Charlton McIlwain makes such a poignant point at #FAccT2026: what has the decades of work that has measured, documented, & evaluated the failure and bias of AI systems done? we have known the negative impact for decades yet very little has changed

"Senate Democrats investigate Trump family-linked group over Venezuela business push" Lauren Fedor and George Steer for @financialtimes.com

Lowkey one of the funniest Simpsons frames ever

“Cartoon Network has made some of the biggest and most beloved cartoons ever” ”do you still make them and employ people?” “No, oh god no, lol no”

I’m sorry but what a spit in the face at this fuckin downturn caused largely by Warner who shuttered CN!!!!

The DOJ once accused Sheriff Terry Johnson of fostering “a culture of discrimination against Latinos” in Alamance County and referring to residents with racist epithets such as “taco eaters." Johnson faces a new challenger this fall.

This week the 8th Air Force put out a release marking the one year anniversary of Midnight Hammer. Notably celebrates success of pulling off the mission rather than any outcomes. Also doesn't mention Epic Fury or if sites were destroyed. www.af.mil/News/Article...

Radicals I respect occasionally give me a hard time about this because realworld liberalism is so different from the utopian fantasy presented by Trek. I take the point. It would be very bad if it were the •only• way we talk about liberalism. But we do need children’s stories for kids of all ages.

We wanted to understand why a Jewish candidate defeated another Jewish candidate in one of America's most Jewish congressional districts. So we talked to three Evangelical Christians at a gun show in northern Idaho.

Now do the 12 jets Noem (and Markwayne!) bought

Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

I used to tell more junior colleagues who gave a second thought to opting for a seat with more legroom or getting that 4-star hotel instead of a 3-star for a reporting trip, “We paid Megyn Kelly $69 million to go away.” www.nbcnews.com/news/all/meg...

Blockchain is so fuckin secure bro crypto is so safe it can't be stolen ever unless someone phishes your reality manipulation gambling account credentials, which as stated earlier is run on Polygon on Etherium, which is so secure as are the funds in ur accounts which is $3M in crypto

always 👏 read 👏 kate 👏 bernot 👏 feelgoodsinsights.com/analysis/no-...

"For years, provocateurs have suggested alcohol is becoming the new tobacco. By this, they mean that alcohol is falling out of favor socially thanks to more widespread understanding of its health risks. We now have years of post-COVID data to indicate this isn’t true." — @kbernot.bsky.social

Alan Greenspan was an intellectual disaster.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/objectivel...

"Hello ladies. I would love to talk about your wombs."

I am confronting the real possibility that there is a Popeye Service Exchange Market between town to preserve this balance. Because I'm thinking of my convenient Popeye's locations and I don't think I've got a good one. And the Church's shut down for Reasonsᵀᴹ. The people yearn for Bojangles.

LAW OF POPEYES CONSERVATION For every good Popeyes (1) in every city, said city must have an equal, yet proportionally opposite opposite, dogshit Popeyes (2). Furthermore “the one where all the black folks go to eat” always has the best food BUT while it can either be (1) OR (2), it cannot be both.

like that's how you make this a good thing. reaffirm humbleness of community love and support. how simple it is to have eachother's backs and let the people with passion lead when it's a thing they lead with passion in honest betterment of the community because they just want their part done well

a key point is that they will always be failures but it will basically always be because they are asked to do the literal impossible with zero support. if they had either a possible task or some institutional base to work from they would be plucky enough to do it.

this is how we do it we reverse idiocracy ourselves by making the cinematic universe of live action team america world police but for anarchosocialism rather than limpdicked edgelord got too rich too fast lite-bertarian dillweeds

if we can get Goggins to go full McConaughey then we will win the future for the side of the light

there is no way the team that did this isnt living out some sort of 90s workplace mismatch bodyswap fish out of water comedy where they're like a band that accidentally got booked like four seasons lawnscaping 2 but they roll with it i would love to see that i bet goggins is in it

This whole thread is a slab of genius and legit the first actual lulz I’ve had out of this whole reflecting pool screw job Let’s get this show made, I’m begging

And, if we want to go back further, whilst the attacks on trans people replaced the attacks on gay people, that started because the attacks on abortion were failing, and that was started because the attacks on integrated schools failed to uphold segregation. It's all the same fight.

