complaining about paywalls when so many journalists are being laid off and there are fewer market incentives to do great reporting and in-depth investigations, data analysis and features is also wild when everyone understands you need to pay for electronics, streaming services, and utilities

While the website was processing my payment for plane tickets (like the circle going around and around) I got a notification that the price increased by $70. This is insanity. Has this happened to anyone else?

We asked Roblox's CEO about child safety on the platform. It got tense www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...

Because the horror movies didn't warn us enough...

Read this investigation by @byrontau.bsky.social now: apnews.com/article/immi...

"Believing that the only constant in the world was change, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus posited that no man can ever step into the same river twice. In the online world of social media, the current runs fast, too." -- Judge James Boasberg, ruling in favor of Meta.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck. Women only want one thing, and it's the Trabant 601.

Krasznahorkai has said of his work: ‘You will never go wrong anticipating doom in my books, any more than you’ll go wrong in anticipating doom in ordinary life.’ In 2012, we recorded a 94-minute conversation with Colm Tóibín for our Bookshop podcast: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The only LLM I need.

"Way back in 2012, the internet wasn’t yet the angry, shrieking wasteland it has become. A simple story about a no-nonsense lady in North Dakota could break through the noise." www.wsj.com/us-news/mari...

The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.

PSA: If you do not wish to mistakenly see the graphic video of Charlie Kirk getting shot and have an iPhone best to turn off video autoplay. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Motion, and then disable "Auto-Play Video Previews." This is the default setting. A per-app setting is also on the menu.

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”, released as a single 34 yrs ago today “No one had any psychic foresight .. that the song would go on to do what it did,” said Grohl. “We just fuckin’ rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. .. We just thought it was another cool song for the record.”

"Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found."

I'm seeing a social media trend where people are sneaking pics of men reading books in public and making fun of them as "performative males" And while I love a good dunk, I don't think you guys want men to be reading even less than they are now. Just saying

I have honestly many times thought about purchasing one of those bulletproof backpacks or whatever, but then I think about the burden of carrying that to school every day, putting that burden on our children, that physical and mental burden of having to remember why you are carrying that backpack.

The trouble with age verification

“If a tool can give suicide instructions to a child, its safety system is simply useless."

Here's a recent story (and photos) by Mariam Dagga, about children in Gaza:

"At her funeral Monday, relatives and colleagues caressed her cheeks through tears. Her body lay shrouded in white, a single red flower placed gently beside her face."

This is Tuffy. He is the only example of taking up the whole sidewalk that is not only justifiable, but encouraged. 14/10 (IG: mypittuffy)

I am sorry I will never be able to read a story about Uranus and not laugh. It's just how it is.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

AOL’s dial-up internet is finally taking its last bow. Yes, while perhaps a dinosaur by today’s digital standards, dial-up is still around.

this is wild www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...

“We wanted to test the guardrails,” said Imran Ahmed, the group’s CEO. “The visceral initial response is, ‘Oh my Lord, there are no guardrails.’ The rails are completely ineffective. They’re barely there — if anything, a fig leaf.”

U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Thursday.

Escape to a weird blocky garden apnews.com/article/robl...

Silicon Valley is lighting hundreds of billions of dollars on fire to generate this slop.

Remember Cambridge Analytica?

And here I was thinking they couldn’t make Microsoft teams worse

Nursing homes around the U.S. say they're feeling the effects of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

other fun note i learned in reporting this out? the top two plush toys on amazon are these nuggets and a stuffed version of anxiety from inside out 2.......... we're not OK

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

Counterpoint: Foursquare was fun and amazing and I long for the olden days of our stupid little apps.

Amazing. Respect the lede.

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The Trump administration has announced that it is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition.

Is this going to be too real to enjoy?

The photos in this @apnews.com article about the Digital Equity Act show a little of what it's about. People helping people to use computers. By @blanka.bsky.social and Claire Rush. These cautious, but willing, folks are in a Keyboard Basics class in Portland, Oregon.

“Because who doesn’t want grandma to be safe online? Who doesn’t want a veteran to be able to talk to their doctor rather than get in a car and drive two hours? Who doesn’t want students to be able to do their homework?”

Happy World Goth Day, the photos of me as a goth are, for better or for worse, printed on paper and tucked away in a box somewhere.

The ChatGPT summer book reads list in the Chicago Sun-Tribune fills me with dread about how much we’ve already lost and how much we will lose to AI slop. I think about all the little pieces of human writing I care about but maybe most people don’t—museum placards, book flaps, photo captions

If there's one thing modern kids are known for, it's obeying screen time rules www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...