It’s can’t be said enough — this is a wildly corrupt betrayal of the MAHA crowd, and flies in the face of everything RFK JR has ever promised them. Driven entirely by greed and paying off their big pesticide corporation donors.

Wow — REPUBLICAN Chris Madel drops his bid for governor of Minnesota, saying ICE has gone too far and he can’t support Trump’s “retribution on the citizens of our state”

The new books are here! The new books are here! 🎉📚📚📚 Librarians whose libraries were using Baker & Taylor will understand why I am celebrating. Ingram was slammed with new accounts in October-December. Our first order from them finally arrived.

With agentic AI embedded at the OS level, databases storing entire digital lives accessible to malware, tasks whose reliability quickly breaks down at each step, and being opted-in without consent, @signalapp leadership, @Mer__edith and Udbhav Tiwari, are sounding the alarm for the industry to […]

Those of us who express our concern about the various risks and disadvantages of AI are sometimes reminded how valuable it is in the fields of radiology and meteorology....

Reading the speech @pluralistic held at #39c3 is an amazing way to start the the new year. A great way to calibrate your political compass. "Let's call time on enshittification. Let's seize the means of computation. Let's build the drop-in, free, open, auditable alternatives to the services […]

WTAF?! 👇 ICE is arguing in court that they can detain, handcuff, and biometrically screen US CITIZENS — unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And a REAL ID isn't enough. 😳 This isn't immigration policy. It's a "papers-please" USA, where freedom is conditional and innocence come last.

Amazon might not notice that you stopped shopping with them* but if you take that same modest bit of disposable income and spend it on art bought directly from artists, the small electronics projects of your friends, helping people in dire financial situations and the the local theater all of […]

"narco terrorism" isn't a real thing. What does that even mean. It's just two bad scary words strung together without coherence. And yet, since some on the right have started using this phrase I'm hearing other people echo it uncritically.

You can bully companies into dropping DEI programs, and you can force the public library to pull books with queer characters. But you can’t, in the end, force other people to approve of your bigotry, which is what they really want.

Hey friends, my wife is going to doing some voiceover work. She’s looking for microphone recommendations that work with an iPhone and iPad. I haven’t done any audio work in a while, so give me a shout if you have a recommendation.

"What is wrong with the #democrats? Seriously? Is there a more feckless, spineless opposition party anywhere in the democratic world? A more self-defeating, self-destructive force anywhere in the political world? Why do they insist on repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?" […]

"Maximum truth-seeking", you mean reading books, talking to people, and looking around?

I 'heard' a little old lady say "I thought I was the only one!" as she was watching the millions poured into the streets! 😊

Brown's President has decided they need community input to decide what to do with the extortionate "compact": president.brown.edu/president/fe... So alumni relations has set up a form. Please let them know what you think! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

AI opt-out deal

After some months of thinking about, and digesting the literature on, the use of AI in schools, I believe that we're not only overestimating the capabilities of LLMs but underestimating the essence of education. Here's the expanded version of my new Education Week essay […]

The investigative newsroom I work for, @ProPublica, is raising money right now. This is the last few days of our pledge drive. We report on abuses of power in the public interest. We reported on who works for DOGE and revealed Clarence Thomas’s conflicts of interest. It was the first outlet to […]

At least SK media is not shying away from US criticism. https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/column/1217990.html

New Report From #newsguard: #ai False Information Rate Nearly Doubles in One Year https://www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/august-2025-ai-false-claim-monitor/ #llms #gpt

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms. It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro. It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume. When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.

Political theater.

The White House has a "rapid response team" calling out "woke" art in Smithsonian museums. https://wapo.st/45VqGJe [gift link] After they took power, the Nazis infamously did almost exactly the same thing with what they called "degenerate" art, putting it on mocking display. (Naturally, it […]

it is frightening to see the speed at which our humanness is being degraded and defiled

It's been a long time since I was in the market for an area rug. When did the trend for pre-faded/washed out/distressed/already-looks-old-but-isn't-really rugs begin?

The Dangerous #legal Strategy Coming for Our #books Our picture book was pulled from #library shelves in #florida. The argument being used to defend the #ban threatens the #righttoread. #giftarticle #bookbans #publicschools #libraries #education #censorship #dictatorship #authoritarianism […]

I'm not categorically against watching ads for content. But I'm violently against them watching me.

Dear federal workers, if you need a paper from a scientific journal for which RFK Jr. has just cancelled your subscription, I’m happy to send it to you as a professional courtesy. My email is in my bio.

No refuge for the persecuted.

🚨WOW — @GovBillLee won’t track how many private school voucher students were already in private school SPOILER: CUZ HE KNOWS IT’S ALMOST ALL OF THEM The claim vouchers help students in “failing” schools is a lie. It’s a handout to private school kids. www.wsmv.com/2025/06/25/t...

Did I hear the Trump administration wants to increase the birth rate? Good luck with that. https://flipboard.com/@axiosnews/health-care-suokkqd3z/-/a-miVnF7eAQbui8AacUSqsQQ%3Aa%3A2150299410-%2F0

Eén van de “we laten het niet gebeuren”-tips is lid worden van een vakbond. Mijn vakbondspersoon helpt me momenteel met de WIA en dat is zó fijn (de enige persoon die zowel alle regels kent als 100% aan mijn kant staat). Hierom was ik geen lid, ik ging tenslotte niet ziek worden - ik was lid uit […]

@venite En voor de zelfstandig ondernemers die van solidariteit houden: Word lid van een Broodfonds. Ik was ook niet van plan om ziek te worden toen ik ondernemer werd. En ik vond het al die jaren fijn om mede-leden financieel te steunen als ze ziek werden. Toen ik zelf ziek werd moest ik een […]

Wer’e all asking the same question. There are no easy answers. What’s Next After No Kings Protests? #politics #nokings https://warnercrocker.com/2025/06/16/whats-next-after-no-kings-protests/

My op-ed in the @latimes.com today: "Monstrifying narratives have been undermining the possibility of a more inclusive body politic for millennia. But there’s an antidote to us-them messages of hate, fear and exclusion that claim that only a tiny minority of people are truly human." 1/2 🗃 #politics

The White House's "Make America Healthy Again" report cites papers that appear not to exist: "Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes is listed... as the first author of a study on anxiety in adolescents. When NOTUS reached out to her... she was surprised to hear of the citation. She does study mental […]

Holy flying crap balls! The #trump admin is building a central online marketplace for the #intelligence Community to buy private #information about individuals from #unregulated #databrokers. #law #privacy #infosec #nationalsecurity […]

Hello #usa #trans folks who have had #topsurgery! Did your insurance company refuse to cover the liposuction part of the procedure, and if so, were you able to successfully challenge that?

My #introduction: I'm an academic librarian in northwest Illinois, and a church organist (Episcopalian). I'm interested in #CriticalInfoLit, #churchmusic#CriticalInfoLit#introductionliturgy, justice, bicycling, and poetry. I am as geeky as it's possible to be about becoming proficient in het Nederlands. When I'm being […]