An investigation by that noted lefty rag the Wall Street Journal has found that using vehicles to box people in and then shooting them when they try to leave is a deliberate, repeat tactic by ICE. www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

These numbers are not surprising to me having covered it, but it is stark seeing it laid out like this and I’m glad the Times put this together. Just this week, someone told me they wished I would stop including the appointing president in stories, and I was like, “Not a chance.” This is why.

Vigil TONIGHT for Renee Nicole Good in NYC 6pm, Grand Army Plaza

Mamdani's entire Big Block of Cheese Day video is worth watching, but in particular, his chat with Samina, a Pakistani woman who reminds me of my Bengali mom, made me tear up. I think her English is perfectly intelligible. But it's amazing to see how eloquent she becomes once they switch into Urdu.

Never escaping the adage "men are afraid that women are laughing at them; women are afraid that men will kill them"

My favorite factoid is that the average Brit outside of London makes less than the average West Virginian but has to deal with a housing market comparable to California. America is a country of extreme wealth and extreme inequality, both things can be true at once

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

I want this posted in every hallway of every university and then ask your students, why have a library when we can have slop?

Library boards play an extremely influential role in defining what the public library should be, what it should do, and who it should serve. But despite their critical role, library boards are missing from all long-running library research surveys. (1/4)

Come join NYC PLAN on October 4th for our 2nd People's Assembly @ NY Society for Ethical Culture! www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...

The NYC City Council has 51 members and we at NYC Public Library Action Network are recruiting people who are constituents of every member to set up meetings with them to get them on record for our main demand. It's an easy lift and we hope that folks will sign up. More soon on this.

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A friend just texted to congratulate me on a forthcoming project, about which she learned from ChatGPT. Never mind that I am ... not currently writing a book on the divine feminine... ? Again, again, again: AI is bad and wrong and won't give you accurate info, friends. It's not a search engine.

This is so great. Something that is giving me hope!

What does it matter if AI revolutionizes weather forecasting if there are no trusted institutions disseminating weather alerts. Please be real

Karen Hao’s new book sounds fascinating. This interview includes a fascinating framing of AGI orgs as empires competing/bolstering each other that seems like an important frame podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

We are in a loneliness hangover from the pandemic. Many of our embodied and connective experiences have been replaced by what Monica Roa calls: “individualized consumption of entertainment and services.”

"The cycle of rupture and repair is a requirement of living, a cost of surviving, something that goes hand in hand with another reality of survival: that, throughout your life, you may not only lose people but also gain them." www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

Over 1,000 faculty members at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan are officially unionized under United Auto Workers after a two-thirds majority vote in favor.

@garthgreenwell.bsky.social Hi Garth! I hope you’ve been well and was thrilled to see Small Rain win the PEN Faulkner. I was wondering if there is a way to get access to the recording of your class on submissions, agents, etc. I recently got into my first ever workshop (tin house) … 1/

This should make so much sense to anyone who knows how much junior roles in the non profit sector pay.

Join the NYC Public Library Action Network for A PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY — about our city's libraries, how we can support them, what we want for them — on Saturday, May 17, 1:30 to 5:30pm @ Greenpoint Reformed Church! www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...

I’ve long believed that part of people’s fascination with Gen AI comes from not being able to sit with or explore the idea of death, love, and grief in people’s lives

Returned to these words by Deborah Levy today as a reminder that our ideas of strength and conviction in our leaders, heroes, “strongmen”, and idols need to shift. There’s such strength in a wee tremor, so much care in a shaking voice, and such wisdom in hesitation & self doubt.

come sound off, learn, and dream about libraries on may 17th in brooklyn! www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...

Got a good chuckle out of this

Something that brought me joy today

“The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve.”

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😂 just saw @bcmerchant.bsky.social’s book in a bookstore again and this fits like well worn jeans