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Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
November 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
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“For a country supposedly locked in an existential competition with China, it is bizarre to eviscerate the fastest growing source of energy supposedly to save money while simultaneously providing tax breaks to, of all things, metallurgical coal miners.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The GOP Tax Bill Will Destabilize Tomorrow's Power Grid
The intensified attack on wind and solar power threatens capacity at a time when AI demand for electricity is surging.
www.bloomberg.com
July 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
“For a country supposedly locked in an existential competition with China, it is bizarre to eviscerate the fastest growing source of energy supposedly to save money while simultaneously providing tax breaks to, of all things, metallurgical coal miners.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
I wish I didn’t know this Silicon Valley drama, but openAI suing that founder over the name “io” is so silly.
Its a good name for an agent but it’s like trying to get trademark protection for your new agent “computer”
Its a good name for an agent but it’s like trying to get trademark protection for your new agent “computer”
June 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I wish I didn’t know this Silicon Valley drama, but openAI suing that founder over the name “io” is so silly.
Its a good name for an agent but it’s like trying to get trademark protection for your new agent “computer”
Its a good name for an agent but it’s like trying to get trademark protection for your new agent “computer”
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NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.
I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.
I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
June 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I’ve seen a lot of hand wringing about the dangers of going to No Kings protests and gently, I want to tell people to chill a little. These are permitted marches and the point is to be out there and seen en masse. Please don’t scare off people who are maybe going to their very first protest
June 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I’ve seen a lot of hand wringing about the dangers of going to No Kings protests and gently, I want to tell people to chill a little. These are permitted marches and the point is to be out there and seen en masse. Please don’t scare off people who are maybe going to their very first protest
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Given our screens are full of Gaza, ICE and those on benefits, I think everyone understands what our world does to the weak—which is why many people can’t face the fact that we all, at some point in our lives, are likely to become disabled
June 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Given our screens are full of Gaza, ICE and those on benefits, I think everyone understands what our world does to the weak—which is why many people can’t face the fact that we all, at some point in our lives, are likely to become disabled
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Through all his troubles, neither the DOJ/FBI nor any state authorities ever subjected Donald Trump to arrest, preferring in every case to proceed by indictment and voluntary surrender. It’s notable that a sitting judge and pillar of the Milwaukee community was not extended the same courtesy.
April 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Through all his troubles, neither the DOJ/FBI nor any state authorities ever subjected Donald Trump to arrest, preferring in every case to proceed by indictment and voluntary surrender. It’s notable that a sitting judge and pillar of the Milwaukee community was not extended the same courtesy.
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Labor unions fuel Maine protests against ultra-rich government takeover
Labor unions, grassroots activists fueling Maine protests against ultra-rich takeover • Maine Morning Star
The April 5 Hands Off mass protests were fueled by weeks of local demonstrations across Maine organized by grassroots activists and labor unions.
mainemorningstar.com
April 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Labor unions fuel Maine protests against ultra-rich government takeover
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Discuss, share, learn about how to make RL work for real problems!
Applying RL to a real system? Having insightful experience, new methods, reviews, analysis to share?
We are excited to announce the @rl-conference.bsky.social 2025 workshop on Practical Insights into RL for Real Systems!
rl4rs.github.io/RL4RS
We are excited to announce the @rl-conference.bsky.social 2025 workshop on Practical Insights into RL for Real Systems!
rl4rs.github.io/RL4RS
Workshop on RL4RS
Workshop on on Practical Insights into RL for Real Systems.
rl4rs.github.io
April 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Discuss, share, learn about how to make RL work for real problems!
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Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
www.404media.co
April 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
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West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.
April 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.
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When any software asks you if you will allow them to record 'inking and typing' data, they are saving your 'fist', which is the unique way you type, and is a form of identification.
April 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
When any software asks you if you will allow them to record 'inking and typing' data, they are saving your 'fist', which is the unique way you type, and is a form of identification.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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And whenever you see someone *not powerful* acting courageously, let it stiffen your spine more
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
March 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
And whenever you see someone *not powerful* acting courageously, let it stiffen your spine more
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I think disappearing people who are here legally because the state disagreed with their speech is Bad but I don’t have a law degree so what do I know
March 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I think disappearing people who are here legally because the state disagreed with their speech is Bad but I don’t have a law degree so what do I know
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Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.
March 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.
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If it’s a matter of national security then the government should nationalize Google and OpenAI www.theverge.com/news/630079/...
OpenAI and Google ask the government to let them train AI on content they don’t own
OpenAI says it’s a “matter of national security.”
www.theverge.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If it’s a matter of national security then the government should nationalize Google and OpenAI www.theverge.com/news/630079/...
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Major milestone in Reinforcement Learning 🚀
In under just 1 hour of training, our AI Agent can now automate tasks requiring complex physics and object interactions. Done for the first time on 100$ robot arms.
Watch as it recovers when the cube gets stuck 🤯
In under just 1 hour of training, our AI Agent can now automate tasks requiring complex physics and object interactions. Done for the first time on 100$ robot arms.
Watch as it recovers when the cube gets stuck 🤯
March 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Major milestone in Reinforcement Learning 🚀
In under just 1 hour of training, our AI Agent can now automate tasks requiring complex physics and object interactions. Done for the first time on 100$ robot arms.
Watch as it recovers when the cube gets stuck 🤯
In under just 1 hour of training, our AI Agent can now automate tasks requiring complex physics and object interactions. Done for the first time on 100$ robot arms.
Watch as it recovers when the cube gets stuck 🤯
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Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
March 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
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There’s been zero explanation for this given but it seems exceedingly likely it’s pure retaliation for the Maine governor challenging Trump. Really sick.
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...
Social Security now requires Maine parents to visit an agency office to register newborns
The change — immediately criticized by pediatric health advocates — eliminates a program that allowed parents to fill out a form at the hospital to secure a Social Security number for their children.
www.pressherald.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
There’s been zero explanation for this given but it seems exceedingly likely it’s pure retaliation for the Maine governor challenging Trump. Really sick.
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...
www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...
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We Must Protect The First Amendment At All Costs vs. No Thanks, I’ll Just Take My Freedoms For Granted Until They Disappear
theonion.com/we-must-prot...
theonion.com/we-must-prot...
March 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We Must Protect The First Amendment At All Costs vs. No Thanks, I’ll Just Take My Freedoms For Granted Until They Disappear
theonion.com/we-must-prot...
theonion.com/we-must-prot...
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Evidently the "resist" shirts were not representative of the party as a whole if these members are voting to censure this small act of resistance.
The Democratic party cannot function to oppose fascism while simultaneously subsisting with members opposed to resistance.
The Democratic party cannot function to oppose fascism while simultaneously subsisting with members opposed to resistance.
10 democrats joined in voting to censure Rep Al Green...
Unbelievable...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...
Unbelievable...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...
Screaming match breaks out in House after vote to censure Democrat Al Green
The House voted on Thursday to censure Democrat Al Green over his outburst at President Donald Trump's speech to Congress on Tuesday night.
abcnews.go.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Evidently the "resist" shirts were not representative of the party as a whole if these members are voting to censure this small act of resistance.
The Democratic party cannot function to oppose fascism while simultaneously subsisting with members opposed to resistance.
The Democratic party cannot function to oppose fascism while simultaneously subsisting with members opposed to resistance.