Trying to get ahead of that Joyce Carol Oates dunk

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

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Great read about Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz. Story of community, solidarity, and empathy bringing the children of day laborers together with suburban moms. Gift link. By Andrew Carter @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

state legislators should be paid more. otherwise the legislatures are full of dilettantes, cranks, and nepobabies. this is why you keep hearing about the craziest fucking state laws

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Hey everyone, thank you so much for the outpouring of support. I need to pay rent, and I launched a GoFundMe spot.fund/LahutRentFund

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. 🧵/

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

No GoFundMe, but I am thinking about rent for this month, so if you don’t wanna subscribe to the newsletter and just feel like chipping in some beer money or whatever: Venmo is @ Jake-Lahut straightfromthehut.substack.com

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SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

“The network of veterinary labs that's responsible for testing ceased its regular meetings because of the shutdown, Poulsen says. "The shutdown just kind of pours gas on a smoldering fire and makes us vulnerable," he says. "It's a national security issue."

This BI article refers to NEAL KATYAL as “John Mulaney’s lawyer friend” and the writer seems to have very little idea of who Katyal is. Open the schools.

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

I bear full responsibility for the intra-South Carolina beef that continues to escalate because of Nancy Mace. Original story here: www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

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Because of an onslaught of AI-generated research, specifically in the computer science (CS) section, arXiv is going to limit which papers can be published. @mjgault.bsky.social has more:

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

At Broadview ICE detention facility for Mass today, Fr. David Inczauskis, SJ reveals “tragic” and “devastating” news that a member of group bearing Guadalupe Banner to Mass today, was detained by ICE this morning in procession to detention facility.

"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New: a class action suit filed in Chicago's federal court this morning alleges overcrowding and inhumane conditions at the Broadview, IL ICE facility, as well detainees being denied legal counsel. The plaintiffs say this amounts to 1A and 5A violations.

This is a lie: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

every paragraph in this @emilymullin.bsky.social story is wilder than the last www.wired.com/story/startu...

Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, who was indicted today for protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility: "We've been punched, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, rubber bullets from snipers on roofs going into local businesses windows."

something very sinister about the starbucks "protein foam"

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

here's @jakelahut.writes.news w some interesting behind-the-scenes about how our elderly president goes slop mode: www.wired.com/story/donald...

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In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.” We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

Leigh is at the hearing for Greg Bovino of Border Patrol in front of Chicago's Judge Ellis, who issued a restraining order (TRO) re use of projectiles & tear gas (which, since the order was issued, feds/ICE/BP have used A LOT, incl Bovino himself). In any case, good thread:

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.

Fascinating dive into a corner of the AI slip economy in music streaming: www.hearingthings.co/why-is-it-so...

Went to bed early last night because of infant, woke up in middle of the night and the baseball game was still on, went back to sleep. Incredible stuff

I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Absolutely leapt onto the Blue Jays bandwagon as a Former Toronto Resident™️

The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fire the director of the U.S. Copyright Office. https://to.pbs.org/3X2xpNi

WIRED has learned that surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have removed a gene-edited pig kidney from 67-year-old Tim Andrews. The organ functioned for nearly nine months, longer than any previous pig organ transplant. www.wired.com/story/man-ha...

financially entangling myself with isaac chotiner until it becomes unethical for him to interview me

The number of times my jaw dropped reading this story… it was many times! www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week