For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid." Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid. ...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

A country whose population growth was dependent on rampant teen pregnancy is maybe not the healthiest country

"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen" there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago

you fucking guessed it! "Last year, Philz was purchased by private equity firm Freeman Spogli & Co., which also owns Popeyes Chicken and El Pollo Loco, for a reported $145 million, according to Mission Local, though the company did not provide details of the deal."

I just asked my partner if three was enough caftans to bring on vacation; a rookie move when we all know #thelimitdoesnotexist

john fetterman resign bitch

esp if you are younger than me and weren't around for the first orchestration of this stuff, you should go over this timeline. it won't take but a minute and it's clear & not an op-ed: it's just an explainer. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

applying for jobs again

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released

Mahmoud Khalil being arrested by men in teeshirts as his pregnant wife watches helplessly

In this interview Schumer says he agrees with Trump’s decision to pull $400 million from Columbia. A university in his own state. And he’s unconcerned about the unlawful arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, one of his constituents. He is a traitor who needs to resign.

It was always and continues to always be about eugenics. RFK Jr does not say he wants to cure chronic diseases, he says he wants people who don't have chronic diseases. That's different.

The Quizards of Oz always have a great time at @brainstormertrivia.bsky.social

DOGE is the “sorry, sorry, I’m trying to delete it, sorry” tweet come to life

It's been hard to keep up but we tried to put Trump's use of executive orders into context. The audience in mind as I wrote this are folks who are trying to understand what's going on, and need a foothold. Hope you'll read and share w friends/family/your students: abcnews.go.com/538/trumps-r...

My go-to example of this is that Einstein’s work on understanding gravity is required for maps on your phone to work. But the important point is that there are indeed many such cases.

This is the program that helps people not get run over and killed by a car, which kills 40,000 Americans each year.

Have I told you that a group of indexers volunteered their time and energy to index the monstrosity that is Project 2025? This is NOT made with AI, but only professional indexers. Please bookmark and boost! Share it with journalists! indexersguidetoproject2025.com

i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

defector: fascist fucker gives nazi salute new york times: at trump’s inauguration, a curious salutation

If nothing else, finally a death to the Democratic party I’ve known my whole life, that couldn’t tell the simple truth, that wouldn’t call a thing by its name or talk about the reality in front of its face. Good riddance to them all. May this final failure bring something worthy & powerful instead.

According to years of research we've done, there is actually no such thing as a "TikTok trend," and there never was. American elites were given a glimpse of what modern America looks and sounds like and it scared them so bad they went insane. www.garbageday.email/p/holding-up...

TikTok is back but like, in the way your long lost son appears on your doorstep after a mysterious disappearance & he looks & sounds the same but he’s harboring a dark secret and ok lemme turn off Lifetime

So yeah, it’s real bad. Just remember: 1) they’re going to fuck it up 2) but not all of it 3) do what you can when you can 4) do nothing when you need to 5) posting is not doing something

I wanted to see what my uni's line on Gen AI is so I attended a library workshop on the topic. It was run well & outlined all the ways in which it's worse than useless for research. AND YET they stated that my uni has a contract with Microsoft for Copilot, so here are the ways to use it.

Catching up on my Correspondence (watching all the TikTok’s my friends have sent me in the last two weeks)

in 1968, the only signs of life found in the Cuyahoga River, according to a water quality survey of 23 different sites, were two solitary fish. at a single sample location: a bluegill, and a goldfish. today, more than 70 different species call the Cuyahoga River home.

Can confirm

"While the total rate of fatal accidents per billion miles driven by all vehicles was 2.8, Tesla vehicles overall had a rate of 5.6. Tesla’s Model Y SUV had fatal accident rate of 10.6, more than double the average for SUVs, which was 4.8." sherwood.news/business/tes...

Too many people haven’t touched a book since they graduated high school and it shows.

all streaming services should be required to have the thing plex does where it tells you what time it'll be when the movie is done

on loving and living as hard as you can when being who you are is illegal: russia's foremost lesbian poet who kept fucking everyone & writing about it through the revolution, civil war & rise of stalin

The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

This should be front-and-center in every “hey why are so many VCs backing Trump this time” article. Joe Biden has spent 3.5 years rebuilding administrative capacity. We now have regulators actually saying “hey knock it off that’s illegal.” The VCs would much prefer autocracy to accountability.

I can’t tell if the person who wrote this headline knows it’s funny. The way the rest of the story is written suggests they don’t.

Ok I’m here now, what do we do again?