RIGHT NOW: NJ state troopers with riot gear are forcing protesters supporting the hunger strikers of Delaney Hall and media ppl down the street. They’re firing flashbang grenades at the ground to force people to disperse, per the @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream www.youtube.com/live/yTlpCYk...

Wiki Workers United has launched a union drive at Wikipedia... meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Wo...

Fired 60 Minutes-er Cecilia Vega put out this statement: "In recent months, my producing teams and I have experienced efforts to insert political bias into our stories. Reporting teams have held back on submitting story pitches about important news topics out of fear of the internal repercussions."

Our new pub is out! We argue that any future scholarship on the politics of inequality should center the people. We call this the PUBLIC framework (Pluralistic methods, UnBiased perspectives, Local dynamics, Intersectional understanding, & Critical of power). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The climate emergency is manifesting and we have very few politicians and even fewer journalists championing any kind of action. We are heading for an eco collapse and we’re pretending like all is fine. It’s why I decided not to have children 30 years ago. I suspected it would play out like this.

Watercolor Painting, By Thai Painter..Pattanaseri Nopparat (b.1964)

Fund communities not chaos… indivisible.org/campaigns/fu...

Single men: Don't be having "thoughts" about married women. If you do, you're just sending a bunch of energy into outer space. And it won't come back. Don't do that. Keep moving. Stay in your lane. #dating #male #single

Why are small businesses freaking out about Google I/O 2026? chrisraulf.com/google-io-20....

A 1,400-year-old carpentry business? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5...

What a disgrace. Says it all, really. 😕🇺🇸

In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.

Are you skeptical about the safety of ultra-processed foods? So is Yuka... #foodsafety #processedfood yuka.io/en/ultra-pro...

“... every creature Lives in a state of war by nature... So, Nat’ralists observe, a Flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite ’em And so proceed ad infinitum.” -Jonathan Swift #naturewriting #humor

What if taxing the rich works?

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

Interesting comments from civic.sage (TikTok) about Rump's proposed arch... www.tiktok.com/@civic.sage/...

A huge official study on avoiding dementia. Look for the button "Download Full Issue" ... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#journalism #AI #socialmedia newpublic.org/afterthefeed

Corporate overlords are at it again… nypost.com/2026/05/21/u...

AI prompt mysticism: “Phrases like ("research depth," "verdict protocol," "glass box," etc.) are essentially theatrical framing. The idea is that if you invoke a special-sounding mode or protocol, you'll unlock hidden capabilities or bypass restrictions. There's no truth to this.” -Claude

Because yeah, he couldn’t have done that.

A crooked tree lives its own life... (inspired by Benson Wong)

A Resonant Death: Poems & Reflections by Fatima Hassouna arablit.org/2025/04/20/a...

Being ‘seen’, understood & shared with readers is all we want as writers. Great piece on the compelling, bewildering world of AI scams in publishing. Engaging, ‘knowing’ invites daily: today’s begging to enter my book into The Bath Novel Award, for which it’s not remotely eligible for..

Vanessa Nakate is putting things right! ✊ We need those debt cancelled; debts that are illegitimate and colonial and shouldn't even be there to begin with. 1/3

This! (it's not letting me share alt text at the moment 😕)

And a picture book for the youngest!: 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮 𝗡𝗮𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗲 (𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲, 𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗠𝗦) bit.ly/3X5qRyb 📸: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Olivia Amoah #climatechange #kidlit

“To be an effective agent of change does not mean we have to know everything.” #activism #democracy #equality -Terry Patten, grateful.org

"Dark Forest Operating System" www.ystrickler.com/seven-years-...

Tiny birds singing… #ambient #naturewriting youtube.com/shorts/JYLJq...

Mushin (無心): A state of mind often described as "no mind" or "no head." In Zen and martial arts, it is the state of being completely free from thoughts, judgments, ego, and distractions during action. -Google

I call them traitors.

The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”

If you understand file types: According to Google, “The MemoryVault Box digitizes your old photos and film negatives into standard JPEG files. This format ensures broad compatibility, making it easy for you to view, share, or further edit your digital memories on any computer or smartphone.” JPEG...

She watched a fake hand-count audit in Brooklyn: www.reddit.com/r/somethingi...

This Reddit link might be credible. However, Ms. St. Clair has been feuding with Elon Musk, so her statements could be exaggerated. #election #elonmusk www.reddit.com/r/somethingi...

Supreme Racism. A political cartoon by Bob Whitmore about the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Supreme Court.

For more than 20 years, Anderson Cooper has traveled the world for 60 Minutes in pursuit of stories that revealed the humanity behind the headlines. Source: CBS News share.google/dBfHK2baubwb...

We can thank Gov. Stitt and the rest of MAGA for this...

Congress works 140 days a year and earns $174K annually, plus full benefits. How can anyone survive on that without a few stock trades and a little insider trading? They get 225 days off a year and think it’s okay to hold the federal minimum wage at $7.25 an hour for 17 years.

Juan Brufal

#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday** Hasui Kawase, Japanese artist, May 18, 1883 - November 7, 1957 Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1931 Color woodblock print, 15.0 × 10.1 in Museum of Fine Arts Boston Visit The Imaginary Museum danieljlieberman.com