The collapse of the gulf stream will be catastrophic for the entire planet. The crisis in the earth's circulation system continues to be ignored while politicians promote massive oil/gas expansion. We are killing our children's future. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Every time we see news about some alpha male influencer they always look like this

With respect to the Bulwark crew, this misses the bigger question in many ways: Why we have created political systems where genuine workhorses (Becerra) don't have the resources or party support to compete in a media/name recognition heavy environment. What needs to change to make that happen?

Personally don't recommend these. As the article notes, these properties are typically achieved through PFAS, which can shed carcinogens in your home (which you then inhale) or come out in the wash (polluting waterways for decades). Will try to do a thread on how to treat stains in the wash.

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

3 white men in their 20s attempted to lynch 3 Black men for....fishing last Friday. The only reason it's an attempted murder charge is one of the Black men was armed and a better shot. It's not about the year someone was born, it's about the racism www.wcia.com/news/edgar-c...

Yesss. Adding race into the mix complicates things even further. Took me TWENTY-FIVE YEARS to get a doctor to believe me when I said my periods were unbearable and I wanted my uterus out.

Also: Never Whistle at Night II; Off the Reservation; Mazywood.

Also: Tapeworm by @apthayer.bsky.social, and E.L. Chen has two books out this year. We're going to be on a library panel tomorrow!

circling back around to shout out @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social's Muñeca, which is a bloody, juicy sapphic romance/revenge story that hits all the right notes (out in June)

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

I wpuld have a house with a large room dedicated solely to my pet rats. Full of enrichment and large cages. And I'd have several mischiefs.

So the big studios are abandoning the US and turning the staff workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare. The United States is losing one of its defining industries because of not having universal healthcare and the people are going to be even more vulnerable to the industry.

And now, the FULL TRAILER for THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER. I’m going to say this trailer “rips.” It might even be “a banger.” This show has taken four years of my life. You finally get to see it May 7th. From @victorlavalle.bsky.social, Karyn Kusama, Ridley Scott & me. LOOK AT THIS CAST!

Can we get another Ocean's 8 instead?

This will absolutely lead to a rise in people demanding orders like mochas with no chocolate or Americanos with no water (a thing that happens way more than you think), but with the added layer of "chatgpt told me you could make this."

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

cool. cool cool cool cool www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/soci...

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

This all makes me think of seeing folks wearing MAGA hats with funny sayings like you're subverting them "Made you look", but from a distance you just are wearing a MAGA hat.

I'd also argue it's both. I'm making about what my mom made (taking inflation into account) 40 years ago in terms of salary, but where she was able to raise a child and buy a home, my 1 bed apt rent is half my takehome paycheck and l can barely afford to have pets, much less a child.

“In South Korea and Australia, schools have given pupils the option not to have their photos in yearbooks” I’ve been in this space for a while but this is somehow a new kind of grim.

Johnny Somali, an American social media streamer known for desecrating a monument to women forced into sexual slavery during World War II, was sentenced to six months in prison in South Korea on Wednesday, in one of the harshest penalties handed down in the country for pulling stunts online.

Despicable fucking government.

I would like to go back to a time when I did not know the words "mogging", "looksmaxxing", or "clavicular." Spare me any further updates on this rancid little community. Let them fester in the swamp of their own making. I am tapping out.

Off the top of my head: FT Lukens, LD Lewis, Heidi Heilig, Makiia Lucier, Adib Khorram, KJ Charles, Cat Sebastian, Martha Wells, Amal El-Mohtar, Anna-Marie McLemore, Ryan La Sala, august clarke, P. Djèlí Clark, Rachel Hartman, Nghi Vo, Chuck Wendig, Victor LaValle, Susanna Clarke, Maggie Tokuda-Hall

People willing calling people by their chosen names of Clavicular or Sneako but complain about trans people pronouns. Get fucked

"The woke pope has got to go!" You wake up in a cold sweat. It's Christmas 1170, you're in Bures, Normandy. Thomas Becket must live!

@manilazic.bsky.social wrote this 3 years ago about influencers taking over the critic space, and the same thing has happened with interviews www.theguardian.com/film/2023/au...

Lonna Drewes, a Beverly Hills woman who turned to Representative Eric Swalwell of California for political advice said on Tuesday that he drugged and raped her in a West Hollywood hotel in 2018 after having promised to take her to a political event.

"ai" natives are not a thing, and it's actually not that complicated: using automation prevents you from developing skills and actively erodes the skills you have. This is the whole intent behind the design, because the industry needs this dependence on their products and are actively fostering it

I am exhausted from a day of book writing, but I had to see if this headline was accurate, and ... yeah, no, it isn't.

We found more than a half-dozen instances in which Dan Abrams' Mediaite appeared to invent stories out of thin air, fabricate quotes, or misattribute reporting to the wrong person or outlet. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/mediaite-c...

I have been watching the docket here because I wanted to see if the defendants would ask for an award of attorneys' fees, a thing they are entitled to do under copyright law. They did. They are asking for Lynn Freeman to pay them more than $3 million in attorneys fees and costs for this lawsuit.

I mean not to be ‘we were here first’ about it but millennials did not endure a thousand ‘why is this 20 something bringing their spinning wheel to the dmv’ articles just to have it said the wee bairns pioneered the old timey movement lol

of course the apology and retraction after attacking chappell roan is gonna be downplayed after a two week hate campaign against her smh

Off the top of my head: FT Lukens, LD Lewis, Heidi Heilig, Makiia Lucier, Adib Khorram, KJ Charles, Cat Sebastian, Martha Wells, Amal El-Mohtar, Anna-Marie McLemore, Ryan La Sala, august clarke, P. Djèlí Clark, Rachel Hartman, Nghi Vo, Chuck Wendig, Victor LaValle, Susanna Clarke, Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Friends, that is not a real Karoline Leavitt quote

As a person with a perpetual raised eyebrow at authority, I resent the hell out of these people making me outraged on behalf of the Pope. The Pope!

Hi it is my birthday, please do something to support the freedom to read ❤️ Ilovelibraries.org + Call your reps to oppose the federal book banning bill HR 7661: reps.fyi

People talk about genAI/AI like it's efficient or a time saver or whatever, but whatever was saved is always just kicked down the road, usually to someone else and often to someone who isn't using genAI/AI.

I have an early work schedule (I'm at work by 7:30a and in bed by 10p), so I've gotten used to eating lunch at 11:30a and dinner at 5p. You know what? Old people are right. Those are good meal times.

My college closed a few years ago. Mills College, 170 years old and collapsed due to financial mismanagement (among other things). It really sucks.

Just a reminder that JD Vance has been a Catholic for less time than Nacho Fries have been on the Taco Bell menu.

A historical fantasy set in 1960s San Francisco! Gotta get an ARC of this asap.

The thing is, this is probably happening because AI book “authors” are uploading hundreds of books and then not selling many of them because that’s not the plan.