every fucking name generator is AI now. I don't need to create chemical runoff for a name generator. I want a little form put together by a random guy fifteen years ago that puts together vaguely themed words. I know I sound like "guy yells at cloud" but I'm going to yell at this fucking cloud

Good morning, new from me in @prospect.org: the defense contractor that runs transit systems across the country signed a contract with Palantir a few months back. I wrote about it, and about how nobody wants to spell out what information the systems are collecting on riders or how the data is used.

"In addition, we captured the other two Dark Triad traits of Machiavellianism (α = 0.84) and psychopathy (α = 0.73) to determine whether narcissism remained a distinctive, incremental predictor of remote work resistance above and beyond these two other socially aversive traits."

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

This left out my favorite - repeatedly rehearse the same 15 seconds of that one song you don't quite know

This dude is dusted to the eyeballs. He's not scoping shit out he's high as a kite and wondering how long until he can go back to the can for another bump. Gnashing his teeth like James Brown lol

This is, I believe, the connoisseur's 4th of July dril tweet

Some describe America as a glass half full; I describe it a little differently. (By artist Glen Martin Taylor)

traditional jewish gender roles don't align with christian variations either. women have the right to divorce and abortion. they are the dominant force in the household and the primary income earner, not the husband who is expected to be an aloof torah academic. we don't do diminutive.

my new wario is an anti-feminist blogger. THIS IS NOT THE TRUE ELLA DAWSON.

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“We’re a republic, not a democracy” isn’t good faith confusion. The US is clearly both, a democratic republic with elected representatives, and this isn’t hard to understand. As Steven Taylor explains, the phrase has always been an assertion of minority rule, a slogan of slavers and segregationists.

The Democratic Socialists want your children to be fed healthy nourishing food and receive the best possible medical care, and to do that they intend to raise taxes on a handful of corrupt and squalid pedophiliac monsters who have stolen 1000x more money than anyone can spend—well not in MY America.

fuck yeah look at us go

“Some donors who intended to give money to a bipartisan effort to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary were, instead, steered to a White House-backed initiative under false pretenses, ...

I suffered outside for the past couple of weeks to bring you all this.

Unless it’s a genuine emergency and you need to find their mom’s phone number, your partner deserves privacy…even if you’re feeling jealous.

“Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the nation’s most prominent progressives, is endorsing Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for Senate in Michigan, wading into her first contested Senate primary of 2026 in one of the nation’s top battlegrounds.”

I mean, people can enjoy Chick-fil-A or ranch dressing. Nobody cares. It only gets weird when that somehow becomes the entire definition of American culture. The country has a lot more to offer than fast food.

This by @transjournalists.org is worth reading if you're a media professional writing about the SCOTUS rulings from yesterday

I promise you if you stop worrying about being cringe you can experience stuff with a full heart.

The reason I speak about the framework being adopted by news and media is to encourage you to think about how the *type* of conversation being had and the information being presented is trying to push you to implicitly take a certain side or form a certain view of events.

Not to mention that there's literally never been an instance where a trans girl high school student-athlete has gotten an athletic scholarship over another girl.

In this framework, trans girls are viewed as illicit usurpers and invaders who OF COURSE do not deserve to compete for scholarships and college. The framework itself - "sympathy for these mothers of cis daughters, who might lose an opportunity!" seeks to de-legitimize trans girls, to other them.

This is going to be a disaster

Kelly Davis was truly the best of the best. Her reporting was fearless, and always grounded in compassion and humanity. She did so much to foster community among San Diego journalists. Thank you, @byjeffmcdonald.bsky.social, for honoring her memory. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/07/01/k...

This sort of framework setting - who gets interviewed with sympathy, who gets treated with suspicion, what you are encouraged to believe or question - is one of the most powerful ways the media sets and shapes agendas, and is often invisible to folks without training in media or criticism.

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

Our perceptions impact how we understand things, and sometimes our instincts can lead us astray. And sometimes, there just isn’t anything to be “right” or “wrong” about! 🎧 youtube.com/shorts/5NnrS... . . . @drlizpowell.bsky.social @doctornerdlove.com

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reading this as a computer guy nodding along like “yes, i also have a mean python at work that is trying to kill me and only has so many ways to interact with the world”

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Sticker Mule is run by a MAGA loving bigot. Death by Stickers Sticker Junkie So many more ARE NOT.

Between this and “fix your hearts or die” there is a David Duchovny scene for everything you need to know about trans rights

We are living in an extremely violent era, in an extraordinarily violent war-making culture. We are all meaner, and more uncivil than we would be if we lived in a peaceable era, or a peaceable culture. I’m sure I am.

Shout out to all the trans kids out there for being braver in the face of hatred than any of these right wing cunts could ever be. Those mothrrfuckers won’t even ride the subway. Fuckin white sheet ass pussies.

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I'm in @slate.com writing about how this World Cup is the Diaspora World Cup, and argue there may be 48 home teams not three:

I can not wait to see this go bonkers

A follow-on consequence to this is that even the most generous read of Ezra Klein’s intellectual project, trying to understand the intellectual underpinnings of his ideological opponents, is a joke. Their ideological underpinning is that they’ll make whatever claim they want in order to gain power.

“"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." - Adam Smith, WEALTH OF NATIONS

Just like Jesus Christ, famous hater of the poor

The Supreme Court still didn't define sex, they just added an adjective in front thinking that's enough. Given the novelty of DNA and genetic testing in 1972, would the ordinary public meaning of sex at the time really mean genetics or observed external characteristics? We know it's the latter.

Goddamn it. Kavanaugh also has the campaign finance case. 6-3, spending limits on dark money violate the First Amendment. Peter Theil's boy comes through for him, throwing WIDE the gates on the billionaire class buying elections.

Clarence Thomas wrote a whole concurrence just to say that he thinks trans people don't exist. There's no extra *law* there or anything. Just fired off a couple of paragraphs to say that transgender is not a thing and people who think they're trans are crazy.

Oh, there's actually just one opinion for both BPJ and Hecox. Basically there were two trans cases that were argued separately, but on the same day. Now consolidated into one opinion. 9-0, no title 9, 6-3 no constitutional protections for trans women either.