Ootions at Barebottle Brewery in Santa Clara. 🍻

What you do you must do on your own. The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Seamus Heaney, Station Island XII

A wake-up call.

SF Chronicle serving as a mouthpiece for Oakland Report and Empower Oakland in passing along anti-Measure E talking points. archive.md/VKHDN

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

San José is planning to bring more data centers online with almost no public process. Will significantly impact air quality, water resources, noise levels, and heat. The City already met with over 50 developers and currently has 34 projects in its data center pipeline. Speak up! www.ilovesanjose.org

There's lots to say about this practice and this piece, but what I can't stop thinking about is how reading "dated" books as a kid is what helped me contextualize the world I lived in, and introduced me to so much about the past.

Kiké!!!! 💙

Can’t remember the last time a papal encyclical made this much of a splash.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

#OtD 20 May 1969 19-year-old Black Panther Alex Rackley was murdered in New Haven, CT by fellow activists after wrongly being accused of being a police informant, amidst a campaign of infiltration and badjacketing by the FBI and police. Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7836...

Please consider making a donation to the Islamic Center of San Diego Victim and Family Support Fund if you are able. goodbricks.org/campaign/ics...

It was great to finally share this story since, well, I know there are some "greatest hits" of the eruption, and this is absolutely in the top 5. Doesn't hurt that it's a good story.

I knew we had to talk about mental health impact of the administration's ongoing attack on immigrants. We do that. What I didn't expect was Cristina Jimínez, a MacArthur fellow and expert, to be so positive about what Minnesotans taught the country about how to come together. Hell of an episode.

One of the most pernicious parts of this is that data show people of color have lower rates of morbidity and mortality when they have a physician of color ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

We must be living through one of the most histrionic eras, thanks to the social media algorithm “optimization” (for corporate profit) and the ever-quickening pace of the attention economy. It’s worth taking a breath, then embracing ambiguity and realistic expectations within political discourse.

Post your getaway vehicle. Remember those shorts BMW produced with Clive Owen showing off their cars?I’d escape with any one of those with him behind the wheel. youtu.be/7-iFGVhwFAk?...

Nova lox, cream cheeses, red onion, capers 🥯

Whenever there’s new writing by Bill Mitchell, I drop everything and read it. (Start with Part I, linked in this article.)

'unwittingly'

A lot of times, I’ll knock out the “Easy” and “Medium” grade Pips in 2-3 minutes minutes (total), then open “Hard” and think, “ain’t nobody got time for that!”

Didn’t realize this guy was running for Senate in Texas as a Dem.

It’s time. 🛌

In an administration where everything they touch turns to shit, perhaps this is symbolically apt.

My two favorite shows on right now for their visual density and inspired casting are Widow’s Bay (Apple TV) and Amadeus (Starz).

happy mother’s day to all the articles in the 90s with “(m)othering” in the title

_Infinite Jest_ fans out here catching strays again.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the good mammas and to all the others being mamma in one way or another. 💕

🎵 Detachable Duck Bill 🎵 *not an unpopar opinion. Just what popped into my head now when trying to think of one.

This is certainly the most Hunger Games pageant Met Gala ever, which is saying something.

NB, While IJ may have exploded as an internet signifier after Wallace’s death (coincidentally just as Twitter was taking off), the novel has long had a life online, all the way back to 1996, via the wallace-l listserv where *very many women* participated in convo about DFW’s oeuvre, self included.

A new episode of @yourewrongabout.bsky.social just dropped. We (Sarah M. and Sarah A.) discuss food trends, make-do culinary inventions, and the use of world’s fair sandwiches as a prism through which to make sense of a changing and complicated world 🗺️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

Kyle Tucker!! He's a Dodger now. 💙

Conveniently, Trump no longer obliged to remain awake at his seat at the head table on camera or endure even the mildest ribbing.

Neither Tom Steyer nor Xavier Becerra appear in this CA election booklet. (??) There’s a blank spot where maybe Swalwell used to be. (?) Betty Yee’s candidate statement still appears, bc she just dropped out in the last week. And, as usual, a bunch of kooks with no party affiliation and no chance.

Hope everyone I know in Mass. had a lovely Patriots’ Day.

Great write up by @profrothman.bsky.social on what the call for new regulation around the Grammarly suit misses about the right of publicity. These laws are already there and applicable to Gen AI! We need to enforce them! Deeply relevant as we consider the hastily constructed NOFAKES Act.

Such a pleasure (ahem) to see new work from @annakornbluh.bsky.social in my inbox. (Yes, I get the @parapraxismag.bsky.social newsletter.) www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/lov...

If anyone wants a single GA ticket to see Gianmarco Soresi in San Jose on 4/19 @ 8:30 pm, hmu. I was supposed to go with a couple friends, but then they didn’t get tix before it sold out. 🫠

Non-local businesses whose only online presence is FB or IG don’t exist to me.

“There's something deeply sinister in this turn of events, and it's not just the extraordinary short-sightedness of looking at earnings in a first job out of college as evidence of the value of the learning done on campus.”

So, US is taking an “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” approach to blockade of the Strait of Hormuz? Genius stuff. Just brilliant gamesmanship as the world’s economy teeters on the brink.

Hungarians voting out Orban is the best geopolitical news I’ve heard in some time. That JDV shares in the defeat is just icing on the cake.

Chinatown but it’s data centres stealing all the water

United States is out of excuses for why shouldn't have Medicare4all. We just blew up an insane amount of money doing an unwanted attack on a country that could have funded this. I've been demanding this since 2016.

Currently listening to Dionne R. Powell, MD give the Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture at the Austen Riggs Center entitled, “Working with the Bodily Unconscious: Becoming Raced – Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma.” education.austenriggs.org/content/beco...

for ease of navigating, and because you don't want to miss it, here's @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social 's essay yalereview.org/article/kamr...

This November, vote YES on the "Connect Bay Area" ballot measure to keep the already approved "doomsday" plan (70% service cut to BART and CalTrain) from being implemented. secretsanfrancisco.com/bart-alterna...