"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

If we get through this, the U.S. will have to dramatically change its relationship with the International Criminal Court and be okay with sending a lot of Americans there.

every now and then I think folks in #rstats need to be reminded of or introduced to browser() and debug()

seeing 2026 actually becoming the year of the Linux desktop is p cool

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

So TikTok's new terms of service allow them to sell things like your immigration status and gender identity to the federal government. Make decisions accordingly.

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

pls get a flu shot, our ER is very full atm

All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least

ZOHRAN!!!!!!

The year is 2045. The climate crisis is in full swing. Mookie Betts Jr. strikes out to end the 4524th inning of Game 4 of the 2025 World Series

as much as I bash my head against SQL Server at times, it does not give me the cold fear of debugging Microsoft Access databases

Coal washing #BlueskyArtShow #Photography #EastCoastKin

Zollverein, Essen. Shot with the A7 II. #Photography #Monochrome #EastCoastKin

Good morning. The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #birdinabush ( any bird in a bush), and the alternative is #reflection ( a reflection in water or glass of any bird) I’m going with a bird in a bush. A little Wren. Good luck!! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

The smartest newsroom in America: is intentionally hitting two people with a vehicle at 70 miles per hour some sort of crime?

What the fuck?

THE CITY has obtained an oversight report about Ardit Billa’s death on Rikers Island.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

The reason why everything is so fucking terrible is because the worst of humanity owns everything

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

my knees popped like my phone getting a whatsapp message

Facebook allegedly detected when teen girls deleted selfies so it could serve them beauty ads

time for Senator Tim Onion

oh hey welcome to your trial, blackshirts

As promised here’s Pink Pony Club but it’s about encryption

Rest easy, Val. It’s a moral imperative.

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

DuckDB got a local UI. Thanks to our friends at MotherDuck, you can now interact with your DuckDB database through an interactive notebook, running on localhost. Read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

Get bent, Peter Baker. They are our neighbors, not political playthings. You have actively made this country worse with your “reporting”. What “news” is there here? This is nothing but dangerous speculation. I would say shame on you, but I don’t think you have the capacity for shame.

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

why are these people just plain evil?

On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science. The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people. The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.

they want all trans people to detransition or die and everyone who led us to this point has every last bit of that blood on their hands

THIS IS ILLEGAL. He literally does not have legal authority to do this. Do NOT obey in advance.

is it uncharitable to say, i hope the new york times leadership gets not one moment of peace after this

utterly insane

this truly is the everything app that was promised

anyone use INSERT INTO .. BY NAME with a view of a read_csv that has union_by_name and Hive partitioning with DuckDB? Whenever I try to apply a filter on the partition key, I get a parsing error where it looks like it’s expecting the key to be in the files. #datasky #dataBS