Amy Woodson-Boulton

Image of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks with the words "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Well we have corollary:

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves

Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars

Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra said DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:

“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

(Published Oct.)

Please note that oil and gas are allowed to claim the 45Q tax credit without any verification that they actually captured the CO2 they said they did — and certainly without having to sequester the carbon 🤡

Southwest's disappearing precipitation is also due to human-driven climate change, according to report The Colorado River Basin, like much of the southwestern U.S., is experiencing a drought so historic—it began in 1999—that it's been called a megadrought. In the basin, whose river provides water to se...

“The drought’s been going on for over 25 yrs & there’s been a real downward trend in precipitation... Longterm, there are going to be more dry winters than wet winters & that’s due to climate change”- Prof. @greatlakespecktwo.bsky.social

#ClimateEmergency

“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”

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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Whole of the American economy is now piracy.

This is freaking hilarious and must be read. Trust me. You need a laugh, right?

Keep an eye out!

As AI winds down while VC money runs out, they're going to continue following the same failed playbook Web3 used. They'll redirect the focus from big money (companies, entrepreneurs) to marginalized communities.

Prepare to see AI re-spun as a tool to empower women/POC/LGBT.

Jared Kushner is investor in Paramount’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros Jared Kushner’s Affinity Capital, along with the sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, have ‘agreed to forgo any governance rights – including board representation – associate...

And here it is. Kushner is working with the Saudis to grab CNN and make them a propaganda channel for both them and tDumpster. If we do not start doing something now, we are going to belong to all the wrong people.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

rescinding the switch to Calibri (to make documents more readable readable people with visual disabilities) is yet another clear example of vice signaling as policy

A photo of a group of farm workers standing in front of a Starbucks store with a header FARM WORKERS STAND WITH STRIKING STARBUCKS WORKERS and the workers holding signs that say: La Union de campesinos es con ustedes (the farm worker union is with you) and TODOS MERECEMOS RESPETO y DERECHO (WE ALL DESERVE RESPECT AND RIGHTS) And the bottom of the picture has the hashtag #NoContractNoCoffee

SOLIDARITY! Today labor is holding a global day of action to show solidarity for the Starbucks baristas ULP strike. Farm workers are proud to support with these brave @sbworkersunited workers who have been fighting for a fair union contract for almost 4 years.
#NoContractNoCoffee

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

Jasmine Crockett standing at a lectern on stage at the Democratic national convention

Jasmine Crockett: “Democrats that believe the only way that you can win is by being soft & sounding like a Republican — That is not true —

What people are looking for are people that are tough & are going to fight for them

fight for better health care
fight for access to jobs
fight for education”

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SKIPPED A GANG OF EIGHT MEETING????!!!!

More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis

“I’ve been amazed by the groundswell of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to this....everyone is affected by this, the opposition has been across the political spectrum. A lot of people don’t see the benefits coming from AI and feel they will be paying for it"

Congratulations!! So cool!

This is some truly Kim Stanley Robinson, fiction-meets-reality stuff right here ⬇️

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

bring back shame, combat vice signaling

I just got a "Decomputing" talk accepted by a very tech-focused business conference (as a Keynote even) and a labor rights organization who wanted me to propose a talk instantly went for the "The Luddites were right" suggestion. Two things that a few months ago would not have been possible I think.

Defense Department is reviewing boat strike video for possible release, Hegseth says In a speech on Saturday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the strikes, saying: "President Trump can and will take decisive military action as he sees fit to defend our nation's interests."

Every Member of Congress should demand a full investigation of Pete Hegseth’s extrajudicial killings.

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If we can magically find $12B for an agriculture bailout caused because of made up tariffs, we can find funding for trains, libraries, & clean energy. Btw the annual budget of the EPA is $9B. The whole thing! About the same with the National Science Foundation. Cut bad stuff, triple good stuff.

No print mags have the reach they once did. But it's notable to me that I keep seeing articles like this in People, very broad-spectrum, apolitical, at least in my experience. Gives a sense of how much this stuff is breaking through.

"Justo" is hard at work harvesting pomegranates in the Fresno CA area. "We earn CA minimum wage for our work which is difficult as pomegranates are very heavy. When we are releasing themvinto the bin we need to do so very slowly so we don't damage the fruit. #WeFeedYou

Farmworkers feed us year-round. This #Thanksgiving we should be even more grateful to the hands that feed us. #WeFeedYou

People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.