Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper? Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

Pretty. Dangerous.

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A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

We also need to get to a point where someone declaring they’d like to reverse the Civil Rights Act, or functionally dismantles the Voting Rights Act, or argues for treating Black people as inherently inferior publicly is just as “shocking” as these revealed texts.

Google's AI summarized a super simple 4-email thread with three bullet points. One of the bullet points was factually wrong. I'm not wholesale "anit-AI" but I also can't believe the blind faith people put in it.

Y'all seen these new Idaho ACA healthcare plans? Woah. Premiums are up, but deductibles and out of pocket max are waaaaaay up.

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles. More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Nice to wake up in Europe and watch some baseball!

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Update: went back to this place a week later (you don't have the best French toast & not return) only to find they had switched to a new, fall menu! This was gone, so I went with their leek waffles with goat cheese. Definitely a top-3 waffle situation. No pic tho.

Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic). But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

This sign, claiming this apartment building is a "100% wood building," hangs on a brick wall. Brick. Wall.

Our son had a great experience interning for her foundation. I'm not sure people realize how her life's work managed to be broad, deep and LOCAL, all at the same time. Incredible human. janegoodall.global

Absolutely wild.

I enjoy BluesSky because I liberally mute keywords and people, and follow feeds I enjoy. The result is my experience is mostly interesting and informative, with little doomerism. I left X when really, really dark stuff started getting jammed in my feed. So, yeah, Bluesky is good, actually.

Impressive fellow, and an impressively written tribute.

Had the best French toast of my life today. The brioche was nice and caramelized on the edges and it came with poached peaches and a raspberry sauce. Ditching syrup in favor of something like this from now on. Fancy.

Wait, what...you're a thought leader, too?

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Honestly, I feel like we're being Truman Showed.

Calling up your workplace to tell them that you’re a great person and an even better poster. I’m even including some examples of the posts you’ve written that made me laugh out loud.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

The problem with USB-C is that you don't experience the joy of getting it right on the first try like you do with USB-A.

Sounds like a very normal sequence of events to me!

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A similar recent situation out of Boise: Boise PD and Idaho State Police used footage provided by a far right group to target and charge an abortion activist. Three years later, a mistrial is declared when withheld video, apparently, shows battery and instigation by the source's group.

Dang, that team was absolutely smited.

Interesting story about the settlements of escaped slaves on the #caribbean island of #stcroix #usvi — so well hidden, they still haven't been discovered. theconversation.com/escaped-slav...

The NY Times WITNESSED BRIBERY in the mayor’s race and called it “ a bold departure from political norms.” What, and I can’t stress this enough, the fucking fuck are you fucking talking about?

Dear lord. Google has gotten so bad I've switched to bing and duckduckgo.

Spotted in — of all places — a North Idaho cafe. Don't think this is going away.

Nonchalant white people in this moment are the same ones Martin was talking about in that Birmingham jail.

Not going to lie. I don't like how to paranoid style has taken over the left either. The world is complicated and societies are full of hugely imperfect people operating with misaligned incentives and bad information. Successful master plans are rare. Humans are mostly selfish and myopic, not evil.

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

How it started. How it's going.

This is killing me 😅

Bummer to go to an improv show last night & find it planned to include politics AND to have misogynistic + racist audience suggestion float by like it's totally normal. I get it. It's comedy. But I'm clearly out of step with a culture that's now so tolerant of this caustic, vapid stuff.

some kind of home made car with DEATH plates

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

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I'm blown away at how nice Downtown Portland is these days. We ended our weekend getaway in town listening to a DJ in Pioneer Courthouse Square and sipping a frosé. Nice. The city is soooo much nicer and cleaner than it was when I growing up here.

A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships, has been blocked by a court days before it was set to go into effect.

The odd, but not surprising, thing about all these commentators talking about the limits of "free" buses, is that that they clearly haven't bothered to read the actual policy proposal.

Ya know what's pleasant? Sitting on my front porch on a summer morning, drinking my coffee, watching all the folks commuting off to work down my street. It's all simple goodness.

This must be why my gin and tonic keeps whispering "drink meeeeee"

A cool thought I just had: since my son is now a dang good guitarist, all my guitars can become family heirlooms. 🎸

you got to know when to hold him, know when to fold him - ventriloquists

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this