Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

what's that name for the literary aphorism where if an author shows you something with a clear function early they should make it be important later on

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Are you a Ted Turner is the CNN guy, or a Ted Turner is the WCW guy?

Obama speaks like a college professor by the way. It didn't seem to stop him from becoming President. There's a weird condescension re: regular people in this country.

It's hard to read this and not think it's true--not tedious Xer nostalgia--that the web really was better at its start. Del.icio.us StumbleUpon UrbanSpoon w its shake-your-phone PopCap ThinkGeek Old Cracked, cause of many a rabbit-hole dive MBTV/TWoP Golden age webcomics Even OG Gawker

We had entire all hands meeting today begging people to stop sending AI work slop

Get em

I laughed harder than I should've.

This is an incredible for those who need an example of how framing works, and how news media are happy to lean into biases.

Have you given any thought as to why the New York Times hasn’t covered Donald Trump Jr. buying a major stake in Kazakh tungsten mining right when the US government was negotiating a deal for mineral rights? I’ve only seen British and industry media covering it.

So, The Verge is replacing writers with AI

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Timeline cleanse

LA jails just posted their 15th in-custody death for this year, which may sound like a lot but would put the county on track for one of the less deadly years in recent years.

LAPD is gonna LAPD

Status is on beehiiv, and Oliver has some of the best insider media news. Check them out, and their youtube.

Again, the best time to leave Substack was yesterday. The second-best time to leave Substack is now. Friends don't let friends hang out with Nazis and TERFs

No pol is perfect, but this guy gets it on most counts. A great thread.

Mike is writing what sounds like sn incredible book. Angelenos and SGV folks, reach out!

The dream

Good. No one needs to support them. Anna was not great, but this new guy is so much worse.

you don't need a study to know this is bad for kids. that's why school admins have zero excuses for signing these deals

FYI

People often focus on Du Bois's point that the Civil War was the first and largest Black workers' strike. To me, I am struck by his point that Chattel slavery was actually growing in 1860 and it was profitable. It wasn’t going away.

Everybody talks about Fetterman, but I am begging y'all to look at Schiff's voting record, and which Trump nominees he voted for. He is not much better, and needs to go.

In a better world this would not be legal. Companies should not be able to borrow money they can never pay back to buy an asset, then cripple that asset with the debt. It's disgusting.

Houston has what was average LA gas prices. This is fine.

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

I love this. You should go support if you're in the area.

FYI

In case you need an example for why charity and philanthropy do not work as systems to address inequality, and why we just need to tax the rich...

Just a reminder that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was called, "An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States."

Today (until midnight) is the last day you can register a comment. Take the time you would have spent on social media to do this. They have to read and record every comment, and respond to the substantive ones. Instructions in the blog.

Preschoolers and pregnant women have been leeching off the hardworking podcasters and supplement salespeople who power our nation for far too long

Please stop giving money to the NYT. For games too. They steal a lot. Like, a lot a lot. Mississippi Free Press, otoh, subscribe and you won't regret it.

It cost me $177 to renew my driver license today. Requiring certain ID to vote without making that ID easy, accessible, and free is 100% a poll tax.

A New York Times piece... included RFK Jr., “whose father was assassinated... in Los Angeles in 1968...” But RFK Jr. will have, by the time he leaves office, killed more people than any gunman possibly could. He’s overseeing funding cuts to research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, HIV, and mRNA vaccines...

We do not concede the south, the birthplace & continued lifeblood of the Black American experience, to people who hate us. We do not throw in the towel. Black people have every right to be southerners & very much are no matter who likes it.

The most segregated spaces in the United States are all in the Midwest. Also, the Voting Rights Act just did not apply to Black People: it helped Hispanics in Texas, Arizona and California, it helped Asian citizens in Washington and Oregon, it helped Native Americans throughout the country.

Something, something about those evil Japanese and their high gas mileage cars...

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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In 90% of Bond movies the bad guy is either a sociopathic billionaire or the Russians. It's presumably why Amazon are finding it so hard to find a script for their Bond that Jeff Bezos will let them make.