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Amrita Khalid retweeted
One of the best stories I have ever ever read. Sharing it today because there must be someone out there who hasn't read it yet. Trust me on this one: theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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“A New Yorker who spent months in Syria working for ISIS & returned disillusioned with his experience and convicted of material support charges asked if terrorism scholars would consider writing a letter of support to a judge so he could legally change his name. Every time a potential suitor googled his name before a date, the first result would be his terrorism conviction. The dates were always quickly cancelled.”
My colleagues and my latest @lawfare piece about terrorism recidivism.
lawfaremedia.org/article/ter…
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Amrita Khalid retweeted
well written, well argued presentation of real world harms of AI without going into histrionics
it won’t get the same amount of pickup bc it’s not scifi coded, but it’s just as concerned
nytimes.com/2026/09/05/opini…
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Amrita Khalid retweeted
Extremely good piece
This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more.
thetechbubble.info/p/the-fut…
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John Wilson, thank you for making a movie for me, specifically, as one of the few dozen people excited about concrete.
First look at the trailer for The History of Concrete from John Wilson 👀
In theaters September 18 via @magnoliapics.
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Amrita Khalid retweeted
Read behind the paywall here archive.is/FN8J9
RIP beautiful Katherine ❤️
Comedian and former late-night bandleader Reggie Watts is a proud ketamine enthusiast.
Loved ones of his ex-girlfriend Katherine McCollough claim she became addicted to the drug through Watts’ encouragement to take a heavy array of psychedelics in the name of enlightenment. McCollough died by suicide in March.
The story: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/t…
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Amrita Khalid retweeted
It is funny that I caught it
A polling firm fabricated entire surveys...and nobody in the media caught it.
But the real scandal isn't the fraud. It's that the fraud worked so easily.
Most journalists covering polls either don't know how to vet polls or choose not to. Either way, the public gets frustrated and the polling industry gets the shaft.
I put together a six-question checklist that any reporter, campaign manager, or public affairs team can use before trusting a single number. None of the questions require a statistics degree (thank goodness, cause I don't have one). They require about five minutes and a willingness to ask.
The media's polling literacy problem isn't going away on its own. But it could get better fast if newsrooms started asking even half the right questions.
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Amrita Khalid retweeted
This was from five years ago about SOHA, Nithya Raman, who was then in city council, and the legacy of the late Richard Close, the head of SOHA who team up with Howard Jarvis to change the entire trajectory of the state.
nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opini…
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Amrita Khalid retweeted
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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Great political analysis on X dot com this morning—if Michigan was a completely different state, Haley Stevens would’ve won
Abdul El-Sayed's narrow lead can be traced back to big wins in two areas: Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor. Without those margins, Haley Stevens might have won the Democratic race for Senate in Michigan.
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Ghost Town is a private company clearing Venice's homeless encampments — with persistence, cash payments, and a team that includes former gang members.
Clients praise them. The people they move do not.
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Amrita Khalid retweeted
Scotland has just done something quietly brilliant for its birds 🐦
New buildings across the country will now have to include "swift bricks", hollow bricks built straight into the walls that give birds a safe place to nest.
It sounds like a small thing but it isn't. Swift numbers in the UK have fallen by around 60% since the mid-1990s, and one of the biggest reasons is heartbreakingly simple: modern buildings have nowhere for them to go. Swifts have always nested in the nooks and gaps of our houses, and as those disappeared, so did they.
The birds themselves make it worse by being loyal to a fault. Swifts return to the exact same nest site year after year, having flown thousands of miles from Africa to get there.
When they arrive to find it sealed up, some will keep flying at the spot again and again, sometimes injuring themselves in the process.
The bricks cost about £30 each. They need no maintenance, they don't affect insulation, and once they're in the wall, you'd never know they were there. Sparrows, starlings and house martins use them too, all species in trouble for the same reason.
One RSPB conservationist put it starkly. In his part of Glasgow, not a single swift bred in 2025, the first time in his 30 years there. He called it "nothing short of heartbreaking."
Scotland is the first country in the UK to write this into law. Campaigners are now hoping the rest follows.
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