NEW: Across Africa, the State Department has demanded access to health data for millions of people as a condition of giving countries billions of dollars in aid needed to address HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other illnesses.
Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros.
We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.
The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...
the news is never
company hires 11,000 more people
company hires 4,500 more people
company hires 2,000 more people
it's:
company building data center in your town will temporarily hire 200 people brought from out of state staying at camp grounds because they aren't paid well enough to afford hotels
ProPublica
Mateusz Fafinski
I really want some knock offs of these medieval socks from Egypt (12th century CE?) at the GWU Textile Museum.
collections-gwu.zetcom.net/en/collectio...
Campgrounds across Eastern Iowa are filling up faster than ever as thousands of out-of-state workers arrive to help build data centers across the region.
The Tribune previously reported that Texas is expected to lose over $3.2 billion in sales tax revenue over the next two years thanks to that sales tax exemption for data centers.
I just want to shout out my friend Erika who’s got a wonderful space-organizing-assistance business called What Goes Where; I’ve been working with her to sort out my office & can’t begin to tell you how helpful she’s been. Highly recommend!
www.whatgoeswhere.net
we heard you hate AI, so at LFP we've been making resources for turning off AI features across the web. but we also don't think AI problems can be solved at an individual level, so we included some of our fav tools for community resistance as well. more to download free at libraryfreedom.org
Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games
"To get people adopting the product, they explain, it was necessary to first create a crisis narrative, then [cast surveillance] as an act of pre-emptive safety. ... AI-driven panopticon surveillance is portrayed as both natural and inevitable. All the while, the surveillance provider cashes in."
This is a classic authoritarian move. Initiate prosecutions based on bogus charges. You’ll likely lose in court, but in the meantime the organizers lose money, support, & capacity to focus on their organizing.
I co-wrote about tools to deal with this here: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/less...
This is such a wild thread and sign of things to come.
Having poked around, I think it might be the case that people who've formed their self-image around the sense of being owed deference bc they're the smartest lad in the school are the ones experiencing LLMs as a spiritual concussion.
Do you long for hand knit socks?
Good news! I’m donating TWO pairs of bespoke hand-knit socks for @romancingthevote.com this year, and I’m even willing to do simple lace or cables this year!
Watch this space: I’m going to be absolutely feral about promoting this democracy-supporting fundraiser!
Scott McDonough
The tax break is one of the state’s costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the nation.
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
