Important thread about all the fake videos and disinformation about the invasion of Venezuela.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

"So this whole thing is just to say that if you have a secret family recipe…let this be your sign to share it now. Don’t gatekeep that shit, friend."

Jesus did not die for the sake of traditional gender roles

“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

This is a good visual. Looks like in order to ensure we have proof that we mailed something on a specific day, we will have to stand in line at the post office and request a manual post mark.

Throughout their win vs Botswana at AFCON, a DR Congo supporter replicated the stance of Patrice Lumumba, a key figure in African and Congolese independence who was assassinated in 1961 following a joint plot between political opponents, Belgium, the US, and UK 🇨🇩

This Upton Sinclair quote never misses “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

What struck me from Dr. @jemartisby.bsky.social 's reflection on the Stranger Things finale is that he's a teacher. In a culture that is becoming increasingly more hostile towards children & young people, this finale felt like a love letter to the teens we teach. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

I missed this thread last year and holy buckets, is it accurate 😂🤣

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

I thought this is supposed to be satire. My entire generation is dealing with this. 😩

"It has a deep red binding with a simple floral medallion and is written in black and red ink. The script is plain and readable, suggesting it was created for everyday use rather than ceremonial display. 'The importance of this Quran lies not in luxury, but in accessibility.'"

We love the Rose Parade and watch KTLA's coverage every year but the sound mixing this year is probably the worst we've heard in any broadcast. 😩

It has been a truly upsetting revelation how many people who I thought cared about disinformation, advocating for science, etc just flipped in 0.002 microseconds after a tech company programmed a chatbot to tell them how great their questions are

almost every depiction of #adopted people in tv shows and movies is a projection of adopters’ fears, struggles, and fantasies. Adoptees are mere plot fuel for other characters. The exceptions (like Secrets and Lies, Philomena, and Rabbit-Proof Fence) are so rare as to prove this rule.

On Jack Smith deposition, now released: 100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning. Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print. What Smith says is far more incriminating.

it’s all i’ve got

Spreading opposing talking views with no critical analysis or counter-arguments, or restating them first, helps them win. But if you must, serve it inside George Lakoff's "Truth Sandwich" 🥪 - Start with the truth. The first frame gets the advantage. - Indicate the lie. - Return to the truth.

White dude with camera arrives at daycare and demands to see kids. Daycare workers keep doors and windows closed. White dude alleges fraud. Every Republican backs white dude. That's the current story in Minnesota.

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

LOL well, I'm a burnout grad student in magic going to the underworld to resurrect my prof so he can give me a recommendation letter.

Firm reminder: We live in community with children, not above them.

“Why do you think it is possible to improve cognition by doing less of it?” — the perfect question for this age.

it’s amazing in this moment for anyone in public education to say “you know what kids don’t really need to learn? how to speak for themselves and how to piece together their own arguments about what’s real and true in the face of a lot of bullshit”

Goat down! I repeat: Goat down! www.dn.se/sverige/stor...

I teach high school students and the way gAI marketing is designed to make them believe they can’t write well on their own or that learning to do so is a waste of time… I tell them no computer algorithm can produce anything more interesting than they can think or write themselves.

"He makes targets of them all without so much as suggesting a solution or, more importantly, writing about a future where such solutions may even exist. His songs are voids of empathy, imagination, vulnerability, and emotions other than cheap humor and unaimed rage."

"If you break a child’s will, if you force them to be compliant and submissive and immediately obedient to adults, I cannot say this more clearly: you are grooming that child for abuse."

I saw a need for a comprehensive historical timeline of child advocacy in the United States, which is free and accessible to all. So, I created one.

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

This happens more often than people realize. There are bougie Costcos that host these events regularly. A friend works at one in San Diego and got to present Bob Odenkirk with a Costco birthday cake 😂

A key thing about corporate use of genAI is that it removes all the friction involved between the executives' weird fetish shit and inner thoughts, and public display It does to corporations what alcohol does to a bigot.

GenAI being fundamentally based on a rejection of consent is obvious, but it's not as obvious that it destroys the inhibitions of the people who already reject consent. It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office

This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Absolutely bonkers that the actual Pope following the words of Jesus on Christmas Day is seen as extraordinary. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate and may Palestine be free and its people safe from harm.

there are good people in the world ~sniff~

There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!” But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

The act of writing is *thinking*. If you do not allow yourself to think thoughts that feel wrong, you will never get a feel for what feels *right*.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

This is a model for what actual masculinity should be. Men don’t need to spend more time in caves beating their chests with other men; they need to take their daughters to a meaningful thing and talk to them about it. Relatedly I think the biggest cure for toxic masculinity is platonic women friends

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

"'Okay, okay, but technically it’s dazzling.' Like the world’s most advanced plantation." Holy buckets! This is phenomenal.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Watching Muppet Family Christmas and then re-discovering how the Ripped from TV version someone uploaded to YouTube ends: youtu.be/Bi9qSKZuvC4?... #doomedbaby

Great thread of fantastic games! Shout out to @tinybookshopgame.com for making this dumpster fire of a year a bit more bearable.