This is metal as hell and they should send it out as a scream emanating from the mouth of a demon

Even if we took what the indictment claims at face value (and you shouldn't)... this would be complete fucking nonsense.

If you’re wondering why real incomes are collapsing, here’s one reason: “.. almost 14% of workers are getting no raises.” (via MetLife)

there is a certain irony around tech bros who believe that the work of writers is largely worthless, while also claiming at the same time that they desperately need to use that written work - without compensating human authors - so they can make a bazillion dollars off LLM products.

This one’s for anyone who has ever sent a postcard or knows what deadstock is or uses a ballpoint pen or wishes their mailbox brought them joy

...including a new project I’m building with the brilliant @meganwesterby.bsky.social. THE POSTMASTER will deliver serialized stories to your off-line, real-world, please-could-there-be-something-other-than-junk-mail mailbox. Get on the early access signup list at gideongranger.com

I truly appreciate that she dropped the album announcement THEN the engagement announcement.

August should be a national holiday

Every single time I’m in an email anything and hit ‘f’ to forward and it doesn’t work I long for telnet

"gig workers call ICE on their immigrant coworkers who they view as competition" is a pretty concise summary of the 21st century, cybourgeoisie class warfare as a way to discipline labor. sourcenm.com/2025/07/11/r...

I have three good tickets to MCR this Friday in Seattle if anyone is looking — not gonna be able to make it.

Perfectly explained, impeccably executed, hilariously animated

It feels particularly wicked, I have to say, to snatch day laborers in a place where you can see dump trucks roll up and down the streets, throughout the workday, to clear the wreckage from a wildfire that destroyed thousands of homes.

i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal. the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.

American Cinémathèque doing great things at night in Los Feliz

tech bros fumbled the bag so bad on AI. they invented a way for humanity to glimpse the nightmare reflection of our own unfiltered Id and immediately neutered it so it can only spit out greeting card art and linkedin platitudes. we had an elder god on tap, and they made it a business major chatbot

this week's newsletter is about the lessons of our departed friend white genocide grok maxread.substack.com/p/regarding-...

It’s incredible that the President of the United States is openly flirting with suspending Habeas Corpus, disappearing people left and right, arresting judges and politicians, accepting ludicrous bribes from foreign countries, and people are still trying to normalize this shit.

The rats have chosen a new pope.

If you want to bring agrarian subsistence from family based labor structures, you also have to accept roaming bands of orphaned teenagers pillaging your farm because their parents died from cholera at the ripe age of 24

damn, it seems like the venture capital strategy of forcibly butchering a thriving business in order to funnel dump trucks full of money into the pockets of a few amateur phrenologists from silicon valley isn't a great way to run a sustainable business. I wonder if there's anything else we could try

RFK Jr was born in 1954. He turned 18 in 1972. Schools weren’t required to let disabled kids in and get quality education until 1975 now-named-IDEA. Millions of disabled kids were in segregated schools or institutions.

I didn't realize how badly I needed the Murderbot trailer to drink straight respect juice for the books until I watched it five times in a row with increasing delight. youtu.be/vEioDeOiqEs?...

What Josh says x 100. Some of the most impressive marvels of the modern world are not physical constructions but the system-level infrastructure that makes everyday life work, infrastructure that works so well it is often invisible.

Again, the two most impactful lies of the past half-century have been “Trump is a good businessman” and “Republicans are the good-at-economy party”

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

I went to the protest in DC yesterday and this is what really hit me--so, so many specific signs like the one that just said "I kept pacemakers safe"

Computer scientists writing about the social, cultural, political and economic impact of AI should really collaborate with people in the humanities and social sciences.

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

I feel like this whole area is strangely revealing because it is both boring and frightening for people at the same time, operationalizing data and using it over time to check what we think we know about the world, but it pulls the curtain back on whether you value the truth or not as a business

I’m not, personally, against all of the tech that gets lumped under the heading of “AI”. Much of it actually has many valuable uses. But like anything they touch, they exaggerated the value & applications of LLMs so they can make one of these hype cycles. And got hundreds of billions for doing so.

My passion is data visualization

thing is you need to want civil rights for your neighbors—in your city, in your state, in your country and beyond—even if they are stupid fucking assholes

This is almost such an obvious point, it feels slightly crazy to point it out, but a politician winning a national election does not mean that the criticisms of that politician were wrong. Nixon and Bush both go reelected and everything their most unsparing critics said about them was right.

And most people find it dull, which it often genuinely is. The dirty secret of journalism is that, while more people once read serious news than is currently the case, it was never popular. It was subsidized by all the other stuff that came in the newspaper bundle: comics, sports, advice columns.

This is correct.

"All the time that has passed is in the same place; we look on it all at once. All things are dropping into the same abyss." —Seneca, Letter 49 (Graver & Long trans.)

"Politically idiosyncratic" is a fun way of saying "right wing trump supporter" bsky.app/profile/aliv...

Wildfire smoke isn’t just burning wood. It’s burning poison oak, plastic, chemicals, etc. I had breathing problems for a year after a bad fire. Don’t gamble with this stuff and wear a mask if the air is bad. Close off the laundry room and any vents, ash WILL get into your home. Be safe 🩵

Pretty funny that in 2006 people said libraries and librarians were obsolete because of search engines and now the internet is nothing but AI that will tell you glue is a food group

I learned that @aaron.bsky.team had served in Canadian government from this conversation, & it reminded me against how much in common trust & safety on social media platforms has with good governance at regulators. Core principles: Honesty, integrity, plain language, transparency,& accountability.

"Sometimes, you can be so basic that copyright law doesn’t even protect you." www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...

Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.

I love that my brother and I have ended up in very different fields and yet we're still both the people who will metaphorically stand on a desk and shout about the importance of metadata olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/1... (Is this the scholarly version of shouting @qwesterby.bsky.social?)

Gold Zone for the Olympics was good. Gold Zone for the Paralympics is GREAT.

Love it when @ejbayer.bsky.social does her biannual film development. #believeinfilm

Please spread the word! Terrific article about the NEH-funded Herculaneum Scrolls Project at UKentucky that is getting massive media coverage (though they rarely mention NEH). We're trying to emphasize the role and importance of humanities research funding!