the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

i'm just walking around my house muttering "jesus nailed the miracle without venture capital" over and over

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Wrath of God

I’ve never seen anything like this press conference. Trump is smitten with Mamdani. Constant compliments, just totally charmed

With my collaborator Zachary Muhlbauer, our article on how public writers think about framing quantitative information has been published at Written Communication. Here is a free link: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/YRFI6... #teamrhetoric

This is going to be THE case study in how aligning a model to be too positive about a brand can backfire. I say "THE" because I seriously doubt a brand this large will ever screw it up this bad again.

[Sam Altman voice] the AI teddy bear will meet the critical gap we have in sex education all over the world. It is kink shaming to not buy your kids the AI teddy bear and to not replace your kids’ health teachers with the AI teddy bear

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.

"I’m just driving as fast as possible because I don’t fully understand the purpose of life. I have, like, a general sense? I know we’re supposed to have money and live somewhere, and we need to eat food, but after that, I don’t really get the rest of it."

lmao they demonized halford and ozzy and d&d. dee snider testified before congress!

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Please join the Coalition at 1 PM (EST) on November 17th for “Generative AI as Feminist Methodology,” a Cheryl Glenn Advancing the Agenda webinar. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?

This would be such an amazing, long-term beneficial thing: invest in in-house edtech production and eliminate much of or all licensing agreements with vampiric edtech companies

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

Meredith Johnson and I published a piece back in the spring about accessibility and pedagogy and table design that I'm off-the-charts proud of and I have no idea if anyone's read it 😩 dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

This one time on Twitter, @lecagle.bsky.social asked ppl to link to 1 pub of theirs they loved, but maybe slipped under the radar. I got SO many good recs from that list, so I wanted to replicate it here: link to one of your pubs that you wish more people read/cited! #TeamRhetoric #AcademicSky

It’s wild that so much of Dem politics must prioritize worrying about hurting the feelings of 80 year old men.

"Mamdani has presented some sort of existential threat to the media, both on the right (full-on panic) and in the establishment press (somewhere between hostility and puzzlement)." Good @sulliview.bsky.social on media and Zohran (cites mine positively!) margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/why-the-me...

“Either omniscient robots deliver utopia or we eventually get [vague future payoffs from infrastructure investment]. Every AI investment is thus justified, every crazy promise is thus rendered credible, based on a vision of our glorious future. We’ve entered the realm of faith rather than reason.”

Thou shalt not falsify the AI bubble open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...

“There’s no real appetite to oust Schumer, though. Nor is there any interest from another Democrat to challenge him, according to interviews with more than a dozen Democratic senators.” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social Oh Sen Dems are not in disarray - they are in array - in their collective cowardice.

Have the worlds elite always been such world class losers like this and we never knew about it or is this just a sign of our times?

A good analogy along these lines is a pro sports commissioner like Roger Goodell or Adam Silver. They do the bidding of and take the heat for powerful people who want cover for doing things people hate

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

this is senate dems’ second coordinated “just enough” vote to help republicans and betray house dems of the year, remember

So either Schumer organized this performance art to vote it thru or he is an ineffectual leader who could not sway votes to his preference. There’s plenty to work with here to oust him as leader. And to send a message that we are not as stupid as they prefer us to be.

Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.

Really don’t care among these performance artists tbh. They all own this surrender.

To “marginally increase taxes on [those] who have benefitted most from the massive value generated by the human system that is New York..to use those revenues to fund programs that will benefit the humans in New York that generated the value” makes him “a dangerous radical” to some. Hero to most.

“The media is so strongly influenced by the images that are its own creation” - Robert Caro in The Power Broker on how the New York Times and other newspapers spent 35 years never questioning or investigating the most powerful man in New York

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

JUST POSTED: some thoughts about the arguments of the past few weeks, Tuesday's election results, and where we are headed from here.

What is she…a child? You’re an elected official — get over it.

if you can't handle journalists asking clarifying follow up questions you have no business managing reporters. go run a dick's sporting goods

Note to all the Democratic politicians with aspirations who are coming out with statements, emails congratulating Democrats across the country for their well deserved victories but leaving out a big name from NYC - we see what you are doing. It's petty, pathetic and we will remember.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

Why is none of this about meeting people's real material needs?

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

“I’m a law-abiding citizen who never thought I’d be of such interest that the U.S. government would use my tax dollars & yours to try to send me to prison…[after being] manhandled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent trying to remove my phone from my hand.” www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

No one has said it better:

Utley woulda been on first base with a pitch that inside

I’ve watched too much seranthony…but nothing is predictable in this game. He’s gonna walk in this runner

They literally ruin everything they touch