ha ha what

The tech bros rolling out these technologies are not doing with disabled people in mind. This is a fucking red herring argument that ignores the backs of the people whose livelihoods they're destroying.

the problem with the shittiest billionaires getting so directly involved in space is how much it turns off people who just want to be excited by space

To be really clear, Patagonia did not sue to stop Pattie Gonia, the drag queen, from using the stage name. Patagonia sued Pattie Gonia Productions to stop them from trademarking & selling Pattie Gonia apparel in competition - seeking damages of $1. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: ICE officers just beat and used tear gas on detainees at Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ, per family members of people inside. This is as the hunger/labor strike at the facility continues for its seventh fay. gothamist.com/news/family-...

Immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ have been forced to cook, clean, & repair the facility for as little as $1/day and sometimes for free. They are on a hunger & labor strike; protesters outside have been tear-gassed. Here's our report, including a quote from a detainee:

sometimes you have days that really demonstrate how much you've gotten over some maladaptive ways of moving through the world and that's neat (if still a stressful day)

NPR is shrinking its newsroom through layoffs and buyouts and is reducing staff dedicated to covering both climate and science. "The climate desk no longer exists separately but has been folded into the National Desk," writes Neela Banerjee, who headed the climate desk but was just laid off.

Concrete in the pool politics that so many people are totally unprepared to understand and analyze by choice.

Nell's science reporting has never not been incredible, and this is really sad.

This is a really ballsy speech by student reporter Santiago Campos, winner of the Mike Wallace Memorial Scholarship ($10,000) and worth watching in full.

“There it is.”

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

oh LMAO okay word cool

the whole MN flag separatism thing got stuck in my head today. anyway.

I'm teaching my sociology of climate change class in the fall. There's always quite a bit of interest from journalism & comms students. So I am going to put in the curriculum some examples of powerful reporting on the climate crisis. This is a running 🧵 of such articles. Feel free to add to it.

I don't understand web address engineering particularly well but I am absolutely certain that DOGE is somehow to blame for the fact that nowadays if you try to go to "airnow.gov" you get a bad link/bounce unless you actually type in "www.airnow.gov"

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

I cannot wait for the crackdown of them parking in bike lanes.

measuring tree rings all summer and there's no way I'm beating the allegations (she spends hours tracing wood grain patterns in the floor to self-soothe like that character in Orson Scott Card's "Xenocide")

During this broadcast Stephen FaceTimed Byron Allen and said he was coming for his ratings (it was during the same timeslot as his show had been). This video currently has 170,000 views. I don't have a lot of bandwidth for Media Stories but I am SO curious how BA's ratings shake out.

This headline is hilarious when you learn that the rocket toppled over in a fiery explosion on landing

I'm sorry but the final scene in Strangers on a Train??? How dare???

My toxic former freelancer trait is working on Memorial Day weekend so I can go camping AFTER the crowds leave.

35,000 people have already watched Colbert host public access television in SE Michigan.

With guest Jack White. This is glorious.

New piece: Minnesota lawmakers are acting - in collaboration with local organizers and government officials - to defend disability rights against the federal government. It’s good law. It’s a shitty situation. (Gift link)

Cannot recommend highly enough the 2022 documentary by Warner Herzog's son (narrated by the father, naturally) on how unbelievably hellish will be the experience of Mars colonists. It's called Last Exit: Space and it's on Hulu / HBO / etc.

sorry can't talk just received a shitty phone video my friend casually took of a whooping crane without even knowing the Lore.

the MILEAGE we have gotten out of Octavia Butler's "so be it, see to it" in the last 10 years alone.

sandwiches? in this generation?

This kind of light pollution should be illegal

found the TC bike queers who will also tell you which Pride events are "really corporate" without you even having to ask

maybe they just found out the hard way that their modem is 10 years old who can say

always a weird feeling when the internet provider call center guy thanks you for being one of the "rare" polite customers, esp when you felt like you were doing the bare minimum on that front. (never hold customer service responsible for the annoying AI phone tree or other company-level problems)

Spread the word: "The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library."

I realize I sound like old man yelling at clouds but... ...in my day WE READ ALL THE CITATIONS BEFORE WE CITED THEM. That's how you GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE TO CITE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE. Signed: Someone who literally read two whole books on the color blue just to write a single 1000 word article.

I am a materialist at heart but dawg…sometimes it’s hard

spending my night exporting all my Evernote data so I can cancel my account before the $100+ AI-tastic price increase hits, so glad the innovators are looking out for us. this is my third batch export this year of many years of data and who tf knows when I'll have time to home it in a useable way!

a mission I don't know if I can fulfill, but I hope that we can get it done together: an immigrant student in MN needs $6,100 by tomorrow to be able to stay in their law program and in the country. dean's list, first-gen. their status stops me from saying more. www.paypal.com/pool/9pjLvyI...

counterpoint: NYCers occasionally say "lurr" but only when being very flippant in the groupchat.

Colossal says its "artificial egg" will help it bring back the moa, which had larger eggs than any living birds 🧪 But it's really just an artificial eggshell, and even clingfilm will work - sort of - as an artificial eggshell. Plus there's the yolk problem... www.newscientist.com/article/2527...

pleased to report I won therapy on day 1 with a new provider (said I did a good job telling The Backstory).

No but like seriously everyone go pay for journalism. Pay NPR or if not us pay someone else. Just please pay someone or else seriously all these big ships are going to keep slowwwwwwly sinking.

Hotel housekeepers used to track their work on a clipboard. Now they work for an app that docks points if a room cleaning takes too long. “You have a device telling you, ‘move here, move there,’ like if you were a robot." The latest from @proofnews.bsky.social: www.proofnews.org/hotel-housek...

unfortunately it turns out that when you sleep enough, you don't even WANT coffee sometimes???

"Vacant Lots as Green Community Spaces" by Max Gohman, Saemi Lee, Vanessa Jimenez Juarez is a project identifying vacant land in minneapolis near BIPOC communities that could be green spaces. one that met criteria is 3615 N Lyndale Ave, which city will now sell storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6243...

“Palestinians thought that by showcasing all of our vulnerabilities online, by sharing our grief, we’d [get] empathy; people would interfere, would move,” she says. “But it [was] the complete opposite: social media helped dehumanise Palestinians.” www.wired.me/story/palest...

too soon