• No, everyone *isn't* using AI to do their writing for them. • Modernizing kids' books demonstrates massive contempt for kids. And for books. • He *is* an ugly fuck, and he should shut up. Have a nice day.

has this story broken through at all? i can’t tell.

Quick, summarize America in one headline

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

This is a cool thing that Spoken cafe, 1812 W. Montrose Ave., does on Thursday evenings.

I love it.

My community soup-and-sewing project's extremely ridiculous mention on the Colbert Show remains one of my proudest achievements.

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

Stephen Colbert is a genius and by all accounts a truly good guy. So it pains me to say this, but dude .... you could only find ONE WOMAN to guest on your final show?

“Kat” Abughazaleh speaking after today’s crazy developments in the “Broadview 6” case

///BREAKING/// The original federal grand jury refused to indict the "Broadview Six" case against Operation Midway Blitz protesters, and a second grand jury was plagued by "tension" and arguing over the merits of the case, according to what's being said in court now.

I hope they sue the fuck out of the DOJ. This was egregious emotional and financial abuse of people who DID NOTHING WRONG.

This is pretty unusual

On this day: May 20, 1987. Hüsker Dü appeared on the Today show, playing some songs outside Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis.

"it's like poetry without rhyming - too easy" right

With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3)

1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

As an editor who came up in a print-first world, it's always been a principle that you shouldn't need to click thru to a link to get a citation or reference. it should be clear on the page. Maybe this is no longer considered best practice, but IDK I think it's sound. A propos of nothing.

I have to say this gave me a great deal of pleasure. "Good night and good luck, motherf***ers" www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBKW...

This happened to me recently and I was stopped at the crosswalk BECAUSE THERE WAS A PERSON CROSSING THE STREET

I can't respond to this excellent list, but I would add Andrea Elliott's Invisible Child and Matthew Desmond's Evicted

Kevin O'Leary, who is Canadian, accused two ordinary Americans -- by name, on Fox News -- of being Chinese communist agents working against "our" country. Their response is fantastic.

Oh wikipedia, not you too!

DANG. My little 2019 book just keeps on trucking. Spotted by a friend at the Obama Library ❤️

The “general response to Midway Blitz [was] an aggrieved, futile attempt to correct someone who has violently misinterpreted reality.” Over and over, Chicagoans pointed “to the normality of life as a defense against the menacing accusations” of ICE and CPB www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/pol...

There is nothing like writing an artist's statement to make you question every choice you've made that brought you to this cursed place.

This is such a beautiful and tender work of writing and reporting!!!

GET IT DETROIT

Democrats need to start speaking like normal people

Everyone who died of AIDS thanks to governmental inaction, neglect, and homophobia

🧵 AOC at Ebenezer Baptist Church this Mothers Day Sunday morning. I ain't saying she's gonna announce, but she's definitely been doing the traditional steps folks do before they do. 1/2, see rest below 🧵

Air traffic Control is in crisis, planes are crashing, TSA lines are around the block, airlines are going out of business. And this fox news bozo went on a seven month-road trip while we were paying him to be transportation secretary? Do I have this right?

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Darcey Steinke, author of This is the Door, reflects on aging: "I am filled with wonder more. I see, say, bare branches before a streetlight in the dark and it just sends me. I can feel the sorrow people carry. I am less self-consumed." @oldstermag.bsky.social H/T @saribotton.bsky.social

If Politico has no haters, I am dead. Also the presidential center is in Woodlawn, not Hyde Park

David Rees, 10/30/01

Burn it all down

OH HELL YES

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Beautiful essay, and I can’t wait to read this book. Also, I’m sure someone has shared this already but I feel duty bound to drop one of my favorite ever @chicagoreader.com features here chicagoreader.com/news/brickya...

When you’re too old to regularly get carded it’s easy to not realize your drivers license expired months ago. Ask me how I know 😬

This much-quoted piece claims there are only seven working full time book critics in the US, but seems to omit every book critic on staff at one of media’s most overcrowded lifeboats: The New Yorker. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

these focus groups are just further anecdotal evidence for my view that trump is is understood as a totem for wealth and prosperity. these people are genuinely bewildered that he isn’t, and might in fact be a human being with ulterior motives

We murdered three more people in a boat today

Today, we honor and remember Virginia Roberts Giuffre on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Her courage has allowed countless survivors to be seen, heard, and to be believed. Sending love to her family on this difficult day—and to all the survivors out there still on this journey for justice.❤️