The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

Cute talking parrots have gone viral on TikTok, yet these animals were likely bred in abject cruelty (or were even snatched from the wild). See for yourself in this new Vox investigation:

I feel like a lot of folks sharing this article didn't read it. People are acting like the cars are being remote driven & this has been hidden when the article makes clear it's the opposite.

Guess what! I wrote about OpenClaw née Moltbot and Moltbook in this week's episode: Newsletter version: newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s21e... Podcast version: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.libsyn.com/that-whole-m... uh more in thread I guess...

I saw that Trump polls -40 on Reddit and finally sat down and made us a subreddit, please join if you're active over there www.reddit.com/r/LiberalCur...

I absolutely understand the museum folks who want it restored but it looks SO cool and provocative and improved tbh in the damaged form that it immediately gives me like seventeen different ideas for making it a special exhibit centerpiece

I asked Claude Code to build Claude Code. You won’t believe what happened next.

Yay, our glorious @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social and her fearless leader @loriemerson.net appear in @fastcompany.com this week! Come visit us sometime. www.fastcompany.com/91483774/the...

It is weird that we normalized keeping caged wild animals in our living rooms www.vox.com/the-highligh...

"The scarred legacy of the projects has strained public faith in public housing, but there is still an important role for government to play... cross-class living and mobility is, after all, the great promise of city life." [email protected] 🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe...

>doesn't know the lore

If you have an interest in mixing computation and experiments to understand microbial evolution (for example antibiotic resistance) and you think you might be a good fit for a postdoc in my lab, reach out. If it seems it might be a fit I’m happy to help you frame it as AI for Biology per this call

"In our book, Why We Fear AI, we argue that it is in fact precisely the error-prone and brittle nature of these systems that makes them work so well for political repression. 1/2

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

Does your research look beyond "AI disruption" to examine actual practices? Along with @dipanjan-saha.bsky.social, we invite you to propose an abstract for our panel at the #EASST2026 conference in Kraków, 8–11 September. Submit by 9 March here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e... #STS #EMCA #AI

Modern apartments have lower fire death rates than houses. Yet codes require fourplexes to install commercial sprinklers, build dual staircases, and hire architects—while similar-sized single-family houses are exempt. These costs block building smaller apartment buildings.

Important thread for understanding what AlphaGenome is and isn't (and the implications). Starting here and reading down, and/or from the top.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

I have many thoughts on this paper but for starters, these proponents of the UPF concept have a lot of nerve basically arguing "it is the empirical evidence that's wrong for contradicting our theory," as though they have some long-accepted theory about the world like gravity or natural selection

Emphasizing that ICE *already* has money it can spend to buy as many body cameras as it wants; the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which gave ICE $29.9 BILLION for ICE removal operations, and specifically listed "information technology" as a valid use (or ICE could just reprogram the money).

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

The Wilson Street cycle track in #madisonwi made the People for Bikes list of the 25 best bike lanes on 2025. Well deserved (and a major advocacy win for Madison Bikes!) https://www.peopleforbikes.org/news/best-new-bike-lanes-2025 I made a short video about the track earlier this year […]

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

Can't imagine this mattering *that* much for good or ill given where construction (especially hyperscale construction) actually takes place, but that it's unanimous an a usually fairly YIMBY council is notable.

A DHS agent shot a protester in the face with a nonlethal round at close range during a protest in Santa Ana, fracturing his skull and leaving him permanently blind in one eye. By Ruben Vives and Itzel Luna www.latimes.com/california/s... @latimes.com

We do not have kings or dictators in America. These monuments belong to the people. Our bill would prevent Trump, or any other president, from using our public monuments to glorify & worship themselves.

Believe me, I know!

"Receiving reports" my ass. AltNPS is not receiving reports of ICE raids in Saint Paul. They are seeing posts on social media like the rest of us. I DO have loved ones in Saint Paul. ALL of my loved ones. They're terrified. Fuck you.

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

" if they missed the fact that I was an anti-ICE journalist who didn’t fill out her paperwork, what else might they be missing? How many convicted domestic abusers are being given guns and sent into other people’s homes? " slate.com/news-and-pol...

very much like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, where the fact of the administration's wrongs against you makes you an enemy to be fought by all available means.

one in 20 US college grads have a Cal State degree?? 😮 Universities are many things (it's in the name), but somehow the things that seem most under attack are the most improbable, miraculous, and pro-human things about them www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

"Criticisms of AI must include guidance for responsible engagement with it, not just exhortations to avoid it. Like the Luddites from the past, we should demand ownership and control, not abstinence" undark.org/2026/01/09/o...

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Joy Rohde (@umich.edu)’s review of Peter C. Grace (@universityofotago.bsky.social)’s book _The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA_ pub 2026 @ Georgetown University Press #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

A running theme on my reactions to news events these days is "Oh god, they are replacing something messy and fraught with something much worse." Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) (like the Social Cost of Carbon) is a complicated and ethically fraught metric. Setting it to zero doesn't help, tho...

if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

tired: market crisis wired: polymarket polycrisis

Grateful for the sustained presence of religious leaders in #Minneapolis and across the country, keeping our focus on the life that was taken and the danger that a policy of fear and violence at the highest levels of government presents for us all. #ReneeNicoleGood #UU

When NIMBYs say that California is full and their cities can’t accommodate more housing, they are saying that queer people trying to get out of red states are on their own.

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

"deaths from fentanyl dropped by an astonishing 37% from 2023 to 2024" but apparently nobody knew or cared and now we're, well [gestures around] www.npr.org/2026/01/08/n...

I'm told Vox didn't put this in Marina's story because they have something called "standards" (never touch the stuff) but you should read the story anyway www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The malicious incompetence of the new dietary guidelines: ⚠️ Oh no, vegans have nutrient shortfalls... 🤔 ...If we assume that vegans eat just what vegetarians eat minus all animal products (~70% of the calories) Of course they didn't catch that b/c the point isn't science but vibes & culture war

oh my god. More details are surfacing about the catastrophic incompetence that led to the dietary guidelines' inaccurate claims about a litany of nutrient gaps in plant-based diets

Less than a month before my debut book "What We Inherit" gets released! You can place pre-orders now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Lucky to have gotten to collaborate (and argue) with Sam Trejo for the last 5+ years on this.

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pls read my ecomodernist manifesto—we could make a massive dent in our planetary crises by reducing our dependence on the two great efficiency sinks in American life: meat and cars. And we can do so in a way that's consistent with growth and democratic principles www.vox.com/future-perfe...