Accidental Decaf
@accidentaldecaf.bsky.social
Non-profit Comms, writing about corporate impacts on climate, worker rights & access to health care. Long-time #Union activist. Has been known to shout "Capitalism is obscene!" at parties once or twice.
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Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
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Utility watchdogs accuse PGE of skirting new law meant to make data centers pay for rising demand.
PGE is trying to spread part of the costs onto regular ratepayers, contrary to recent law requiring separate rate class for data centers
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/15/u...
PGE is trying to spread part of the costs onto regular ratepayers, contrary to recent law requiring separate rate class for data centers
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/15/u...
Utility watchdogs accuse PGE of skirting new law meant to make data centers pay for rising demand • Oregon Capital Chronicle
PGE doesn't plan to simply assign the costs of energy investments needed to support data centers, to data centers.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Utility watchdogs accuse PGE of skirting new law meant to make data centers pay for rising demand.
PGE is trying to spread part of the costs onto regular ratepayers, contrary to recent law requiring separate rate class for data centers
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/15/u...
PGE is trying to spread part of the costs onto regular ratepayers, contrary to recent law requiring separate rate class for data centers
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/15/u...
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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
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The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids
The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.
This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.
This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
December 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids
The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.
This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.
This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
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he believes that if they die they were meant to die and that those that live are the fittest
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
he believes that if they die they were meant to die and that those that live are the fittest
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rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
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A year ago, Tracy Hoeg was selling people unproven therapies (like injecting your own blood into your knees) for cash. She is trained in physical medicine & rehabilitation, & does not have any relevant background for this position other than being a prolific & extreme antivaxxer and disease promoter
I suspect FDA no longer has qualified people willing to do this job.
"FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has appointed Tracy Beth Høeg, a longtime skeptic of Covid-19 vaccines, to be the acting director of the agency’s drug unit,...."
endpoints.news/fda-to-name-... @endpts.com
"FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has appointed Tracy Beth Høeg, a longtime skeptic of Covid-19 vaccines, to be the acting director of the agency’s drug unit,...."
endpoints.news/fda-to-name-... @endpts.com
Breaking: FDA to name Tracy Beth Hoeg, who helped lead Covid shot investigation, as acting CDER chief
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has appointed Tracy Beth Høeg, a longtime skeptic of Covid-19 vaccines, to be the acting director of the agency's drug unit
endpoints.news
December 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A year ago, Tracy Hoeg was selling people unproven therapies (like injecting your own blood into your knees) for cash. She is trained in physical medicine & rehabilitation, & does not have any relevant background for this position other than being a prolific & extreme antivaxxer and disease promoter
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Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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I'm not going to read the NYT story but I do want to hear what other people would put in their "Lost New York" takes, mine would include Dr Zizmor ads and the free transfer between the Broadway G/Lorimer JMZ stops
November 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I'm not going to read the NYT story but I do want to hear what other people would put in their "Lost New York" takes, mine would include Dr Zizmor ads and the free transfer between the Broadway G/Lorimer JMZ stops
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🧵 This morning, Local 2110 of @uawregion9a.bsky.social
petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a union election for nearly a thousand full-time and part-time professional and non-professional staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a union election for nearly a thousand full-time and part-time professional and non-professional staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
🧵 This morning, Local 2110 of @uawregion9a.bsky.social
petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a union election for nearly a thousand full-time and part-time professional and non-professional staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a union election for nearly a thousand full-time and part-time professional and non-professional staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Tesla employees passed around photos of the insides of customers' garages, footage of what they were doing inside/near their cars. The cars were OFF at the time, a nude Tesla driver walking past their car in the privacy of their own garage became a Tesla office meme
Stop embracing surveillance tech
Stop embracing surveillance tech
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tesla employees passed around photos of the insides of customers' garages, footage of what they were doing inside/near their cars. The cars were OFF at the time, a nude Tesla driver walking past their car in the privacy of their own garage became a Tesla office meme
Stop embracing surveillance tech
Stop embracing surveillance tech
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the ~5 tons of CO2 emitted on this hourlong flight is roughly equivalent to what the average EU citizen emits in a year
Landed in Van Nuys, California, United States. Apx. flt. time 54 min.
