and by the way, if you look at who Condé Nast is getting rid of in its constant downsizing (people of color, queer people, trans people), it’ll start to look a lot like “yesteryear” in that building

today in NYT, an interview where the writers declared we are past the “brutal Condé Nast of yesteryear.” Of course, no acknowledgment of the illegal firings or targeted layoffs beyond an aside about Teen Vogue being “folded into” Vogue’s website

The announcers just said the music for these ice dancers is AI generated and I'd like to personally disqualify them

The other day a woman asked me what I did, and when I said I was a writer she asked "ooh, do you use chatgpt to make it easier?" and at least I got to explain to her no and it's wrong most of the time

In 1943, musician Woody Guthrie placed a message on his guitar: "This machine kills fascists." I am part of a group that's shipped half a million free 3D-printed whistles to defend against ICE — 200,000 of them in the first week of February alone. This is the story of the "Whistle Crew."

why do you need to observe your house if you're not in it. you are giving yourself an opt-in mental illness. no one has to live like this

“why was lady gaga there” shes an italian new yorker this is nyc immigrant solidarity in action

Eagle-eyed watchers of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show would have spied Toñita, the queen of Los Sures, AKA Williamsburg. Read all about Maria Antonia “Toñita” Cay here: hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg...

WOKE 2 IS HERE

i don’t care too much about football anymore but one has to know that a patriots win makes both jesse signal AND benjamin netanyahu happy. so i’ll be carrying that with me today

how do you write this story without noting there was a campaign literally called SUBSTACKERS AGAINST NAZIS in…2023

I saw the ballet the other night and thought a lot about how one of the first things we did was move our bodies for each other, before the idea of training or expertise existed, just to make each other feel. You can’t “gatekeep” that and you certainly can’t capture it with a stolen algorithm.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

I am certain that whenever someone posts about “gatekeeping art” or whatever, they’re talking about posting drawings online for clicks. They never mean arranging rocks in the back yard. They never mean whistling to yourself and finding a tune that makes you happy. They never mean napkin doodles.

I wrote about how I'm looking forward to the day when cannabis is fully legalized so people can stop trying to sell me on it slate.com/life/2026/02...

To the guy who told me I was "uptight," like yes guilty but also I promise you weed will not help me specifically with that

I wrote about how I'm looking forward to the day when cannabis is fully legalized so people can stop trying to sell me on it slate.com/life/2026/02...

whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero

icymi!

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

Team resources is why worker-owned media collectives are so important. It's not gonna fix everything, especially the problem of readers only having so much cash, but everyone can't go it alone.

"Ideally, by drinking a coffee while you drive to work, you are saving it so that you can have more enjoyment in your life elsewhere, but in all likelihood you’re saving time so you can clock in earlier and clock out later." gourmetmagazine.net/nation-of-su...

Thought this answer on journalistic objectivity was good: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/can-fascis...

had a really lovely time chatting about TCW, star trek: enterprise and how a culture only does That if it's very, very sick

I wrote for the new @gourmetlives.bsky.social about straws and convenience and American myths of productivity gourmetmagazine.net/nation-of-su...

whistles are loud on purpose and do not have a language barrier. they tell people who need to hide to hide and people who can get there to observe to do so, all at the same time, across languages. not a lot of other ways to do all that simultaneously!

I wrote for the new @gourmetlives.bsky.social about straws and convenience and American myths of productivity gourmetmagazine.net/nation-of-su...

Was just told by a startup mag that they "aren’t hiring for any paid writing or editing roles, but are definitely on the lookout for staff writers and staff editors that are in it for the love of the game and a portfolio project" like damn I thought "pay you in exposure" was overwrought

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly

I wrote about missing Grade B maple syrup even though technically it's still out there ambrook.com/offrange/per...

Gonna DeBlasio this asshole

It is February 1st. Rent is due. Donate to a rent fund today: www.standwithminnesota.com

Inventing new and modern things to have a panic attack about (an episode of The Studio)

my beautiful baby book is 6 months old today.....wow!!!!!!!! they say 6 months is the Buy the Book anniversary?????

i get the sentiment and i'm glad people are ready to mobilize and i love my city but man, i hate quotes like this. as if minnesota didn't burn down a precinct in 2020 while new yorkers spent a loooot of time marching in circles while following grifters with megaphones

every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

It's dark days for journalism. Every bit of support counts, both when you're subscribing to websites like The Verge and supporting individual writers. Me, I just contributed five subscriptions' worth to support the colleagues that Vox laid off.

I finally watched the hockey show and it was perfectly enjoyable but I resent that t.A.T.u. is now gonna have a whole bunch of people immediately thinking about gay MEN

We're officially fundraising for laid-off Vox workers. Please share and donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...

My man

Rode the elevator yesterday with a DoorDasher delivering a paper bag of Taco Bell and. Listen. I am devoted to Taco Bell. But it is 20° and the streets are snow walled and you have this man fully risking death so you can reheat a thirty-four-dollar six-dollar crunchwrap in your microwave

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

So far, Hearst management has proposed lower raises than members received in their last contract, increased in-office expectations, and offered ZERO protections against AI. Send a letter to mgmt demanding they negotiate in good faith BEFORE 1/31 contract expiration:

Kinda crazy to me that food media has essentially ignored the incredible work that protesters are doing to feed their neighbors in Minnesota, Maine, and beyond There is no bigger story in food right now than this but yes of course let’s talk about Noma some fucking more

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.