Israel Used White Phosphorus in Lebanon www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/w...

By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

Spotted in NYC

I’m so frustrated that I have to argue 20th century philosophy about whether machines are people and 18th century science about whether germs are real and fucking 15th century colonial bullshit about whether people are human beings.

“The billionaires will never find happiness from their money. The colonizers will never find fulfillment from the land and lives they steal. The fascists will never find meaning.” — Ali Louis Bourzgui

After more than 60 years of collecting books, newspapers, photographs, & artifacts re: African American history, the Rev. Tyler Millner is looking to donate his collection to community organizations that can preserve it and make it available to the public. henrycountyenterprise.com/millner-seek...

This is so horrifying. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

Many of the Americans who landed on the beaches on D-Day were immigrants and the children of immigrants. The "America First" xenophobes who supported the Nazis hated them.

Christ, you're the governor of the entire state. Shut the building down. It's not sovereign territory like a foreign embassy. Pull the certificate of occupancy. Cut the power. Back it up with state police. Stop coddling fascists and groveling every time they order you around. Act like an American.

“Fraud on the Court”: Even as DOJ Drops $1.8B Settlement Fund, Judge Reopens Case over Collusion

If you don’t like what you’re seeing at Delaney Hall, pay attention to what’s happening in Congress this week.   We must stop giving ICE and for-profit companies like GEO Group a blank check to create chaos.

The federal tax credit provides up to $15 billion in subsidies a year to help developers build apartments. It’s created housing that’s often no more affordable than the market rate.

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

A headline for the age of Trumpism: Press are banned from the press office.

“.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Within a week she seemed back to normal. What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain, poised to exact a terrible toll years later…. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”

This is the message. Any Democrat willing to sacrifice trans folks—especially kids—will sacrifice anything.

Saline, bandaids, and gauze, your classic weapons of war.

🚨BREAKING: NJ State police fire flash bang grenades at anti-ICE protesters at POINT BLANK RANGE outside Delaney Hall ICE Prison. "Poison in this f*cking wasteland!" our Jon Farina says. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️

has this story broken through at all? i can’t tell.

La Pine officials have rejected a pitch to bring a data center to their Central Oregon city, despite estimates from a developer that it could have brought hundreds of millions of dollars in investments and hundreds of jobs.

I think in some senses libraries have not been protected bc it seemed fundamentally insane that they should ever be in danger. The idea of a university without a fully functioning research library is like designing a car without an engine.

i have not received a response.

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

helluva time for the oregon legislature to decide to defund trimet and force the agency to cut transit service

This is the most incredible triumph of propaganda in my lifetime. The idea that Hitler was "left" and/or a "socialist" once was correctly seen as self-evidently insane. But here we have the richest & most powerful man on earth blithely repeating it.

And now they are all gone. RIP Sonny Rollins.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.

I’d argue governors being denied access to federal law enforcement facilities in their state is part of what I call slow civil war.

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

Nothing is inevitable

Hey, if you're represented by Henry Cuellar (TX) Don Davis (NC) Cleo Fields (LA) Laura Gillen (NY) Vicente Gonzalez (TX) Marcy Kaptur (OH) Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA) Eugene Vindman (VA) Give 'em a jingle and ask why they're voting with Republicans to support HR 2616, the national book ban bill?

Well that's a thorough summary. One of the best articulations of university governance for a public audience that I've seen in a while.

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

This is good. He should keep trying to introduce the bill and perhaps the DNC can put its email lists to good use by alerting the public to this using plain language.

Raising taxes to pay for expanded and improved government services is literally the opposite of austerity politics. Anti-tax leftism has got to be strangled in the crib before it destroys what scant hope we have of ever implementing a social democratic system in America.

Right. Goodbye Google.

This shit makes me so angry and sad.

I genuinely struggle to understand what these people think is going on

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

seems like jared polis thought this would make him look like an enlightened and humane centrist instead of a dumbass

9 years was not an excessive punishment. Peters was a county official who used someone else’s security badge to let a fellow election denier access the whole county's voting data. That is an extreme breach of public trust for the purpose of undermining our democracy; harsh deterrence is vital.

"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

As family homelessness hits record highs, school districts are offering parking lots as safe sites for students and their families to sleep at night

I want someone who thinks the US is a truly god-blessed, Exceptional ™ "city on the hill" to explain this fucking phenomenon to me.