Rich people are not like us www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

Just used AI to write a letter asking the city council to not vote for AI surveillance in Austin Parks. Yes, I do see the irony. www.handsoffcentraltx.org/events/febru...

The news www.instagram.com/reel/DJiKtmo...

ICE pulls over Texas Monthly’s senior taco editor while reporting in West Texas www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-n...

Senate Democrats say they won't vote for ICE funding without reforms. Good. Now, we must negotiate hard. At least five demands must be non-negotiable before the bill comes to the House:

This is the mayoral message New Yorkers deserve

Just finished reading The Authoritarians by Canadian Bob Altemeyer professor of psychology who researched authoritarians for decades. Lots of psychological studies told conversationally and available free at theauthoritarians.org and if you are in to personality tests there are a bunch included.

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

The Trevor Project, known for its hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, received $45 million from billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025. https://bit.ly/4sEbdYv

Kangaroo delivery service

My winter break is about to come to an end. I spent most of it disassociating and reading books. I read so fast that I forget a lot of what I read so I’m trying to add more reflection so I remember more. #booksky🧵of what I read:

This our top holiday tradition “Looking good bill ray”

Ooo I’m going to have sexy ceramic times

Holy f@$k! “ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.” This whole video is jaw-dropping.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

It feels like we slipped into another timeline this week where good things can happen.

Did any Republican win tonight?

A team from Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Purdue University found that “continual exposure to junk web text induces lasting cognitive decline in large language models (LLMs).” futurism.com/artificial-i...

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

In case you left Threads and are second guessing your decision: Don’t

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

Watched the Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns blocks the sun. It would never work as an episode concept today because half the town would be pro- blocking the sun.

IDK how much longer this society can last www.garbageday.email/p/the-tech-b...

This is a great story about a sea turtle who had been in captivity for *40 years* and has been rehabilitated back to the ocean! He found his nesting grounds 🥲 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Austin Pets Alive needs help with the Kerrville Animal Shelter. Supplies, fosters, volunteer drivers to go out to Kerrville for supply delivery and animal pickup. Fundraiser donations through Instagram: www.instagram.com/linking/fund...

It’s bleak out there, but it’s heartening to know millions of people from all walks of life took the time to ruin one specific persons birthday, America’s hater spirit remains strong

I don't think the guy who claims to have gotten a black eye from playing with his kid will colonize Mars.

It really doesn't feel like the dawning of the age of Aquarius really followed through.

The person in my neighborhood who has had a Trump flag since the first round took it down and replaced it with a medical marijuana sign. So curious what happened there.

NEWS: The courts have decided against DOGE and the US government in their legal battle to take full control of the United States Institute of Peace, including a headquarters building with an estimated value of $500 million. www.wired.com/story/usip-d...

THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING

A fun fact is that Hitler had his final freakout after hearing a radio broadcast detailing how joyful Italians spent a day spitting on Mussolini's body in a gutter.

“I’m not remembering a German guy named Hans”

Omfg

Turtles are back! #oceanoptimism #marineecology #research apnews.com/article/enda...

This is the education plank of the plot to enslave America: secular private academies for the rich, religious instruction for the middle class, and a prison-like rump of public schools for the poor. With our Constitution in tatters, they're racing to implement it

somebody figured out how to hack crosswalk systems and has been recording fake public announcements by billionaires. Here's the one in Seattle From "Jeff Bezos":

Land Acknowledgments are back!

they really need to invent a second type of money these guys can play around with separate from the money I need to buy food. Business Money. Money 2

If you are looking for an AI Chatbot to chat about Ethics, Peter Singer has one based on his work www.petersinger.ai And it's animal friendly!

Listening to news radio is wild in these times. A story closes with a legal expert saying “yeah that would be the end of our democracy” then “and next a story about hummingbirds”

lol can’t imagine why US is falling apnews.com/article/worl...

I dreamed that the government cut down all the branches off the live oaks out of spite. When I woke up they were still there, it wasn’t true but I realized we never should have told them we like trees.

Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now. Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government. What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising. 🇷🇸

How an exchange between Mangione and the mother of a sick child challenges the mainstream narrative about the accused CEO shooter's supporters open.substack.com/pub/ashelby/...

I did a cartoon about the disproportionate amount of attention we are forced to pay to the worst couple of people in the world www.dailykos.com/story/2025/3...