jenna ruddock

@ruddock.bsky.social

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writer, organizer, a lot of hats • writing a book on data centers opinions my own and also my dogs' (probably)

Screenshot of AirNow measurement of air quality in Illinois just north of Chicago: 878
Slaughter relies on reliance. She argues that Congress has relied upon Humphrey’s to create agencies that are “insulated from presidential control.” Brief for Respondent 15. But that is precisely the problem. Despite what Humphrey’s may say, independent agencies are not “independent” in the sense that they are free of the President and thus responsive “only to the people of the United States.”
Screenshot from Justice Sotomayor's dissent: "Armed with the vast suite of technological tools Cisco provided, the CCP identified, arrested, and tortured thousands of Falun Gong members."
LA Times headline: "Retailers say thefts are a crisis level. The numbers say otherwise."
CNN article screenshot: The CIA is also touting the law for helping thwart a terrorist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in 2024 and providing intelligence used in a raid by the Mexican military this year that killed drug kingpin “El Mencho.”
NY Times headline: "U.S. says wiretap program thwarted attack on 2024 Taylor Swift Concert" Subhead: "But a court found problems with the program, know as Section 702, while reauthorizing it to keep operating until March 2027. Its underlying law is set to expire on April 20."
Trump post on Truth Social, March 22, 2026: “Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democrat Party! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT”
Headline from the San Fransisco Standard: "She runs AI safety at Meta. Her AI agent still went rogue."
screenshot of a NY Times op-ed titled "Data Centers Are a Distraction. The Real Fight Is Elsewhere"
screenshot of a tweet @shutupmikeginn: "My 'not involved in human trafficking' t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt."
Screenshot of a 404 Media article: "Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE."
Screenshot from Rolling Stone article: "DHS once had strict age limits on whose biometrics it could collect. The new rule wipes those out entirely. In the name of “identity management throughout the immigration lifecycle,” the department is seeking authority to take biometrics from anyone, of any age, in any immigration-related setting — in effect, asking to eliminate the last remaining guardrails on who can be biometrically scanned."
Screenshot from a Rolling Stone article: "DHS also lays out a regime of “enhanced and continuous vetting,” meaning the government intends to keep re-screening people throughout “the entire immigration lifecycle” to ensure they “continue to present no risks to national security or public safety.” Under the proposal, anyone who files or is associated with an immigration request — including petitioners, sponsors, household members, and in some cases U.S. citizens — may be required to appear at a DHS-designated location to submit biometrics."
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Forbes headline Nov. 18, 2025: "Serious $1 Trillion Crypto Price Crash Warning Sparks Panic As Bitcoin Drop Suddenly Accelerates"
Screenshot from a NY Times article discussing how AI infrastructure spending accounted for a quarter of all economic growth last quarter https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/business/economy/ai-investment-economic-growth.html
Screenshot from an OregonLive article: “ An elderly couple says they were charged and knocked down by federal agents as they peacefully protested on Saturday in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland, just blocks from their home. Laurie Eckman, 84, said she and her husband Richard Eckman, also 84 and a Vietnam war veteran, were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground.”
screenshot of a post by NBC4 reporter Mark Segraves: "BREAKING: DC Police Chief issues new executive orders allowing police to notify ICE about subject not in custody, including during traffic stops and to help ICE in the transportation of detained suspects."
Zuck thread of posts (on Thread) bragging about building "several multi-gigawatt" data center clusters in the pursuit of "superintelligence"
Graphic from LGBT Tech listing major medical orgs that support gender affirming care, including the American Medical Association, American Nurses Association, American College of Physicians and more
Tweet from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: “Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill isn’t just vital for our economy, it is non-negotiable for our national security. By creating a single national standard for AI, the bill ends the chaos of 50 different state laws and makes sure American companies can develop cutting-edge tech for our military, infrastructure, and critical industries — without interference form anti-innovation politicians. This is required to stay ahead of our adversaries and keep America at the forefront of AI.”
screenshot quoting Kevin Roose: "Casey, despite the fact that we are both fairly struck by the sophistication and the capabilities of these A.I. tools, there are a lot of skeptics out there — people who don’t believe that these things are doing much more than just predicting the next word in a sequence, who don’t think they’re capable of any kind of creative thinking or reasoning, who think that this is just fancy autocomplete and that the limitations around these tools will somehow turn this whole A.I. thing into a flash in the pan. What do you make of that argument?"
entire block of crowd control barricades arranged to accommodate a long line of people at security, empty
Screenshot with article text: “With every suggestion that we might continue to teach the art of Kara Walker and Faith Ringgold without publicly speaking about racial justice, that we should continue to think and write about Claude Cahun or Caravaggio without defending our queer and trans students, I am reminded of the absolute failure of such bargaining in the face of past authoritarianism. If our work as historians can teach us anything, it must be this.”
Article headline: US Green Card Holder Stripped Naked, ‘Violently Interrogated’ by ICE — Mother
Chuck Schumer’s statement on Khalil’s arrest. First line reads “I abhor many of the opinions and policies that Mahmoud Khalil holds and supports, and have made my criticism of the antisemitism actions at Columbia loudly known.”
Good old dog getting head scratches
Video by Milton NY Dems from a town hall with Rep. Paul Tonko. A constituent speaking to the representative about protests in DC so far says: "I know what John Lewis would have done. He would have gotten arrested that day. Make them outlaw you. We will stand behind you. We will be there with you. I will get arrested with you." The crowd gives him a standing ovation.