Was not up to date on Granta. Am getting up to date on Granta. Eyeeeeeeee hate it here

There has got to be some great Japanese fiction about these pigs, right? Send me links, I'm in the market

If Stephen Colbert doesn't do the King of Glory dance on his last show... so help me

Streaming ruined hidden tracks. Bring back hidden tracks!

Pleeeeeeeeease let it be Light Up Night

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From bikes to EVs to transit, Trump's war in Iran is boosting every transportation mode he hates

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

This is a reason why I push back on using LLMs for research. Esp at the high school level, where I work, deciding what to research and choosing what results to base your essay on *is the whole point* of a research paper. We want the student to learn how to thoughtfully express themselves.

I loved talking to organizers in Menomonie and across Wisconsin about how they're beating back data center proposals coming from shady development companies left and right. One told me, "Organizing swiftly and fiercely and relentlessly is the key.” ✊

Actual “AI” literacy would involve explaining why it's not and never will be a reliable source of information nor will it ever be a replacement for research or creativity.

Texas Monthly winning a Pulitzer is massive news for the city-regional magazine world, especially when it's for a story that's as important and devastating as this one.

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

AI education in schools? Absolutely. Kids should know the risks of engaging with AI technology since we know they will be at some point. They should know how it interacts with delusional thinking, suicidal thinking, other kinds of mental illness. They should know it’s designed to be sycophantic.

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education

Music fans are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with AI songs, according to a recent study. n.pr/4u5eReB

Omg they unjinxed them

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Saw a post about someone outsourcing storytelling to his children to AI. One of the best things I've ever done in my life is tell off-the-wall stories to my kids when they were little. Their willingness to accept anything in a plot, their uncanny sense of collaboration, their hunger for weirdness...

Heeeeeeeeeeck yeah

Another Pittsburgh question: are the Pens wearing the yellow jerseys tonight or are we learning a lesson

What small businesses in Pittsburgh benefited from the draft? All I've been seeing is businesses who had a horrible week, even businesses on the North Side

My recommendation for independent bookstore day tomorrow is that you go to an independent bookstore (or several), be very kind to the booksellers, and buy a book on their recommendation that you previously knew nothing about. Your life will be enriched.

Currently asylum-seekers must wait six months after filing an asylum request before they can work legally, but the Trump administration is seeking to extend that to one year. From @stateline.org

Craziest story you'll read today, even as America's TV news networks fall over themselves to strike deals with Polymarket and Kalshi and present their data as newsworthy. The world has gone mad. finance.yahoo.com/markets/cryp...

Hey Northern Appalachia friends, send us a proposal. Hang out with us in Wheeling this fall. Do a reading. Put together a panel discussion. Facilitate a generative writing workshop. You *will* have FOMO if you don't come join us. writersassociationofnorthernappalachia.org?page_id=630

This made me emotional triblive.com/sports/pengu...

Had a nightmare that the Pens were down 0-3 in the playoffs to the Flyers

I think this is one of my faves exclusively because of Brent Johnson. Forgot we lost the game 9-3 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsbu...

At least we have the Pirates, and imagine telling me in 2016 that I'd be saying that ten years in the future

I refuse to believe that this is how the season ends! The problem is it feels like the team believes this is how the season ends

An organized group of artists and writers have announced the launch of 92NO, a collective protest directed at the New York cultural institution 92NY (formally known the 92nd Street Y).

I don't want to see any more "flip the script" content until we actually do it

Whether it was the literal neutral zone trap or getting goaded into taking penalties and post-whistle scrums, the Penguins fell into each and every trap. Dan Muse deserves credit for the regular season, but the playoff coaching performance has been suboptimal.

This is why teams like the Panthers succeed. Because the league rewards garbage instead of hockey. I hate it.

I stand by what I said but I regret everything that has happened since I said it

Getting whiffs of one of my favorite Pens games from history (2011 line brawl against the Islanders when Brent Johnson broke not only DiPietro's face but also his career)

Idk about you but my whole diet tomorrow is gonna be Rusty shakes in honor of my king

Blown away by this (devastating) piece. Come for a careful investigation on the collapse of the Florida orange, stay for details like a data center being built on the site of old groves "on the corner of Orange Avenue and Minute Maid Road."

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So miss me with the AI literacy solutions. In fact, keep missing me until you propose “AI literacy” that teaches folks how these systems incorporate systemic oppression into its operations. That’s the kind of literacy we need.

Anyway these have been two of the most infuriating hockey games I have watched all season and that's saying something

Big abortion win in PA today - the ban on Medicaid funding is unconstitutional! AND there's a fundamental right to abortion! We won! (Though this Commonwealth Court opinion can be appealed - we'll see what our AG does.)

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