I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.

I was explaining to my therapist today that in most cases the financial incentives for many folks working in tech have been enough to keep them from unionizing, and I think that has trickled down to them using the language of inevitability for so many of these things that tech rolls out.

When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project

I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

One of the Israeli strikes in Tyre, Lebanon, nearly hit an ancient archeological site www.lorientlejour.com/article/1497... Tyre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world

To donate havenwatch.org. I’ve never met any of these folks but honestly this is the top tier of awesomeness in Minnesota

Havenwatch had a ton of their supplies stolen for greeting and taking care of those released by ice. www.instagram.com/reel/DVfGGCn...

They'll get to stay home while delivery drivers stay on the roads www.wired.com/story/with-m...

Finally, an article about the real victims of this war: piles of money

the german word for this is lebensraum

Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran

Thousands of Iranians gathered for a mass funeral of students and staff of an elementary girls’ school in #Minab, who were killed in a strike by the US and Israel. The death toll has crossed over 160, in what was the deadliest incident in the conflict so far. 📷Reuters, AFP

RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation

The regime won’t let you have clean hands if you work for them, even if they’re punishing you. This was leaked on purpose, is uncomfortably close to confessing to a war crime, and highlights once again how tech’s unthinking growth directly leads to dead kids.

Part of our work is to create a political environment where folks who do find ways to act heroically receive public recognition and support. The more we do that, the more likely it is we see at least a few military personnel taking risks to oppose the horrors and refuse illegal orders.

The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes

Here is his Go Fund Me page www.gofundme.com/f/help-lio-r...

I love this little kreplach. Also, it might seem like 70k is a lot of money, because it is. But that money will very quickly be eaten up by an ER Bill. Keep it little kreplach and maybe don’t close down the gofundme till you get a sense of the bill.

It's okay to not know the history in immense detail, but a brief primer on Iran: the US led efforts to install the Shah in Iran after they democratically elected a prime minister (Mossadegh) who moved to nationalize their oil reserves. The Shah's reign directly led to the Iranian revolution.

jesus christ

I know that I spent a good portion of my graduate school years hanging out with expat Iranian musicians in LA, so I probably know a little more about Iranian and Persian history than most, but.... The lack of historical awareness of regime change by the US in Iran is staggering right now.

In 1979 when Iranian students seized the US embassy they eventually let go all of the Black people working there because they understood that the US would only care about white Americans. Iran understands our society far better than we understand theirs or our own.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Calling your reps and senators can feel really nerve racking at first. We actually did an episode about this on How to Save a planet which I cannot fucking find but an easy solution is to do it with a friend. The more you do it the less stressful it gets.

US media has defunded and fired almost all foreign correspondents and that’s a big part of why they are just stenographers for the administration I’m watching middle eastern coverage instead. With reporters on the ground all over the region

During the U.S. and Israel attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group.

I wish this didn't seem so relevant so often: "In mainstream discourse, it's become standard to blame the excesses of the right on liberals, the left, feminists.... It's a way that the right is granted masculine prerogatives and the left feminine responsibilities for the right's behavior."

hey gen z welcome to republican governance

Frum's argument is that there are upsides and downsides to bombing Iran but the upsides only make sense if you think Trump is acting in good faith and that bombing a country is a legitimate way to force political change.

There is no paradox here. Frum is basically saying "this could work out as long as Donald Trump's not a despot" and then immediately acknowledging that he's a despot. This is just bad!

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

in 2012, it was six. now it's four.

v good list of independent media orgs to follow/support in this post's replies

People keep forgetting that the woman here, Kimberly Guilfoyle, was engaged to Trump Jr until they broke up in 2024 after he cheated on her. She left Fox News in 2017 after sexually harassing a coworker, and paid a $4 million settlement over it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberl...

This machine kills fascists.

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

Canada gives America one gay hockey show and they start winning games

Charges against Former Prince Andrew must be dropped if it’s determined that raping teenagers was an official act. by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett)

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

Rest in power, Virginia Giuffre. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We're not a nonprofit, we have no money (in fact our members pay for stuff that we need out of pocket), we're a grassroots community group. We're unencumbered and will say the truth. The truth is that the money exists to adequately fund the libraries. The Mayor must do so.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

and guess what the trump regime did to the research grants and government experts who worked on antimicrobial resistance 🤪

In the small: while he was President, Calvin Coolidge’s son Calvin Jr died at aged 16 from sepsis contracted after getting a blister on his foot while playing tennis at the White House.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

What if Barbie was into a little light ethnic cleansing?