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
the ~5 tons of CO2 emitted on this hourlong flight is roughly equivalent to what the average EU citizen emits in a year
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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ER wait times are going to be much longer when 13.7 million Americans lose their Medicaid coverage over the next decade due to this administration’s billionaire tax cuts, not to mention the higher premiums from expiring ACA subsidies, the thousands of jobs being lost every month, & massive inflation
October 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
ER wait times are going to be much longer when 13.7 million Americans lose their Medicaid coverage over the next decade due to this administration’s billionaire tax cuts, not to mention the higher premiums from expiring ACA subsidies, the thousands of jobs being lost every month, & massive inflation
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I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
September 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.
www.status.news
September 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
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COMRADE BESTIE
September 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
COMRADE BESTIE
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And don't forget mass shootings themselves, which could be read as a successful years-long project to destroy public spaces. The footsoldiers for the cause
September 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
And don't forget mass shootings themselves, which could be read as a successful years-long project to destroy public spaces. The footsoldiers for the cause
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Just to reiterate, the destruction and lockout of third spaces for young people are why we are seeing some young people ending up in online communities that encourage mass shootings
September 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Just to reiterate, the destruction and lockout of third spaces for young people are why we are seeing some young people ending up in online communities that encourage mass shootings
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Reports: USTA asks U.S. Open broadcasters to censor crowd reactions to Trump reut.rs/3V4rCpO
Reports: USTA asks U.S. Open broadcasters to censor crowd reactions to Trump
The United States Tennis Association asked U.S. Open broadcasters to censor any reaction or protest to President Donald Trump during his appearance at the men's singles final Sunday, according to reports.
reut.rs
September 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Reports: USTA asks U.S. Open broadcasters to censor crowd reactions to Trump reut.rs/3V4rCpO
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So what are they doing with this knowledge?
As little as possible.
They’re putting it out in the public—in white papers, and buried deep in webpages. Just enough to be able to say “but we did tell you! We told you to assess your own risk!” 9/
As little as possible.
They’re putting it out in the public—in white papers, and buried deep in webpages. Just enough to be able to say “but we did tell you! We told you to assess your own risk!” 9/
September 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
So what are they doing with this knowledge?
As little as possible.
They’re putting it out in the public—in white papers, and buried deep in webpages. Just enough to be able to say “but we did tell you! We told you to assess your own risk!” 9/
As little as possible.
They’re putting it out in the public—in white papers, and buried deep in webpages. Just enough to be able to say “but we did tell you! We told you to assess your own risk!” 9/
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I'm slowly reading @uncannymagazine.bsky.social issue 24 Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction and it is amazing.
I'm currently on this piece www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
I very much want a t-shirt that says "the future is disabled" but it needs the right kind of graphics to work...
I'm currently on this piece www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
I very much want a t-shirt that says "the future is disabled" but it needs the right kind of graphics to work...
The Future Is (Not) Disabled - Uncanny Magazine
“The future doesn’t belong to you,” a friend tells me, when we walk home together one night. Not in those words, of course. Rather, he talks about scientific advancement, genetic manipulation, and how...
www.uncannymagazine.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I'm slowly reading @uncannymagazine.bsky.social issue 24 Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction and it is amazing.
I'm currently on this piece www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
I very much want a t-shirt that says "the future is disabled" but it needs the right kind of graphics to work...
I'm currently on this piece www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
I very much want a t-shirt that says "the future is disabled" but it needs the right kind of graphics to work...
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PSA: Always handle your own data transfer between new and old phones, and if you meet someone who talks like the guy in the texts below, immediately violate TOS.
Soooo.... basically don't go into a Verizon store if you're a woman to get a new phone.
What.
And I cannot stress this enough.
THE.
FUCK.
www.reddit.com/r/screenshot...
What.
And I cannot stress this enough.
THE.
FUCK.
www.reddit.com/r/screenshot...
September 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
PSA: Always handle your own data transfer between new and old phones, and if you meet someone who talks like the guy in the texts below, immediately violate TOS.