Lindsey Barrett

I wanna keep doing this work, in any form (podcast! newsletter! movie? AI literacy class!). Pls msg me on Signal at nitasha.10 if you need someone who’s well-sourced in AI & SV, worked hard to understand the technology + ideas + players, cares about getting it right and informing the public

A promo for Netflix's How to Get to Heaven from Belfast

Lisa McGee, the creator of Derry Girls, has a new Netflix show out today, and if the fact that I had to fully search the words "how to get to" before it popped up for me is any indication, they're doing their typical level of promotion for it, so I'm doing my part

There are many people willing to do whatever it takes to become the 2028 Democratic nominee and it's all of our job to convince them that going full Vlad the Impaler against the Republican Party is the best way to secure our primary vote.

just limitless depravity

something a lefty donor could do is set up a legal holding tank for any DOJ lawyer who quits. promise them a doubled salary, no questions asked

Best explanation of the liar's dividend that I've ever seen.

Same energy #KavanaughStop

Not to worry, articles will soon issue explaining how this is more complicated than it seems.

We really need to double down on outwardly stating our work does not contain AI.

We're seeing it in movie credits and books, we have to start putting it on things we make and pressuring others to label their work as human made, and normalize that as much as we can, I think.
stuff like this maybe

Calibri font becomes the latest DEI target as Rubio orders return to Times New Roman Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomatic correspondence to stop using the Calibri font and return to the more traditional Times New Roman.

Making Calibri the standard was a universal design choice. If people need Calibri on a case-by-case basis, that process now becomes cumbersome and inefficient. Likely creates more bureaucracy (on top of the strange cruelty of it all).

I like that republicans keep calling mamdani a “literal communist” because they’ve been calling everyone to the left of william mckinley a communist for a hundred years and they need to distinguish

If the Democrats keep nominating charismatic candidates who actually like people, they're going to get massacred in 2026 and 2028.

by Rahm Emanuel

every science news article is like "chinese researchers invent cure for hurting your back getting out of bed" and every science policy news article is like "uncomfortable bed lobby successfully lobbies trump admin with $500 bribe"

Screenshot text from the Atlantic Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”) In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed. Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…

seems bad!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Started a thread in the other place and bringing it over here - I really think we should be more vocal about the opportunities that lay at the intersection of these two options!

So I'm starting a live thread of new roles as I become aware of them - feel free to add / extend / share :

I worked on this issue, litigating it from 2000-3017 and then advocacy from 2017-2019. When the FCC set the first caps, staff got Commission Clyburn a cake that said "2.3 million children than you."

I'm not so much heartbroken as so very tired.

F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls

It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually

god this sucks

It wasn’t so much what Zohran Mamdani said. It was how he said it. “We’re going to stand up for Haiti, because you taught the world about freedom!” the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York exclaimed to an elated crowd at a Haitian music festival in June, fresh off his upset victory in the primary. Mr. Mamdani pronounced the island nation’s name “AH-ee-tee” — near-perfect Creole elocution. “When I heard him say that, I smiled,” recalled Brian Purnell, one of Mr. Mamdani’s former professors at Bowdoin College. He also noted that Mr. Mamdani’s reference to freedom was a nod to Haiti’s status as the first republic founded by former slaves. “That’s straight out of the lessons from the Haitian Revolution that we teach in Africana studies,” said Dr. Purnell, who is now the chair of the Africana studies department at Mr. Mamdani’s alma mater. “I will claim that,” he added with a laugh.

Finally someone bold enough to ask, is new york ready for a mayor who opposes slavery? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Anonymizing stuff is difficult.

Employers: "Law schools are not doing enough to make students practice-ready! We need more more more of everything in law school! You are not training lawyers for the real world!"

Also employers: "We would like to hire students based on 5 weeks of 1L work."

to be fair, no one could have predicted this

Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

what does an "unconstitutional DEI principle" mean in the context of a tunnel project? what, a black person is going to use it?

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

“don’t do that”

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

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