someone just said to me "Thanksgiving" not "happy thanksgiving" which I like cause then you can feel however you want to feel.

As a Jew, being neither rejected or accepted by Raya really makes me understand the concept of purgatory

FYI: If you ask ChatGPT for "the best" xyz, it's going to take what it sees most often from sites it trusts. HOWEVER, many of those sites' "best of" lists don't actually test the products but go based on amazon reviews or PR contacts so basically don't trust LLMs for anything.

Wait Ahab doesn’t catch the whale? That sucks

Ummm, were you all aware of this bullshit??? The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill." www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...

Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov

next it'll become an emoji

any editors interested in a screed against AI gift recommendation tools? I HAVE THOUGHTS.

It's time for me to admit that I don't actually know what qualifies as an op-ed.

I know it's a very thin veil but this lie is especially angering knowing many people are being denied access to medically necessary MRIs.

Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.

The DOT also reportedly plans to rescind requirements that airlines disclose junk fees. It's also planning to redefine what flight cancellations would require refunds for passengers. Both Delta and United gave $1 million to the Trump inauguration fund. Everything is for sale.

Heartbroken to hear of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ‘s transition to be a crip anscestor AND feeling so honored to have been alive in the time as this brilliant human, and gotten to learn from her. May her memory continue to always be a blessing.

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

Last few days to fill out this survey on what kind of peer support networks would be most beneficial for the media industry. Hoping to create a series of donation-based, set-time, peer-led groups. Already over 100 responses. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

At just 34 years old, Zohran Mamdani culminated a meteoric political rise Tuesday by scoring a decisive victory in a polarizing mayoral election. He will become the youngest mayor in over a century, the first Muslim to lead New York City. buff.ly/7kOwKhb

Journalists, writers, and co! @weischoice.bsky.social is setting up peer support groups for media folks. If you, like me, could use some more regular contact with colleagues, take a look. There's a linked survey form for giving feedback/ideas on how to make the groups as useful as possible.

Facing one of my greatest irrational and puritanical fears tonight by going to a sexy nightclub party. Loud EDM scares me. Any kind of crowded dark environment scares me. Certain kinds of kink scare me. Going to things like this alone is super scary. Will be pitching this around next week. Eds hmu

Truly fuck off with this

Forget the polls. Take nothing for granted. And let's work our hearts out these next seven days. Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

Just a reminder …

William Carlos Williams' formatting of "This is Just to Say" walked so Thought Leaders' linkedin post format could run.

Good? news I guess: My former high school teacher said that her juniors are looking at AI with skepticism and are pushing back against it. However her freshmen don't know how to function without it. Hopefully they'll evolve to also hate it.

as someone who knows a lot about protests if you're worried about what to wear tomorrow I'm here to tel you that you should just go with clothes

does anyone else constantly wonder what the point of existing is now that AI can seemingly do everything? Like why bother being here?

X is hiring a personality & behavior tutor to humanize Grok. Needs "the ability to identify awkward or off-putting elements, enhance overall character consistency, deliver sharp humor, excel in casual conversations across diverse contexts, and infuse interactions with wit and charm." So terrifying

Where do we all stand on putting our shorts away for the season?

Dear freelance writers: Broad Sound (a journal of arts and culture) is looking for new pitches to run at broadsoundmag.com beginning in November (queue’s full through then!) Pay is $100 per piece. Write us the essay of your dreams. Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

a museum of museum gift shops

Discovered that an article I wrote for Slate was cited in @sophiegilbert.bsky.social's book Girl on Girl and DO YOU KNOW HOW EXCITING IT IS TO BE VIEWED AS A CREDIBLE SOURCE?????????????????

seeing my 1 year old nephews next week. What are the cool 1 year olds into these days?

Time for some real talk: @thexylom.com, the only Asian American-run news outlet covering science, climate, and the environment, will run out of funding in July if we don't secure $7,500 by the end of the month. I might lose my job at a time while waiting for a visa extension -- a nightmare scenario.

the other day I had to explain What Not to Wear to an 18 year old who was working at a vintage shop in Park Slope and I'm not sure the children understand what millennials endured and why we hate our bodies so much.

I've started a new personal project where on every run, I listen to album in its entirety. I'm 100% open to suggestions and they can be all over the shop thematically as long as you can argue that they have real artistic merit.

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

Oh, just reading about how this college president uses AI in academic leadership and wondering why, exactly, they need such salaries?

ICYMI: beginning this spring, Broad Sound will be publishing weekly arts and culture longreads online. Our rate will be $100 per essay. Write on any arts-and-culture topic you want. Surprise and delight us. More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

now let's do this but for health insurance

For @objectivejournos.bsky.social I wrote about the ethics of using social media posts as sources objectivejournalism.org/2025/02/the-...

This sociologist lays out really really good strategies and exactly why the right is using this flood zone tactic in an attempt to overwhelm us and freeze us in place

BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

I want to get the study hall advice column back and running. Ask me questions about the media industry! The more specific the question/situation, the better

Journalism folks: There are several open jobs at ProPublica (including Florida reporter) plus there's also a freelance pitch form here: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica?g... #jobsky #jobs #hiring #media

What do people think of footnotes as asides in books? Are they fun? Are they annoying?

job postings are like "remote! Must be in Schenectady!"