I am going to eat watermelon this summer because the reason why white Americans ridiculed black people about watermelons is that we were making MONEY selling them

Also: the stereotype about Black people and fried chicken came about because, post-slavery, so many Black women successfully supported themselves and their families by selling homemade fried chicken to white people at train stations. It was one of the few lucrative jobs open to the newly free.

With Spirit Airlines shutting down, there is only one acceptable outcome: acquisition by Spirit Halloween.

WSJ: How the Trump Administration’s Spirit Airlines Rescue Unraveled Talks led by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick couldn’t get bondholders and the government aligned (Super well reported story. Free link) www.wsj.com/business/air...

Spirit Airlines officially shut down at 3am, marking the first occasion when it got to its final destination on time.

"...the sudden and sustained rise in fuel prices in recent weeks ultimately has left us with no alternative." - from Spirit's CEO statement. So Trump's war of choice killed Spirit Airlines. Am I reading that correctly?

The fuel crisis is affecting the whole airline industry. Why is Spirit the only airline that has been pushed to the brink? The answer is a mix of bad economics, bad strategy, and plain bad luck. Read more: www.theverge.com/transportati...

say what you will about it, but Spirit Airlines lasted longer than the Confederacy....

There is an ABSOLUTELY frantic troll campaign on Xitter to try to claim Elizabeth Warren's concern for consumers, a concern Trump was parroting earlier in the week when he was trying to bailout Spirit, killed the airline, as opposed to Trump's Iran war.

A Christian nun was assaulted in Jerusalem by an Israeli settler, in an incident that left her with visible injuries after she was reportedly attacked twice. The assault comes amid growing warnings of a rise in attacks targeting Christian clergy and religious institutions in Occupied Palestine

It was nice of him to hold the cat’s cigarette. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

It's way out of my price range but look at this amazing tintype. I actually gasped out loud when I saw it! www.ebay.com/itm/16822962...

Lil meowboy. Photo from my collection ca. 1950s.

Scrolling but not doom scrolling. #art

Почему он гипнотизирует обнажённых мужчин? Translates to "Why does he hypnotize naked men?"

Hypnosis (1904) - Sascha Schneider (1870–1927) #symbolist_allegory #etching

Stupid, ignorant...not usually words associated with the president.

The conversation has now gone global, via CNN. When speech is restricted, people find other ways to be heard. Free Palestine + free QLD from these fascistic laws. None of this is over yet. edition.cnn.com/2026/04/25/a...

The fact that Polanski, apparently, thinks it isn't and Starmer thinks it is appropriate for a police officer repeatedly to kick in the head someone who is incapacitated tells you everything you need to know about their respective values.

finally found something to make me laugh and it's this I've watched this like 30 times in a row

a lot of people crack wise about bluesky but what if i told you it facilitated the purchase of the onion by an internet guy who then went on to dismantle one of the biggest misinformation engines of the 21st century

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

my latest for the Star on Wab Kinew's social media & AI chatbot ban for kids: "One can’t reliably claim to care about data and privacy if also proposing an age verification scheme. Kinew is selling the public a false bill of goods here." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

sooner or later someone's gonna biff it in the criterion closet. they'll pick out Salesman and go oh yeah i love the Wiseman brothers or point to Life Is Sweet while praising Ken Loach. and that's when the closet door locks and the hidden back panel grinds open, revealing a torch-lit stone staircase

Sun Dogs

Finally, a real use case for JavaScript

The whole script actually needs more work than I remembered it turns out, but here are some excerpts where (imho) I think I nailed the Tom Scott voice:

"The Scottish island of Summerisle, home of the best fruit in Britain. The first thing you notice? No churches. The farmers here practice a fascinating form of pre-Christian worship…and I just learned I'll be playing the lead role in their annual May Day festival. First stop: my costume fitting."

Bow to the machine that, if it works as directed, will destroy your way of life; and whether it does or does not work as directed, your boss will use it to try to destroy your way of life.

It's doubtlessly a smaller tragedy than crypto currency or LLMs, but hypothetical museum thefts bring out all the pearl clutchers instead of those.

most of the shit in these museums is stolen anyway or money laundering, who cares? Stolen colonial relic #7 or Painting of Person Sitting in Chair #47 being stolen isn't the end of the world.

look i'm just saying you should have to take a humor literacy test to sign up for bluesky

And he put out a game before you 😭

Richard Dawkins is the perfect avatar of our times; a man who thinks large language models are people and muslims are not.

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions. www.wired.com/story/openai...

While Richard Dawkins has provided us with a particularly odious instance of imputing his own consciousness to abstract computer execution state, unfortunately there are a lot of people out there thinking similar thoughts. @siridahl.com and I discussed 👇

Since this topic is both hilarious and also really important, working on a piece headlined "Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion." Naive realism like that of Dawkins and Daniel Dennett naturally ends up in philosophical dualism.

Causation is a projection of human minds. Scientific laws are descriptions of reality rather than reality itself. Naive scientific realism is just as prone to delusion as supernaturalism. @danielwhiteson.bsky.social and I unpacked a lot of this discussing his book "Do Aliens Speak Physics?"

Dawkins is a great example that when you have a naturalistic view of "real patterns" but don't have a process ontology, you will end up in metaphysical dualism unintentionally. Minds are not software, they are what specific bodies are doing as they engage with the world.

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

It’s never a good idea to sack the entire National Science Board ft.trib.al/EMDN6bE | opinion

Science is how we’ve cured diseases and how we just sent four humans around the Moon. It’s a big reason why we’re the greatest country on Earth, but firing the National Science Board shows just how much Trump doesn’t understand that.

This is why: “members say a report about the United States ceding scientific ground to China was set to be released.”

“I really feel as if the administration is engaged in reverse alchemy, and it’s turning America’s scientific gold into lead,” says David Sanders, a sleuth and biologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So next week the NSB was set to release a “state of science” in the US report that was going to say we are ceding innovation ground to China. This timing is CLEARLY to avoid that report being released. Additionally, the NSB is under the authority of Congress. It is ILLEGAL for Trump to do this.

Good god. Trump fired the entire National Science Board without explanation on Friday afternoon.