NEW: Meta keeps saying shifty and evasive things about the face recognition technology that @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social reported it embedded in its Meta AI app for use with its smart glasses, so @couts.bsky.social has helpfully clarified what’s going on here:

Hello, I’m a gardener who eats 3 kinds lettuce + kale and greens from behind my house. The lettuce is almost tapped out tho so I’ll be going to the farmers markets this weekend. Must have salad.

Meanwhile, in Toronto, it's above 30 C, our sky is orange, and we currently have the worst air quality in the world. The air smells like burnt plastic and most of my office is working from home today because it's unsafe to breathe. I cannot adequately convey the level of dispair I feel.

The late, great Hiro was incredibly cute 💕 These pics were taken 12 years ago.

The late, great Hiro was incredibly cute 💕 These pics were taken 12 years ago.

Wrt to Sontag, I was just thinking the other day how we never hear about the "CNN effect" anymore. Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, you name it. There's popular outrage, but no corresponding political urgency.

Susan Sontag makes this point - visual evidence anesthetizes people to even the most grotesque forms of barbarism - very effectively on her classic “On Photography.”

It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.

Supporters: But Trump has always been successful businessman. Facts: "Trump Is Making Three Times As Much In White House As He Did In Business" @danalexander21.bsky.social for Forbes

www.npr.org/2026/07/10/n... have been thinking a lot about how valid tech criticism will be instrumentalized by shitty people for shitty bad faith ends and this is a good example--trying to kill subsidies for school/library internet costs in the name of "kids need less screen time"

Plus: Meta allegedly used AI to target workers with health issues for layoffs. trib.al/aQK1TdA

He said don’t worry I won’t sleep in your bed. I’ll sleep in mine. 👍 IG: doggvids

Hi, if you or someone you know attended Anime Expo and participated in the Love and Deepspace interactive booth event with the cosplayers, I have a couple questions for a Kotaku story. RTs appreciated!

Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.

Seems like a whole submarket dedicated to hiding the fact you're using a technology would be a big sign to quit making this technology.

Lawsuits in California federal and state court are unearthing documents embarrassing to tech companies — and may be a tipping point into federal regulation.

The Los Angeles Police Department let its Flock contract expire over the weekend in part because it was regularly "investigating" and surveilling innocent people. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/lapd-regular...

5k gallons of deisel in Elliot bay! Dammit to hell, heads needs to roll. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

lots of the best tech you can implement in a modern environment was created 20-30 years ago, you just have to be willing to do all the work to implement it most solutions invented recently are simply solutions to "what if we don't want to do the work tho?"

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

All of the branding finally got me to talk about menopause. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...

Remember: We are living in hell, so when you say “Go to hell” you are just telling someone to get home safely.

I don’t 100 percent agree. But goddamn he’s good at this. And remarkably grounded for the life he’s had.

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Graham’s body has joined his moral compass

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Trying to reduce 48 board feet of fiction/literature to 24 feet. Thankfully some of these can go to the PT house, because I’m not capable of having fewer, say, Louise Erdrich books. Have you read Paulette Jiles’ Enemy Women? This is a really good book.

Remember when the president fired a bunch of CDC employees and now we've got the shit yourself to death outbreak? Sure these two things are unrelated

Memphis is under siege from the federal government. This is hideous.

Reminder that the USWNT should get paid far, far more than the USMNT.

political candidates should be tripping over themselves to run on this message (and we know why they aren't)

The federal government told the Klamath Tribes they weren't a "salmon tribe" because dams wiped out their fish 100+ years ago. So the Yurok Tribe applied for the $5.9M grant & passed the funds through. This is Indigenous solidarity in action. www.hcn.org/articles/the...

Good morning

NEW: After the Civil War, Congress readmitted the southern states under a key condition: don't expand felony disenfranchisement. But the states quickly violated their promise & weaponized criminal statutes to skew elections. It finally caught up with one of them this year. Fascinating read:

Last day of packing before the movers come and haul all my stuff away. I have an unreasonable number of scented candles in different styles of jar, and so many bottles of alcohol, and I will never need to buy another lipstick but I probably will anyway.

It should be a full day of just sharing Bonnie Tyler lyrics, but unfortunately, it's Recall Thursday.

And I need you now tonight And I need you more than ever And if you only hold me tight We'll be holding on forever And we'll only be making it right 'Cause we'll never be wrong Together

It’s New Foods Day for the Minnesota State Fair and this, to me, is the promise of America www.mnstatefair.org/new/food

Oh cool, an Easter egg feature that traps you in a driverless car and kidnaps you when it's decided you've misbehaved. Imagine what a hacker group or ICE can do with this. The fact that this is even functionally possible is horrifying.

Maine officials search the rocky beach for a new senate candidate. They find an unconscious man clad in tattered rags washed upon the shore. The sea provides for Maine, it always does

Nobody but you did this to you, Graham. Just because you almost got away with it doesn’t mean some nefarious THEY took it from you. These are just your chickens coming home to roost. www.cnn.com/2026/07/08/p...

This is a good moment for every man to realize why women have to be scared of every man, why it's always safer to be in the woods with a bear, why we can never, ever, ever expect people to believe "we're one of the good ones." Between the perpetrator and the apologists it's systemic disregard for

Last week, EPIC joined @nwlc.org and 24 other gender justice and civil rights organizations to strenuously oppose a rule recently proposed by HUD that would roll back protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity for those staying in federally funded shelters and other housing.

Their goal is to create so much chaos and so many crises that it starts to feel like nothing you do makes a difference. Don’t believe it. Every action matters. Keep showing up and remember the resistance will prevail!

Hey so, if you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps ICE agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with ICE and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.

It was bad planning to get to the office before the coffee shop opens.

This is worth reading even if you know the story already. Because how we react to this will show if we learn anything from it. www.thehandbasket.co/p/graham-pla...