Sarah J. Jackson

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
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Gender-based online harassment is one of the most persistent threats facing women journalists. CPJ Chief Emergencies Officer Lucy Westcott offers tips for protecting yourself online. 📱

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#InternationalWomensDay

Importantly they are planning to hire these people on 2 year contracts so what actually happened is they fired everyone so they could rehire them with worse working conditions and an easy revolving door with industry 🫩 🔭

they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends

Lying liars and the liar who hires and then fires them

Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

Why Target is the Center of an ICE-Out Campaign in Minnesota - Workday Magazine ICE Out of MN, a coalition of unions, worker centers, and community organizations, is putting pressure on Minnesota’s corporations that stayed silent as thousands of federal immigration agents wreaked...

Target has allowed ICE to abduct its workers and use its property for staging. Now Minnesota organizers are building a pressure campaign against the company. "There is no neutral here," says labor organizer Veronica Mendez Moore. Vital reporting by Isabela Escalona.

Men think they're doing their share of housework. They're not. The gender gap is taking a toll on women's mental health and is not showing signs of getting better.

related to the previous post.

"New research from the university suggests that women who carried the bulk of the housework load at age 25 still bear the same heavy burdens decades later as they move into middle age — and that "women's domestic workload only increased during the child-rearing years."

100 girls are dead because of generative AI

perfectly a strangeness

Three or four of these despicable group chats have become public, but here's the thing: It's absolutely certain that there are HUNDREDS of group chats just like them that we'll never learn about. There's an entire generation of groyper Republicans, and in a few years they'll be running the party.

and make you angry.

I went to a screening of all five 2026 Oscar nominated short documentaries and what can I say. There is a sweet one about donkeys and the rest will rip your heart out.

Starter pack full of obvious bots and it's description is inaccurate of me/my account/my work, in cases like that it is likely to drive more bots and unwanted followers to me. Not to mention making the pack's creator, who has never interacted w/ me here, intentions and authenticity seem suspect.

This is very funny

Hi Mr. Mayor :) so, sure, but they didn’t ask to add me so labor becomes mine+opens me to hostility from a stranger via the interaction. Some of us manage more of that than others already. It’s a nicer interpersonal solution if we knew for sure everyone was a good actor, but not a fair one. (IKYK)

I agree completely

Soft blocks don’t work for lists or follows here, one of the regular gripes about the design, so I imagine they don’t work for starter packs either sadly

As always consent (or lack there of) is one of the biggest inbuilt issues with tech infrastructure, even the well-intentioned

We’ve been over how lists get abused nefariously and that the solution is blocking which makes sense because it’s about bad actors but I think sometimes folks mean well with starter packs and are completely naive as to why someone wouldn’t want to be included.

I think it sucks that as far as I know the only way to get off a starter pack you don’t want to be on here is to block its creator but here we are. If anyone knows a more graceful way to exit a starter pack please lmk.

That paper has a very special place in my heart too. I tell the origin story whenever I can which means some people have heard it many times! And thanks for saying this, so glad to have been part of your journey.

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

As always

This is unbearable

Again and again when one was too many

The airplane flying the University of Wisconsin men's hockey to Penn State right now, N459AW, was used to fly shackled ICE detainees from Michigan to Louisiana on Sunday.

What a creep

I was telling an acquaintance that I've been trying to lift more weight doing glutes at the gym b/c I want a bigger butt (I mean I'm just trying to outlive the assholes, but that too) and she laughed and said "I never heard of someone wanting a bigger butt." Like wow we live in different universes.