"Urbanist" is a dog whistle. That job already has a name.

Ngl I hope Martha Stewart gets to smile a little today #comey

Speechless at this point

Just walked by the “city trash collection site” on Broad & Snyder. It’s… a dumpster. It’s also nearly full already, halfway through Day 1 of the strike. If THIS is Mayor Parker’s plan to avoid paying the striking DC 33 workers, Philly is going to be a full-on apocalyptic stank zone by this weekend

Made it onto Goodreads’ Readers 14 Most Anticipated Books of July! www.goodreads.com/blog/show/29...

#yarnbomb philly

"In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none." - Stokely Carmichael #yarnbomb #philly

“What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?” Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. “It looks like an additional monthly user.”

Being a parent is scrolling through your kids tiktok algo to click not interested on shit while they're in school and finding out 3 of their friends skipped so now they see me online

Having kids is listening intently to an audio version of AI 2027 in the shower and having it abruptly interrupted by the song "chicken wing chicken wing" bc y'all share an account. 

as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.

Buy a gun and learn how to use it. If you cannot do this for whatever reason, connect with trusted people in your community who can. Your local @socialistra.bsky.social is an excellent place to start.

WIP yarnbomb gotta find a spot in Philly 😭 hardest part

WIP yarnbomb - need to location scout in Philly

Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.

the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps block the path

The useless decorum is disgusting at this point

Gonna be tough for folks to get those 5 bullet points in with no email

and so it begins Federal Trade Commission Launches Inquiry on Tech Censorship www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

During our analysis of RedNote, we found that the app requests some very sensitive permissions, including location information, even when the app is not running in the foreground. This permission is not requested by other similar apps such as TikTok, Facebook, or Instagram.

The annoying thing about this app is that people keeping posting clips from the news... as if the same old rules are in play here. I can barely weed through it.

Fuck yimbys - and I say this with my whole chest - you pasty, trickle down, chud-faced, boot licking weasels whyy.org/articles/phi...

The celebs in these superbowl commercials are OLD. What is the target demo here, Congress?

Does trump need to legally justify the tariffs by talking about drugs? Bc this was never an issue before.

Just a cute Reminder: www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

I very much in fact, can. Rents are now priced per room, assuming single adult tenants. I know this after years of being a roommate (and the rents made sense) and subsequently becoming a single mom needing a 3br on 1 income (and the rents were totally destructive).

Am I opting out or opting in? What in the world.. #privacy #dataprivacy

Could the people who are commenting about the incompetency of the NYPD at the expense of a local hero maybe.... STFU on this one?

The new iPhone Photos update is the worst thing since they put U2 on my phone against my will.

Can Bluesky handle the well-deserved gallows humor about a dead health insurance CEO... a test of an app I want to be on

You hear a lot more about people stealing a stick of deodorant from a drug store than corporations stealing millions from their workers

Watching The Little Mermaid as a kid: I’m Ariel! I’m a princess and I want to marry a handsome prince! Watching The Little Mermaid as an adult: I’m Ursula. Some under-qualified white man usurped my throne, took my trident, and now I practice witchcraft.

look at Nostradamus over here

Amazon doing a temu rollout is... unsurprising I guess

Maybe not-so-terrible things that have been absolutely destroyed by the people who do them. I'll start:

ACLU is hiring an Algorithmic Justice Fellow to work on cutting edge projects focused on digital rights — the work will interrogate how automated systems are being used in high stakes areas. www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

Never thought I'd be relating to kim kardashian about anything ever 😭

Dr: your scan showed a lil something. Probably nothing, we'll scan again in 3 months just in case tho. Me for the next 3 months: #cansky

Almost all 92 million low-income Americans now have some basic aspect of their lives determined by AI or automated decision-making software, a new report finds. Those systems are often flawed, and rarely in poor folks' favor. Today's newsletter: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

If this is the place to be real then yeah in high school I gave myself my own nickname