Youngest brought this "fairy wand" home from school and I'm afraid to throw it away because the last thing I need is two dozen crazed elementary school kids tearing my house apart.
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Youngest brought this "fairy wand" home from school and I'm afraid to throw it away because the last thing I need is two dozen crazed elementary school kids tearing my house apart.
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it’s nice to live in NYC now where almost all of our progressive politicians recognize the importance of building more housing
SF politics sucks because NIMBY conservatives are constantly trying to gaslight you into thinking that anti-transit politicians like Connie Chan are actually progressive
SF politics sucks because NIMBY conservatives are constantly trying to gaslight you into thinking that anti-transit politicians like Connie Chan are actually progressive
In a city full of NIMBYs, Connie Chan is one of the biggest. she’s also super anti-transit and opposed measure RR that saved Caltrain during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Scott has led the cause for almost every pro-housing and transit bill
Scott vs. Connie is the definition of good governance vs. bad
Meanwhile, Scott has led the cause for almost every pro-housing and transit bill
Scott vs. Connie is the definition of good governance vs. bad
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
it’s nice to live in NYC now where almost all of our progressive politicians recognize the importance of building more housing
SF politics sucks because NIMBY conservatives are constantly trying to gaslight you into thinking that anti-transit politicians like Connie Chan are actually progressive
SF politics sucks because NIMBY conservatives are constantly trying to gaslight you into thinking that anti-transit politicians like Connie Chan are actually progressive
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imagine knowing literally anything about Haiti and deciding to try this
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
NTX men planned to murder men, enslave women on foreign island: Indictment
Two North Texas men have been indicted for an alleged scheme to sail to a foreign island, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children.
www.fox4news.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
imagine knowing literally anything about Haiti and deciding to try this
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I have the same feeling about autocorrect, where just dealing with the mistakes and the cognitive load of spotting the non-human errors (as opposed to human ones which are just spelling mistakes) is much higher than simply typing the messages yourself.
I did this, and that meant it stopped dividing my inbox into 'important/not important' and christ I don't know how to say this but... it turns out that that little bit of so-called 'smart help' was making my inbox much harder to manage?
Time to look into your settings, folks.
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I have the same feeling about autocorrect, where just dealing with the mistakes and the cognitive load of spotting the non-human errors (as opposed to human ones which are just spelling mistakes) is much higher than simply typing the messages yourself.
It’s gonna be a race to see who ends up subsidizing our panels + EV more: Biden through the IRA subsidies or Trump by making every other form of energy more expensive
the single best thing about doing solar + EV for me is not having to subsidize the Carbon Power all the time
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It’s gonna be a race to see who ends up subsidizing our panels + EV more: Biden through the IRA subsidies or Trump by making every other form of energy more expensive
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Elon Musk is very explicitly altering the X algorithm to show people content that aligns with his far-right worldview.
If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.
If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Elon Musk is very explicitly altering the X algorithm to show people content that aligns with his far-right worldview.
If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.
If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.
This week's @chrislhayes.bsky.social podcast offered the best explanation of this I've heard yet: Bovino is crashing into cities, sewing chaos for his boss to see on Fox, then moving on with the show while DHS stays and keeps quietly kidnapping people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H4a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H4a...
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This week's @chrislhayes.bsky.social podcast offered the best explanation of this I've heard yet: Bovino is crashing into cities, sewing chaos for his boss to see on Fox, then moving on with the show while DHS stays and keeps quietly kidnapping people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H4a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H4a...
"Ok and what gift are you gonna drop on me unannounced that's gonna screw all of this up" my wife asks, our shared Christmas Gifts for the Boys spreadsheet open, voice dripping with accusation.
The literal next day a gift I'd completely forgotten I ordered months ago arrives.
The literal next day a gift I'd completely forgotten I ordered months ago arrives.
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Ok and what gift are you gonna drop on me unannounced that's gonna screw all of this up" my wife asks, our shared Christmas Gifts for the Boys spreadsheet open, voice dripping with accusation.
The literal next day a gift I'd completely forgotten I ordered months ago arrives.
The literal next day a gift I'd completely forgotten I ordered months ago arrives.
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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The best thing is that at first I couldn't find the image I was thinking of, because yes there's a specific one that my mom bought some years ago. But now I have it. You should maybe subscribe so you can enjoy what I am about to share, which involves "sexy Karl Marx"
www.leahreich.com
www.leahreich.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The best thing is that at first I couldn't find the image I was thinking of, because yes there's a specific one that my mom bought some years ago. But now I have it. You should maybe subscribe so you can enjoy what I am about to share, which involves "sexy Karl Marx"
www.leahreich.com
www.leahreich.com
People think I go on about the death of privacy because I hate Facebook — and look, I really fucking hate Facebook — but it's also this. Why does a car dealership I've never interacted with even know I have a lease? This ceaseless drip of bullshit is about 37% of why we're all so miserable.
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
People think I go on about the death of privacy because I hate Facebook — and look, I really fucking hate Facebook — but it's also this. Why does a car dealership I've never interacted with even know I have a lease? This ceaseless drip of bullshit is about 37% of why we're all so miserable.
