TIL that Dolly Parton's Imagination Library now enrolls one of every six children in the US to receive a new book in the mail every month from birth to age five (60 books each) @arl.org

So much for the tolerant le—wait hold on a sec

Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player who has served as a global ambassador for the sport, has died from brain cancer, his family said. He was 47 www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

…why does your presumably very high-paying job have non-essential tasks?

I still have yet to hear a compelling case against this, and I imagine that's why it's often one of the most conspicuously ignored elements of the conversation.

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

I don’t mean this rhetorically or snarkily: Has anything in the last 30 years gotten better? Cheaper for the same service? Better for the same price? I can’t think of one example, besides *maybe* TVs. But they’re also uniformly glitchy and glacial now and listen to your every conversation.

Among the lowest stakes implication of all of this—somewhere outside of the top 10 my concerns and frustrations—is an even more bland, flattened aesthetic in the world. I never found commercials, flyers, ads, etc. pretty, but now with AI, these all look downright hideous.

I do not believe that the NBA draft is rigged or even meddled in because it seems like it would demand NATSEC levels of coordination and secrecy but: what draft lottery outcome would make you wonder?

Something that can help from time to time with super critical self-talk: Imagine your worst enemy saying that shit to you

This series was engineered in a lab to infuriate me.

One of the most hollow and bizarre retorts I’ve seen to data center backlash is “Do people not understand that streaming technology also requires data centers?” It feels a little like the “WELL I GUESS WE SHOULD JUST BAN KNIVES TOO HUH??” response to gun control arguments.

Microsoft Outlook is so astonishing in its failures that it’s hard to get mad at. Like I’ve run into weird scrolling or display bugs on other platforms but Outlook bugs are like “Attachments don’t work” or “Can’t click a calendar invite”

That thing they do in marketing where a website asks if you want to sign up for whatever and the choices are "YES!" and "No, I'm a stupid little baby" I'll go ahead and click the stupid baby button. Nice try but I don't care

Obligatory Ebert repost

Lovely Ursula Le Guin. ❤️

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Very sad to hear about the passing of one of my favorite athletes. Garrett Anderson was everything I loved about baseball when I was a young fan. Even before I really understood what it meant to be aesthetically pleasing, I was mesmerized by the grace of his play. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Looks we love

New painting - Samantha Eggar in my favorite Cronenberg The Brood. Coming to Outpost 512 - opening May 1st.

In activist spaces there's always this balance,maybe even a full blown dialectic, between trying to engage with those who disagree and protecting ourselves from them, especially those who actively want to harm us. These decisions are delicate and often personal as well as collective. 1/

Very good news. And a five-year timeline is pretty fast by municipal standards. Also: "The city has roughly three million parking spaces, and full trash containerization is expected to take about 150,000 spaces, or 5 percent."

really good images of the model of NYC they made for the hudsucker proxy from an old issue of cinefex

Cannot recommend this one highly enough. Also found it through the post from @clairewillett.bsky.social and not only did it feel so good to not give my money to TurboTax, I added all of the bells and whistles they offered and it was *still* cheaper.

i love when i log into something and it tells me some shit like Notification Hub is now Alert Village

to me the pitt is a love letter to new york city – a town it lovingly accepts, warts and all. in a sense, new york is almost the show's main character

GUYS, IT’S REAL smallscreen.ordoliberal.com huge shout out to @standard.bsky.social for creating this and the Venture Bros and KotH ones, absolutely phenomenal!!!!

They tell me that guns don’t kill people, people kill people. But this suggests that projectiles do not require human intervention.

Most of us know of "bubblegum" as a FLAVOR, but it's actually banana, pineapple, cinnamon, clove & wintergreen esters blended together, first formulated in 1928 by accountant Walter Diemer for his product, "Dubble Bubble." He also dyed the grey product pink.

You know how Rome had republican institutions but in times of crisis they'd appoint a dictator with absolute power? What if we did that but we appointed our worst guy in a time of relative peace and prosperity? Now I know what you're thinking: why would we do that? Well it's to mix things up

PING HETEAR CHEO HTEL

It's frequently pointed out that NASA activities (and basic/exploratory science in general) have a fantastic return on investment, contributing far more to the economy than they take. But even if they didn't, no one's actually taking from the "cure sick people" pot to put money in the "rockets" pot.

tahoe traffic

Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food. Me: That's--Hold on,

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

LinkedIn on April Fool's Day may not be my innermost ring of hell but it's definitely close

Serious question: If the Patreon includes a description of what’s being AI generated, what are you paying for? Why not prompt it yourself?

The Nets:

Separate from whether or not you like and benefit from AI, I don’t see how you can use a fawning AI post as evidence of anything without acknowledging that the poster has like “VP of AI Systems” in their title. Feels like my cats posting a study about the vast benefits of increased wet food intake.

One of the best personal developments I've experienced in the last few years is that I pretty suddenly stopped caring about seeing my data. Hardly check my Apple Watch trends. Left Spotify because I feel no connection to Wrapped. It's been infinitely easier to liberate myself from platforms.

The one on the left looks so much cooler. The difference between swaggy and try-hard.

Tired: Stephen A Smith presidential run Wired: Charles Barkley presidential run

Sadly I fear no Ben Saraf turnover sicko mode performance can prevent us from losing a home game to Sacramento on their second night of a back to back in an almost afternoon game. Can we Nets fans agree not to be mad at them for this one?

Hey @nytimes.com, can I have a word? “The day of protest came as…Democrats work to capitalize politically on the unpopular war with Iran.” WTAF? why turn this into a game? People protested an unjust, illegal war. It’s not about politically capitalizing on some random event. Be more serious, okay?

Love to look for a article about what it's supposed to feel like when you're healing from wisdom tooth extraction and click into the tenth piece that starts with something like "Teeth are mineralized tissue that appear in the mouth and are used to..."

If the OED ever wanted to put out slim A Very Brief Introduction To style volumes that each did a deep dive into the history of a single world I’d be all over that

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

IMO a lot of trust and safety work is built on the belief that "we went through this terrible thing, and no one needs to go through this terrible thing again"