absolutely the f not

I'm editing a story about flood insurance, and it just struck me how little overall media attention was paid to 27 people preventably drowning at a summer camp in Texas just a few months ago -- the majority of them little girls. the bad news has just been relentless this year

Good blog, here. Also I have learned exclusively that I am in fact the one unnamed "cool" employee in Deadspin's history, as mentioned by Megan in here.

this headline/photo combination is so deeply hateful, and rank journalistic misconduct. Imane Khelif is not transgender. One transgender athlete competed in the 2024 Olympics, in the category of their sex assigned at birth. This is a ban on something that has never happened

how it feels looking for royalty-free but human-made music for your podcast in 2025

why does CBC have commentators yapping over the Remembrance Day Service???? SHUT UP

Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue." Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

why do they look like One Direction. maybe the ending should be an AU

it is pretty funny that I had Catherine Hardwicke and Kathryn Bigelow mixed up for about 20 years. I've probably told 100 people the same director made The Hurt Locker and Twilight a few months apart

man, chronic illness is so ******, like could I somehow transfer this to my enemies or what. AI bros invent that

all eastern coyotes are coywolves! research shows up to 35% of their DNA is from wolf (rest is western coyotes+bit of dog). "Coywolf" reports are big coyotes that are grumpy because WE'RE IN THEIR HOUSE. If there were 1st-gen coyote-wolf crosses everywhere, we'd be seeing wolves all the time fam

"Perhaps I will simply convince the world’s most credulous people to waste hundreds of billions of dollars on generative AI and then completely underwhelm with my lacklustre ability to produce anything of value or interest except, for some reason, pornography."

Jonathan Bailey: truly the sexiest man alive

this is the week of mysterious wives. the aloof wife, the phantom wife ... look out for the ominous wife and the mercurial wife

How Toronto killed Sesame Street. My column on the retreat from allowing shops in neighbourhoods & other watering down of good ideas. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

4/ One of those roles was burying the dead, a highly traumatic duty as many of the bodies were severely mutilated. The cemetery was constructed by the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, an all-Black unit of 260 men under the command of a White officer (as was usual).

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Mamdani is going to impose Shania Law. everyone will be forced to single-handedly revive the country music genre with a cheeky pop twist

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

we need to start thinking about extended consumption of synthetic text and interaction with LLM chatbots as a cumulative cognitive and psychological risk. the secondhand smoke of technology www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

oh my goodness, this is a different young person

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

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

I was possessed by a demon and forced to make a TikTok with all the wildlife footage. I have shot in my neighbourhood on my smashed-up iPhone

guys this is so good, the Chicago Hot Priest is back with a little man bun getting right up in the faces of armed ICE goons to tell them they should put down their guns and quit their jobs because they’re disappointing their Sunday school teachers www.instagram.com/reel/DQm-ZzZ...

good morning! I set this calendar alert on Sept 25 hehe

this is so quaint. like shoving your husband off a cliff for life insurance in this day and age. retro

Godfrey Gao 😭😭😭😭😭

miss old Twitter sometimes

On the solemn occasion of Jonathan Bailey being named People's Sexiest Man Alive, let me share the 1st time I heard of him. My daughter had a big audition, was googling examples of great auditions, & found his for the 2016 musical The Last Five Years. He got the part: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaYk...

if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong

How can we hold onto beauty amid so much destruction? This new book by @Diana Butler Bass is the ideal companion to help us hold onto faith, perseverance, and wisdom in these critical 12 months between now and the 2026 midterm elections. open.substack.com/pub/robertpj...

I was trying to see if ChatGPT has transcripts of my podcast in its training data (or can fetch them). if it does, it's not saying. but after it summarized an episode for me (badly), it threw in a comment about how it's a great episode. I think people who use this just like the robot flattery

???? yes? I am afraid that you will continue to replace creative work, which was previously done by actual artists, with this ghoulish and revolting slop? normalizing this is in fact very scary?

According to the diocese, the priest was legally working here. Now, he’s in ICE detention: www.ncronline.org/news/texas-e...

This is wild. Teen Vogue's politics coverage was industry leading and actually doing something interesting in an industry that works so hard to be uninteresting. All the solidarity and support to everyone impacted, this sucks so bad.

No way this is true. Please contact me if you actually use Facebook dating and are a human. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/t...

I was able to get totally conflicting food safety advice (including one VERY WRONG ANSWER) out of the Google AI summary, depending on how it was prompted. I am BEGGING you not to rely on it for health questions

for a super long time i was too self conscious to say i love you to anybody ever and now that so many of my loved ones have straight up dropped dead before i could say it, i tell my friends i love them constantly, to a degree that is likely annoying

This is where I've thought our slop hell is going for a while and it's now Meta's stated objective. We are seeing the beginnings of it now. Do you want to go see [the big game] to support [your favorite team]? Ticketmaster is running this on Facebook now:

Mine are definitely Glenn Close (Cruella DeVille), Frances McDormand (Miss Clavelle) and Timothy Dalton (the dad in Canadian children's direct-to-VHS classic Salt Water Moose)

“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”

A lot of """"creatives"""" have seemingly accepted generative AI as part of art and filmmaking and I'm hear to say you're all big stinky phonies and I hate you

I apologize for ever making fun of older people for having multiple facebook accounts. just TRY changing your password

We are making a choice to allow this and normalize this. One way to fight this is to relentlessly socially stigmatize AI-generated video and people who make it. That's gross, that's nasty, that's loser behaviour, if you do that you're not my friend. Regardless of what they're generating.

my once-weekly 50 minute rush hour subway commute is PURE MISERY (shoutout to my fellow adults with motion sickness), and I specifically save up Hyperfixed episodes for it. catch me bawling on the train this week about a 30-year-old computer game for toddlers. one of my fave podcasts ever!

So many more but I had to control myself haha. Shoutout Bryan Berlin (user:Berlination) and the many others who take valuable pics and donate them to public knowledge :-) Wikipedia needs bazillions of photos so if it sounds like a fun hobby, give it a try! commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)