The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Jimothy is my spirit animal. ❤️

People say they don’t understand how the purges in the military aimed at making it more white nationalist serve the purported function of increasing lethality but it makes sense as what they are doing is excising any remainder of conscience as propagandized ethos. For when they aim it domestically.

This is the news alert that fully captures 2026. Put it in the history books.

Maybe not enough being made of the fact that the director of the biggest movie of the year is also a currently standing union president

I feel like some White House reporter needs to ask Trump about the fact that his DOJ has lost 16 straight cases to access state voter rolls and that in 7 of the cases it was before judges he nominated. Oh and point out that I am still not tired of winning.

He’s going for it. And we know ahead of time. So….there’s time to prepare. It probably won’t work. But that doesn’t meant we shouldn’t prepare in advance.

Both sides of a fortune from a cookie referencing a fucking VPN advertisement is some real bullshit

One animator put it plainly: “You have no idea how frustrating it is to see press release after press release touting how much money our animated film made and how many nominations we got; then [the studio] turns to people who have worked here forever and says, ‘We don’t need you anymore.’” Heh.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

this is you in meta’s pervert glasses

🚨my wife saw a BABY porcupine crossing the road today 🚨

guys, taco bell is the only place that reported the parasite on their lettuce because the trump administration decided companies don't have to report it anymore. that means taco bell is likely one of the safest places because they cared enough to report it anyway. don't be fuckin marks.

Fun fact: Fox News has been sued more times than they have won awards. Pulitzer Prizes: 0 Peabody Awards: 0 News & Documentary Emmy Awards: 0 Edward R. Murrow Awards: 0

GenAI programs are not search engines. When used in that manner, not only do they use much more resources than a genuine search engine (doing far more damage as a result), they will also still make things up, because they're architecturally incapable of not making things up. It's a stupid approach.

When we see corporate consolidation, such as in Paramount & Warner Brothers, we often see higher prices for everyday consumers, lower wages for workers, less competition, less diversity of content, and more. That’s why we have antitrust laws — to prevent mergers such as this.

I left all my artbot accounts (except the met costume one) and followed fine folk like Micheal for just this reason.

Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

Do you have a librarian at your workplace to instruct you on how to search for accurate sources and how to cite them? Do your staff get help? This is sad coming from an editor who should be following high standards for formatting and citing.

Hi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.

@wikipedia.org is where facts go to live

Eating at Taco Bell right now and this is proof it's fine. No bacteria is surviving. This lunch could remove carbon build up in an engine

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

In letters sent to Apple and Google, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that both companies have long been aware that they are hosting apps in violation of state law.

Car into Post Office... before repairs were completed from the previous Car into Post Office. #carintobuilding @carintobuilding.bsky.social

I’m so happy for them

1/ First measles, then screwworm, and now cyclospora - a food-borne illness generated by intestinal parasites. These explosive outbreaks aren't random. They’re the predictable consequence of ignoring the science at the expense of public health.

Although it pains me to admit it, Sarah Longwell is six years younger than I am. She was 13 when Newt Gingrich became speaker. Her 20s were from 2000 to 2010! We're talking Bush v. Gore, the Iraq War debacle, "enhanced interrogation" (i.e. torture), the Tea Party, and McConnell's Obama obstruction.

"Not one looks normal." says this guy.

It's the Taylor Farms lettuce. The Taylor Farms outbreak. Earthbound Organics is Taylor Farms.

Nothing about politics in the US should be able to shock me anymore, but this is a jaw-dropping interview.

This is a Facebook link, but: if you live in the Houston area, Lost and Found Media is hiring a full-time employee. Must be knowledgeable about movies and physical media, more so than the average person. Click the link below for details:

“why are these ultra wealthy people so much worse than their predecessors” is a question people will be trying to answer for a long time, but i think part of it is that they’re fundamentally contemptuous of humanity in a way that the men who built railroads or oil empires were not

Congress granted funds to restore 988 services for LGBTQ+ youth months ago. But it's still gone. Here's what it looks like when a service like this is ended; almost 70,000 people reaching out for help, then a cliff.

Short sellers are making a mint off of crashing SpaceX stock: $8.7 billion so far Analysts estimate close to half of SpaceX's stock is now owned by short sellers - that's a $30+ billion bet the stock will continue to drop www.reuters.com/business/med...

Last fall, I learned Flock was rolling out a feature that leverage gunshot-detecting microphones to search for human screams. We publicly asked---how is this legal? And a few months later, that product is now dead.

everyone has an answer to this and they’re probably all at least partially correct, but mine is that he doesn’t understand art, he doesn’t value it, and he doesn’t think it’s worth paying for. that’s true of most of our tech billionaires but he’s the distilled version of their contempt for humanity

Absolutely. And this isn't unprecedented. The American Humane Society is an independent body the industry uses to provide certifications that "no animals were harmed" in the production so that audiences can make ethical choices.

We urgently need enforced disclosure of AI usage in TV shows & other media. These AI models use stolen work to displace human labour. It is reasonable to demand disclosures that let you avoid media made with them. variety.com/2026/biz/new...

He admit it.

One of the things that really hit me last night at The Odyssey was the overwhelming feeling of Nolan basically saying “Aren’t movies the fucking best?? Look what I get to make for you!!” You really feel the joy of filmmaking in every frame.

Disneyland opened #OTD in 1955. "Opening day proved less than perfect; crowds jammed the park, rides malfunctioned, and women in high heels found their shoes sinking into the still-soft asphalt of Main St, USA," @lawrencecphd.bsky.social. books.google.com/books?id=F6I... 📸: Getty Images (1955)

This is kind of awesome, and worth watching.

Everyone should read her book. No matter what you think of Zuckerberg et al., they are worse.

I’m Noticing that all the outlets that ran “Bluesky is an echo chamber” pieces have yet to acknowledge that X is now demonstrably an echo chamber when it comes to movies, political candidates, AI hype, etc etc etc

Corporations about to discover the food safety funding their chosen president killed doesn’t just protects us from dying - it protects their reputations & keeps them from getting sued for billions! @futurism.com

One of the biggest impediments to dismantling Trumpism is the lawyers who've run the Democratic Party infrastructure for the last 40 years or so.

It's amazing that Trump have a speech dedicated to pushing his election fraud lies, still get in weird comments about trans people, and pundits will be like, "Are DEMOCRATS too focused on trans issues?" No, dummies. There's only one side that's obsessed with trans people, and it's certainly not Dems