Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.
How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.
Americans this week will start to feel the price of war in their pockets.
Remember to call or email your representative in Congress. Let them know how you feel.
📞 5calls.org
📧 democracy.io
#NoWar #iran #CallYourReps
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Everyone talks about vibe coding and zero of those people bother with accessibility. FINE.
This works on things like switch access patterns, eye gaze dwell, memory issues, fatigue, and complex communication disorders. USE IT
(It’s secretly like one sentence and nine scripts I’ve had for years)
Powerful LLMs and agent workflows have led to a whole lot of very specific "we did a thing" papers. How are people evaluating these?
06.03.2026 18:58 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)
davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...
Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co
05.03.2026 22:54 — 👍 535 🔁 172 💬 12 📌 15
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
05.03.2026 07:15 — 👍 17151 🔁 5981 💬 513 📌 491
Excellent postdoc opportunity for those interested in Behavioral Science + Policy at @princeton.edu w/ the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy.
It's the position I'm in now so reach out if you have Qs!
apply.interfolio.com/182176 #BehSci #Policy
Great resource for anyone engaged or interested in US AI policy and governance from @geomblog.bsky.social and his team www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...
04.03.2026 13:09 — 👍 50 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 0
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04.03.2026 18:22 — 👍 174 🔁 54 💬 6 📌 15
New working paper I’ve got out (w/ Tom Griffiths @cocoscilab.bsky.social )
Still a work in progress, but we’re excited about the idea and are currently working to extend it. Thanks, Gary, for sharing it!
Thanks for sharing our paper, @garymarcus.bsky.social !
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A screenshot of a headline from the official White House website dated June 26, 2025. The page features "The White House Washington" logo at the top with a navigation menu including links like "Save America" and "WH Wire". The main headline, set against a dark blue background, reads: “Experts Agree: Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated”.
A screenshot of a text quote attributed to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The text reads: “Based on everything we have seen — and I’ve seen it all — our bombing campaign obliterated Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons. Our massive bombs hit exactly the right spot at each target and worked perfectly. The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; so anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the President and the successful mission.”
A screenshot of a text quote attributed to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The text reads: “New intelligence confirms what @POTUS has stated numerous times: Iran’s nuclear facilities have been destroyed. If the Iranians chose to rebuild, they would have to rebuild all three facilities (Natanz, Fordow, Esfahan) entirely, which would likely take years to do. The propaganda media has deployed their usual tactic: selectively release portions of illegally leaked classified intelligence assessments (intentionally leaving out the fact that the assessment was written with ‘low confidence’) to try to undermine President Trump’s decisive leadership and the brave servicemen and women who flawlessly executed a truly historic mission to keep the American people safe and secure.”
A screenshot of a text quote attributed to IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir. The text reads: “I can say here that the assessment is that we significantly damaged the nuclear program, and I can also say that we set it back by years, I repeat, years.”
Unfortunately, these folks have no idea what they're doing or they're lying to the American people and the world.
Here are quotes–posted on The White House website 8 months ago–from senior intelligence and defense officials.
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I wonder if this has to do with her relationship with Elon Musk
02.03.2026 13:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I know it is a small thing, but, in these dying days of the open web, it is lovely that such a large proportion of famous poetry is online, mostly due to a $100M gift from Ruth Lily, who loved poetry (even though she never got any of her own published) poetryfoundation.org/poems/guides
01.03.2026 23:15 — 👍 110 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0Maybe there’s some 3D chess going on, but I really question politicians’ reasoning & leadership abilities when they’re willing to publicly endorse decisions by Trump without any coherent justification. The guy is erratic and makes no sense, politicians should insist on more than “Trump said so”
28.02.2026 17:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Reading trickling statements by Congresspeople supporting the attacks on Iran.
That’s all fine… if they had come *before* the attacks. If Congress wants to declare war, let them face the American people. But we should be clear- it’s Congress’s job not POTUS’s. Also, the man is senile.
Wars of choice kill those who have no choice. "Mistakes" like the reported strike on a girls' school that killed forty civilians are the predictable result of poor planning and execution.
For more on "Mistakes" in War, read this by me and @azmatzahra.bsky.social
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Whatever is in those Epstein files about Trump must be pretty bad for him to be starting a war
28.02.2026 12:44 — 👍 113 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 1Today will be a day of motivated reasoning
28.02.2026 12:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump takes America to war on a week where the Dept of Homeland Security is shut down and his so-called “Dept of War” can’t even get their Claude subscription working.
This should tell you everything you need to know about Trump as Commander in Chief 🍼
Senseless war started by a senseless man
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28.02.2026 11:57 — 👍 3676 🔁 830 💬 41 📌 23It’s possible to hope the ayatollahs regime will fall one day and Iranians be free and be dismayed by our country bombing Iran with no probable cause , with no public debate , and no congressional authorization.
28.02.2026 10:55 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Trump and Netanyahu’s approval ratings are low and they both face tough elections in a few months so they are like- let’s bomb Iran and get credit of it works great and move on to other things if it doesn’t.
28.02.2026 11:06 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Good on Anthropic for standing up to the Pentagon.
I certainly don’t *feel* like all the AI companies are run the same and believe it would be a mistake to lump in Anthropic’s leadership in with the others.
Our story on how the Pentagon misread the situation with Anthropic. They thought they would fold under the strong-arm tactic. Instead, Anthropic is seeing a boom of support from other AI companies and their own employees.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...
If one's job or brand is tied to *opposing* something (a tech, an industry, a practice), is it fair you say they too profit off that thing? Often, I think it does!
W/ #AI especially, lots of commentary from people profiting off it AND from those whose identity is shaped by being against it
