If you're looking for a good "oh shit" number visualized well, I present the number of billion dollar "natural disasters" in the US since 1980. Trump canceled the government's counting of these, but they are maintained now here www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

Insane piece on two fronts 1. Prince’s craft 😯😯😯 2. Anil’s rhetorical criticism 😯😯😯 Gah this is such detailed, sourced reporting, evocative writing, compelling to this neither fan/not a fan just an enjoyer of Prince songs. Such a great read.

my one plea as we ring in the new year with Zohran being sworn in as mayor is to take some fucking wins he’s not going to be perfect, there will be setbacks and disappointments, but take some joy and some pride in the good that comes out of this good things are more durable when we celebrate them

Obviously

More of these humans plzzz Such a joy to hear these brilliant folks, in person or online They give me hope.

mayor mamdani in 24 hours 😎

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Weiss is bad at this. It’s too big a stage. She’s the Kash Patel of journalism

Absolutely bonkers that Screen Time launched eight years ago and you still can’t do the thing every parent I know wants which is just set the damn tablet to fully lock up after 20 minutes of use

“People should be stressed” Yes. Check. Correct. You win.

Why not 12 squillion dollarbucks?

Any property that interviews Emily, goes on my definitely watch list.

Thanks to Dave's nudge, I finally finally set up my RSS feed. Cory's post also inspired me to bite the bullet.

Shan’t 👍

American-born POC don’t have immigration documents because we didn’t immigrate here, but of course we’re supposed to carry them anyway just in case, since obviously we must have immigration documents, look at us

I never think I’ll see a new take on my beloved Jane Austen And yet. This is a gorgeous rhetorical criticism that uncovers more of her genius. Look past the awkward headline

more of this please. brilliant.

“Prose is vital to Democratic societies”

I wrote an entire book about how to get real value out of AI at work and my *first* piece of advice to anyone on this subject is to recognize where AI is *not* appropriate (spoiler -- 95% of what we do) and *avoid* trying to use it there.

Sorry so ummm “the public” is somehow idk … to blame?

We keep accelerating/“optimizing” broken organizational practices, built on failing governance infrastructure. It… just makes everything worse.

yes ffs please. Would love if the Dems could run on 5 big topics. Healthcare is critical but so is anti-corruption etc

Wrote about the flaws, fallacies and flimsy evidence underpinning the Mel Robbins NYT estrangement article, which fundamentally misunderstands modern relationships - and a little bit about my book (on Substack) sarahmanavis.substack.com/p/life-too-s...

Also I always feel the need to remind people that Sacks was born in South Africa and I believe still has dual citizenship (not sure about that part). In any case, he is a member in good standing of the apartheid triplets along with Musk and Thiel.

Pete Hagueseth

Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.

once more I am begging everyone to do policy based on evidence, not on vibes from the loudest-shouting pressure groups. What the NHS is leaning towards - targeted screening for those most at risk - is the right way to do this. Blanket screening with an unreliable test causes harm.

All the flowers to @prospectmagazine.co.uk for this fab interview. If you don't know Cory, you should. Deeply effective at framing where we are in tech/AI today, the long game business model behind the junk, and plain spoken real truths that come from decades of study. Balm.

It's @prospectmagazine.co.uk pod day! This week @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and I were joined by Cory Doctorow, the man who coined the term enshittification to describe what has happened to the internet. It was a delightful, though depressing, conversation www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils? It was years ago. Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils? Not in a hurtful way. Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils? Not with intent. Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils? Not genuine abuse. 😮🫣😬😱 ~AA

At #MozFest, we organized a surprise main stage session titled "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice." The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself: www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high... @mozilla.org

I get what you're saying, but I spend my life trying to get people to understand you can't analyse any data well if you don't pay attention to how it was produced....

“This wasn’t a showdown. It wasn’t a humiliation. It wasn’t a triumph for either man. It was something far more revealing: a case study in how a bully behaves when he can’t rely on fear, and how a principled politician behaves when he refuses the role of the victim.”

A question for scientists (construed as broadly as you like) of BlueSky: What makes something data? (Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)

The funniest most chilling thing about this is the question of why this has even come up. Who has a burning desire to… display these symbols ?

@alexhanna.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social The argument "yes AI is a bubble, but it's a special magic bubble different than any other in history" feels like we may have finally summited bullshit mountain: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...

He’s compelling to some people because he notices genuine failures. But in my framework these failures come from the collapse of the verification–deliberation–accountability cycle. Fix that and the system can work, ignore it and nothing will.

Standing, applauding

Yarvin sees the hollowed-out version of this and assumes the hollowing is inherent. He ignores how neoliberal incentives, bureaucratic drift, and algorithmic platforms have eroded our truth systems.

If I were sick, I would simply choose to be healthy. Bing bang boom bsky.app/profile/atru...

Just so it’s clear, Cook would be in prison if he lived in Saudi Arabia

The biggest revelation in Lizza’s tell-all tonight is that Mark Sanford was running for president in 2020. I genuinely had zero recollection of this.

whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight

We can be glad anytime anyone is standing up. But "big tent" talk is super premature. Let's see a future track record of good faith and good works come ON, @raskin.house.gov. please.

Love you @raskin.house.gov. But it’s not THAT big.

SHERO 🦸🏻‍♀️ Not only for inventing Plan B, but for demonstrating prodigious creativity in her insults, “demonstrated the political instincts of celery.” 🤣

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Also, just a reminder, anyone emailing Epstein regularly after 2008 knows he's been convicted of felonies related to sex with minors.