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All the ink spilled on the crisis of young men and meanwhile young women are like 'yeah, I'd love to ditch this popsicle stand' and it's crickets.

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

cannot believe I have to now hand it to the kooks who insisted the government was being run by a shadowy cabal of pedophiles

Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.

Look buddy, you can be a prompt monkey or a content mod, thems' the breaks

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

RSS hires U.S. lobbyists for congressional influence campaign Squire Patton Boggs lobbied U.S. lawmakers on behalf of the RSS, a Hindu nationalist group linked to discrimination and violence against Muslims

Exclusive: India’s largest far-right Hindu organization hires U.S. lobbyists for congressional influence campaign, @meghnadbose.bsky.social & Biplob Kumar Das investigate.

Squire Patton Boggs lobbied U.S. lawmakers on behalf of the RSS, a group linked to discrimination & violence against Muslims.

Join Kat following her arraignment, Nov 12 at 2:30pm at Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago for a press conference

Federal Plaza, 2:30 PM.
See you there.

Fission for Algorithms: The Undermining of Nuclear Regulation in Service of AI - AI Now Institute A report examining nuclear “fast-tracking” initiatives on their feasibility and their impact on nuclear safety, security, and safeguards.

NEW REPORT: "Fission for Algorithms: The Undermining of Nuclear Regulation in Service of AI” exposes efforts to fast-track nuclear development to power AI, including using gen AI in nuclear licensing while weakening regulation – a risky shortcut with catastrophic consequences.

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A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?

Hindu nationalists wield less power in NYC today versus six months ago.

If you are a Hindu American and frustrated -- even irate -- about Hindu nationalists taking your identity in vain and pushing far-right hate, here are your people and playbook --

scroll.in/article/1088...

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Photo from my balcony looking over Montreal downtown under a light blanket of snow at sunset.

Montreal, you are beautiful! ❤️

this! the AI industry and CS at large literally treats the human condition as a problem to be solved

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Two farmers looking at a tower. The one of the left Is pulling up on their bootstrap to no effect. The farmer on the right is using a pully system and people pulling on the rope to pull him up the tower.

Idiom Origin

“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”

This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.

A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.

This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.

Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware

is that good?

Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.

Proud to be a signatory on this. Please read and sign if you agree. ✍🏽

the @ec.europa.eu's President von der Leyen is uncritically echoing AI hype & corporate PR, particularly that “AI would approach human reasoning in 2026”. we find this unacceptable & ask the Commission President to retract it. please sign this open letter if you agree

It'll be okay, little buddies

Data centers are not the frontline of innovation. They are the dirty structures that nobody - certainly tech leaders in Silicon Valley - wants to live next to.

wow

it’s still wild to me that diseases we effectively began controlling and eliminating during my childhood are coming back. how very very sad.

If you ever see one of Schumer’s Eight Traitors, you have a basic responsibility to make sure they are never comfortable showing their faces in public again without being loudly reminded that they are disgusting sell outs to Trump responsible for killing 50,000 people a year.

No rest for the wicked

Oxford and Harvard libraries now publishing their own diamond open access journals. Love it. ❤️

Paying hundreds of millions to big commercial publishers isn't the only way of supporting researchers to publish their research.

Oxford: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox#collapse5381526

Harvard […]

Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.