11 WTF Moments from the Facebook Memoir Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to Read, "Careless People"

They’re reportedly doing the stupidest, most dangerous thing you can imagine with Elon Musk and the Pentagon today. They’re trying to deny it’s happening, but the reporting from independent sources says otherwise. My write-up: open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Another dwarf Iris bloomed today: this is Autumn Jester.

Apropos of nothing but it sparks joy. My first dwarf Iris bloom of the year, Maglissa.

“In October of 2024, just before the election, … NPR …they looked it up and they said, ‘… over 100 times, [Trump] has threatened to prosecute his enemies.’ This is Donald Trump. We are at stage four megalomania. He is just doing what he has always told us he wants to do.”

Drunk on power and ketamine. This is Musk and the foreign minister of Poland. This is what I mean about Musk as the "over-mighty subject". His power is too great for anyone else to be fully free.

Got mad, did another thing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

15 short years after the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and cops were *still* beating these workers for daring to ask for better working conditions

Today's sign.

So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

They try to silence us, hold us back, and strip away our rights, but women always fight back. This #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re doubling down, because when women lead, we all move forward.

I feel as if we're capable of acknowledging that a one-day boycott is mostly symbolic without becoming contemptuous and dismissive of people finding a little meaning and comfort in such a symbol. The scorn seems petty.

ah, as always, elon has his eyes on the prize: making it impossible for the government to enforce civil rights law

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

The people in the room don’t even believe what Musk is saying.

America has no King.

"If you do not respond to this email you are now doge administrator"

Today's protest sign. I got lots of support.

Best. Dacha. Ever.

Just watched Sen King's speech on the Senate floor - thank you for that! Every American should hear this. #CourageIsContagious youtu.be/g2ptQFOi9Pg

Cultural interval: in case you think that Japanese people are well-behaved conformists... the culture has just enough crazy creative people to keep it weird. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man...

"It is precisely because of my abiding love for my Indian American wife and my Indian American children that I bravely forge a world in which we can normalize Indian hate."

I don't like these new trends. 😭 Does that make me an old person?

This op-ed talks about the “ghosts of Guantánamo” — Haitian kids and teens imprisoned at the military base in the 1990s. Read more here ⤵️

one of the stupidest things i have had the misfortune of reading today and i am sharing it with you.

Continuing my "20 movies, no explanations" series that I started on Meta. I may go past 20. (34 of 20)

The other side? No matter how you count, we haven’t even gotten a century into the idea of MAYBE doing something with our world other than burning EVERYTHING down in wars of conquest every single generation & that’s proved so intolerable oligarchs would rather end us all than allow it to continue

Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.

The community note 🤌😘

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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The Spanish government has taken the first legislative steps towards reducing the working week from 40 to 37.5 hours, without loss of pay. The reduction would make Spain one of the world's first major economies to implement such a policy. Euractive https://buff.ly/3EAIfUS #ShareGoodNewsToo

Anytime a storm is brewing, your local forecasters are getting the latest data from NOAA. As the agency faces an uncertain future, one thing's for sure: for-profit companies would struggle to replicate NOAA's weather-forecasting prowess.

CDC said that it now classified the #flu season as high severity for all age-groups for the first time since the 2017-18 season. Over the past 2 weeks, flu deaths have outpaced fatalities from #COVID and now make up 2.6% of all deaths for the most recent week, compared to 1.5% for COVID.

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Here we go AGAIN 🤬 The SAVE Act would make it harder for millions of Americans to cast a ballot, this includes women who changed their name after marriage. We must spread the word to protect our democracy.

animals have been observed moving to higher ground before tsunamis, suggesting they’re able to sense impending disasters. no reason to bring that up, just came to mind.

once again, a "constitutional conservative" is without fail a bootlicker looking for a boot

New from me! Workers at the Treasury received an email confirming Tom Krause will officially be taking on the duties of the Fiscal Assistant Secretary. But he will still be keeping his job as CEO of Cloud Software Group. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/musk-k...

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"We're pleased to present this updated org chart that captures our system of governance (which management scientists term “Kafkaesque bureaucracy meets Lord of the Files,” though no one understands these references since we cut our literature requirements)."

In 2019, RFK Jr. visited Samoa to promote baseless lies about the polio vaccine, resulting in a polio outbreak that killed over 80 children. Under RFK Jr.’s HHS, we could see the same devastation here. apnews.com/article/rfk-...

The same kind of lie that RFK Jr. believes and promotes was used to justify medical experiments on Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells were taken from her without her consent during a biopsy while she was being treated for cervical cancer in 1951.

Republican Senators just voted to confirm RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services - a man that believes Black Americans should receive a different vaccine schedule than White Americans. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

This is a dangerous (and deeply embarrassing) moment for our country. Republicans just put a conspiracy theorist in charge of one of the most important federal agencies for safeguarding public health and guiding the nation through health crises.

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