WAR DAD STRIKES

"And to those who say it's time we choose someone like Lady Galadriel, forget it. There are still a lot of people who will never vote for an elf." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...

Hadn't seen this before. Nicely done. isaiprofitable.com

Happy 100th birthday to Mel Brooks, who truly deserves to live as long as he would like. (He‘s in my mensch hall of fame, next to Mr. Rogers, Jim Henson, and Douglas Adams.)

The AI-driven decline in quality only became a business threat because it happened to a physical product (cars). People won’t buy a crap car. bsky.app/profile/iwri...

Hot take here, but if the old guard of the Democratic Party wants to win, they should consider having a vision for what they’d do to tackle the problems people are facing & organizing to communicate that vision out. 🤷‍♀️

The House amendment to defund the Peace Corps may come up for a vote today. Please contact your representative and tell them to save the Peace Corps.

Good thread. The refactoring of the Democratic Party is long overdue, and I say that as someone who has had some exposure to/been part of the consultant class of the party. bsky.app/profile/cour...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

I stole this from the Worldcup subreddit because it makes a very good point.

this is so insane

As I’ve watched videos of World Cup attendees exclaiming over and over how friendly & hospitable Bostonians are, I‘ve realized that even our atypically aloof American city is still leagues friendlier than what these specific visitors are used to. Startling.

The incredibly fascinating thing here is the confusion of cause and effect The right thought that cultural power was downstream of political power Whereas Hollywood’s political power is in fact downstream of its cultural power

At a World Cup watch party / street festival / Afro-Caribbean local-business market watching a guy in a kilt chat with a Morocco fan, eating something delicious and fried from an Ethiopian food stall on Juneteenth, and, despite everything, this is a great country.

This thing where businesses view their products—art, software, whatever people make—as mere artifacts of the REAL business of extracting money from consumers has to stop. bsky.app/profile/wolv...

very cool illustration of ranked choice voting and how it worked in Maine’s gubernatorial Democratic primary via www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...

Trump: everyone cancels on his lame-ass 'concert'. Obama: let me call up a few friends to perform just for fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmHs...

1) This is straight out of Project 2025 2) The Trump administration has no legal authority to do this 3) This spells the end of special education for disabled kids (unless you're rich). Monstrous. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Nine, which took over the No. 9 Park space opposite the State House, is closing after less than a year. Nine tried to extend an existing model (literally! same space & folks!), which IMO is emblematic of what the entire restaurant industry faces. 🧵 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/16/l...

Don‘t forget “offshore most aspects of your ‘job’ to someone in Asia” bsky.app/profile/trav...

Who do you think is most outta pocket right now on Sesame Street? I think Bert.

Really worth reading—suggests that companies firing engineers due to AI increasing code output (which is real) are going to be caught majorly flatfooted

One of my heroes, a truly giant talent. He absolutely loved and cherished his friends, and was engaged to the last moment. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/a...

Watching endless takes on the Maine election results (not just the Platner nom) where people keep citing how small Maine is, etc. Yes, and some candidates had a plan and an experienced team, while others didn’t.

The cratering begins. gizmodo.com/big-tech-is-...

11/10, a new standard has been set bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Since when does Boston bow to this BS? (I know it’s the park service, don’t @ me.) bsky.app/profile/wash...

The MA House just UNANIMOUSLY passed a strong, enforceable data privacy bill! Highlights include a complete ban on the sale of precise geolocation data, with NO exceptions, and a private right of action against large data holders. #mapoli

So many people insisted that Graham Platner was just a growing boy who couldn’t be held responsible for a Nazi tattoo and some bad behavior in relationships and the Democrats are so desperate to appeal to white men who they will never sway that they will tolerate this raggedy ass man.

Troy Jackson is an actual logger from Northern Maine who went to local schools and community college and got involved in politics through organized labor. He is in a lot of ways the candidate that Platner admirers think Platner is.

I am not enjoying being right about a certain oyster farmer who dropped out of Hotchkiss. Honestly. Vet your candidates, people.

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

Fame ate her. What a waste of a life. She was smart and funny. RIP. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

this really is wild they just asked Meta AI chatbot support for access to high profile accounts and it obliged comes after Google complete broke its search results these are not serious, capable companies deserving of professional respect. they rushed shit product to market.

GLM Lightning Mapper might point to a bolide (fireball) causing that very large boom over southern New England a little while ago.

So apparently the "boom" everyone heard was potentially a meteor? I don't like reposting Twitter stuff, but this is where a friend saw the explanation and passed it along. See alt text for original link.

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“Bubble” is just the word you use to say “community” when you don’t like the people in the community.

Apparently an idiot “comedian” went on a podcast and decided to celebrate Celiac Awareness Month by demanding proof of condition from people with CD? By “eating a roll or something?“ Anyway, the bit requires work, and by “work,” I mean place it immediately in the nearest trash can.

You can bulk edit all your videos to turn this off btw!

Time to retire “unhinged” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/20/l...

AI is a useful tool (really, it is, when wielded appropriately). But engineers--and PMs, and designers--are being measured on how many hammers they use to build a house, not the quality of the house. And some of the houses they're building are made of hammers.

Gift link for #MAEdu: wapo.st/4dvw1e4

Worth noting that a 100 person company doesn't need more than two HR people max, but disparaging a team in this way and relabeling the remaining two HR people “people ops” as if “ops” is something completely different and innovative is a weird flex!

Oozing back and just kind of being accepted is a longstanding and highly successful tactic for awful men. This is your friendly reminder that it only works if we let it. Block that waste of space.

I’m sorry but “everyone is going to use AI to code their own apps” sounds like “everyone is going to learn HTML and code their own websites.“ like … have you met people? no they’re not

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

”Brown would have faced a mandatory 10-year prison sentence if not for a prior drug conviction being vacated as part of the state’s drug lab scandal involving chemist Annie Dookhan, who admitted to tampering with evidence. www.wcvb.com/article/judg...

I've heard of teachers doing something similar along lines of "have GPT write it and then we'll go through and critique its writing based on what we've discussed." Bonus critical thinking skills.

The most thorough coverage I’ve seen, as of now.