I’d like recommendations for good YouTube documentaries

One month until Election Day! Even on a rainy Saturday, we're organizing our way to victory and taking nothing for granted. This crew was knocking on doors and talking with neighbors all day long. Big thanks to Crystal Hudson, Brooklyn Young Dems & @nywfp.bsky.social.

Starbucks done EFFED up in Korea. Bad. May 18th just passed, Democratic Movement Day, when rose up after the military dictatorship sent tanks to mass-murder citizens. Some inappropriately call it "Tank Day." Starbucks commemorated Tank Day with a sale on tank tumblers. It gets much worse...

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

For the love of God please vote for @lydiagreenbk.bsky.social next month

I just remembered WATCH OUT!!!, the lil project I made to help me process the unfolding early pandemic. Here's a blog post I wrote about it in January of 2021: alejandrobruzzese.com/art-sorcery/...

Sorry but the fact that Knicks fans at the Garden won’t put on the color-coordinated free t-shirts that the team puts on their seats before games—something that basically every other NBA home crowd does—just makes me love this vain, belligerent city even more www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/n...

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

It's World Bee Day! 🐝 This little Mason bee (genus Osmia) demonstrates exceptional strength & fortitude in removing a nail from a brick wall. Mason bees are solitary: the females make nests from mud or, in this case, masonry walls. So, our narrator should say: "good lass." (📷: MrDowner1306, YT)

Big news for NYC apartment seekers, in case you missed it.

It’s happening,, it’s all happening. Flavor Flav’s SHE Weekend was approved by the Las Vegas Clark county commissioners today and we throwing a historic free public party and celebration with a parade on the Las Vegas strip. Details coming tomorrow 👀

"powered by Polymarket"

This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.

Shake it, baby! 🐢

The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.

Negotiators reach a deal to end strike on the Long Island Rail Road, the busiest commuter rail system in U.S.

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Alright, you know I couldn't deprive you all of this magnificence Today's 🏴‍☠️ drop is a rip of the entirety of NOW: THE ANTHEMS: LIVE FOREVER Party up like it's 2000 AD, you slags:

why is it impossible to find out what the 4-5 letters that abbreviate your org mean

Herbie Hancock showing Quincy Jones how to use the Fairlight CMI synthesizer - one of the first commercially available digital samplers Herbie was an early adopter, using the $80,000 machine to compose and arrange, "Rockit," his classic work of early hip-hop/electro/jazz fusion.

Sarah Yeoman, American, Totem, 2014, watercolor, 32 x 22 in

Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

always amazed at what people tty to pass off as a croissant

🧬 If you (or someone you know) has expertise in recent DNA-based data storage innovations (ie using synthetic DNA as a kind of memory device), please ping me if available for a quick interview. 🧬

New — I spoke to parents whose kids are former patients of NYU Langone's trans youth health care program about the Texas criminal subpoena for their private health records. "I was furious. I was in disbelief. I was scared for my child's well-being." Read my full report:

Charanjit Singh - Rang Barse [India, Bollywood] (1981) Insane synth instro version of a tune from the O.S.T. of Shiv-Hari's 1981 Bollywood Blockbuster "Silsila". https://redd.it/rcg8ve https://youtu.be/AyIyK-WuDqQ

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

NYC folks: This show is open at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Manhattan through Sunday #AfricanArt #ArtSky #BlackSky

perhaps the most costly example yet of why you should never listen to chatgpt’s advice

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IT WORKS! We have zork on ATProto now.My bot stores no state on its server - the entire gamestate is serialized into a blob inside each of the bot's replies and stored in the PDS. Whole thing runs from a laptop, game engine is a pure reduce function. No jetstream, no open ports, reads from appview

A wizard at sunset

ARE YOU: a writer (books, plays, films, tv), a show runner, a director, a production designer or anything else? DO YOU NEED HELP: writing a convincing hacker and/or a realistic yet-still-fun hacking scene/malware attack? figuring out a space a hacker might live/work in? with fun technobabble? HMU

Incredible

Most of the roughly 60,000 people detained by ICE are held in for-profit immigration jails. Private prison PACs donated about $675,000 to members of Congress, while private prison executives gave nearly $380,000.

We made a fake repo with fake bounties, and the bots are applying fake PRs, so we know who is fake, and we can ban them from the Coolify repo. IQ over 1000

someone sat at a green light for three whole seconds and nobody honked - thanks mamdani

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Just me and @unlawfulentries.bsky.social chatting about her book (Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship), immigration, federalism, and academic freedom. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

What level of dark pattern is LinkedIn lying to your connections about what you are doing? I got a notification of @eddcoates.bsky.social unlocking ‘Zip’, which made me think something nefarious was going on. He wouldn’t play that. So I asked him, and he did not play! LinkedIn fakes interactions!

Lots of fun surprises in NYT's 100 best restaurants lol

Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.