Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

yeah i dunno if "its pretty good at coding now" is gonna cover that

Wouldn't it be cool if this app worked

Brett Kavanaugh officiated Sarah Isgur's wedding and is helping her promote her book, which is all about how good and noble the Supreme Court is. There is no reason to take seriously anything this person says about her very powerful, life-tenured friends. Seriously, have some respect for yourself.

Latest insane Islamophobic legislation comes from Geneva, Switzerland, where new rules dictate that women at public pools must wear, "one-piece or two-piece swimming costumes whose maximum length is above the knees and which leave the arms bare”. So, women MUST show arms and legs. That's freedom!

Total workplace surveillance. Coming now to a tech worker near you, and soon to workers everywhere AI is the industrialization of the production of management and oversight itself

Cabbie at stoplight blaring some talk radio or podcast: the dominant paradigm isn't interdimensional but intergalactic, and much of the current happenings in politics are designed to prepare us to accept waves of alien arrivals

jfc

Weird cuz I woke up with the chorus of "7" in my head, a song I legit haven't heard in a few decades ... incredible how deeply music will lodge itself in yr craw when you're young

For most of the time I worked on the Gaza humanitarian response at USAID, this smuggling ring was the bane of our existence. It dramatically impacted price and market stability in Gaza and made the truck drivers jobs far more dangerous. We all knew it was the IDF running it.

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future. It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

trump's former "commander-at-large" of the border patrol greg bovino says mass deportations, not deporting "worst of the worst" will "correct" places like Plano, Texas having a diverse population

Anat Rubin and I co-wrote a story for @calmatters.org about the people behind Sheriff Chad Bianco's "election investigation" -- sovereign citizens, Christian nationalists, and "constitutional sheriffs." calmatters.org/investigatio...

BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care. The judge also blocked "any similar policy." Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws. Subscribe to support our journalism.

As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting. End the project already, Dave. You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs. Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.

A national publication recently attributed SF's big drop in crime to its "anti-Woke DA" Brooke Jenkins. It did not note that 4X the murders have been recorded compared to this time last year. Jenkins isn't responsible for that *either.* From @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/04/broo...

Liberals will tell you that shaming fascists somehow prevents the authentic dialogue that would make them change. Meanwhile, fascists themselves say that one of the things that most discourages them from carrying on as fascists is feeling the utter contempt and revulsion of everyday people.

NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news site that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation, publishing hallucinated quotes, and replacing real people’s names with “Jane Doe.” Also: it misquotes the Pope. futurism.com/artificial-i...

It’s frustrating, he says, to see the large-scale parties which the Civic Joy Fund pours $$$ into. "It’s one day, and they put $200,000 into these things, and you could have saved an entire community with that. You could have created the conditions that would allow a venue to flourish for years."

for @coyotemedia.org, I did a deep dive on the growing artist backlash against the Civic Joy Fund, an initiative founded by the mayor & backed by a crypto billionaire to use free arts & entertainment as a means of "economic revitalization" for SF www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-yo...

An alert from Denver’s gunshot detection system prompted officers to swarm a Montbello woman’s 70th birthday party with guns drawn and detain Black partygoers for nearly an hour — even though the ShotSpotter alert was for another address and likely triggered by fireworks, according to a lawsuit.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

Understand what this means. When you sign a plea bargain, if you find out later the police and/or prosecutors violated the constitution to frame you for a crime, you have no rights to legally challenge those actions. Spanberger vetoed the bill to end that. boltsmag.org/virginia-fou...

This week is the first at the Daily News since Heath Freeman's Alden Capital laid off our entire print production staff. It's embarrassing to open the paper we work so hard for each day and find mistakes like this. Is this the level of editing New Yorkers can count on going forward?

My story on the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed is up now

Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today.

One of my toxic traits is that whenever I hear "Human" by the Human League, I hear it in the voice of Quark from DS9

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Idaho has the most punitive anti-trans bathroom ban in the country, with up to five years in prison for a second offense. I spoke to the folks pushing back—over what just a few years ago led to calls for boycotts, the state legislature shamed on the national stage—on how they fight.

holy shit lol

right I have wifi again - here was Budapest just now - at quarter past midnight!

Harrow the Ninth is quite the exercise in edging, though I've made it through four seasons of Attack on Titan

Look, this Spire ain't gonna slay itself

MOSCOW, Idaho (FāVS News) — During a town hall at an Idaho University, Wilson and his fellow pastors pitched a vision of America with no LGBTQ+ rights, no divorce and no voting rights for married women. Wilson has gained notoriety for his Christian nationalist views and his ties to Pete Hegseth.

BREAKING: three *more* women have come forward to @cnn.com and accuse Rep. Eric Swalwell of sexual misconduct, including Swalwell sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos: www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...

Gotta say, it’s really affirming to see someone who covers wearables as their job point this out. www.theverge.com/column/90973...

“several of the threat assessment leaders warned that chatbots are emerging as a potent factor and are uniquely capable of accelerating violent thinking and planning…”

Greatest. Correction. Ever.

you fucking guessed it! "Last year, Philz was purchased by private equity firm Freeman Spogli & Co., which also owns Popeyes Chicken and El Pollo Loco, for a reported $145 million, according to Mission Local, though the company did not provide details of the deal."

today — I wrote about why the Philz pride flag ban sucks so much www.coyotemedia.org/philz-coffee...

This is a breaking news story.

Slay the Spire 2 -needs- to come to mobile phones Being stuck on A13 with the Watcher just ain't cutting it anymore

Why did I make a map of small drone attacks on civilians, and why am I emphasizing the "small" and "short-range" attacks? Read my rationale and much more information in this newsletter post:

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

lol

Today I learned that in the climax of Battle of the Planets, a dim memory from the late 70s when I was growing up, the villain Zoltar was revealed to be ... an intersex "mutant" combo of a man and a woman. Not exactly bucking the tropes! youtu.be/6JeBVLpQL90?...

finally, free speech and academic freedom have returned www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

NEW: University of Michigan Chinese researcher dies after allegedly "hostile questioning" by federal agents www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...