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🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making.
When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵
english.elpais.com/internationa...
When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵
english.elpais.com/internationa...
Ethiopia’s forgotten war is the deadliest of the 21st century, with around 600,000 civilian deaths
Estimates by European institutions and academics say over half a million non-combatants have died during the Tigray conflict as a result of a government blockade that kept out humanitarian aid
english.elpais.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making.
When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵
english.elpais.com/internationa...
When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵
english.elpais.com/internationa...
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great little documentary on corky lee streaming for free on pbs. highly recommend you check it out. paid for by viewers like you www.pbs.org/show/photogr...
Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story
Photographer Corky Lee’s quest to document Asian American history, culture, and activism.
www.pbs.org
May 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
great little documentary on corky lee streaming for free on pbs. highly recommend you check it out. paid for by viewers like you www.pbs.org/show/photogr...
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The federal government is trying to kill 150,000 trans people in the United States.
I can count the number of cis people talking about this on one hand.
I can count the number of cis people talking about this on one hand.
May 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The federal government is trying to kill 150,000 trans people in the United States.
I can count the number of cis people talking about this on one hand.
I can count the number of cis people talking about this on one hand.
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This is absolutely terrible news.
With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.
h/t @merz.bsky.social
With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.
h/t @merz.bsky.social
Moderna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccine
Moderna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
www.reuters.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is absolutely terrible news.
With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.
h/t @merz.bsky.social
With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.
h/t @merz.bsky.social
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We're within sight of $5,000 today! Let's see if we can get over that line. Thanks for donating and sharing!
I wrote about the @chicagoreader.com's music coverage and why it shouldn't go away. Can you throw a few bucks at the paper to keep it running?
Yeah, it's a long story, but it turns out our budget is smaller than we thought. This is bad. Thanks for whatever you can do!
donorbox.org/save-the-chi...
Yeah, it's a long story, but it turns out our budget is smaller than we thought. This is bad. Thanks for whatever you can do!
donorbox.org/save-the-chi...
Save the Chicago Reader - Philip Montoro's Fundraiser on Donorbox
I’ve been employed by the Chicago Reader for more than 28 years, and in April—provided the paper survives that long—I’ll have been its music editor for 21. I work closely with staff writer Leor Galil,...
donorbox.org
January 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We're within sight of $5,000 today! Let's see if we can get over that line. Thanks for donating and sharing!
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my hometown is a rural agriculture backwater in north mexico and we regularly receive trade envoys from china for our exports. america has more or less allowed china to cultivate significant trade relations and other major bilateral exchanges throughout latin america. it's honestly super funny.
Latin American countries have more foreign policy flexibility today than in the 1950s. China is more economically powerful than USSR and has deep trade relations with the region. Regional countries are wealthier. Most have stable institutions, and militaries are unwilling to openly reenter politics.
January 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
my hometown is a rural agriculture backwater in north mexico and we regularly receive trade envoys from china for our exports. america has more or less allowed china to cultivate significant trade relations and other major bilateral exchanges throughout latin america. it's honestly super funny.
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pretty sure my IRA is torched by this but even so: lol
January 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
pretty sure my IRA is torched by this but even so: lol
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1,179 people arrested total. 566 people arrested "were only detained because they lacked legal authorization to remain in the U.S." When ICE claims they are only arresting "criminals," they are trying to redefine "criminal." Which is kind of the point of the category: it can hold anyone disfavored.
ICE makes close to 1,200 arrests in one day
Nearly half of those detained don’t have criminal records, according to a senior Trump administration official.
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
1,179 people arrested total. 566 people arrested "were only detained because they lacked legal authorization to remain in the U.S." When ICE claims they are only arresting "criminals," they are trying to redefine "criminal." Which is kind of the point of the category: it can hold anyone disfavored.
