A democracy is being dismantled before our eyes and only cartoonists, comedians, and independent journalists are covering it. threads.com/@jeffkoterba

Popular with younger generations to think that anything "old" isn't "good today". Reactor 1 at Nine Mile Point power generating station was built in 1969. The buttons and lights that control it still work. They've never needed a firmware update or software patch. And they're dependable as ever!

The Trump administration is now saying that Green Card seekers have to leave the US to apply. This will affect hundreds of thousands of people, lead to more family separations, and ultimately hurt our economy. This is inhumane, illegal, and illogical. It will hurt both immigrants and citizens alike.

A key reason people in China are more receptive to AI than in America is that the courts there have ruled that you can't just lay people off because Claude can now do research and write code. You need a better reason than that. In America, CEOs can't wait to get rid of "low value human capital".

This is Amin Abdullah, the security guard killed protecting children and stopping the mass shooting in San Diego. Died a hero, but WOULD be alive if it weren’t for the hatred against Muslims pushed by Trump, Vance, and disgusting Republican bigots in Congress like Andy Ogles & Randy Fine.

J6er’s gonna get repatriations before Black people…

Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies. I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics. It makes Nixon look like a boy scout. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/t...

Our government isn’t broken. It works great for billionaires. For Big Pharma. For Wall Street. For corporations that can hire lobbyists. It's rigged for the wealthy and well-connected. We need to build a better system—one that works for working people.

Why is a 76-year-old man doing all the hard work in this moment? Where are the Millennial/Gen Z artists (ahem, Taylor Swift) to shake their audiences into sobriety about what is going on? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

“I, a manager who has not written code in years, have recently landed a starter bug in my team‘s codebase using AI. Here is my long-ass essay on best practices for software engineers and the implications we can clearly draw for the entire industry (also written using AI)“

When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?

Billionaires don't know the first thing about pushing a shopping cart, filling up your gas tank, or trying to make ends meet. Californians deserve a Governor who gets it.

“Could you fucking NOT?!”

I am incredibly grateful for the endorsement from The San Francisco Chronicle. Every day, I wake up and ask myself, "What can I do for San Francisco today?" I look forward to representing you in Congress, so I can continue delivering on housing, healthcare, transit, and protecting our democracy.

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*Iris and her new bubble-dress, which, if you like that sort of thing, is the sort of thing you will really like *In the French Revolution this brioche-eating would likely have involved some pretty woman's head on a pike, but, well, this is 2026 AD, thank goodness www.dezeen.com/2026/05/05/i...

Really cool idea 🤯 - Install this web font - Just add plain text to the DOM - It renders a chart using font ligatures No JS, no hydration FOUC franktisellano.github.io/datatype/

UK Deepmind staff are unionizing in an attempt to prevent Google from using Deepmind's models for military purposes. Even if this falls through I think it sets a really positive precedent and hopefully makes researchers realize how important to the labs they currently are.

My resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 79 co-sponsors. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

I feel the same way about AI as I do about the internet—both could be incredibly valuable contributions to society if they’re managed for the public good. In the hands of fascist tech billionaires, they’re a threat the civilization. It’s not the tech, it’s the ownership structure.

I'm consistently impressed that Wired and Ars Technica continue to do great tech reporting despite being owned by Conde Naste. The duo's reporting basically killed the tech industry's covert effort to neuter a popular Colorado law making it easier and cheaper to repair your own tech:

Happy 1st of May! I want a quiet life of reasonable comfort in a system that sort of works some of the time and a community that at least tries to treat all people with dignity. Could the world please stop making this a radical stance

Exquisitely written. Important issues for U.S. public corruption. Solution oriented. "Lessons can be drawn from peers like Canada, Mexico, and France, which do not exempt their heads of state from conflict-of-interest rules." @abigailbellows.bsky.social, former NSC Director for Anti-Corruption

Katie Porter on why she would be a better governor than Tom Steyer.

Naval Ravikant eloquently explains how people mistakenly believe that money buys you time when in reality what it buys you is attention. You can’t buy that much more time but you can buy the attention of thousands, millions or even hundreds of millions of people.

*So, "wrench attack" has become a term-of-art in cryptoland, I see #jargon #kidnapping #extortion #cryptocurrency

We cannot allow all these data centers running on oil and natural gas to be built, y’all. We simply cannot. The Earth is too precious. To accelerate CO2 production for a technology this stupid is so profoundly reckless

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.

Here we go

The fact that our leaders can’t get together and say “hey, literally everyone (including the leaders at these companies!!) want this to happen more slowly so how about…you can’t build an AI data center unless it meets requirements including zero CO2” is embarrassing.

*In the tech world you always see guys moaning in the "Trough of Disillusionment" because they had this Babbit-esque booster notion that they had to be full of "pep" and "optimism" *You get "disillusioned" when you choose to embrace illusion. It's a foolish choice, like worshipping Tarot cards

This is a war based on lies

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Sanders: The people have got to determine the future of what happens in our country and in the entire planet, not a handful of extraordinarily wealthy, arrogant, anti-democratic multibillionaires. That’s what they want. They have their goals. They are not our goals.

Here’s the thing—especially on April 15: cutting the IRS isn't some abstract budget trim. It's a tax cut delivered through weaker enforcement. And it mostly goes to people with the most scope to hide income.

Dad pun of the year so far, imo

*People need to get used to the reality that these models can talk or even "reason," but they're formless like Silly Putty, and they don't have any factual structure in them arxiv.org/pdf/2601.05050

"All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again." open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.” Robert Hughes

*You see this tedious "Oligarch Era" I've been living through till age 72? If someone will kindly end that while I'm still alive, then I promise to busily get reborn. I'll get a new haircut, maybe I'll take up a new pseudonym or something battellemedia.com/archives/202...

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

no exactly

Seems like @washingtonpost.com should fix the headline on this piece, because...

A few thoughts on the "old" Internet tylergaw.com/blog/the-old...

San Francisco! Help me get the word out to your friends/coworkers. I am hosting a screening of my PBS nature series LIFE UNEARTHED the day before it premieres. Tardigrades and bison and fireflies on the big screen! March 31 at 7pm. Get free tickets here: tickets.arielwaldman.com/events/order...