If I have to think about the president’s bedroom and bathroom habits then so do @zeteo.com subscribers. Sry

Many of the ships that made it through Hormuz in the last few days have gone close to Oman instead of an Iran-registered route. Now we'll see how serious Iran and the IRGC are about controlling Hormuz, of if they prefer the economic benefits and conflict avoidance of continuing the US MOU anyway.

I biked past six hours later. I counted at least 17 cop SUVs on the lakefront between 55th and 57th. Congratulations Chicago, you just paid a small army to hang out by the lake doing nothing all afternoon!

It's been more than two hours. No teen trend has materialized. But the cop takeover is still going strong according to observers on the ground.

Who needs Trump to send in the National Guard when we do this to ourselves? In response to TEENAGERS?

Huge thanks to my civic-minded friends and neighbors who are out keeping an eye on this absolute nonsense while I sit at my desk fuming about it. The waste of money, the damage to parkland, the obscene show of force - all of it for what?

Are we protecting our public parks, our amazing lakefront, an incredible resource held in the public trust for all of us to enjoy? Or are we destroying it by driving and parking multi-ton vehicles all over it? And creating a hostile and unwelcoming environment for everyone?

Are we serving the teens who were ostensibly going to "trend" on the lakefront this afternoon in Hyde Park? By chasing them away, onto city blocks that do not welcome them, into a city bereft of third spaces for them to hang out?

Who is being served here, Chicago? And what is being protected?

So there were two teen trends on Tuesday one at Navy Pier and one at Hyde Park, that didn't materialize but CPD still came out in force. At least the Navy Pier detail got to eat ice cream and shoot the shit with their Navy Pier security buddies.

TIL a school district in Mississippi fired an assistant principal for reading "I Need A New Butt!" to second graders a court ordered the district to reinstate him and award backpay, & the state sup ct just declined to take up the district's appeal, so the order stands! www.wapt.com/article/miss...

I was mad about this so I blogged about it for @ballsandstrikes.org

For Mississippi, the next five years could help determine how much of America’s seafood future is shaped from the Gulf Coast.

JD Vance doesn't know his history. Watergate wasn't about covering up a burglary. We now understand that Watergate was about covering up Nixon's attempt at treason and stalling the Paris Peace Talks to end the Vietnam War. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/jd-vance-a...

“Why don’t we do the same for other council houses?” We do the same for other GI listed publicly owned buildings all the dang time. This is just one of the largest and trickiest and it’s in the news more because, well,

I know a lot of you won’t care and I don’t expect you to, but FYI, this ‘refurb’ is not like. Redoing wallpaper and shit. It’s replacing 100-50 year old wiring, piping, boilers, insulation, etc. it’s a listed building renovation of a national symbol and major tourist site.

I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about the court’s appalling decision allowing the administration to terminate TPS without following the legally required steps - & in the face of considerable evidence of unconstitutional racial bias www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/o...

Fixler said he is almost always troubled by invocations of “Judeo-Christian.”…”It feels like a fig leaf at inclusion,…They’re promoting a particular version of Protestant Christianity in our public schools and trying to use Jews as cover by using the term Judeo-Christian.”

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away"... If this were the apple in question, I'd never forget to eat my daily dose of fruit🍎👏 Yoshinaga Kameya's (亀屋良長) glossy 'ringo' (林檎) is filled with a caramalized apple-flavoured bean paste and topped with a cinnamon-sprinkled stalk.

Inside the cheerful little eggplant is white bean paste mixed with black sesame seeds, mimicking the flesh of the fruit😋 #なすび餅 #eggplant #Toraya #とらや #Kyoto #京都 #wagashi #和菓子 #Japan

🍉🥒FRUIT AND VEG🍒🍑 There is something quite adorable about traditional sweets that mimic (or incorporate) seasonal fruit and vegetables. For a few short weeks in May each year Toraya (とらや) produce a plump little sweet called 'nasubi-mochi' (なすび餅 'eggplant mochi')🍆 #Kyoto #wagashi

People desperately want mutiparty democracy with multi-member districts & proportional representation protectdemocracy.org/work/democra...

Garrison outlines Graham Platner’s campaign platform, his ties with labor unions and local organizing in Maine, and how those relations paved the way for Platner’s working class campaign to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, despite personal scandals and controversies. linktr.ee/ICHHpod

"Alligator Alcatraz" has finally been shut down: apnews.com/article/alli...