Barack Obama issued a rare public statement Sunday criticizing the Trump administration’s investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar. Read more from Erum Salam.

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"Whereas neoliberal technocracy is an epistemic argument, grounded in claims to expertise about the market economy, monarchical long-termism is grounded in notions of private ownership" - v interesting (open access) paper from @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Standard 'this is not peer-reviewed yet' warning, but this looks v fascinating: air pollution deaths for data centres, off-grid-gas vs grid-connecting consumption They found grid power for xAI's Colossus sites is *WORSE* in absolute terms (!) www.preprints.org/manuscript/2... lnkd.in/p/eE2wQyzW

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I've been wondering why cis people get racism and misogyny but don't get transphobia on none visible disabilities etc. imo it could be because of easy visual distinctions but perhaps more likely familiarity and habitual empathy. This is all about *psychological positioning* and *perception*.

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What was once a gradual slide into autocracy has become something like free-fall. We should all be in the streets. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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