted in serving them more harmful content, but did so anyway. Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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lorak.bsky.social
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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ence.bsky.social
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
wavewriter.bsky.social
Part of the FBI's COINTELPRO playbook.
samtlevin.bsky.social Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 4d
NEW: The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of NY immigrants' rights volunteers organizing court watch+ labeled activists “anarchist violent extremist actors.”

Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE

Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
wavewriter.bsky.social
“Observing immigration court hearings is a legal and non-violent act, unlike the ICE abductions we have witnessed regularly for months outside of the courtrooms,” Lander said.
samtlevin.bsky.social Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 4d
NEW: The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of NY immigrants' rights volunteers organizing court watch+ labeled activists “anarchist violent extremist actors.”

Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE

Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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liberationnow.bsky.social
Halliburton is lowering their stock value to half staff in honour of Dick Cheney
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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libyaliberty.bsky.social
“due to no legal or policy restrictions.”

Testing on brown people before using it on you. American voters, foreign policy is domestic policy. This truth can no longer be ignored for the panacea of a mythical lesser evil.
From X, the post and the text from the screenshot of the email: Anyone picked this one up from the Epstein emails? Melanie Walker, neuroscientist and advisor to Bill Gates, tells Epstein the Middle East is "perfect" as a laboratory "to test clinical wearables and experiment with remote telemetry due to no legal or policy restrictions." Is Read: Yes Is Invitation: No GUID: OD8E6236-6EB2-4450-BEC6-BDEA5E2E121B Screenshot Message: Middle East is perfect perfect to test clinical wearables (due to no legal or policy restrictions) and also to experiment w remote telemetry (don't have to leave home / great for gender issues there) Sender: Time: 02/17/17 02:31:49 PM (509063509)
November 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
wavewriter.bsky.social
It broke my heart and I will remember. Something terrible, told beautifully.
eleanorstrousers.bsky.social Eleanor’s Trousers @eleanorstrousers.bsky.social · 6d
Ooh the Andrea Gibson documentary Come See Me in the Good Light is on Apple TV and so far, it will break your heart, but so did their poetry and I’m glad to see them remembered.
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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wyattprivilege.bsky.social
Loving this Larry Summers arc where he’s like, wow taking a step back from leadership now that I found out about my own behavior which I have had access to at all times
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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unenthusiast.com
bet this feels so good if you're a router
close-up of a straightened paper clip being inserted into the reset pinhole on the back of a wifi router
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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sher12.bsky.social
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:

“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
wavewriter.bsky.social
When I think about what's giving me hope, it's you all. I read a lot of insightful thoughts and analysis and heartfelt emotions delivered with wit. Y'all are cool people!
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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courtneymilan.com
I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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ndrew.bsky.social
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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rebeccanagle.bsky.social
A Native woman in Iowa was set to be released from jail when her family was told that she was being turned over to ICE. Her family said she couldn’t be deported bc she was Native. Her family, with the help of tribal leaders, finally got her released...
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
wavewriter.bsky.social
Find and support your friendly local pharmacy
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d
Hourly Walgreens employees will reportedly no longer receive paid time off for six major holidays, including Thanksgiving and Christmas, after the pharmacy giant was acquired by private equity firm Sycamore Partners
Report: Walgreens cuts hourly workers’ pay for 6 major holidays
The hourly employees will only be paid if they work on those holidays.
www.whio.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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joolia.bsky.social
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Harvard Crimson Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name "peril" but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin's emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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mcpli.bsky.social
65 years ago this week, six year old Ruby Bridges integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans with help of U.S. marshals.
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
She’s younger than the president and several members of congress
dgraham.bsky.social David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 11d
It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
derfbackderf.bsky.social Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 11d
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM