I am not smart enough to give advice to @chanda.blacksky.app and I can't wait to read this book. But I would argue that there's an even greater possibility here: we need humanistic perspectives incorporated into techno-scientific practice to improve their outcomes so everyone benefits.

I've been watching these terrible Washington Post podcast clips on YouTube, and dear god, this is bleak. Also, the view counts are just... how are they so low?

Cool to see 19 new wind turbines generate as much electricity as 400 (!) old turbines in CA's Altamont Pass. The U.S. could more than double its onshore wind capacity with no new land via repowering, per a Stanford study: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/a-repowered-... via @justingerdes.bsky.social

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

The libby app is truly one of the best things that has ever happened to me. I implore EVERY one to get a library card and get the app! So many books at your fingertips!!

we're in a literacy crisis.

This rules

It's like I always advise media clients: if you're not thinking about promotion in your content lifecycle, why did you even bother creating an Olm, or a Siphonophore?

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

Fascists succeed in general because they are willing to take stuff, break rules, get violent, while most of their opponents are not Fascists lose, in general, because they pick (at least) one fight too many with someone they didn't expect to fight back

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.

This is going in my treasured screenshots album and I‘ll post a link to my AI reference guide page for my CW students, on Canvas.

I got a Google Alert for my name yesterday, pointing to an article for an outlet I’d never spoken to, full of quotes I’ve never said. It’s now corrected…but the editor told me ‘I asked Google to find an expert but I think it used AI.’ Isn’t it your job to check..?

Musn't let the climate breakdown get in the way of the racism

It’s a wonky term, but “polycrisis” helps us remember that climate change, economic injustice, and far right reactionary politics are not separate, nor are they really analogies or metaphors for one another.

Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers By Douglas MacMillan, Andrew Ba Tran, Drea Cornejo and Luis Melgar Reports: guards increasingly use chemical agents and physical tactics on detainees, even for demanding adequate water, food, and medical care Gift link!

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Extraordinary story, from Siobhán O'Grady, formerly the Ukraine bureau chief of the Washington Post, and her team. She and her colleagues were all cast aside by the management. Here's just one line: "He radios his commander and asks for a drone to drop a body bag from the sky."

This seems very bad

Who's up for an AI Slop Tax?

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

This is sextupling down on something LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong trotted out post-2024 election, to use AI to write alternative versions of stories. I most ignore LAT these days, but that was too wild to ignore. Needless to say, this would be a total triumph of #gaslighting.

yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice.

Agree. When I am looking to make sense of breaking news, the Guardian has been consistently clearer and more direct.

If you want to counteract that, it has to be with emotional narratives and they have to be everywhere.

You should read every single word of this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One of the problems with technology today is if you're a millenial/xennial you remember when tech worked.

Once you start to understand that there is a powerful and influential minority of Americans who think democracy is a bad idea, you start to understand the fight we are in

We need a banger song of the summer about the importance of critical thinking.

The Killham Bear Center has a new cub named Hiro, and I’m a little obsessed. www.instagram.com/kilhambearce...

I wrote on historiography and power—looking at how schema-driven interpretations of the past are produced and contested, using the Balkan War as a case study!

It's either about oranges or the end of the world, and it's maddening, sad, well-reported, and well-told. slate.com/business/202...

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

birds: they will never email you. and that’s a promise.

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

"Clean energy is now scaling fast enough to absorb rising global electricity demand, keeping fossil generation flat before its inevitable decline." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Empire collapse

Good people exist. Another abductee released. Good fella, Norm flew to Texas to get him. Picked him up close to midnight. Overnighted in a hotel. Took him to Walmart so he to get something aside from the clothes he was kidnapped in. Flew him back to MSP. Drove him home. Read the whole thread!

Like me, you may think you understand the horror of measles and the murder being committed by RFK & co. Read this, if you can handle it--my eyes are tearing up for this splendid child lost--and learn just how much more terrible and heartbreaking it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

flat out identity theft

Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating. One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.

this is one of the most offensive things I've seen in years

Nice thread of classic tips.

A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted. Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more. /1

I keep getting told goods move by diesel truck Not China which is shifting to 100% electric trucking interestingengineering.com/transportati...

Waiting for our flight to take off and the pilot is trying to REBOOT THE AIRPLANE. After the first attempt failed, he just said, "planes are just like a big cell phone, you have to turn them off and then on again." Ummm.

This is so good

If boycotting Target for dropping DEI wasn't enough, boycotting Target to prevent getting falsely jailed by AI seems pretty good.