I'd be relieved if this was the extent of stupidity the next decade holds. But to hijack a little, if you want to learn about how we started gambling on everything, a good place to start is a @404media.co podcast ep with Dr. Natasha Dow Schüll that just dropped. www.404media.co/how-the-worl...

New Indigenous strat to save sacred sites: give them dumb ass alt-fantasy names so white people care about them. Mauna Kea? No, Mount Doom! Cheyanne River? How about Zora River! They’ll be protesting while cosplay dwarves n shit, nothing authorities can do!

I wish the people obsessed with waging war knew what it was

🚨 White House unveils pre-crime strategy to target the left, including pro-Palestinian protesters, "anti-Fascists," and "anti-American, radically pro-transgender ideologies." Full document: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre...

Guess what?! I got a fever; and the only prescription... is more GOBLINS!

it felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...

Indigenous land defenders are being killed and criminalised at alarming rates, AI systems scrape traditional knowledge without consent, while Indigenous women face escalating rates of violence, crises that Indigenous leaders confronted this week at the UN. www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/04/25/i...