I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

An incredible saga

Relatedly, dear American friends, joking about the “51st state” quips is not actually funny to me. I don’t want a beer with that name or a funny t-shirt or … it’s just not funny.

Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee

The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:

“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

11/ We analyzed months of flight tracking data to determine just how many planes flew in or near areas at risk after each of SpaceX’s launch failures. This is what we found:

Like the bible says: live by the sword, no worries

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle....

Every single form of resistance counts, and they, too, build on each other. Allyships and coalitions matter. Small acts matter enormously. Big ones too. It all counts and it all helps. I cannot overstate the respect I have right now for the people in Minneapolis resisting on the freezing streets.

It's increasingly clear that the USA, a world superpower, has become a rogue state controlled by an unhinged man who is, in turn, both supported and influenced by a combination of nihilistic billionaires, foreign powers and nakedly ambitious mini-tyrants emulating the worst of humanity's history.

Pending end of vacation had me needing a win. @coachbennett.bsky.social delivered and left me feeling encouraged and proud of myself. Thanks coach.

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’ It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin’

And the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

The term in the UK for a person rudely listening to something without headphones is 'sodcasting', and I think we can find a close variant.

no i do not want to give you my email for 10% off. and furthermore, I don’t think i should have to click a button that says “i’m a dumb bitch” to indicate that. you’re a website that sells blankets and you can’t speak to me like that.

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🇨🇳 Un incendie a éclaté dans un complexe d’immeubles d’habitation de plusieurs étages de Hong Kong, faisant plusieurs morts. Les images diffusées par les médias locaux montrent d'épais panaches de fumée s'élevant des échafaudages de plusieurs tours ⤵️

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Today is International Men’s Day. Suddenly feeling like maybe I should have bought all my male coworkers flowers? /s Seriously though, what a weird Women’s day tradition.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

Women were excluded from clinical trials until 1997?!?

Women were excluded from clinical trails until 1993 in the U.S. and 1997 in Canada. @namshine.bsky.social talks with @docmcohen.medsky.social (@queensuhealth.bsky.social) about excluding women has shaped medicine and harmed women’s health, on (MIS)Treated: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

When my cartoons become reality. #chicago

“We’re the only animal that knows we’re going to go extinct and knows what has to be done, and we’re not doing it.” 🌎

The "normal" framing is so key — @randomwalker.bsky.social gave us all such a useful way of articulating a valuable idea in this discussion. www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-as-norm...

The problem with trying to do budget negotiations with this tinpot regime is that it’s like the King Solomon and the baby story. One side wants to preserve the baby (democracy, a functional government) and one doesn’t give a shit if it gets carved up as long as they win

Right before the opera began tonight, the orchestra played O Canada and everyone stood and sang. I don’t recall that happening before. It felt a bit jingoistic, but I guess that’s what we all need right now. I’m glad they did it.

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

boiling the oceans so a robot can check and see that you like Green Day and then recommend you a Green Day album that does not exist

BREAKING: The next Archbishop of Canterbury is to be the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London since 2018, Downing Street has announced. She is to be the first woman to hold the post #archbishopofcanterbury #nextABC #Archbishop106 www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

oh it's time to post the Tetris story again. (short version: reporter goes to cover early e-sports, discovers that his wife is, unknowingly, the greatest Tetris player in the world) archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

this business model should be flatly illegal taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome ban it completely

For 150 years, Africville, sitting right next to Halifax, was a thriving Black Canadian community. Halifax refused to provide city services, and eventually forced residents to move as they bulldozed their homes. This is the story of that community. 🧵1/12

This is so wholesome I don’t know what to do with my face.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Yes, just like this. Source: www.swissinfo.ch/eng/global-t...

I've seen so many wonderful people with no apparent addictive tendencies whatsoever get absolutely steamrolled by the "infinite feed of random short-form videos" UX. Reels, TikTok , etc. are digital heroin and I hate them and what they do to people so very, very much.

Temperature change in Norway showyourstripes.info/l/europe/nor...

A decade ago I would have thought this impossible. What a great accomplishment, and hopefully an inspiration for other cities.

If there’s one thing people don’t understand about Canada it is the extreme temperatures. Both hot and cold.