Nicole Mark (she/her)

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Unbelievable.

The utterly sociopathic entitlement of these tech freaks. Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco has given the UK government a 12 month deadline to quash public outrage over data centres, or they will... flounce off with their debt? Go on, then. Off you fuck. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/b...

AI and democracy are intrinsically linked. Mostly in undesirable ways. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is extremely rad internetphonebook.net

No pressure from US to cut Russian oil imports, Indian oil minister says reut.rs/4su03pR

Look ye, for yourselves, if Ahab be not lord of the level loadstone! The sun is East, and that compass swears it!

US APPEALS COURT DENIES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S REQUEST TO STOP CALIFORNIA FROM COUNTING MAIL BALLOTS FROM ALLEGED NONCITIZENS

“I’ve wanted to work for Planned Parenthood since I was 17 years old. Now that dream is a nightmare not just for me but for everyone who counted on PPSE.” Employees allege in lawsuit that Planned Parenthood fired them for speaking out for abortion rights & inclusion, @sfatima.bsky.social reports.

Who needs enemies when you have health influencers like Andrew Huberman? My new article: veganhorizon.substack.com/p/stanfords-...

"A.i." is a tool of extraction, not liberation. These fucking products are designed to fuck you over, not help you.

Gamblers are more likely to lose money than make it—yet they keep coming back, @willgottsegen.com writes. In the first edition of Over/Under, he explores why bettors return to casinos and prediction apps, even when it’s not in their financial interests.

Turnstile at the Washington Monument today, a benefit show raising money for humanitarian aid in Palestine, Sudan, and Lebanon [📹: Ayman Abdeldayem]

How much suffering are we willing to excuse in the name of science? After making waves at Sundance, SENTIENT is bringing the animal testing debate straight to YOUR screen, featuring PETA's Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, who left primate laboratories to fight to end primate experimentation.

It's weird how Barack Obama can get through an entire speech without blurting out weird noises, lying, or admiring other men's backsides.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

This guy at Sportsball is such an outsized dataviz / info design talent, I’m surprised we don’t hear more about him (not even his name!). He combines research, dataviz, drawing, storytelling, filming and narrating. 📊 youtube.com/@sportsball_...

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

Progress! The Netherlands moves to end captive dolphin breeding 🐬

The animal rights movement has gone mainstream.

Observable now has a default `db` in every notebook powered by @duckdb.org (wasm) that lets you query over file attachments. No setup, no preamble, just query! observablehq.com/@observableh...

Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section. (Published March)

Guess their intelligence wasn’t so super.

Animals are not ours to kill for their fur.

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for data centre www.theguardian.com/environment/...

US banks detect unauthorized AI agents in customer accounts, Axios reports reut.rs/4zRGV7H

International Criminal Court wins EU's 2026 Sakharov prize reut.rs/4Bmgb0v

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

Plate, c.1928 by Grete Marks (1899-1990), ceramic artist and a Bauhaus student #womensart #BauhausWomem

North Carolina’s Democratic governor warns that the absentee ballot rejection rate is twice as high as in 2022 thanks to last-minute changes by Republicans. He recommends voting in person if you can (early voting is even better!) wcti12.com/news/local/g...

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

There is something deeply wrong with allowing a sociopath from South Africa to kill thousands of kids in Africa and Ukraine just because he has a lot of money.

Really like this graph, not just for what it shows but (as a dataviz designer) especially how it shows. #dataviz

Aaron churns out quality content like this and has just over 300 followers. I think it qualifies as a hidden gem. 📊

BREAKING: New Mexico judge says Meta must pay $25 billion for deceiving users about data privacy. The company was found to have committed 43 million violations of New Mexico law since n this case stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

NIGHTMARE blunt rotation

1. Feminist scholars “Feminist scholarship has been talking about bias, reflexivity, representation, and power long before contemporary Open Research discourse” #OpenFest26

Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reports reut.rs/4z2Zi9J

Unacceptable.

In 2020, investigators were alerted to an object they believed could be wreckage from the plane of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart. On Monday, a team investigating said the object was probably a collection of large trees that washed away.

“Economic and social policy failures have led to your life being constantly surveilled,” Keener said of lower-income and Black communities. “They’re still doing racialized surveillance and policing, but instead of having an officer on the corner, they are watching you based on where you live.”

US farmworkers facing deadly heat borrow tactics from #Florida tomato pickers to win key protections www.theguardian.com/environment/... via @us.theguardian.com

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/