Can modular housing reduce landfill waste? This Indigenous and female-led North Vancouver company says yes vancouversun.com/news/modular...

The new @tvolmag.bsky.social series “Sex, Gender Diversity, and Evolution” is well underway with entries from Joan Roughgarden, Agustín Fuentes, Nathan Lents, and Anne Fausto-Sterling. Read it here: www.prosocial.world/posts/sex-ge... #sex #gender #evolution #scicomm

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

This story is insane. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...

Firefox it is then.

Protests return to climate summit with calls for Indigenous rights (and a dash of Trump mockery)

This is excellent reporting by Antonia Hitchens. Washington, DC lobbying has entered its internet troll stage. “As the high-level Administration official told me, ‘People start out as zealots—then they realize everything is for sale, even zealotry.’”

Excellent piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social on the racist history of D&D and why changes to address this triggered outrage in a vocal minority of gamers for whom discrimination is nostalgia. Features interviews with @bdavewalters.bsky.social @aabria.bsky.social @gregtito.com & @benriggs.bsky.social

Went to a great talk the other day where the speaker referred to "Watson, Crick, and Franklin" nucleotides & let's all adopt that terminology

this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.

"Faced with this dilemma—where do you get a trillion dollars quick?—OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps." prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...

"biological pronouns" is an insane phrase

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

“We’re not fighting against the individual man under the uniform,” Olivia Ikey said. “We’re fighting against the system behind this man with the uniform and how we can improve the reality of this person that will come to serve and protect our community.” www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

A large majority of U.S. adults now get news digitally, but nondigital news consumers are less likely to say they extremely often or often encounter inaccurate news. Read more on Americans’ views of information accuracy and distinguishing truth from fiction:

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers. ➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

Scientists long thought the plant cell wall to be dead, but it's an active, even chatty participant in cellular growth, reproduction and responses to infection go.nature.com/4oK8xWu

The lives of Indigenous women in Kashmir’s mountains reveal a silent crisis: Climate change is a profound mental health emergency for women whose survival depends on mobility and resilience, Safina Nabi writes.

When buying books, you can’t always tell if you’re supporting Canadian businesses. But the Certified Canadian Publisher program is changing that. 📚🇨🇦

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”" www.prb.org/resources/se...

I’ve said this before but white guilt is useless. I don’t want people to feel guilty for things they had no part in, and guilt easily curdles into resentment. But everyone regardless should feel an obligation to correct injustice, especially if you somehow benefit. bsky.app/profile/mich...

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

“The sand in and around the city of approximately 400,000 is so caked with blood that you can see evidence of the RSF’s war crimes via satellite imagery, according to Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab.” @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social #Darfur

From me: Trump is trying to bully Warner Bros. Discovery into accepting a merger bid from the MAGA-fied Paramount. There's a problem for him though: any state Attorney General can sue to block such a deal, which under current law is presumptively illegal. prospect.org/2025/10/30/f...

If Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, are found guilty, they plan to appeal the decision and hope that there is an outpouring of public support. “After all, who can be against saving lives?”

George Santos may still face justice for his many confessed crimes. New York shut the “Manafort loophole” in 2019, ensuring that a presidential pardon no longer shields grifters from state prosecution. The law was signed into effect by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo.

“The changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules don’t just touch on national issues around race and gender. Here, teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.”

An AP analysis finds drops in the number of Black freshmen at many elite colleges in the two years since the Supreme Court’s decision ending affirmative action. apnews.com/article/affi...

I love a good data analysis: The NYT’s claim that moderates win more often crumbles under scrutiny. As @adambonica.bsky.social shows, once you control for money and incumbency, the greater “electability” of moderates disappears entirely. It’s less about policy and more about the PACs that fund them.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

The ad was accurate and only involved using a direct quote from Reagan. This is similar to the individuals who were punished for accurately quoting Charlie Kirk’s words.

If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

I’m not a Trekkie but I’ve done enough basic research into the Star Trek fandom to know women basically invented it, and are why the show even continued to exist. This kind of writing is part of institutional sexism that denies women’s accomplishments and role in history and it infuriates me

“This country could devolve to one in which the use of military force displaces the rule of law, principles of federalism, and the federal separation of powers, all fundamental precepts of our democracy long understood as protecting the liberties of individuals and the assurance of self-governance.”

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

That’s no ballroom…

Congratulations on getting funded on the first day @shannonappelcline.bsky.social! I look forward to seeing the finished work. Folks interested in the history of #DungeonsandDragons and #TTRPGs won’t want to miss this four-volume set. Back it here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

I loved Raoul Peck’s last film, “I Am Not Your Negro” about James Baldwin and his HBO series “Exterminate All the Brutes.” I am expecting good things with his take on George Orwell. Peck uses his subjects as a starting point to explore both their legacies and the larger issues they addressed.

A Georgia high school English teacher-of-the-year was fired for posting Charlie Kirk’s own words and adding the comment: “I don’t condone violence of any kind, and I certainly don’t condone this, but he was a horrible person, a fascist full of hate for anyone who was different.” She is fighting it.

When I spoke with Rascal News about Designers & Dragons Origins, we discussed the famous, recalled B3: Palace of the Silver Princess. They asked if they could publish the history portion of the product entry from Origins, and now they have (paywalled, but Rascal is a great news source to support!).

"sir a second Nazi groupchat infodump has hit Politico"

The Future of Local News Is Making People Pay For It talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...

So many articles are reflecting on the Great Depression lately. It’s almost like the financial indicators are showing the same trends. In unrelated news, my local currency exchange posted a sign alerting customers that it was out of gold.

A new history of the circumstances leading to the Great Depression sheds light on the systemic dangers we face today—particularly how Donald Trump represents the ultimate capture of American finance, Evan Hughes argues.

We are saved! Gary Larson is back (sort of). www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Julian Brave NoiseCat's groundbreaking new book "We Survived the Night" tells a family story of Indigenous erasure and resistance.

Winter is coming.

David Brooks headlines between 2020 and 2025. Hard to say whether this is tragedy or farce.

I’ve had a dormant account for years but am now deleting it.