Turning the 33 into a full or partial tunnel would be a far worse generational blunder than anything they might do with a Bills stadium

Buffalo Rising managing to somehow lower the bar by literally just posting the feedout from a Chat GPT query

Experts say the Fair Food Program has helped improve conditions for farmworkers who are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. But farms and produce buyers across the country have resisted joining. My latest for @Propublica takes a closer look:

Reason No 5,606 why you should never staff out your thinking to LLM is that it’s inherently conservative, it prioritizes—and lifts mostly from—mainstream media. It’s a brainless conventional wisdom aggregator which is one reason billionaires want it everywhere.

I know it doesn’t matter at this point but it’s important to make clear there is nothing illegal or “black market” about Venezuela shipping oil to Cuba. It is only illegal to one country on earth, the US, which cannot unilaterally determine what trade is and isn’t illegal.

@RBReich Read the full investigation and get our guide to how you can find out if your local government is being hoodwinked by Amazon and what to do about it here:

A new investigation revealed that school districts and local governments are reportedly overpaying for supplies because of Amazon contracts that bind them to dynamic pricing. Rather than allow for competitive bidding, the deals “covertly raise prices and inflate costs for

“The only reason that he’s able to continue to harass me is because New Yorkers are paying for it,” Boylan said in an interview with THE CITY. “It never ends.”  https://t.co/TIUtWcOYgC

Pretty crazy how this guy threatened mass murder but does not seem to ever have been arrested but people protesting peacefully against a genocide just a little bit too close to sundown were brutalized, humiliated, and arrested by a mob of cops from UB and towns around the area

Here's a map I made of the corporate (and some other) ties and interlocks on Starbucks' board of directors. I wrote about it all here: https://t.co/ADohvraav6

Well this is quite devilish

This is a deeply alarming accounting of the spending spree on weapons by DHS, by @sooo__phie via @business.

As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House -- including 115 Democrats -- just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.

🗞️ New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, running for Congress in New York’s 10th District, is facing scrutiny over the city’s pension investments in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer. The New York Daily News reports that under Lander’s tenure, NYC pension

This should be a bigger story

Google hosted a secret "state policy summit" focused on AI+data centers and paid lawmakers who attended upwards of $2000 as gifts for all-inclusive trips including $500 hotel rooms and a night at Wrigley field, according to records obtained by the Lever

I think people would have been nicer to the wimpy kid from ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ if he didn’t act like such a turd to everyone

New: Under Brad Lander's management, NYC's public pension funds have seen windfalls from investing in Elbit, the Israeli military's primary arms producer. The second biggest pension fund even bought new Elbit shares in the past year, as the Gaza war raged.

If you need a list of a bunch of harms of AI, I've assembled many here: https://t.co/Yv2c3svg2R

Please read this thread, it’s informative and incisive! 👀

“When federal contractors get state and local tax breaks, we consider that to be double-dipping,” @GregLeRoy4 told @ipostnews. “Why should state and local taxpayers make their profit margins bigger?”