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You might question her methods, but credit to Bari Weiss: her leadership has pushed 60 Minutes into new formats and attracted a bunch of new viewership outside the normal broadcast audience.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Reporter: We have 3 videos, 2 breathalyzers, 4 bartenders, and a minivan full of nuns attesting to how the driver was drunk and reckless when he hit the school bus. Weiss; What did the driver say. Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times. Weiss: I’m killing your story.

Perhaps we should film a debate between a concentration camp guard and an abandoned toilet over whether CECOT is good. Brought to you by Bank of America.

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Biggest technological revolution in our lifetime and it's not AI:

Nothing sums up the Trump economy better than this

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go… oh here we go

"One of the weirder dynamics of the Trump era: When we picture a disaster scenario, we imagine those in charge trying to alert an apathetic public. But [it's] the reverse; liberalism’s leaders seem unsure, while the rank and file are screaming at them to fight." newrepublic.com/article/2042...

I felt compelled

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪

then we fucking fight it anyway

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

Oligarchy is a form of government as natural to human beings as any other. The desire to rule over others is not going to go away--the question is how we *constrain* that desire, & ppl who see history only through the lens of a final moral perfection and metaphysical liberation miss actual progress.

I think a lot of people don't fully appreciate that this administration and all of the people backing it are in it to make content as content creators

It would be very difficult to convince anyone who wasn’t alive in the 1980s of just how popular Far Side cartoons were for a while.

Ok who wants a bizarre no stakes mystery to solve? I had to go to the hospital by ambulance this morning (heart stuff, am ok now.) A bunch of ambulance guys came into our living room to get me. And now we keep finding tiny glass ducks On the floor.

imagine if your salary dropped from $42K to $36K. you would not say "it is down slightly."

Businesspeople being Time Person of the Year in the past 30 years: 1997 Andrew Grove (LTCM in 1998) 1999 Jeff Bezos (dot com bust in 2000) 2010 Mark Zuckerberg (debt ceiling/European debt crisis, Aug/Oct crashes in 2011) 2021 Elon Musk (stocks down big in 2022) 2025 Architects of AI (??? in 2026)

Stealworkers

I mean if I'm the GOP I'm actually probably freaking out based on what just happened in Georgia - that's basically the GOP gerrymander everywhere, and someone just flipped it.

This is a big, big deal

still thinking about the people who claimed in February that opposition to Trump had all but disappeared

60 years ago today, A Charlie Brown Christmas aired on CBS. Here is the original promo as it aired in 1965. 🎄 🌲🎄☃️🌲🎄🌲☃️🎄🌲🎄☃️🌲🎄🌲

“Mississippi Burning” premieres 37 years ago tonight — one of Hackman’s great performances. “.. I suppose I see myself as a serious artist,” he said, “and it felt right to do something of historical import. It was an extremely intense experience.” #RIP 🙏🏼

This is a time in our nation's history that will be remembered for all the broken fools who needed so much attention.

You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.

As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.

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This is a thoughtful essay on something I have been thinking about for a few months. It mentions doomscrolling twice and also points to when the reflex can be detrimental on a personal level and on a larger scale.

there's a story that squares these, which is that AI lets individual employees lever up in a way that makes them super productive but also super difficult to substitute for, so you need them working all the time and if they ever leave you're screwed. CEOs do not love that story

"Never eating instant ramen any other way again," said a reader who tried this simple recipe. nyti.ms/4oVswSM

In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.

really went dark for the sequel

The US federal government is openly warring against its own nonwhite population in a way no one alive has ever experienced. It’s not even getting to hide it. The overt bigotry is comparable to Jim Crow. And our pathetic, cowed, putrid political class just keeps pretending it isn’t even happening.

He is risen

We all know how this is going to turn out and no one in the media will admit it

"A death-haunted Trump is fed a steady stream of AI-generated news and polls while he focuses 100% of his efforts on building a ballroom that would dwarf the rest of the White House while navigating a series of accellerating and hidden health crises" is my take on the current situation.

This gets right at my core opinion about AGI: we're not going to get anything like actual "intelligence" from a brain in a jar (or a chip in a computer). Intelligence is ultimately about interacting with the world; only embodied creatures can develop it.

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

What’s always on its way but never arrives?