My question about the whole Rubio/Times New Roman thing is why the hell isn't the State Department using Merriweather and Source Sans Pro as mandated by the US Web Design System?

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

pals you gotta quit spotify

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Wins 2025 hands down

Nobody involved in this should draw a free breath for the rest of their lives

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Wow and I haven’t even written about Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza yet

This sucksssss

“Blah,” said Toad.

I haven’t seen any of the Avatar movies but I still hope that in the new one the humans finally manage to kill those awful blue monsters

PBOT won’t happy until every last trace of pandemic era outdoor dining is eliminated

Every email I've received today: "It's Giving Tuesday" Me:

Portland should elect people who will direct PBOT to put transit and micromobility clearly and confidently above planning for parking and cars. we could be the one place in the US that turns away from the violence, isolation, and frustration of the automobile

This month's episode of The Detour is a fascinating conversation with Portland architect Brad Cloepfil. oregonhumanities.org/rll/podcast/... @brianlibby.bsky.social this may be relevant to your interests.

Ahead of the 2020 election, we asked people in prison what might have helped keep them from committing the crime that led to their incarceration. Among their responses were: • affordable housing • a stable, well-paying job • mental health support

"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

Traveling over the next few days? Cue up a few episodes of This Place, our short podcast featuring audio postcards from around the state, spoken by the people who live there. Here's where we've been so far this year: oregonhumanities.org/rll/podcast/...

"""Bus rapid transit""" (service every half hour) There is no better car advertisement than spending 30 minutes waiting on a bus.

Just calling the pope the antichrist and encouraging others to disobey Rome, the way totally real and not at all fake-ass Catholics do

“Most of the time, if the video is big enough, you will see something in the top comments telling you, like, ‘Hey, this is just wrong.’ That’s when I would actually look.” Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Oregon has filed 46 lawsuits against the Trump administration, keeping $4.5 billion and counting in the state's hands. buff.ly/T4CVs5L

Dr. Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor boarding a flight to attend an academic conference in DC, was detained by ICE & jailed: “This guy is illegally detained. He's following all the laws. He's been impeccable about doing everything,” said his Univ of Oklahoma colleague Joshua Landis.

Cities moving away from streeteries is one of the stupidest policy trends of late. Harms qualify of life, the feasibility of restaurants, and reduces city revenue. All to make a very small handful of drivers happier (a group that will never be happy).

Oregon Humanities now receives three AI-generated submissions for every real one. If you know your market well, they're pretty easy to spot, because they quote people who don't exist, get basic facts wrong, etc. But I don't envy the international news editors dealing with the flood of slop pitches.

This is what I think of every time someone tells me their favorite LLM is "really good at copyediting." Until it can consistently apply Chicago style, I'll pass.

I’m howling.

Books with Pictures is an irreplaceable part of the comics community! www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...

Five seconds ago we were about to go to war with nigeria for allegedly not protecting persecuted christians and now here comes DHS with OPERATION HO-HO-HEROD

Nov. 19 is World Toilet Day, a global event flush with potential. Puns aside, it’s a serious awareness campaign that illustrates how access to a toilet can affect the health, safety and dignity of a community. www.klcc.org/human-intere...

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

We're mentioned in Jill Lepore's recent New Yorker story on how cultural + historical orgs are programming around the nation's 250th anniversary—amid sweeping funding cuts, censorship, and more. The piece describes our Beyond250 series as "one of the better stories." tinyurl.com/y5byba9u

Getting very tired of the tech bros making their inability to grapple with mortality everyone else's problem.

A federal program that deported 400,000 immigrants from 2008-2014 increased new-construction home prices by 16%, or $50k. This is net of reduced demand effects. 2023 paper haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

The data is pretty clear: paywalls are useless. They put needless barriers between readers and news sources. People either try to find the information available elsewhere for free, or give up and remain uninformed. Either way, the results aren’t great www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for 30 Seconds Before Vanishing Day to all who observe.

i need all my transit-heads and city-planning-heads to go take this survey the city is doing about fixing the dangerous streets near my house and encourage them to just ludicrously maximize pedestrian and bike safety to the brutal ruinous detriment of cars portland.gov/StarkWashington

What if we didn't ask people to concuss themselves for scholarships? What if we didn't knowingly run up a huge future legal liability? What if an institution for developing minds didn't, you know, damage them? What if, like SF State, UC Santa Cruz, and U Vermont, we just didn't have football?

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

I am so grateful for this award and to be in this company I don't have the words www.millerfound.org/news/spark-a...

High Country News is another independent journalism outlet that does great work, focusing on the American West (public lands, indigenous affairs, climate change, water, arts & culture); a digital subscription is only $25/yr.

The nation’s semiquincentennial is upon us. In a year marked by political violence and fear, the prospects for a peaceful anniversary appear remote. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/a2fJKz