"The income and wealth gaps in Silicon Valley are the starkest of anywhere on the planet...
Silicon Valley’s Gini coefficient, a common metric used to measure inequality, is 83...
A coefficient of 100 means that a single person owns all the wealth...0 means that wealth is divided equally."
You know you’re at a Black funeral when:
I cant stop thinking about this case: he was thrown away like trash.
Much love to my students for the inception cake. A cake with a picture of me, holding a cake with a picture of me and my son, holding a cake with a picture of me.
There is so much anger in me for the "let it rip," "we don't need to mask/you don't need to mask" "All schools and universities must be in person" people, I think its possibly unhealthy for me
Archived link here, thanks to @jacky.wtf for sharing
archive.ph/qBbZJ#select...
Cuba’s government said that the passengers on a boat that opened fire on its soldiers were armed Cubans living in the U.S. who were trying to infiltrate the island and unleash terrorism
Flava Flav would never.
#Sousveillance
Screenshot of a Health Affairs Forefront webpage article. The headline reads, “New York City And State Have Passed AI Laws—Now Communities Must Lead,” by Oni J. Blackstock, dated February 24, 2026. Related topics listed at the top include artificial intelligence, decision making, public health, and health disparities. Below the title is a large header image showing a blurred medical/clinical background overlaid with white connected digital icons (including people, a microscope, a robot arm, a smartphone with a brain graphic, a wheelchair symbol, and an apple) surrounding a large central “Ai” symbol, suggesting AI in healthcare and public health.
The federal government is trying to deregulate AI.
In the last three months, both NYC & NYS have passed AI oversight laws. For these to be successful, communities need to lead and have decision-making power.
🔈Read my new op-ed on participatory AI governance!
www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
Since there is no job market to speak of, the *only* reason for going to graduate school in History right now is to get paid (very modestly) to read and write for a few years.
Great reporting last year from The Markup and @thecity.nyc themarkup.org/news/2024/03...
A ban on sending books and magazines to prisoners in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcerated
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rest in peace Thomas Sayers Ellis www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Students in need were paid $500 a month to stay in school. It worked. A photo of people standing around a school bus
New Mexico launched a state pilot program offering monthly $500 payments to teens who are homeless, to stay in school
“When you invest in people, they respond”
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Asked my youngest last night what he was listening to and he said “MF Doom, have you heard of him?” And I felt like I’ve done at learn something right as a father.
"We're going to stand up for Haiti because you taught the world about freedom and now it's time for us to return the favor." The next mayor of NYC knows his world history.
Okay, how do you use this thing?
