Connected Chaos
M.D. turned neuroscientist turned corporate stooge turned unemployed. Mostly here to learn and amplify things others should see. 🏳️🌈 he/him
- Reposted by Connected ChaosSo believe me I understand this is deeply frustrating and unfair, but a march that does everything right and still gets tear gassed is a successful march that is winning. A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
- Reposted by Connected ChaosI can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
- The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by Connected Chaos"Overshoot [of 1.5°C] will be permanent." 😲😔😪🤬 e360.yale.edu/features/1.5...
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- Reposted by Connected ChaosKRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?” @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
- Reposted by Connected ChaosSome perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
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- Reposted by Connected ChaosUS FDA approves first drug to delay heart failure in dogs reut.rs/3NAteHa
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- Reposted by Connected ChaosBrief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/
- Reposted by Connected ChaosGPU prices, RAM prices, SSD prices, HDD prices all skyrocketing. You don't hate AI enough.
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- Reposted by Connected ChaosThis is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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- Reposted by Connected ChaosIndispensable 🧵 on the well-charted minefields that Trump and Rubio are blissfully dancing into. In a sensible administration, even a malign one, they would have experts in-house to warn them about these risks. However annoying the warnings, the consequences of ignorant blunders are far, far worse.
- Reposted by Connected ChaosThere's significant evidence from state legislative term limits that they do, in fact, empower both lobbyists and state executive branches. "Disagreeing" without offering any counter-evidence is just vibes.
- Reposted by Connected Chaos“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
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- Reposted by Connected Chaosthose who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...
- Reposted by Connected ChaosGrading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
- Reposted by Connected ChaosBetween 1979–2019, top pay (90th pct.) climbed 53%, middle only 23%, bottom (10th pct.) even lower 7%. (Productivity per hour climbed much more at 73%.) But since 2019, fast gains at the bottom have already reversed about 1/3 of the rise in pay inequality. A 🧵 about my book: The Wage Standard.
- Reposted by Connected ChaosLA quietly stopped repaving all streets last July to avoid fulfilling its ADA obligations. The federal govt says when you repave a street, you have to update all the curb ramps. LA has tons of out of date curb ramps, so the rule makes repaving much more expensive. The city's solution: stop repaving!
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- Reposted by Connected ChaosFrom the Barnard college newspaper in 1935:
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