Emily Millay Haddad

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…

In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies.

(Published April)

A colorful flyer lists accepted book genres for donation at Bluestockings bookstore, including Non-Fiction and Fiction categories, with drop-off info and a goal to collect 2,500 books by 9/1. Illustrations and handwritten text are featured.

As of last week almost 1500 books had been donated to my Bluestockings Book Drive. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated. The drive goes until 9/1 and my goal is 2500 books! I think we can make it.

Everything you do online is tracked, saved, and shared for what feels like a lifetime. But there are some steps you can take to minimize what data is out there. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.

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In the wake of Friday's shooting, we're all asking:

What happens now? How can we be safe?

Our union, AFGE Local 2883, released a powerful letter addressing these concerns. It's worth a full read:

📄 www.afge2883ga.org/post/in-soli...

Antonio Delgado stands with two moms and a toddler, a sign that says Protect Families, not polluters, and a red stop sign that says Stop Trump Pipelines in white

A child in a bike helment and pink glasses holds a sign that says Protect Families, Not Polluters

A child holds a red stop sign that reads STOP TRUMP PIPELINES in a crowd

A crowd of kids and adults marching in protest over the Brooklyn bridge, the arches are behind the crowd with the skyline behind, at the front: A sign that reads "protect families not polluters"

Amazing MASSIVE march today over the BK bridge w/ @nychange.bsky.social @fffnyc.bsky.social, LG Antonio Delgado & more to tell @governor.ny.gov to STOP Trump's gas pipelines, including Williams NESE, which would pollute the Rockaways & wreck our climate!

NY says #NoTrumpPipelines!

Thread on the CDC assault.

Extremist violence is the elephant in the GOP’s big tent.

Attacks span the nation’s federal workplaces: Oklahoma City to rural Oregon, Atlanta to Capitol Hill.

Real leadership condemns senseless violence targeting civil servants.

GOP leaders’ silence in fact whistles.

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

CDC shooter believed COVID vaccine made him suicidal, his father tells police A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that a Georgia man who opened fire Friday on the U.S.

1/4 New details on just how damn close the CDC shooter came to killing us.

He brought FIVE guns. He tried to get inside CDC headquarters but was stopped by security. So instead drove over to the CVS across the street and opened fire.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Thread on CDC shooting👇...

Good morning.

Yesterday, after hours of hiding, trying not to make a sound, we stepped outside and saw massive bullet holes in our office windows.

Those weren’t random shots. That was a high-powered weapon no civilian should ever own.

I admit, this is one of the most charming things I’ve ever heard about you — and that’s saying a lot, friend. 🤗

One bear.

81 years.

Only YOU.

#Resist
#AllOfUs
#AltCitizen

There's still a lot of work to do to improve Bluetooth tracker detection, but for now, here's how to detect them automatically and search for them manually. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

So far, I’ve seen little more than recycled greatness, degraded in the copying. And nothing that I couldn’t predict myself.

I do, actually, hope I’ll be proven wrong — if only to make the exorbitant investment of cash, time, land, water, electricity, and attention worth something in the end. FIN.

When people gush about the creative capacity of AI tools for artists, I always think: “Prove it.” Show me the great, original art that AI helped make — and we’ll see how good it is.

And, crickets.

This ill-fitting AI hucksterism is a problem. But there is another critique, and it’s where Slate falls short. If AI is so wonderful, and if the Sphere is so extraordinary, WHERE is the original art that can only be made using AI for a singular venue like the Sphere?

Now, maybe you respect this strange magic or maybe you want to exploit it. Maybe both. James Dolan absolutely wants both, with a thumb on the scale towards exploitation. It’s being forced to accept “improvements” to the original so producers can make another buck off a known quantity that reeks.

Somehow, a rectangle of moving light (not even a “sphere” like how our stereoscopic vision lets our brains stitch together a continuous world), with accompanying sound, will captivate a human. Ask any parent of a child watching a postcard-sized screen in the backseat of a car. It doesn’t take much.

Yes, the circus has used projections, as has live theatre and stage magic, since the birth of the technology. What no one saw coming at the beginning was how those projections could be reconceived as a standalone art form that would utterly captivate audiences for more than 100 years.

The missing minutes — to save render times and processing power? Really? The Barnum-esque reasoning around getting more shows in every day makes far more sense to me. And, for my money, points to the real problem: Movies are not circus.

No one will look at that blue sky — the way very few look at the sky now. The stills here give us time to examine the corners of an image, like a painting, but I speculate that no one will look at the roof, or the clouds, or anything beside their faces… assuming the movie doesn’t fail to do its job.

It seems clear to me that these stills, which feel garish and plastic, are trying to solve a technical problem that hasn’t been solved before at this scale—namely, sixteen football fields of simultaneous visual landscape. Even a football field is not seen all at once. The Sphere will not be either.

The Much-Hyped New Wizard of Oz Is an Atrocity Since when does Toto need to be yassified?

A friend posted this critique on a different platform, and yes, I went down that rabbit hole. If you’d like to hear a “morning coffee PhD” from me on this subject, please read on.

His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to…

One contractor hired to work on the new Fort Bliss immigrant detention center is a company whose owner previously co-owned a business that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire undocumented workers and conceal them from immigration authorities.

Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s

This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.

Here's why.

Work to become the ancestor that you respect today. Don't be an embarrassment or disappointment to those who come after you.

But not, of course, the collections apparatus.

Watch the full episode 13-minute where Morgan and I talk about a tool you can use when you are fixated to get some perspective.

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