Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.

This is a really great idea!

just learned about the delightful 1940s.nyc, which matches tax assessment photos with old maps for maximum street-view time travel. here's the almanac house, where pete seeger & woody guthrie threw basement gigs & partied with dashiell hammett & nicholas ray, among others.

I should be transparent. The NYT has approached @mississippifreepress.org reporters and editors about potential reporting partnerships. We have declined to have those conversations. We know it’s a reader play and don’t want clubby NYT control/influence on our reporting choices for obvious reasons.

People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.

Key point whenever you see an Altman prediction: the purpose of his predictions is *not* to accurately guess the future but build rationales in the present favorable to his company's interests. If you ignore everything he says you'll be smarter about AI.

Endorse.

Before my 21st birthday, a dear friend took time out of his Hill internship to request congratulatory letters from GOP senators to me, their alleged constituent. I got a stack of 30 letters from the likes of Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond, and Thad Cochran. It was a simpler time, with no pics.

Really good thread.

The New York Times has become a platform company for journalism, with all the incentives inherent in platform-ness. The seeming dominance of that status, however, obscures a hollowing-out of their core competency - it's less stable than you (or they) think.

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NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. “Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

enron.email since we're all talking about the big email dump full of crimes, I am sharing an old favorite emails full of crimes art project by @tega.bsky.social and @lav.io

If nothing else comes out of the backlash to Trumpism, let it be a renewed commitment to small-r republicanism. This should be embarrassing. It should be shameful. You are a free citizen of a free republic, act like one for God's sake.

As part of its Letters to the Future exhibition, the Bklyn Public Library is loaning art to patrons. A jrnlst wrote to ask me abt precedents. I'm ✍️ an email that lists *lots* of museum — esp campus museum — art-loan pgms, but I've got only a cpl *library* art-loan pgms. Might anyone know of others?

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

It was very annoying in the moment but 25 years later I'm coming around to the socialists with kazoos being correct in their attempts to deplatform Larry Summers.

Modern conspiracy theory acts primarily as a way for people to ignore uncomfortable evidence against their beliefs. Jan 6? False flag! Global warming? NWO plot to steal your freedom! When the conspiracy *is* the uncomfortable fact, conspiracy theorists suddenly lose interest in conspiracies.

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

And with the escalating projected losses they only announce *more* deals (read: liabilities) that will allow them to accelerate the rate of losses. OpenAI is your cousin with a gambling problem asking you to mortgage your house because he's got a great parlay that's *definitely* going to hit.

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

An absolutely terrific song about the Civil War immigrant soldiering experience is "Dixieland" by @steveearle.bsky.social - and a rare Civil War song celebrating the Union!

There’s a flood of (well meaning!) influencers doing splashy shopping trips for pantries and I recall what an abortion provider said: orgs need money, but donors give only what they want to, not necessarily what’s needed. Hence the offers for a couch to crash on post-abortion and not $ for a hotel.

I am not predicting the bubble popping at any particular moment but everything around AI is feeling increasingly sweaty.

Snow!

Congrats to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers for winning their *3 year strike*. It may take a little time, but it turns out it's possible to triumph over those who seek to immiserate the working class, for those with values, determination, and a willingness to not sell each other out.

Absolutely 100% agree; you should also be able to place sports bets at the most depressing horse track you can imagine, but you have to stay there for the length of the game.

I am an "abolish the Senate" fan myself but, if we *must* have a bicameral legislature, moving the Senate to a national-vote party-slate proportional representation chamber (100 is a nice round number for this) is a very obvious pro-democracy measure.

Basically agree with everything Dave says here with the additional note that caving right now at the least-optimal time has the minor benefit of really clarifying in a *public* way who is on Team Fight vs. Team Surrender. That's good and will shape things going forward.

some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you

Yes! Yes!

"In fact I often have the same concern about folks working in media that I do of folks working in climate: not enough of 'em have ever had to make a dollar stretch and it makes them absolutely terrified of standing up to power. That is not the juice we need in this moment."

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

Oh, changing the time by one hour for Daylight Savings is messing with your sleep schedule? "Why is it dark at 5 p.m.," you ask? Frilled sharks live in such deep water that they never see the sun at all! You didn't think about THAT, did you? No, you only ever think about yourself.

Apprehending someone with a kid there is not an unprecedented law-enforcement situation. Professionals understand this as posing a question of what to do with the kid: wait until a relative can pick them up? Take them somewhere? Etc? To _not think about this_ is a CHOICE.

Seconded, they are curious, engaged, and thoughtful. Truly a privilege to teach them!

A fun thing to do when editing your own writing is to notice the linguistic tics you employ with absolutely ferocious consistency that you were *completely unaware of*

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

Everybody who works for OpenAI should feel shame the rest of their days at the fact that their product is repeatedly helping kill people in their hours of greatest need. SHAME.

a perfect creature

This is almost certainly hype and nonsense but if a private firm were to actually crack fusion, it would be immediately nationalized and its assets seized as a matter of national security by whatever nation it happened to be located in.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!

Bluesky: the place for sports.

If it's true that RealClearPolitics removed their polling average of the VA Attorney General race because it was wrong, that should really be the nail in the coffin for them. It's GOP polling propaganda that hasn't been rigorous or transparent in a long time (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-pollin...)

Hard to overstate the extent to which executives across the arts actually hate the arts (and artists).