here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

Imagine if they fought Republicans as hard as they plan to fight progressives. 🙄

crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money

These people are so fucking boring.

I’m sure there are people who will blame the kid, or their parents. “Why were they biking at a highway interchange” Well, for instance: There’s a bike trail relatively near. It ends on the other side of the highway from Franklin. Sometimes your options are bad and you use the best bad option

I did not know about the A-pillar blind spot problem (gift article) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

One of the people arrested for "vandalizing" the Reflecting Pool was a 3-time Olympian and another was a 17-year-old kid. It's a perfect microcosm for this administration. Idiotically destroy parts of American culture and then blame it on actually impressive Americans and innocent children

You don't say.

@ketanjoshi.co on “Why the desperate gas industry is suddenly obsessed with AI slop”. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

What's really astounding about this piece is that it doesn't acknowledge even in passing that police misconduct results in harm to people or that more should be done to prevent it. It's presented entirely as a PR problem for the “honest” cops, who apparently are the real victims.

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

As I walked away, I had another funny feeling. What if this "book" and his entire "experiment" is funded by an AI company? This is exactly the kind of "scholarship" tech bro overlords want -- influential academics, preferably men, telling the rest of us that we are now useless in the age of AI.

Imagine thinking this was a pro-AI argument.

"pedestrians are sabotaging our car strategy"

this seems like... an argument against ai?

When cars came along, the industry convinced us their product killing children was normal and probably the children's fault because they were playing in the street The auto industry also told the world that their product represented the future and blind acceptance of it was necessary and inevitable

Cars have been shoved down our throat by the industries involved whether we like it or not, making life miserable and stifling efficient public and mass transit while gobbling up resources like oil and lithium and produce huge amounts of waste and damage to environment. Great comparison, Huang

Jensen Huang was born in Tainan, a city of 1.8 million people in Taiwan that hosted a large US airbase, in 1963, and he’s pretending like he grew up before cars existed when the streets looked like this. He is unthinkingly lying and misrepresenting to justify his obscene wealth and power.

Bro is praising an earlier corporate capture of the commons

People are dunking on him but Huang is correct here: we had to invent the idea of jaywalking to blame the victims of negligent vehicular homicide, or auto & oil execs would have seen far less profit

anyway, the idea that the invention of the car created a need for reforms and regulation to offset its harms is a provocative one, and we should look into it

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 17,1948

“It’s not impossible that in 10 years we wake up and see that we actually don’t have a domestic industry in the sense of something that does significant research and development. … Maybe Ford and G.M. exist as nameplates but the powertrains and their cars are all Chinese.”

SCOOP from @by-cjewett.bsky.social & me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.

It’s funny because when kids ride dirt bikes in the city it’s taken as proof we need a totalitarian police state.

Councilor Flynn disabled X replies after my reply challenged him regarding unofficial livestream recordings of what appear to be multiple Open Meeting Law violations, with Flynn himself engaged in a private plan to reject the budget by privately amassing a quorum. (1/2)

i'm happy for all knicks fans, of course, but this win means a little more to those of us who jumped on the bandwagon over the last four years. unlike the lifelong fans who root for any knicks team they put out there, we chose this team specifically. these are our guys. this is our championship

There's no better distillation of Project 2025 than this: an illegal action, taken without any public oversight, for inherently corrupt purposes, now held to be irreversible for no other reason than because they added poison pills to make it unacceptably damaging.

Real sicko shit. Fake simulacra of the real people they're continuing to erase.

AI Economics for Dummies www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

Ezra Klein is doing oligarchic propaganda the right way. prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...

Access journalists spread lies for their sources, which is why access journalism makes US less informed.

The quickness and ease with which Mayor Mamdani has accomplished many of the things he said he would in such a short time shows just how ridiculous 2. often is We absolutely should expect politicians to follow through on their promises and they should face consequences when they don't

This is good. Much, much, much more of this please, @streets.boston.gov. Thanks!!!

Jesus christ

If you have a 401(k) and you are worried about being overexposed to this nonsense, here’s a few things you can do (1/?):

When you ask ChatGPT or any popular LLM to tell you a story, one name keeps coming up: "Elias Thorne." Depending which chatbot you ask, he's a lighthousekeeper, clockmaker or explorer. His stories are also flooding Amazon's AI-generated book market, YouTube slop, and fake news. Who is he?

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

David Ellison ostensibly tapped Bari Weiss to run CBS News because of her extraordinary digital skills, paying $150 million to buy The Free Press. But how is The FP actually doing? Last month, the site’s traffic plunged 17% from last year. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

How many new tech products are “we invented new ways to not spend time with your kids”

Pedals > Diesel

this thread answers the question "what if the SpaceX IPO roadshow were honest?"

🤔 “Dolan got married at Mar-a-Lago in 2002…By the time he invited Trump to sit in his suite at the NBA Finals, the $8 billion question had already been answered in Dolan’s favor. This wasn’t lobbying. This invite was a thank-you. Or a victory lap.” open.substack.com/pub/thekotsh...

Right but you can just buy little stickers to put over the lights. Perverts will not care about this rule. BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

Do want

And then he'll post about it on a website rigged to help Nazis and post non-consensual pornography.

🚨 BOOST 🚨 Please help her out. One of the people who assaulted her was a Patriot Front Nazi. Of course the cops didn't arrest him, and now she's facing charges and will need legal funding.

Here’s a SERIOUS question. What if our property tax system was actually fair, and was based on public costs actually incurred to support housing? What if low density housing had to pay its way, rather than being subsidized by responsible infill housing? What if we stopped incentivizing sprawl?

The “HR lady” shit bothers me because I’ve been the lone woman in many conference rooms full of cops and engineers who made it abundantly clear that my presence there meant they couldn’t use slurs, and that was a bad thing