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Wow, huge credit to Katie and the rest of the nutrition team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social. USDA has now issued revised numbers because CBPP caught them either accidentally or intentionally making huge errors that would severely underfund SNAP, in direct violation of court orders.

06.11.2025 03:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 903    ๐Ÿ” 394    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

New data: CBPP analyzed USDAโ€™s contingency fund spending plan & found it is only going to release 2/3 of the funding they committed to in court filings, cutting familiesโ€™ SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDAโ€™s own regulations & shortchanging millions of families.

05.11.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 391    ๐Ÿ” 165    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28
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Georgiaโ€™s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says Republican lawmakers cite Georgiaโ€™s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...

#ICYMI: GOP lawmakers cite Georgiaโ€™s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027.

A GAO report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

05.10.2025 18:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 585    ๐Ÿ” 312    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23

Critics see something different. Suresh Venkatasubramanian, director of the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign at Brown University, said that Friend is clearly an example of a frothy AI company, but that it also bore a โ€œperniciousโ€ resemblance to a mostly forgotten early-20th-century fad: โ€œradium necklaces.โ€โ€จโ€จWhen Marie Curieโ€™s new glowing discovery first hit the market, jewelers embedded radium in pendants and bracelets and sold them as chic wellness accessoriesโ€”until decades later, people started dying of cancer.โ€จโ€จโ€œI look at Friend and I think, โ€˜Are we making the same mistake?โ€™โ€ Venkatasubramanian told Fortune. โ€œWeโ€™re rushing these intimacy machines into peopleโ€™s lives with no evidence theyโ€™re safe, or even helpful.โ€

Critics see something different. Suresh Venkatasubramanian, director of the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign at Brown University, said that Friend is clearly an example of a frothy AI company, but that it also bore a โ€œperniciousโ€ resemblance to a mostly forgotten early-20th-century fad: โ€œradium necklaces.โ€โ€จโ€จWhen Marie Curieโ€™s new glowing discovery first hit the market, jewelers embedded radium in pendants and bracelets and sold them as chic wellness accessoriesโ€”until decades later, people started dying of cancer.โ€จโ€จโ€œI look at Friend and I think, โ€˜Are we making the same mistake?โ€™โ€ Venkatasubramanian told Fortune. โ€œWeโ€™re rushing these intimacy machines into peopleโ€™s lives with no evidence theyโ€™re safe, or even helpful.โ€

Sick burn. finance.yahoo.com/news/22-old-...

03.10.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 119    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Railgoods - Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Capitol Corridor's store Variety of BART and Capitol Corridor clothing and gifts. T-shirts, hats, socks, kids items, and more.

Weโ€™re flattered they love us so much and want to be associated with our awesome brand.ย But it would be nice if they had reached out to us and perhaps shared some of the profit since we are a public transit agency in financial crisis.

27.09.2025 01:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 102    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. ๐Ÿงต

26.09.2025 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1969    ๐Ÿ” 938    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 45    ๐Ÿ“Œ 109

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. theyโ€™re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased.

www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

18.09.2025 20:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2343    ๐Ÿ” 998    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 39
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Trumpโ€™s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.

They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.

They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.

โ€œFreedom of speechโ€ is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

18.09.2025 11:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3720    ๐Ÿ” 2116    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 136    ๐Ÿ“Œ 229

FOR THE FOLKS WONDERING WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE:

There is a direct ideological throughline between the "anti-CRT" movement/attacks on Black studies and the firing of Stephen Colbert and suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.

Not posting this to say "I told you so" but bc you must understand the storyline.

18.09.2025 15:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1223    ๐Ÿ” 271    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books Itโ€™s a trippy time to have a library card.

New reporting about AI slop in libraries from rockstar reporter @clurrese.bsky.social featuring some rockstar librarians! ๐Ÿฅฐ

www.404media.co/librarians-a...

18.09.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
CAIR-CA Denounces Senate Education Committee Vote to Advance AB 715 September 11, 2025 - The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA), the nationโ€™s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today denounced the Senate Education Committeeโ€™s vote advancing AB 715 (Zbur & Addis) and reiterated its strong opposition to the bill.

CAIR-CA Denounces Senate Education Committee Vote to Advance AB 715

12.09.2025 19:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

29.08.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16636    ๐Ÿ” 5253    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 124    ๐Ÿ“Œ 124
Hand holding small black and white hand lettered zine titled "How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe". Sunflowers in background.

Hand holding small black and white hand lettered zine titled "How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe". Sunflowers in background.

