Jeffries and Schumer, you're next

i’m a jewish NY-10 resident and i’m damn proud of the message we sent.

'Rooftop solar, a home battery, an electric vehicle offer something the grid, the gas station, + the utility bill cannot: certainty. They are no longer just products. They are acts of self-determination.' Fleeing the volatility of fossil fuel for the security of renewables time.com/article/2026...

Brad Lander: "We won't pay for any more of Netanyahu's wars, Israelis won't be safe until Palestinians are free - and Jewish and Muslim New Yorkers won't be divided against each other."

Grateful to fight alongside @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for the Democratic Party we deserve!

No one should apologize for writing using complex vocabulary or atypical structure or sentences or experimental approaches, especially in this day and age. There is also an argument to be made that sometimes traditional approaches unwittingly support the status quo. (Note I said sometimes.)

"A solar farm on a rewetted peatland is home to more types of bird than drained agricultural fields nearby, suggesting that land used for renewable energy can make money for landowners, lock away carbon and boost biodiversity at the same time."

A deliberate bombing of a 76-year-old environmentalist working to protect sea turtles

Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.

Peter Thiel is doing off-the-record retreats the right way. by Ezra Klein

Global heating takes another life www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I may only be a novelist who doesn’t get out much, but I know that if you win a war, you don’t have to pay the loser $300bn

"I had this three-minute rule that if you just shut up and let someone talk, within three minutes they will show you how crazy they really are. And it has happened time and time and time again." —Errol Morris, in conversation with Werner Herzog

Paon-kun, a Thai elephant fairy who loves Japanese anime and subculture, is the mascot for video production company Elephant Stone.

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Gomez's Hamburger - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/ibE1MH

On June 12, 1817, German inventor Karl Drais rode his dandy horse (Draisine or Laufmaschine) - the first design that put two wheels in a line - 14 kilometers in and around Mannheim for the world's first bicycle ride. Happy 209th #BicycleBirthday, BICYCLE! 🚲 🎉

Trillionaires shouldn't exist. What Elon Musk is costing us, by me: www.thenation.com/article/econ...

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Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

Japan reforested with Japanese cedar (sugi) and cypress (hinoki) in the 1950s to rebuild post-war forests. Now the pollen gives 40%+ of its population hay fever. Climate change extends pollen seasons further. Today’s decisions shape tomorrow’s reality. Short-term fixes can become long-term crises.

"The “knowing” has been outsourced to a machine; we just retrieve the bits we want and leave the rest behind. Whatever that is, it isn’t knowledge, and one of the truly astonishing things about this moment is the fact that so many people are perfectly happy to know so little."

The proponents of this unethical, unsustainable tech are sociopaths: "By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million..."

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

Ted Chiang: "The primary difference between deepfake photos and LLM conversations is that the people who generate the former are deliberately trying to fool others, and many of the people who elicit the latter from LLMs have inadvertently fooled themselves."

The “ai wearable” at work and the luxury surveillance pendant, glasses, ring, and necklace are the two prongs of an all-out assault on the idea that people should ever have any freedom from ubiquitous tracking and recording.

“Content” also insidiously shifts significance and validity to the platform, not the substance — content is contained, what defines content is the existence and form of the container

“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

The money was always there for the good things.

This free online course organized by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas in partnership with @GIJN.org, “Climate journalism: Investigative reporting for every beat,” runs from June 1–28.

Hey, NYC! @comixaction.com is gonna go to this great @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social postcard party in Prospect Park on June 3 -- come join us and write postcards to @mayor.nyc.gov demanding a moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools!!! actionnetwork.org/events/south...

Violence demonstrates that yes of course –– it likes its little joke from time to time. Wisława Szymborska, “Example” (Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak) #everynightapoem

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Life under a Delhi flyover: how one homeless family endures the city’s extreme heat

Methane is “the only greenhouse gas that could be restored to preindustrial levels in our lifetimes,” Jonathan Mingle writes. “Reduce emissions to zero and let the atmosphere diligently scrub out the gas within a decade or two.”

amazing this is not a skit

why don't you watch the Monterey Bay Aquarium live jellyfish cam and maybe you'll calm down

Lucy keeps putting that football out and the Times keeps trying to kick it

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

Wildland firefighters are often unsung heroes. But there’s another underappreciated, fire-preventing hero in some of their midsts: goats.

In Japan, when rain falls from a clear sky, it's said that foxes are having a wedding #FolkloreThursday art by Mizuki Shigeru

Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud

this is some real bullshit

Physical spaces drive scholarly serendipity. I was particularly appalled that MIT shut down the library devoted to scientific artifacts (which are really important for the history of science).

Mark Cowan, Caiman in the Amazon butterflies & bees sometimes drink tears from reptiles where salt is scarce

#RIP Sonny Rollins 📷 Frank Stewart, 2017 “Sonny Rollins’s sound is as uncapturable as it is memorable, so you’re left with nothing to do except to keep on listening.” - Giovanni Russonello www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BBc...

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Wonder why EU, US, Asia are fighting so desperately over cars? As the largest chunk of cross-border traded goods, the car *is* globalization In @thepolycrisis.bsky.social we ask the essential questions: Who makes them? Who feeds them? www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cas...