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Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.

A data broker owned by major US airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, is selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples’ movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE and other agencies

Photo of an outdoor installation in the form of a giant wooden catapult as if about to project a seat in a park

'Ejection seat' by Cornelia Konrads, contemporary German artist, known for her land art and site-specific art installations #womensart #Saturday

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober)
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay

Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Hell yes

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Marvel Studios leaving Georgia and taking all its productions to the UK because they don’t have to pay for employees’ health insurance there due to universal healthcare is a valuable lesson for America.

We’ll ignore it but the lesson still stands. Universal healthcare creates jobs.

It’s been a month since I wrote this and I want to reiterate that as bad as things look now, Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

Exactly

Americans face biggest increase in health insurance costs in 15 years Rising premiums add to pressure on households already feeling the pinch from the high price of goods

Americans voted for affordable prices & a better country.

Instead-

Kennedy fired the panel of the real ACIP experts that make vaccine recommendations. Cancer & other research grants are cut. FDA has restricted Covid shots. We have measles & whooping cough outbreaks.

🧪 www.ft.com/content/9af0...

No, Native-Born Employment Has Not Soared A newly viral chart showing native-born employment levels is a multiple-count data felony. Focus instead on the native-born unemployment rate.

No, employment for US natives is not soaring.

The claims you've seen on this from the US Administration are from people not competent to interpret the statistics.

"The apparent boom in native-born employment is just a statistical artifact".

My @piie.com colleague @jedkolko.bsky.social explains—>

About half of all imports consist of inputs for American manufacturing.

Taxing those foreign components means fewer goods will be made in America.

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Clear windows that collect Solar Energy [via Nanjing Uni] 🧪🥼🌞🔋🔲

Solar energy is guided by Cholesteric Liquid Crystal layer coatings on a standard window glass toward photovoltaic cells along edges.

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#clear #colorless #windows #solar #energy #capture

As someone who markets recruiting and HR software I can tell you that businesses are already operating as if we are mid-recession.

3,000 bucks seems too low to me.

The ‘antiwar’ president today tried to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War.

Can’t make this stuff up.

cosigned; it's not coding, it's deciding what to code

Someone should tell the economic geniuses running our trade policies about the existence of inventories! 🧵

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement Lawyers said it’s believed to be the largest-ever settlement in a US copyright case, paying about $3,000 per book.

You win some and you lose some. While Anthropic won the copyright case based on training their AI from copies of books they bought, they've just settled a case based on training AI on pirated books.

The settlement is for $1.5B which works out to about $3,000 per book.

A major economic challenge we're not talking enough about: It's getting harder and harder for young people to find entry-level jobs. We are definitely feeling this in NYC.

Nat’l unemployment rate for ages 16-24 just hit 10.5%, highest it's been since the pandemic. Rising steadily.

The mega dust bowl:

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On the idiotic US Government LG/Hyundai Raid, get some info straight

This is NOT the ACTIVE Hyundai vehicle manufacturing line outside Savannah, GA, this is the UNDER CONSTRUCTION LG/Hyundai Battery facility

LG and Hyundai both had Korean employees on site dealing with local contractors

I think all companies should be worker-owned and run.

The employees should vote every year or two for a new CEO, and candidates should include anyone who's worked at the company for at least three years.

The CEO should be the person with a plan to keep the company profitable, ethical and humane.

Recently

Probably not a great way to encourage companies to build in the States

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I ran a project to explore social media’s influence and impact on policy making, especially through public feedback, in the early days of Twitter & Facebook, and folks in federal government were regularly stunned at how little people understood. They took for granted a near-expert level of fluency…

China isn’t just adding solar—it’s empire building ⚡️ By 2030 it could run double the solar share of the world avg (25–30% vs 12–15%). This new empire is built on panels, batteries & grids. While others debate, China locks in dominance over the future of energy. #EnergyTransition #LFP #BESS #Solar

A social media graphic with one tall photo of an art piece, one square closeup of that same photo, and a text box that says The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Mixed Media Embroidery, by Kasey Smith, 2025. The two images are of an embroidery on green damask that is spilling out of an ornate frame.

The art

The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat.

Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.