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Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with ) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is *on its face* a violation the equal protection of the laws.
Doug Mills is one of the greatest to ever do it.
This is America, 2025
In one weekend (!!), one New York Times photographer, Doug Mills, travels from Gitmo to the Super Bowl to take two unforgettable images of where we're at as a nation
Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining
The US DOT says it's planning to prioritize areas with high marriage & high birth rates for funding.
Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this would disproportionately fund:
—Communities with a higher white resident share
—Low-density areas
—High-income areas
—Car-dependent areas
#Flaverified and added to starter packs 👍🏾👍🏾
Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
I referenced this the other day at an event and got the sense that most people had never heard of it, but looking to be ahead of its time!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aUt...
It was fun to see two of my Shark Tank companies featured in @google Gemini ads !
youtu.be/_bLo3hIzbYg?...
A serval cat takes the initiative to calm a cat down
[📹 F1 Savannah Kittens]
yeah fuck this shit!!!
I actually hate the "lol the giant asteroid will deliver us from this suffering" jokes.
Are there any other people in the progressive movement who think that humans are actually fucking amazing?
Thank you Meta for finally addressing my biggest problem with your apps (they protect my privacy too much)
A memo at Meta states privacy teams will have less authority to delay products and previous privacy decisions will be reviewed, as some are overly "risk-averse" (Kalley Huang/The Information)
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Epic @sama response to Musk effort to fuck with him, which will obviously cause a ruckus
Among other reasons, censorship is bad because a lot of these terms are used multiple ways. “Confirmation bias” is the most common logical fallacy, for example - I’d like the folks at NSA to be particularly attuned to it.
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
At at time when the very idea of content moderation is under assault, I wrote about an effort that gives me hope: a $27 million project to transform trust and safety with open-source tools in the same way that open source transformed cybersecurity www.platformer.news/roost-open-s...
Scientists determined that Lucy, a human ancestor from 3.2 million years ago, couldn’t have beaten modern humans in a foot race.
It's a long post, but it's Charity at her best. She explains why diversity, despite it being flawed and lagging, is an important signal for an organization's values
I have a new blog post up: "Corporate 'DEI' Is An Imperfect Vehicle for Deeply Meaningful Ideals" charity.wtf/2025/02/10/c...
I know a lot of people are feeling incredibly scared and demoralized right now. I get it; I am too. (Who knows if my marriage will still be valid in two years?)
SCOTUSblog cofounder Tom Goldstein was rearrested today after prosecutors alleged that he secretly received over $8 million in cryptocurrency and paid out $6 million in recent days. Prosecutors argued that he presented "an urgent risk of flight." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
You've likely heard about the dangers of vaping, but how does it compare to smoking cigarettes?
In today's episode, what we know—and don’t know—about the risks of vaping.
Listen here 🎧:
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Happy Monday nerds. Here’s a new Penny Arcade:
www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2025/0...
Yes, we've got a code of conduct for #ATmosphereConf, and those that have bought tickets have agreed to it.
It's got a lineage from , !!con, and 's Community Participation Guidelines.
And yes, this applies to digital spaces, too!
atprotocol.dev/code-of-cond...