If you leave a Waymo’s door partially open the company has to pay a human $20 to come close it, please use this information responsibly.

Shiiiiiiiiiiit www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRs...

Spent a week offline and wow do the very online people here stand out. Kinda awkward people here for fun are still lovable follows. The "scream into the void to try and get people to agree with me" types? Completely insufferable.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

Got Borderlands 4 and none of my friends who play warned me about the disaster that is the menu. Five more taps to check out every new gun!

Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.

And we have a Pop Tarts mascot grilling Pop Tarts, must be tough to see in those things

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

Working on a novel means I could call this research now

you can't change the lyrics to make a song less gay as a cover. only more gay.

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

Thread on so much of the implicit and explicit religious bias in America

You think this man is launching memecoins or showing up to conferences zooted out of his mind telling people we have to go fascist or die? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULaN...

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heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

Only a few hours of light outside amid all of LA’s rain, so I am opening my shades!

PSA: Now is a good time to gather all your hammers and test them for maximum smashing capabilities in case you have any well-intentioned in-laws gifting your children a chatbot-integrated toy. You don’t want to be caught with a less-than-perfect hammer for smashing those abominations!

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

When I taught students all the reasons why people keep using a technology instead of shifting to a better one, we had plenty of "bleh, this is inefficient" examples. Now we've got sites designed to actively work against users' interest. They know many users will stay instead of mass migrate.

The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax. Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Forecast says 4.6 inches of rain tomorrow!

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In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

The life of a writer is an arduous struggle, but it’s worth it in the end. Sure, sometimes it’s difficult, but the romantic myth of the tortured writer becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Yo Los Angeles! LA Taco is not only the best reporting on where the most amazing food in town is hiding, they have been way out in front of everyone with their reporting on ICE and CBP thugs. This is the kind of independent, local, media we all need to support. I'm proud to be a member.

For all that I see cis folks posting about things Trump dud recently, it’s only trans folks posting about this hate movement. Being an ally means ensuring employers don’t give in.

I learned this lesson in my first newspaper job at 16, so I’m a bit skeptical about this argument.

Just as in the case of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, a consumer backlash is now underway: CBS fans are hearing about the "60 Minutes" imbroglio and calling/emailing local CBS stations to register their concerns. "We have no real support," a reporter at one of those stations told me.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

For non-academics: this means the student is likely done at OU because the TA gig is attached to tuition waivers for graduate school. Sunk time at OU will be lost and the options are to quit or start over somewhere else.

It's a good encapsulation of our media and educational systems when we know Fulnecky's name and can be fairly sure she'll make bank and prestige on a rightwing and evangelical press junket. Meanwhile the TA has lost funding through their position and likely can't release their name out of fear.

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

There are around 2,900 working households in the town and 7,800 in the micropolitan area (metro area, but for rural places). There are 13,000 people who work in the micro area. This layoff hits 25% of all employees in the area and 40% of the households. The place is going to empty out.

Robber Baron.

You might question her methods, but credit to Bari Weiss: her leadership has pushed 60 Minutes into new formats and attracted a bunch of new viewership outside the normal broadcast audience.

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

Again if you're tearing apart Larian, then you can't let this slide ether

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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

“Slop Evader [is] a new browser tool that filters your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.”

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

started / going

Solar noon shadows in Anchorage on the winter solstice.

weiss is not a particularly clever or subtle propagandist

hey maybe we should have a conversation about the person who hired all of these guys

My dad died from complications due to Alzheimer’s. I remember the first time they gave him this test. It was BECAUSE it was already quite clear something was very wrong, even if we didn’t yet have a diagnosis, and even if he did okay the first time. This isn’t some routine prophylactic exam.

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

For my newsletter, I wrote about how the Democratic Party "Big Tent" fell in on trans kids yesterday. www.burnsnotice.com/the-big-tent...

My student Hannah Zadeh just completed an excellent dissertation on the inclusion of race coefficients and predictive stats more generally in medicine. a main takeaway: AI tools lock in on these factors in part because **researchers have been doing the same thing** www.proquest.com/openview/f22...