The school day goes from 8am to 3:30pm. Extracurricular activities go from 5:30pm to 8pm.
The fact that this arrangement has not turned every parent in America into The Joker for the past 30 years is an indication of just how tired we are.
The fact that this arrangement has not turned every parent in America into The Joker for the past 30 years is an indication of just how tired we are.
November 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The school day goes from 8am to 3:30pm. Extracurricular activities go from 5:30pm to 8pm.
The fact that this arrangement has not turned every parent in America into The Joker for the past 30 years is an indication of just how tired we are.
The fact that this arrangement has not turned every parent in America into The Joker for the past 30 years is an indication of just how tired we are.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
When the android sentries show up to turn my family into soup for billionaires or whatever, they'll submit as evidence a 4K video of us laughing mercilessly after introducing the new robot vacuum to the house on quinoa night.
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
When the android sentries show up to turn my family into soup for billionaires or whatever, they'll submit as evidence a 4K video of us laughing mercilessly after introducing the new robot vacuum to the house on quinoa night.
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SOME local news outlets would look upon the end of the NYC mayoral as a chance to kick back and recuperate.
BUT NOT @hellgatenyc.com !!!
Because secretly this whole time we've been working on a MASSIVE UPDATE TO THE TABLE OF SUCCESS.
Welcome to THE LAST SUPPER.
tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com
BUT NOT @hellgatenyc.com !!!
Because secretly this whole time we've been working on a MASSIVE UPDATE TO THE TABLE OF SUCCESS.
Welcome to THE LAST SUPPER.
tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
SOME local news outlets would look upon the end of the NYC mayoral as a chance to kick back and recuperate.
BUT NOT @hellgatenyc.com !!!
Because secretly this whole time we've been working on a MASSIVE UPDATE TO THE TABLE OF SUCCESS.
Welcome to THE LAST SUPPER.
tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com
BUT NOT @hellgatenyc.com !!!
Because secretly this whole time we've been working on a MASSIVE UPDATE TO THE TABLE OF SUCCESS.
Welcome to THE LAST SUPPER.
tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com
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good LLM writing and good human writing have the same problem--lots of resources required to create an idiosyncratic (and likely polarizing) voice for which there usually isn't much demand. in a real sense "why ai writing is mid" and "why most professional writing is mid" have the same answer(s)
Why AI writing is mid
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai/p/why-ai-wri...
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai/p/why-ai-wri...
Why AI writing is mid
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
good LLM writing and good human writing have the same problem--lots of resources required to create an idiosyncratic (and likely polarizing) voice for which there usually isn't much demand. in a real sense "why ai writing is mid" and "why most professional writing is mid" have the same answer(s)
Robust consumer protection would make this kind of obvious dystopian nightmare much much harder but would also decimate the revenues of a handful of tech platforms so we don't do it.
www.404media.co/this-app-lets...
www.404media.co/this-app-lets...
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Robust consumer protection would make this kind of obvious dystopian nightmare much much harder but would also decimate the revenues of a handful of tech platforms so we don't do it.
www.404media.co/this-app-lets...
www.404media.co/this-app-lets...
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“There have to be pathways and on-ramps to participating in the world fully” is one of the best value-neutral political declarations I’ve ever read. It is all in fact mostly about that, imo
Even before AI, the lack of investment in growing up junior employees is a massive risk that we cannot keep ignoring. There have to be pathways and onramps to participating in the world fully.
We will pay now
or pay later, but we will pay.
nymag.com/intelligence...
We will pay now
or pay later, but we will pay.
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“There have to be pathways and on-ramps to participating in the world fully” is one of the best value-neutral political declarations I’ve ever read. It is all in fact mostly about that, imo
Writers, thinkers, people interested in how we might work better together: I'm certain the opportunity to work with Mandy is very much worth your time
Very much looking forward to this next speculative fiction work/shop—it is so invigorating to spend time in community with people who are unwilling to accept that work is merely what is given to us. We get to make and take our work, too, now as much as ever. everythingchanges.us/workshop/sf
speculative fiction work/shop | everything changes
A creative gathering to imagine the future of work.
everythingchanges.us
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Writers, thinkers, people interested in how we might work better together: I'm certain the opportunity to work with Mandy is very much worth your time
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📝 QUICK SECURITY CHECKLIST: ✓ Strong, unique password ✓ 2FA enabled ✓ App passwords reviewed ✓ Suspicious DMs reported ✓ Never share login credentials ✓ Verify official communications
9/10
9/10
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
📝 QUICK SECURITY CHECKLIST: ✓ Strong, unique password ✓ 2FA enabled ✓ App passwords reviewed ✓ Suspicious DMs reported ✓ Never share login credentials ✓ Verify official communications
9/10
9/10
I will haunt anyone who does this of me
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I will haunt anyone who does this of me
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Everytime a lib comes up with a new pun to describe trump, im allowed to give a child one cigarette
November 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Everytime a lib comes up with a new pun to describe trump, im allowed to give a child one cigarette
