Don't sleep on Michelle Wu, one of this country's most quietly effective climate leaders, cruising to a second term in Boston. It's telling that business interests tried and failed to stop her and are pouting about it now Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Sales of electric vehicles and large SUVs drove Ford Motor ’s third-quarter sales up by 8.2%, the Detroit automaker reported Wednesday. Ford said sales of all-electric vehicles increased by 30.2% during the period to a new quarterly record of more than 30,600 units.” www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/t...

The Chronicle restaurant critics are taking decibel readings while dining out in the Bay Area now.

Especially if people continue seeing steaming hot takes like this and assume it's a foregone conclusion which it by no means is.

Water also wet.

Self-employed workers deserve sick pay to end the risk of millions being “one illness away from financial ruin”, a think tank has claimed.

Here's the GPT-5 analysis from 'What Did OpenAI Do This Week?' that includes what was announced, analysis, winners and losers. whatdidopenaidothisweek.beehiiv.com/p/breaking-g... #ai #openai #GPT5 #strategy

This will cost untold lives.

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UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work

At least 36 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far

You didn't need a video of a happy armadillo playing in a sprinkler, but here you go #bluesky ... ☺️

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

X is now a literal sloppy shit factory. Any brands still on there need to really think hard about why. X will start to publish Community Notes written by AI agents; developers will soon be able to submit their own “fact-checking” AI agents for review. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Corrupt - time to go (was about 6 months ago, but hey, we are where we are).

Sounds like most offices.

We really have to stop with this shit.

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Feel free to raise it urgently in Westminster, matey. Or show us a plan etc...

Oh, ok. Also the guyliner. Babes. Tone it DOWN.

2025 and still using poster board to explain nuclear strikes. Just wow.

Listen to this great American. This nation is privileged to have a man of this character in the United States Senate. Thank you @padilla.senate.gov. We stand with you.

About 123 million remain forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, violence, persecution and human rights violations.

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Cool finding of LNP delivery for HIV latency reversal. And kudos to @theguardian.com for linking to the primary research article. I wish all news outlets would do the same.

it’s so sad. they make this cat work so hard

This is Bodie. He’s here to celebrate the start of Pride Month. Been working on this pose for weeks. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾 (IG: hellobodie)

Rankin at SXSW London: "If any of you out there have had your hand in making it (AI), you should really have a long look at yourself in the mirror, as you have unleashed hell into the world. As an artist my mind is blown, as a photographer it's over"

Lordy. We really need to touch more grass.

Dismayed by his own toys (Photograph by Sophie Fischer)

Google I/O is a really interesting but subdued mix this year. Lots of iteration and some big play talk by Denis H, but I want them to push humanity much further than AI choosing to use dino bones in a font and sounds for gen AI videos/images. Super impressive, but…

They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

Abortion providers confront a new wave of extremism

Just watched Microsoft's announcement and daaaaaym they need to get some announcement training. Dry, dull, so many acronyms and so little sizzle I wondered if the gas was on. They touch millions of people's lives yet so bad at the promo.

That this 9 month old baby, KJ, is alive today is an actual miracle, and all of the dozens of people involved want the world to know it's entirely because of decades of government-funded research. Unstated: This is the research now being gutted by DOGE and RFK Jr. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

Clicked to reveal…more of what I don’t want to see. Dumb as a bag of rocks. Still just forcing numbers. Ugh.

Trump cannot stop blinking.

Is it just me or is someone at YouRube leaning on the ad button a bit too heavy at the moment?

Some clear leftist and rightist traits (based on current political science) do not resonate with a large proportion of European citizens. The cultural elements of the left–right concept are not perceived in the same way across Europe link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Case in point People really have no idea what is coming The headlines are going to compare it to height-of-covid-shutdown-era shortages

Epic.

now THIS is journalism

It’s hard to imagine an American home without Chinese products. Smart visual/color-coded story by NYT of all the many essentials in American homes that are imported almost entirely from China — are likely to become more expensive with the new tariffs www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Oops.

You can see why Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks felt paying £10m+ to Prince Harry was cheap to avoid three months of these headlines. Met’s statement shows they couldn’t be less interested in reopening criminal case and money largely shut down media coverage. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Adidas’ 3D-printed shoes are launching globally on May 2nd

🚨 "If the tariffs on China continue at this level we will see a $2T hit to economic activity in our country, the failure of tens of thousands of American businesses, and the laying off of millions of employees... We will also have mass shortages" (CEO of logistics giant Flexport)

Mission accomplished.