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This document is (1) an unsurprisingly comprehensive CYA statement trying to absolve Microsoft of…everything (2) a description of an unhinged product that lacks vision, intention, consistency, or care for those who have no choice but to encounter it (3) so embarrassing

4.) Successful movements are sustained (across time) and relatively consistent about messaging, while also building community connections.

3.) providing *political cover* for a.) GOP electeds to take increasingly oppositional stances within their party and b.) corporations to oppose the administration.

2.) This provides *political pressure* for the county to change directions on ICE, the war with Iran, tariffs, the SAVE Act, public health, public education, and public corruption as well as

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

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It is vastly worse to be wrong and refuse to admit it than to be wrong and to correct yourself. This applies to everything, but especially journalism.

just imagined 2008 but with crypto involved and I’m not sure I’ll ever stop screaming

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

Please, I am begging people: never again repeat the claim that only two people were killed in the occupation of Minnesota.

“WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as ‘a search engine for the best webinars,’ is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.” Everyone’s business model is just crime now.

justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome" sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted

This article is darkly fascinating as an example of how transphobia infects your entire ideology. The core argument is that we should not believe people when they say they are trans, were sexully abused or have a mental disorder.

Not all of the problems in the world were caused by early 20 something feminist bloggers in 2014 but for a certain set of terminally online reactionary centrists, they are. It's like gamergate but with the veneer of respectability offered by publishing in the Atlantic.

I am not pointing this comment at anyone in particular, but: The TSA line has already been a fraught place for brown and Black travelers for as long as it has been around. The racism might get worse tomorrow, but it isn’t going to start tomorrow. That is all.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! I wrote a review for a Mexican-Irish fusion restaurant in Jersey City, but also wrote about American identity in an empire in decline ☘️ johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/everyone-i...

"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January

I don't respect govt services that make a profit, if they do someone needs to be fired

these are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...

one of the really gross aspects of the AI zombie resurrection thing we should (carefully!!!!!) discuss more is the fact that this is not what Val Kilmer looked like when he died. they don’t want the human Val Kilmer. they want a simulacrum of the idealized memory of him you have in your mind

Just a reminder: don’t pinch your coworkers. Even if they’re not wearing green. There is no St. Patrick’s Day affirmative defense to harassment or assault. This has been a PSA from your friendly neighborhood employment lawyer.

The thing I find hilarious about all this is that he reacts as if the public response to this is an earnest attempt to get him to repent or change his mind. Dude, nobody thinks you’re like one social media conversation away from getting human history right. Nobody is rooting for you.

If you want to know what mining in Zambia actually looks like, with the support of @pulitzercenter.org, I sent @thexylom.com's Editor-at-Large KC Cheng to central Zambia to document the prevalent unease among Chinese migrant workers and locals last year: www.thexylom.com/post/six-dec...

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

I know many things are bad and there is no shortage of doomscrolling you can do. But little things still matter. A hot shower. Drinking water. A compliment from a stranger. A kind gesture. Knowing your enemies are aging poorly. Getting enough sleep. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

If you find yourself following someone who is called woke ginger or pissed off nurse or whatever, they’re not your ally. Your ally is someone with an obscure Pokémon avatar called like ant piss aficionado

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

As I’ve been saying for six years, you cannot decide to shut off empathy in just one lil area (all of disabled and vulnerable people.) Endangering people for your convenience and comfort is a drug you do not do recreationally.

that last one. “it was drilled into me by politicians and the media that it’s your own personal responsibility if you get sick. i shall extrapolate this to mean ‘it’s your own personal responsibility if any of my actions negatively impact you.’”

the stupidity of getting rid of income tax instead of raising the living wage, providing stronger labor protections, etc etc in a time of eroded and privatized infrastructure … whatever think tank came up with that one is certainly think tank-ing

despite extraordinarily stiff competition from the Roberts Court, Citizens United keeps its place as one of the most damaging Supreme Court decisions of all time

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

Inviting Grammarly and other tech companies with bad ideas to pay for my consulting service “Ask Me First.” Fees available upon request.

Non-consensual appropriation of Black women’s identities and labor is deeply fucked up. There are echoes of slavery, Jim Crow, and the current pay and employment gaps Black women face. And it’s way too close to sexual harassment and assault when happening simultaneous with non-con deepfake porn.

I mean it’s pretty mild compared to making the women get completely new faces as a mark of fealty

America is about to learn how tiny the federal gas tax has been all this time. 18¢ per gallon, unchanged since 1993 and not tied to inflation. Fill your SUV’s tank and you can buy half a pack of gum on Uncle Sam.

Art has context, and too broad a context results in lifeless, corporate imitation of art. Thus, any machine-generated piece whose context is “all of the digitized source material we could slurp into the algorithm” is naturally a Frankenstein's monster of corpses sewn together, even if shiny.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

I understand that sometimes a malicious opponent can force you into playing games you don’t want to play but for the sake of your soul you have to continue *not wanting to play them*.

There is no "escape hatch," no "offramp," no "social media migration" that will enable you to find a place free of sin. There will never be a "purely good" social media platform because we live in the WORST capitalist dystopia and our digital environments are continuous with that hellscape.

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence. And then he bragged about it on X later.

okay so this seems pretty clear. he knows what it is, he did it on purpose, he chose keeping it over his career with the Marines, if we know this then Susan Collins will also know it, it will 100% come up in the general, let's be done talking about this guy as a real candidate

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

NEW: At least nine secretive ICE detention facilities are scattered around the state, tucked into strip malls and industrial parks. More than 3,000 people were held in them last year, including a 1-year-old girl. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/03/excl...

Yesterday, we revealed the existence of nine ICE detention facilities, called "hold rooms," around the state. This afternoon, we visited one of those facilities with Rep. @mannyrutinel.bsky.social