Wrote about the feeling of being unemployed for five months: oldfashionednews.com/2025/09/16/b...

As I wrote about for @motherjones.com, people are already crossing state lines to get the Covid vaccine—which may become more common if the CDC vaccine advisory committee recommends limiting them this week. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Tucker Kraft is such a throwback man I love him

NEW: Google tells me it will re-file a legal brief in which lawyers said "the open web is already in rapid decline" to clarify that they were only talking about open-web display advertising. (The open web is still in rapid decline, though.) www.platformer.news/google-open-...

Yellowknife 🇨🇦 Job Opportunity: Cabin Radio hiring a Podcast Producer & Field Reporter One-year contract, lots of travel. Must be a great interviewer, a good audio editor, ready to meet lots of people, and interested in justice in northern communities cabinradio.ca/jobs

Who are the best journalists in and/or covering Wisconsin?

There's "a popular misconception that age-verification mandates are going to be the best way to rein in big tech and hold them accountable," EFF's Molly Buckley told @rollingstone.com - but these laws will just further line the biggest platforms' pockets. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cul...

Today, we're launching $1 & $2 tiers on our Patreon so more of our community can support us! As a part of that, we also wanted to share where our funding is currently coming from and what community funding can help lead to for the future of Bridgy Fed & Bounce. Check it out in the post below 👇🏼

6 @captimes.com Idea Fest sessions for free — many are virtual. Scope them out: AI, clean lakes, healthcare stuff.

Micah Parsons to the Packers instantly makes them Super Bowl contenders. I don't care what they gave up: It was worth it.

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

this summit could have been a text

Here's a @speterdavis.com post that says starting in March, Substack tweaked the knobs so publications are seeing up to 90% fewer new subscribers. Substackers among you, does that match your experience? speterdavis.substack.com/p/substack-i...

Some thoughts on Google’s announcement ending the use of ClaimReview in search:

Meet @tuckerleg.bsky.social — writer, reporter, editor + research pro behind @mastersofscale, Rapid Response, @pioneersofAI, Spark & Fire + more! He’s now booking freelance gigs in writing, scripting, fact-checking & reporting. Work with Tucker: airmedia.org/talent/tucke...

Job seeking advice: #layoff, #jobs

#Andor needs a group chat not a fractal radio: tuckerlegerski.bearblog.dev/andor-needs-...

Hi! I was sadly laid off in April — looking for work, exploring new places. To learn more about me, and what I'm working on, what I offer, see my website. tuckerlegerski.net

@404media.co knows how to run a business. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social @jasonkoebler.bsky.social @samleecole.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social have build a golden sun in the media landscape. They make great journalism every week.

Anxiety drugs found in rivers make salmon take more risks : NPR www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...

I first started trying to explain the radical fascist agenda of Substack and its funders + founders in 2020. It took until the last year before the message really broke through. But now writers are really making money after leaving the platform, if that was their goal. digiday.com/media/former...

Cool news: The signed edition of Everything Is Tuberculosis has a second week at #1 on the Indie Bestseller list (and the unsigned edition is on the list as well, at #10). Thanks for supporting your local independent bookstore!

Three books, and three of the most important infections on the planet: COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis. Combined, millions of people die and suffer from all three infections every year. And as @sarahjones.bsky.social points out in her book DISPOSABLE, it always hits the poor the hardest.

Three books, and three of the most important infections on the planet: COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis. Combined, millions of people die and suffer from all three infections every year. And as @sarahjones.bsky.social points out in her book DISPOSABLE, it always hits the poor the hardest.

I find the screwed-up human strike zone to be quite cathartic, actually. defector.com/life-isnt-fa...

Influencers and politicians are pushing — and allowing — ivermectin, a drug used for parasitic diseases, to be used for curing cancer and changing autism. There is no proof ivermectin can do such things. Good reporting from Richard Fausset and Dani Blum. #science #health #medicine Gift Link:

We hate fat. We will do anything to get rid of it. And our hatred not only makes people in larger bodies miserable. It makes us incurious. What do we lose when we don’t ask questions about fat? www.scientificamerican.com/article/fat-...

Thank you to Kevin and all of our sustainers!

"Angry, disappointed, frustrated"--Scientists were making progress on vaccines and antivirals for the next pandemic--until this week, when the Trump administration abruptly told them to stop. Here's my story with @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Xz77q

Hostile Government Takeover (EDM Remix) is a bop. You're welcome in case you haven't listened to it yet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuWV...

The Sick Times: 'Long COVID data are being erased, again' H/T @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/03/25/l...

It's worrisome this is how people are making money with generative AI — brain rot that gets flooded into Instragram. Good piece by @404media.co and @jasonkoebler.bsky.social #AI #tech #socialmedia There's always been low-quality information, but not at this scale.

I wrote 1081 of a book about living with crooked bones and growing up with a sick mother living with type 1 diabetes. #dailywords.

New research shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization. I talked to the researchers about whether AI companies will learn the lesson that social networks didn't: www.platformer.news/openai-chatg...

Only four days left to place an order! worldwithoutcaesars.com

This is why we wanted to organize live events—to gather like-minded folks who love music and want to be a part of the culture surrounding it. To hear the same things at the same time. To breathe the same air. To know we’re all in a room with people who actually give a shit.

People give it shit, but I still rely on TechCrunch every day to keep tabs on developments in startups and AI ... it's extremely concerning to see it wind up in the hands of private equity

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Asylum seekers are being sent to prisons in El Salvador that are allegedly committing human rights abuses. “This is an effort to create a Guantánamo on steroids, to put these people outside the protections of the law,” says @juanpappierhrw.bsky.social, a director with Human Rights Watch.

AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

We 💙 links! Starting this week, we've made it even easier for newsrooms and more to track how much traffic Bluesky is sending to their sites. For those setting up analytics, Bluesky's referrer is go.bsky.app.

Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many. A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms: www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...

I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism. From Around the Horn:

rfk jr's attitude toward anyone or thing that gets sick is "if he dies, he dies."

Worried about the people hurt by Trump’s cuts? @sigalsamuel.bsky.social has curated some great resources for how to help:

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.   An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.