I hate this myth so fucking much because it started after a study specifically to see if brains developed after 18. So they limited the study to age 25. And people decided that meant brains develop only until 25 even though a later study with no age limit showed brains NEVER stop developing.

2/2 Just a glass of water. Centerpiece of Velazquez's painting. Mesmerizing.

An analysis of data center developments and community responses shows that resistance really works! In @bcmerchant.bsky.social’s latest newsletter: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/working-cl...

someone on Twitter once posted a breakdown showing how many gay men died of AIDS in various districts of Florida, overlaid with how many votes Gore lost those districts by in 2000, and I've genuinely never been okay since. there literally would have been no George W. if those men were still with us

Yourself, but as a cartoon

Anybody else prescribed Prozac intermittently for PMDD? Do you ever get used to the jaw clenching and jacked up shoulders every time you come off?

The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views. Do your thing.

Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.

On top of all of this gleeful destruction of everything that is needed to actually eradicate a pest or disease, there is also the post-2020 complete bipartisan rejection of public health as an idea. Neither party believes public health is a thing, let alone a thing worth pursuing.

This is their guy! Of course they believe this!

My Thinking Through Printing keynote began with this provocation—as an interface for interacting with large language models, the chat box relies on a flawed skeuomorphism that misleads users, obscuring rather than revealing the relationship between users’ inputs & the language model systems’ outputs

The fact that we have to make this argument is tragic

Being real with you, I think that comment of his tells us everything we need to know about how he handled himself in conflict zones. Like war crimes is not some abstract thing we lob at him because of Blackwater anymore.

This memecoin ass manipulation is a window into how so much billionaire, and near-trillionaire for Musk, wealth is all accounting and valuation tricks rather than the genius and hard work that they and their acolytes claim @reckless.bsky.social talked about this bullshit on Decoder pod

Good point. In the paper, I was careful to say that AI influences could entail everything from minor osmotic influence (authors who don't necessarily use LLMs themselves, but are citing/recycling words used by those who do) to papers entirely written by LLMs. There's a lot of heterogeneity.

Literally anyone who does anything with regularity and dedication that isn’t typing angry shit on the Internet. Make things, grow things, start distilling moonshine, look there are thousands of options.

AI has been engineered to be extremely addictive. We have asked a ton of young people to interact with it during some of the most emotionally and physically risky years for young people around drug use as part of their academic and professional development.

Me, a beleaguered grad student, dealing very normally with the end of my relationship

HBO musta used AI for these west wing episode summaries, because LOLLLL

The money was always there for the good things.

Last year the vast majority of my students chose to buy physical copies of the historical monographs I assigned even though they had the option to get digital versions which were often less expensive.

The US military has now murdered 200 people in small boats in the waters off South America. Local fishing communities have been upended.

This has been tragic and infuriating to watch

the biggest bubble ever constructed is white male U.S. corporate hustlebro culture, and it's painfully disorienting for the sad chaps when they wander off campus into the real world

I want the American people to understand that: 1. The worst elements of the Trump administration are taking notes as we speak, 2. In-depth international coverage is even more crucial than ever before to know thy enemy, and 3. Therefore billionaires are racing to dismantle international desks

I wish this wasn't on Substack and I think you need to read it anyway, because it's so important. " A federal health website is lying to the people using it and cannot even keep the lie consistent."

"no matter the intent or how many pro bono cases it handles, what a Big Law firm spends the overwhelming majority of its time doing is fighting to create legal precedent that will entrench the power of those who already have it." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

if we're arguing social media is too dangerous for kids 16 and under, we're basically saying it impacts the brain and potentially body like an addictive drug. this IS kinda true. people seldom carry that logic to its end. doing that would mean admitting every adult online is getting fucked up 24/7

"This is the standard tech playbook. Fire the engineers who know how the system works, fire the ones organizing labor, hope nothing catastrophic breaks before you can ship something splashy." This absolutely sucks

With the exception of Morris (tf you on, man?!) this is about what this country deserves. Mid for mid.

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

it's inconcievable to me that this episode will not be one of the worst and deadliest in American history. like, hundreds of deaths feels like the floor, mass graves seems more realistic.

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles. January 2026 - Washington Post archive.is/CVXYF (no paywall)

How about this explanation… even for folks doing reasonably well in this strange economy, they can see the worst people in the world just raking in money in the ugliest of ways, and they know they’ll never be able to compete with that, and that their money will be worth less and less over time.

its pretty annoying when people just like. cant wrap their minds around the idea that disabilities (even mental illness ones) cannot be conquered by Willpower

I understand why this feels true, but is not true. Research infrastructure is captured by the same logics. Research infrastructure that makes money off their labor. All faculty have to do is stop submitting their work onto all of the tech that the universities pay for.

I am clumsily saying that while I appreciate what is being said in this document I wish it was being said by other organizations with real power and concerns for social justice instead of, you know, the Vatican. This is what humanities departments should be doing! And media! Literature! The arts!

“‘What we saw here is unfortunately just what we see all over the country,’ Kim told @nj.com on Monday.” “It’s sad, it’s a sad day.” Senator @kim.senate.gov was among the crowd of protesters when federal immigration agents fired pepper balls. www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

Lovely. With alt text

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development of AI.

Week 1: Surely, no union is worth preserving with the spilled blood of a brother, are we not Cain raising our hand to Abel? Week 3: The Confederacy is an affront to God and I shall call no southerner "brother" so long as a single breath remains in my lungs.

*very quiet voice* I think most doordash vs restaurant vs cooking discourse just keeps us working classes attacking each other instead of uniting against the billionaires who don't care if any of us eat and would rather we all just die

January 2020 has become my benchmark - there were already signs of the GOP pivot to anti-trans politics as their top issue, but no legislation had been passed in any state. If you think trans people had too many rights six years ago, there's no common ground on which we can meet.