Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

Good times

Every story on Page One in Charlotte is about ICE/immigration: @charlotteobserver.com

We are thrilled to now be on BlueSky! We prioritize studies addressing critical health challenges—from major diseases to health equity—that bridge scientific rigor with real-world impact, connecting researchers, clinicians, and policymakers to advance global health 🧬🧪 #OpenScience #MedSky

A movie nerd friend reminded of odd novelizations, so here are a few from my collection. Unfortunately, my Dawn of the Dead (the original!) novel is in storage, but I think this is a pretty nice group. REPTILICUS in notable because the author added so much smut he was almost sued by the filmmakers.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

If your big tent is large enough to accommodate Nazis, then it’s a Nazi tent.

Only silence perfects silence. A.R. Ammons

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 220 of The Continent With insurgencies on the rise, Mali’s military rulers can’t secure a stable supply of fuel. Amid a growing crackdown on media, tankers are under attack, pumps are dry, and Bamako is grinding to a halt. bit.ly/220_TC

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

TIL that a giant TERRIFYING ELEPHANT BUILDING used to dominate the Coney Island landscape in the late 1800s. It started as a hotel, very quickly became a brothel, and eventually burned down under mysterious circumstances. The dude who built it thought animal bldgs were the future of architecture.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

So this morning I get an urgent email for a same day cardiology appointment at my local treatment centre. I was surprised (and alarmed) but fine. I moved things around and went there a few minutes ago. Only there was no real appointment. The receptionist said I wasn't supposed to receive any 1/

The one thing every single one of us can count on in this life is that you will become disabled. The only variable is whether it happens at birth, in old age, or somewhere in between

“The consequences extend beyond lost money. Hazardous gambling is correlated with increased rates of anxiety and depression, and young men who engage in it are more likely to slide into a full-blown gambling addiction. Boys who frequently gamble miss more classes, perform worse in school”

we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

there isn’t enough money under God’s heaven to pay me to feel up the spider cave like this guy

I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy

For all the grand strategy sickos among my Bluesky friends, I cannot recommend the Three Moves Ahead podcast enough. It is THE podcast for gamers of that persuasion.

I don't know if that's true anymore. Real newspapers have a limited scope, the erosion of local news means that the bar for stuff to get reported on is quite high, and I see stuff on TikTok all of the time that people is saying is happening in their communities that I have no way to verify

NEW: National Veterinary Associations, or NVA, have quietly bought up hundreds of local mom and pop pet care practices nationwide. NVA is owned by the Reimann family, the second richest family in Germany with a dark Nazi past. @chuck77.bsky.social in @thenation.com:

Wish me luck—The Scottish Boy (+ a new, similar book!!!) is out on sub to publishers, hoping to find a new home post-Unbound. The book sold out 3 print runs & did big audio numbers on word of mouth, so I hope a new publisher can build on that. If you liked the book, pls RT 💕 synopsis in alt txt

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Way to speak the subtext, Outlook

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

Epstein's buddy and OG Silicon Valley nepo baby probably killed millions when he decided to keep the "free" vaccine his global health iniatitive helped develop as a for-profit patent. Now, he's decided that "some of you may die, but it is a sacrifice I'm willing ot make" to keep his AI running.

oh my GODDDDDDDDDDD (apologies for screenshotting the hellsite, which I no longer use; I saw the link in CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter)

If you, like me, are a fiend for deductive narrative games (Obra Dinn, Golden Idol, etc) then you must check out the tremendous The Seance of Blake Manor (out today), which has become one of my favorite games of 2025. Only caveat is that I ran into a few nasty bugs www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATH_...

Mamdami can't be president because the Constitution says so, but Trump can run three times and personally distribute funds to allies and himself despite what the Constitution says. I think we need to get past the mourning period and realize the U.S. Constitution is dead letter law now.

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Rebranding "NIMBY" to mean "anyone who opposes what I want to build, however dumb or harmful it may be" and "abundance" to mean "permission to build anything I want, however dumb or harmful it may be" is some very predictable co-opting. What if we built good things and not bad things.

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

Sentiment on Bluesky toward Platner shifted abruptly, however, following various revelations including the Nazi tattoo and dismissive comments regarding rape and sexual assault. The majority of viral posts regarding Platner from October 15th onward are critical rather than supportive.

Not that it will stop people from making tired assumptions about what the real American working class is like (white guy in hardhat 4eva), but if you want a handy synecdoche for the changing face of labor, note that the new president of the United Steelworkers Union is a Black woman born in Jamaica

'Map of shipwrecks around Saint Pierre and Miquelon, 1967. A total of 674 ships wrecked in the area from 1816 to 1967.'

If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

He has such bites to show you

all I'm gonna say is that these posts are hours apart

The poll watchers are back

There's a lot of noise going around about fandoms and particularly SFF fans as the "reason" why we are descending into fascism. And while I myself have talked about the long cultural issues with both and how they were battlegrounds for the fascists long before the general public noticed...