A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

The NYT, along with many other credible news orgs, do this ALL THE TIME

NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”

After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive. www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

“But I have to enable Holocaust denialism because my favorite sports reporters are there”

Since people asked, my top places for trans people right now are France, Australia (parts), Canada (parts), Spain (though politics there are tenuous), Iceland, Uruguay.

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

NEW: Brad Lander says he wants a trial, not a deal to drop his charge stemming from an arrest by ICE.

Make the boards and executives of AI companies personally liable for the harms they cause

"Bill Adams, chief economist for Comerica Bank, calculates that a worker would have to earn $170,000 in 2025 to wield the same purchasing power that a $100,000 salary delivered in 2005." The. Hell? www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

As I told the Columbia Journalism Review, this swatting incident occurred just before I published an investigative report that unmasked the operators of four major neo-Nazi accounts on X. I don't think the timing was coincidental. www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

“Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation ever studied.” Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist newrepublic.com/article/2030...

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

I really thought we'd emerge from covid with an appreciation of the frailty of life. But Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan... the causal dehumanization of refugees... it's hard not to feel like we're all just bodies for the elite meat grinder.

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

Honestly, it feels like we can never count on white folks/ white systems to hold the line for justice. The ability to tolerate the discomfort that comes from principled conflict is unbelievably low

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

This makes me absolutely incandescent

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI! This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The idea that networked communication's unavoidable endpoint as being "a highly efficient manufacturer of niche suicide cults" is really spot on to how it feels to be on here right now, so many people seeking oblivion in one way or another

If you heard this from a guy in dirty pants on the subway, the Republicans would use it as an example of how dangerous cities are. We have such a poor understanding of mental health in this country that broad swaths of people just do not realize they are seeing delusional disorders in real time.

In speeches, Vought spoke of “demoralizing federal workers to the point that they don’t want to do their jobs.” “.. we want them to not want to go .. because they are.. viewed as the villains,” he said. “We want to put them in trauma.” from 2024: @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor, pleads guilty to sexually abusing a child www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Jeffrey Epstein never got kicked out of Wall Street's VIP club. Epstein's banking and investment activities in the years before his 2019 death were more widespread than previously known — including accounts at several banks as well as large transactions with well-known hedge funds.

The initial Times write up does not mention that the feds are now alleging that the MTA's compliance with federal regulations is unconstitutional, a laughable assertion on its face, the feds attempted to re-write the rule last night, and that this grant pause is illegal. All of these are facts.

This is naked extortion. The so-called "unlawful DEI principles" that this Vought fellow is on about? They're required by law. Every Administration since Reagan has signed off on it. Including Trump I. www.transportation.gov/civil-rights...

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they look…

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

“Male loneliness” is a vague, empirically unfalsifiable Potemkin village of an argument meant to smuggle yet more anti feminism into popular consensus.

“The Mamdani administration will allocate $20 million per year to ensure that every school can have an Open Street. This money will support additional programming, operational support, and maintenance to ensure each child has access to clean, safe, and fun space—every day.”

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

Fascists work by misdiagnosing problems and having solutions that only solidify their power.

Mamdani Holds Huge Lead in Mayor’s Race, Times/Siena Poll Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/n...

Yes www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

basically trump’s “If I Did It”

Today’s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump’s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field. New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

Science: Trump supporters are assholes.

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.