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I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
January 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
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Most of the money that researchers spend is on paying other researchers. In other words, canceling research funds is taking money out of local economies by removing people and their spending power from them. 🧪
In Astronomy, NSF has only 1 call per year (grants last 3 years). This means that if the process is paused (or worse), it has a huge ripple effect: it changes how we do graduate admissions, as ~1/2 of our graduate students are funded by NSF grants. It changes if we can hire postdoctoral researchers.
January 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Most of the money that researchers spend is on paying other researchers. In other words, canceling research funds is taking money out of local economies by removing people and their spending power from them. 🧪
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It is in fact possible to dunk on shitty people in/adjacent to the US government without engaging in hipster racism/sexism/disablism/etc. I believe in you. You can do it.
January 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
It is in fact possible to dunk on shitty people in/adjacent to the US government without engaging in hipster racism/sexism/disablism/etc. I believe in you. You can do it.
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Generative AI is essentially copy paste but with large datasets analyzed probabilistically. Maybe that's useful but it's not intelligence and doesn't justify the absurd amounts of investment it's attracted
January 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Generative AI is essentially copy paste but with large datasets analyzed probabilistically. Maybe that's useful but it's not intelligence and doesn't justify the absurd amounts of investment it's attracted
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Was the hundreds of millions of dollars we've burned through wisely allocated? Perhaps not. But did we learn a valuable lesson? Also no.
January 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Was the hundreds of millions of dollars we've burned through wisely allocated? Perhaps not. But did we learn a valuable lesson? Also no.
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Trump's 1st big raid caught 956 undocumented immigrants. Trump's big initiative was to deport... 1,000 people? This great nation of 335 million people was being held back from greatness by 956 undocumented immigrants?
January 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Trump's 1st big raid caught 956 undocumented immigrants. Trump's big initiative was to deport... 1,000 people? This great nation of 335 million people was being held back from greatness by 956 undocumented immigrants?
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I guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.
January 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.
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Weird how worried Wall Street is about DeepSeek, weren’t they just saying AI innovation is good even if it harms some people in the short term
January 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Weird how worried Wall Street is about DeepSeek, weren’t they just saying AI innovation is good even if it harms some people in the short term
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Hey, while we're talking about erasing history:
In 1949 the US military held its first Aeriel Gunnery Competition, later known as "Top Gun."
The best of the best competed in dogfighting and other skills. The team that won, was the 332nd: The Tuskegee airmen.
So they refused to announce a winner🤡
In 1949 the US military held its first Aeriel Gunnery Competition, later known as "Top Gun."
The best of the best competed in dogfighting and other skills. The team that won, was the 332nd: The Tuskegee airmen.
So they refused to announce a winner🤡
January 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Hey, while we're talking about erasing history:
In 1949 the US military held its first Aeriel Gunnery Competition, later known as "Top Gun."
The best of the best competed in dogfighting and other skills. The team that won, was the 332nd: The Tuskegee airmen.
So they refused to announce a winner🤡
In 1949 the US military held its first Aeriel Gunnery Competition, later known as "Top Gun."
The best of the best competed in dogfighting and other skills. The team that won, was the 332nd: The Tuskegee airmen.
So they refused to announce a winner🤡
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Closing in on 200 individual donations to my contribution to the Save the Reqder campaign, can we get there by midnight cst?
January 28, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Closing in on 200 individual donations to my contribution to the Save the Reqder campaign, can we get there by midnight cst?
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Corporations are becoming more powerful than nation states, U.S. intelligence admits
Big Brother Becomes Little Brother
Corporations are the new nation state, U.S. intelligence admits
www.kenklippenstein.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Corporations are becoming more powerful than nation states, U.S. intelligence admits
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As ICE targets undocumented people in and around my city, I am proud of Chicago organizers and community members who are working to protect our neighbors. If you are discouraged in these times, remember that people of conscience are taking action and that there are many ways you can join them.
January 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
As ICE targets undocumented people in and around my city, I am proud of Chicago organizers and community members who are working to protect our neighbors. If you are discouraged in these times, remember that people of conscience are taking action and that there are many ways you can join them.