"I logged on to find several emails tagged 'External' because DOGE just brought in their own servers and plugged them into the network."

Hello! I have been thinking a lot about the tech organizers are using right now (what works & what the risks are) & I am going to write something up. If you are organizing, tell me about how you hate or love your tech stack & why. Please DM/text me on Signal ASAP.

11/ There are still some copies available, but this book deserves a reissue with a introduction by somebody famous.

This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Could someone with the right background please explain to reporters how this is a very intentional attempt to reverse the traditionally strongly anti-tech and anti-surveillance aspects of Christian millenarianism, because I‘m afraid it may matter.

bowl bums

we're having some really good luck with persuasion; they hate what it's done to all their services and daily interactions and they HATE stealing from their own capacities and wellbeing to fuel a bubble. try the speeches and short persuasive/informative reading assignments here? against-a-i.com

But if pregnancy is all-consuming, painful, and may happen at any time, then it's much harder to do other things with your life, too. Women's spheres narrow. And that's what they are aiming for: circumscription of women's lives. (Really all our lives.)

question! i am about to go pick up my watch, which needed a new battery. local watch repair shop, $20, cash preferred. is this the kind of thing for which i should tip?

This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.

yes, a thousand percent. see also: elementary school chess tournaments, or how i spent my childhood

“I thought this was an accomplishment: I have caught the attention of conservatives who want to question me. I didn’t see it as threatening or anything bad at all. I thought it was actually kind of interesting. But it did upset the university to the point where they canceled my talk"

It’s been almost two months since museum senior officials walked into the Abakanowicz Research Center, the hub of the city’s archival holdings, and announced that every staff member would be reduced to part-time hours, leaving them without health insurance and a significant portion of their incomes.

"The Democratic establishment in Washington abounds with people who faced no meaningful consequences for their disastrous judgment in the early 2000s, and who have gone on to exercise even more disastrous judgment in the 2020s" www.thenation.com/article/worl...

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

nobody wants a thinner phone. everyone wants a longer computer. look at this rig. phenomenal

some great stuff here on requesting public records for copilot and chatgpt logs www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

I hope you keep writing and researching and publishing, even if it’s about distant and abstruse topics. It’s not stupid, it’s beautiful, because it’s a testament to the curiosity and care they’re trying to eradicate.

small plate update. i was worried about the glaze jobs on these but not only do i love how they turned out, they also stack perfectly. regular reminder that if you are looking to get your hands dirty and descreen for a few hours, to make something useful and lovely, you really can't top ceramics

I spoke with Amanda Heffernan, a nurse-midwife based in Seattle, about what's like to currently work with pregnant migrants in ICE custody. What she has witnessed in Washington state mirrors other recent cases of mistreatment in detention centers across the country: www.thecut.com/article/preg...

excuse me

Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?

not that anyone here cares but the miss new york org just announced a new new miss new york, after the old new miss new york was crowned miss america last week. (original miss new york is still keeping fairly quiet, public still has no idea what went down)

Excited to share this essay on racial violence, civic apology, and the elusive dream of racial reconciliation. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

"We are again confronting a massive attack on the very foundations of democratic education + the stakes feel even higher. In the 50s the targets were individual teachers—communists progressives liberals +their leftwing unions. Now the target is the system itself" www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Texas A&M is one of the biggest schools in the country, but alarming events there receive a fraction of the attention given to Harvard. I wrote about a campus vigil for Charlie Kirk, and how TX Republicans plan to honor his legacy by cracking down on speech www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

“(T)he way someone makes the argument – how nice they look, how erudite they sound, how polite they seem – has long taken precedent over the actual argument itself… as long as the tone is cheerful, there's no need to examine the ugliness of the words.” campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-white-ci...

Archivists: what are some things you wish journalists better understood about archives and about your work? Putting together a training in a couple weeks.

excuse me (artwork by @alicegoldfarb.com)

A garden in Gaza: once rubble, now a lifeline. In this essay, Mariam Mushtaha shows how tending mint and basil became a way to resist hunger and reclaim dignity under genocide. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

a tiny thing compared to the other news stories from the week but i still can't believe the bachelor franchise tapped the main mormon momtok mom as their new lead

Its research is better than most news shows and its gags are better than most comedy shows but for me what sets it above most shows is that it always tries to ask "What can we do about this?"

On Wednesday, I saw someone say to check in on the young people in your life and I immediately called my younger brother. He had seen the video and was pretty distraught over it, and really happy to talk to someone. So to anyone seeing this - check in on the young people in your life.

Working with so many friends and strangers to build a durable sense of what is happening across—so far—eight zones of American life bc of the administration’s demolition of democratic governance at @unbreaking.org. unbreaking.org

i actually think this is correct if the political spectrum is composed entirely of elites. which i think speaks poorly of our elites and poorly of the way political media conceives of politics in this country. fully aristocratic and white supremacist. clear who counts and whose politics simply don’t

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

Like Trump, Kirk was effective at persuading establishment types that he was exactly what he was not--witness many lib tributes to his commitment to free speech. In practice, he sought to destroy it, through Professor Watchlist, sending adults w/ cameras into schools, busloads to J6. 3/

“The memo — in the form of fresh guidelines on how to talk to and evaluate answers from Apple’s upcoming new artificial intelligence model — appeared to have been retooled following Trump’s return to the White House…” The topics include “diversity,” “elections,” and “vaccines.”

I know it's a big news moment, but this is an important local lawsuit and it doesn't deserve to get drowned out by other stories that happened to land on the same day:

lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field

If you’re not concerned about our complicity in the surveillance state because you think it can’t or won’t happen here, you’re wrong. This insidious technology can be weaponized against anyone, and it’s everywhere.

for @proteanmag.com, I reviewed @benchansfield.bsky.social BORN IN FLAMES, which I found an instructive text for taking a whack at the Abundance movement™️ proteanmag.com/2025/09/07/i...

in the miss america top 11 tonight: - miss maryland, iranian-american whose "talent" was a monologue about the importance of immigration re: women's education - miss tennessee, who said the government needs to put better safeguards around AI - miss mississippi, originally from ukraine

last december i wrote that democrats needed to behave like an actual opposition www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

this is the future that i specifically want

Everybody should encounter an old mainframe system in their career. You might sneer at first but then you realize that nothing you build will last nearly so long. Your code might last 10 years if you’re lucky. We will leave no monuments. We build in sand. The meaning then is only what code does

today in faculty work under authoritarianism: not one but two meetings on same day w PhD students about their departure, emigration, exile from the U.S., how to finish dissertations, how to never return, how to renounce citizenship, how to mourn student visas, how to find a life elsewhere

whole story is all kinds of horrifying but this one little detail is delightful

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

he doesn't know how many people died of covid because of the 'data chaos coming out of the CDC' and then blames that on Biden and the firing of a bunch of people who 'challenged the data' scrambled brain