Hand holding open zine. Pages read: "S Size of group, A Actions/Activity, L Location, U Uniforms/Clothes, T Time/Date, E Equipment

Hand holding open zine. Pages read: "S Size of group, A Actions/Activity, L Location, U Uniforms/Clothes, T Time/Date, E Equipment

"How to Report ICE" zines are available for free printable download for these places:
California
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area
Florida
Massachusetts
NC Triangle Area
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
Portland
St. Louis Metro Area
Washington State
Zine request form in folder.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

30.08.2025 20:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 904    ๐Ÿ” 590    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18
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IRS asks for public input on free tax filing options to inform congressional report | Internal Revenue Service IR-2025-85, Aug. 21, 2025 โ€” The IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.

The IRS wants Americans to weigh in on Direct File, the agency's free tax filing program.

We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful.

The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs.
www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...

29.08.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1302    ๐Ÿ” 1008    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 167
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The current NYT frontpage is a series of textbook attempts at authoritarian consolidation by the Trump regime.

Criminalizing opposition, falsely declaring emergencies to claim unchecked power, dismissing officials who dissent from the party line--we're headed towards a one party dictatorship.

22.08.2025 21:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 408    ๐Ÿ” 170    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

AI-critical ALA folks with the bandwidth to take this on, take heed! www.ala.org/aboutala/com...

11.08.2025 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
The deployment of Trellix monitoring software permits extensive surveillance capabilities, including scanning all accessed and executed files, logging detailed metadata (such as filenames, paths, threat names, and hashes), quarantining files, and potentially uploading files deemed suspicious, thus severely compromising faculty privacy and autonomy. More information is available at Trellix's Privacy Data Sheet. The toolsets required by the University will have full access to device information, including installed software; IP addresses (who you are on the internet at a certain time); your browsing history and application usage (what websites you visit and when and what files you open), and information on device use in real time, including processes running, files accessed, and network data.

The deployment of Trellix monitoring software permits extensive surveillance capabilities, including scanning all accessed and executed files, logging detailed metadata (such as filenames, paths, threat names, and hashes), quarantining files, and potentially uploading files deemed suspicious, thus severely compromising faculty privacy and autonomy. More information is available at Trellix's Privacy Data Sheet. The toolsets required by the University will have full access to device information, including installed software; IP addresses (who you are on the internet at a certain time); your browsing history and application usage (what websites you visit and when and what files you open), and information on device use in real time, including processes running, files accessed, and network data.

What could go wrong? sites.google.com/view/delay-m...

09.08.2025 22:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 98    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

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His first term attempt at this was defeated by broad pushback.

07.08.2025 12:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 438    ๐Ÿ” 99    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Donate to Fobaziโ€™s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard Hello all, my name is Ysabel and Iโ€™m fundraising for my friends โ€ฆ Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobaziโ€™s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I havenโ€™t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. โค๏ธ -Elena

gofund.me/c8485b58

07.08.2025 15:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 146    ๐Ÿ” 172    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 47

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

06.08.2025 18:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4549    ๐Ÿ” 966    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 85    ๐Ÿ“Œ 64
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Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data

I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key

I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed.

www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...

31.07.2025 20:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2614    ๐Ÿ” 1795    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 76    ๐Ÿ“Œ 244

Should state violence be as unaccountable as possible? It depends on who you ask.

25.07.2025 22:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They're trying to get into school district data?

25.07.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 172    ๐Ÿ” 87    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Let me once again remind everyone that emergency managers and disaster researchers warned Congress that FEMA would not be effective if it was moved under DHS and then within two years they spectacularly fucked up the Katrina response and then Congress still left FEMA in DHS.

08.07.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 230    ๐Ÿ” 71    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

@moderation.bsky.app suspended our director, Evan Greer's Bluesky account for speaking out about an awful experience from a transphobic bigot...is @bsky.app on the way to becoming the next Twitter/X ?

Re-skeet + demand Bluesky unsuspend her account!

08.07.2025 19:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 568    ๐Ÿ” 343    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46

One thing thatโ€™s really important to realize, which took me awhile to understand, is that people will be justifiably afraid to leave their homes. Now is the time to start thinking about aid pipelines to people who canโ€™t leave their houses.

03.07.2025 21:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Such an important point, and something I've been thinking about. Thankfully, there aren't 1000s of Stephen Millers inside the federal government. Many of the Trump people are exceptionally stupid and bad at working.

03.07.2025 20:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Advocate for robust funding for your library, join your library board, *go* to your library, use its resources, embody the commons! And undercommons as much as you can for those folks whose libraries are under attack (as Brooklyn, Seattle et al have done through BooksUnbanned)!

03.07.2025 20:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Solidarity with our city workers! Our sanitation workers start at $45k and our mayor gave herself a 9% raise and created ~15 positions at > $150k salary.

They deserve a living wage and we deserve a city without cronyism

01.07.2025 11:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 153    ๐Ÿ” 58    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

@librarian-cake is following 20 prominent accounts