For those of you already missing Stephen Colbert, he's resurfaced on community public access in Monroe, Michigan, and no, I am not joking: youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4

The protected area, named Mia-yaltwa Ha’lidzogm hoon, is the result of an agreement between six coastal First Nations and the provincial and federal governments.

The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.

Mamdani is going to start an arms race of elected officials actually doing good things for their constituents. It's going to infuriate most Democrats who prefer to tell their voters to fuck off while texting for dollars.

From this month’s Harper’s Index. buff.ly/GjALrXt

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

For-profit companies are buying up youth sports leagues and selling them back to parents—and the trend is revealing a larger crisis, Senator Chris Murphy argues: “Virtually everything in America has become a commodity—even middle-school hockey.” theatln.tc/tpcWhN1L 📸: Ben Jackson / NHLI / Getty

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

Donald Trump Is Finally Cracking Up for Real newrepublic.com/article/2101... via @newrepublic.com

Really? You dont say. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community. Yesterday I called for EPA and Congressional investigations into the impact of data center construction on local drinking water supplies. We cannot take water for granted.

I think it's under-appreciated how much user-hostile recipe sites and news articles smothered in pop-ups and video ads have negatively polarized the average normie against the open web, and helped to drive adoption of AI as an alternative way to get basic information

the athleticism of elite NBA players is beyond belief

For so many people, this is their only accessible bookstore (hi, it’s me). Boycotting means paying $10+ more to order from an indie and have it shipped. People on fixed incomes (hi again) don’t really have a boycott option here.

someone was explaining Chinese labor law on reddit the other day w/ this and I had to screenshot it because it just seems so totally unreal

A new project educators can use to teach the many ways AI resistance takes shape: "Now people around the world are mobilizing to resist the empires of AI and to nourish visions of the future that work for all of us. Amid an onslaught of negative news, this project centers hope."

Boy Cavalier up to no good again? I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you. www.commondreams.org/news/meta-ai...

Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects help to explain the success of an array of puzzling health treatments

Yes. www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-...

A new Nieman Lab analysis shows that more than 340 U.S. local news sites are now limiting @archive.org’s ability to preserve their stories. Several sites are owned by five of the seven largest local news publishers in the country. www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more...

I know it seems incredibly obvious to most of the people I hang out with on here, but sometimes it is worth saying to local government staff, "You can ask the question of whether a data center is the highest and best use of your community's resources."

College grads are shaming brain-wormed A.I. hucksters at ceremonies because they know better—"by now, they’ve been bludgeoned nonstop with A.I. promotions across social media, TV, and their own academic departments" slate.com/technology/2... good work from @nitishpahwa.com via @slate.com

Wait I saw a YouTube video this morning where AOC met the conservative family that gave her those jars, lemme find it rq youtu.be/7PvfKhhKtgo?...

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

Colorado just legalised ‘balcony solar’ for apartments and renters These systems can be mounted on apartment balconies, patios and walls, opening rooftop-style solar access to millions of renters and multi-family households. buff.ly/ArwMR52 #ShareGoodNewsToo

In California, Senate Bill 686 has been voted unanimously out of the Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee. The new legislation, known as the Plug and Play Solar Act – would allow people in California to install small systems of up to 1,200 watts (AC) to a building’s electrical system.

this is a masterpiece

When nobody visits the web anymore, what incentive is there for people to populate it with information? That means AI search will be retrieving information from deteriorating, out-of-date sources and feeding it endlessly back to us. And that means even fewer people will populate the web. (2/3)

The federal government ordered Flaming Gorge water released and cuts to Lake Powell releases, to prevent collapse.

Eric Lusito crossed the former Soviet Union to explore vast scientific sites, some of which have been deserted for years, for his new book

Great piece by Rachel Janfaza: The 23-Year-Old YouTuber Cable News Can’t Ignore www.theupandup.us/p/23-year-ol...

This date is like the low-background steel of the internet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-bac...

Hi hello we are Kagi and we do not do this 👇

Anthropic and OpenAI now generate 89% of revenue among 34 leading AI startups tracked by The Information. Their lead is raising doubts about how much value will be left for app makers built on their models. More insights: https://thein.fo/3PpeFrq

It is ridiculous, and one of those low level stressors when you forget to cancel and they renew automatically, counting on you to be too busy with life to deal with. It’s a brilliant but diabolical strategy. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Wade Rosen, CEO of Atari, is one of the most fascinating execs in the video-game industry. He's a 41-year-old heir to a farming fortune who has invested tens of millions of dollars into revitalizing the retro game company in a sustainable way. New column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Hi. Not really sure how to promote this story...but it is about AI and the overwhelming feeling of it bleeding into everything with no concrete articulation for what a good version of that future looks like. It's about feeling like every 8th person is living on another planet. Hope you'll read it

Americans still favor state/church separation despite Christian nationalist push, a new poll from the Pew Research Center confirms. Read more ➡️ ffrf.us/4ugk0jW

“Instead of a poor-man’s Inferno, filled with violence, faithlessness and betrayal, I had actually delivered a kind of Gone with the Wind of the West.”

The loss of local media in particular is associated with greater loneliness, lower awareness of public officials, and more corruption. It’s like an invisible tax levied on our communities… mattdpearce.substack.com/p/you-couldn...

I'm impressed by my @propublica.org colleagues every day, but omg the new Paper Trail podcast is so good. Amazing work from @jlussenhop.bsky.social + team. Take a listen: www.propublica.org/podcast/what...

I don't think recent memory has featured an industrial company with as much of a reputational fall-off as Tesla, both because of the decrease in quality of its cars and the increase in blithering fascism in its CEO. A decade ago a Tesla was a status object; now it's a vague embarrassment at best.

The future of Western forests depends on professional pinecone collectors. They’re slowly being starved out of existence.

“That is the artisan model of the occult — a retail service for meaning, delivered one client at a time. The chatbot industrializes that model.“

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"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." -Ursula K. Le Guin, *A War Without End*

. How balcony solar can help renters and homeowners save money We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change! More: theconversation.com/how-bal... .

Best quote: “As I asked the billionaires, ‘How are you going to pay your Navy SEALs to protect your compound once your Bitcoin’s worthless?’” he said. Gift Article: wapo.st/4tiGUFT