New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE. "Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

Trump's line about the murdered Jamal Khashoggi—"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about....Things happen."—is truly heinous. It's evil. The president of the United States said that. In the nauseatingly gilded Oval Office. Next to the dictator who ordered the killing.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

always remember:

According to more than a dozen college and uni students, “the Canvas outage threw off their schedules, preventing them from not just submitting and viewing assignments but also from participating in-class activities, contacting professors, and accessing the textbooks and other materials…”

Peanuts considering what has been built on the back of these works. Good… but peanuts all the same.

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

Don't follow me. I'd rather not be perceived.

I could not fucking care less if my actual life depended on it

PUT AWAY YOUR THROWING DARTS, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE HUNGER. AND YOU WILL WIN.

Border Patrol literally intervened in a fight against an *active wildfire* to arrest and interrogate... THE PEOPLE FIGHTING THE FUCKING FIRE. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This is so important. We can't just allow frankly evil technologies to dominate us unchecked. The party should be over for Silicon Valley but which countries have the guts to actually pull the plug or regulate them into the insignificance they should be?

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

It really feels to me that a strong approach to the AI panic in education really is just... smaller classes, not treating education like an assembly line, and making lessons matter.

I despair. I started to write specific things I was despairing about but you know what? I just despair.

“Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, and do not let despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.” Gov JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov bsky.app/profile/govp... bsky.app/profile/govp...

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

I'm not reflexively anti-technology. I was always that guy at my uni who was eager to try out some new thing that might be a cool new way for students to learn. But those new things were just tools we could choose to use, they weren't the entire ocean in which we had no choice but to swim.

It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.

day 2* of continuing to not give a single shit about polling for a 2028 election that may not happen if can't stop performing the dumbassery that got us here! *it's really day infinity

I can't really think of much I care about less than another article about who should run for president in 2028, if I'm honest. If I made a list of 50 critical issues for right now, I still wouldn't get to "presidential race 2028."

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.

Texas Republicans have locked Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier inside the state house chamber and refuse to allow her to leave. They are requiring Democrats to sign “permission slips” and have a police escort in order to leave the chamber, and she refuses to sign it.

So when we said this was a big book, we meant it was a really, really big book. @punctumbooks.bsky.social

“Yet despite the encouraging numbers, Maricopa county is still on track to be the deadliest place for heat in the US after New York City, the country’s largest metropolis, where heat contributes to 525 deaths on average each year.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I can't turn this off because I'm collecting things for my AI Wall of Shame, but if you're not self-selecting a life of suffering like I am, you should do this.

"The horrors persist, but so do I"

😬

Here's a version that was archived. archive.org/details/60-m...

This is why we're in a post-satire moment. Every day we're just "torment nexus? Torment nexus!"

Every day feels full of the potential to become a villain origin story.

This is what it is, along with a financial incentive to play up anecdotes for the algorithm. For a lot of Americans, their feeds both locally and nationally have turned into Best Of Liveleak, an outgrowth of a political project Musk and Congressional Republicans have wanted for years.

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

I’ve started trying to use “curiosity” as my index, because the genuinely curious will seek and be open to revision while the anti-curious will resist learning. It doesn’t have to do with innate capacity.

If anyone has any leads on Graphic Design/UI UX positions, PLEASE PLEASE let me or @avclub.bsky.social know! We are in desperate need, so any and all leads/opportunities are appreciated!

Congrats all -- we've created Hell

I encourage everyone to read all of the reporting that's coming out and see how horrifying this is, and then to think a moment about how social media companies have wormed into every aspect of our lives - ESPECIALLY Meta. thread, sorry-

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

You know what I need today? To open a new book by a truly delightful human who deserves all the success this world has to offer. Teared up typing that. Here’s to you, @mossyair.bsky.social. 💛💛

I'd like to thank Past Me for saving my life and dollars by neglecting to throw away several partial bags of coffee and filling the cabinet with them. I owe Past Me an apology. I wasn't really familiar with your game.

Fucking yikes.

“I felt an immediate knot in my stomach when I walked into a restroom at a Yellowstone lodge and forgot to take my glasses off. There’s an easy-enough fix: Make sure you take the glasses off anywhere you shouldn’t be recording.” 🙃

It's super weird* that I keep turning off Adobe's little automatic PDF/AI nonsense that keeps popping up in my browser and yet it keeps coming back. Adobe, please leave me and my browsing the fuck alone. *not actually weird, just the terrible world we made

as i wrote about yesterday, reality is a perpetual source of irritation for fascists because it undermines their claim to power

Wow

One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall

This week's episode is McMahon v. New York, where the Court let the Trump gut the Department of Education without even bothering to write an opinion.