🎆 How are folks feeling on this Fourth of July? As a US citizen I'm not especially enthused in the moment, but with fireworks last night and festivities around me, that energy invites me to gratitude.

As America marks 250 years, may we recommit to building a diverse democracy, an economy that works for the many and not just the few, and a future where every generation has the opportunity to live a dignified life. Happy 4th of July!

Holes xkcd.com/3266/

This is how easy it is to poison Google's AI search with Reddit comments Watch here and subscribe for more of this every single week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uG8...

So much of the MTG art I grew up with and shaped how I see this game was made by Ron Spears. He brought a visual identity to his pieces that screams MAGIC to me. His is a name that will live forever in the magic he made via his art. RIP to one of the greatest to ever do it.

"Atlanta, one of this year's "eight cities to watch," scored 33 out of 100 points, ranking roughly 39th among large cities with a population of at least 300,000 people. Senoia, Pine Mountain, Hapeville, St. Simons and Hiram earned the top scores in Georgia." #atl www.axios.com/local/atlant...

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

It's hard to say why, but this still is very cool.

#atl #gapol

Repubs were picking a voting rights fight in the cradle of the civil rights movement — a battle that would've tested GOP power and the resilience of the grassroots groups that bloomed from the work of MLK and John Lewis Today put the fight on ice My latest, with @alemzs.bsky.social and Rick Rojas:

A trillionaire is more a signal of societal failure than of success.

Great piece about the unhoused folks proximate to the #worldcup in #atl. I so appreciate Sean's work. Flowers seem innocuous but they represent yet another group rejecting the responsibility for a problem much bigger than them. This needs city leadership, which seems lackluster.

Really fun art here #atl

news.ncsu.edu/2016/05/stra... Learn about fruits and faker fruits with me #fruit

A rat wall in the 48th ward

do NOT bother him while he's playing Dragon Quest VIII

"Dirty crystals and defective diamonds" is not a bad musical duo name, inspired by @kpc.bsky.social's new book Entangled States 😅 Maybe an edgy pop act 🤔💎💎

#atl #gapol

After seeing the headline "SpaceX IPO: How to Buy and Why You Shouldn't" on @barrons.com, I decided it was time to read the prospectus. I'm only a few pages in and folks... the implications of this document ... Do you want to go on a journey with me? Because I'm about to enter the rabbit hole.

a small part of the problem with AI is that even if you see good use cases for the technology, focusing on them is a little like saying radiotherapy is going to be great for treating cancer while stores still have radium toothpaste on the shelves www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Star Wars Marcia Lucas 1945-2026

What it’s like at the wall

Fresh off ending his national broadcast show on CBS, Stephen Colbert showed up on community access television in southeast Michigan.

It seems most of the time when there are cracks in the Democratic party Senate, it ain't Georgia. And it very well could have been. I appreciate Ossoff and Warnock for that.

Disappointing and sad #atl #gapol

SCOOP: double fine is unionizing

sonifier.sarahclawrence.com #atl

With the #ATL Marta changes, I was wondering if the canceled 809 route to my local coffee shop would affect the cleaning workers I see use it. Today that was confirmed with a new employee standing at a stop wondering if it'll ever come. My broken Spanish and another pedestrian were able to help.

The Tufted ground squirrel (Rheithrosciurus macrotis) is a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in floof. Let's start with the *FLOOF* & talk about why they're called "VAMPIRE SQUIRRELS" last. They have the largest tail: body size ratio of any mammal on Earth: the tail is *130%* the size the body.

Hallmarks of #AI text being emdashes (—) and lines like, "Great catch", and "You're absolutely right" after getting something wrong seem like linguistic signifiers of its nature. It needs to swerve, pivot on an instant, when the path it goes down is wrong. It's less smooth and fully-considered.

Yay! This was my idea. It's a super cool space.

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

The rhetoric is of a holy war. Humanists and secular folks in the US must reject this entire deadly enterprise, strongly.

The whole-Earth-at-night photo from the #Artemis II mission was brighter than many expected. That was mostly due to camera settings; here’s another pic taken just before with diff settings. Digital photography is always subjective—even before processing! (HT @swapnakrishna.com @jasonc0.bsky.social)

58 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Georgia’s greatest son, was taken from us in a violent act of hate. His legacy lives on in the work we do to build his beloved community and to bend the moral arc of the universe towards justice.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

I don’t want to alarm anyone but I’m hearing reports that the Artemis II crew are already showing symptoms of Moon Mania. This suggests the “insanity field” around the Moon may have grown stronger since the 1960s. God help the crew if that’s the case

I own this shirt and it rocks

"Rowling [clearly] thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune. [...] There's no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she's inflicting on a vulnerable minority."

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Reo did the award-winning, decade-long work so that we can understand the winding, inequitable tale of sex testing in sport for ourselves. Their understanding and positions on these issues are my go-to.

#atl #gapol

OpenAI is winding down Sora, the video generation app it launched to much fanfare last year that signaled a bigger push into creative tools and social media. OpenAI is shuttering the standalone app to focus on other priorities, the company said.

Thinking about the spa shootings that took place down the street from me 5 years ago today, as well as in Cherokee County. Thinking about Asian hate and emboldened white men committing violence, and how it hasn't stopped. #atl

Have a Fucking Website www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/h...

“If you’re into tea, eventually you will find us,” Belonoha says. “We’ve got something good here. Something from the heart.” #atl www.atlantamagazine.com/drinks/atlan...