Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Understaffing as a form of enshittification; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/23/n... #Pluralistic 1/

EMERGENCY! Please help trans Kansans leave the state! There's an organization who's helping evacuate trans people from Kansas, but it's financially and labor intensive, please donate or volunteer! I am! 🫂 www.translifeboat.org?source=email...

Fun Fun Fact, if you want to know what competing for passengers in the pre-deregulation era was like: in the early 70s Southwest gave every pax a full bottle of whiskey on every flight, and was for a time the largest distributor of Chivas Regal on Earth.

The Wikipedia entry on KKK jargon is the most cringe D&D-ass thing I've ever read.

So after 16 months of illness I'm back on my feet and applying to jobs, but I'm completely broke and the combination of car+power+storage for 6 people is due, with a lot of late fees added in. I'm sorry to ask, but any amount would help. Thanks so much! ko-fi.com/fooneturing/...

since starting this, I've gotten sued by a credit card company for being unable to pay, and had to pay 700$ due to a delivery fuckup. Please, if you can donate, it'd really help.

Tom Scott returns to Nebula March 23.

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy. Proud to expose this stuff ✊ youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

I have lived in Los Angeles for nearly two decades and I have never experienced the kind of yellow smog that used to define this city why? because we cleaned that shit up none of this is beyond salvation

Trump promised a cap on credit card rates. Instead, he delivered a giveaway to credit card companies at your expense. Former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra explains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZwV...

The Federal Reserve System (Board) is inviting public comment on new guidelines in regard to debanking of persons & orgs regarding lawful business activities perceived to present reputation risk. Comments due by April 27, 2026. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

The Washington Post is reportedly using readers' personal data to set subscription prices. It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.

The head of the second largest teacher’s union is signed the Harper’s Letter and is all in on defunding public schools with tax cuts and installing AI in place of established curricula. What the fuck are we even doing here.

Somehow he didn’t perceive someone coming from his right

Here are the complete DOGE depositions in the MLA-ACLS-AHA lawsuit that were taken down off of YouTube yesterday. I uploaded them to archive dot org. archive.org/details/adam...

Uber and Instacart argued (unsuccessfully) that a requirement that they notify drivers of their deactivation policies violates the First Amendment. As a First Amendment scholar, my view on this question is best summed up as: "oh come the fuck on" cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

🎉 Good news, my friend & neighbor Patricio found a good lawyer for his asylum case! 😬 Less good, the lawyer wants $7K, which is a heavy lift for a person who couldn’t work for months. 🙏 Can you chip in to help my friend? Every dollar helps. And if you can, please spread the word: gofund.me/5ffd0fd7e

No joke, I think this might be one of the most important roles for tech-savvy Millennials/Gen Xers. We caught a glimpse of an amazing world, one that was almost entirely free of corporate or political influence because the suits hadn’t caught on yet. We could talk with ANYONE in an age of landlines

In more than half of US states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of small plug-in solar panels that sit on apartment balconies and plug directly into household outlets. Canary Media buff.ly/5B79fOA #ShareGoodNewsToo

my running list of jobs that have been reverse centaur-ed (per Cory Doctorow's definition) 1. Amazon DSP driving 2. long-haul trucking 3. call center work (esp non-union) 4. food delivery 5. ____________

Congress is trying to pass three online safety bills at once.

the onion newspaper is worth it for the ads

New interview with me & Dwarkesh Patel. Deliberately misleading start quote there, but I think it’s to draw people in. youtu.be/PAIhVfGbREA?...

Use this as an opportunity to find, subscribe and share the gift of good local news. You can find quality local news outlets in our searchable 50-state, 2,200+ outlet local journalism directory. www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...

A 🧵 How many newspaper Editorial Boards have called for Pres. Trump's impeachment (or resignation)? As far as we know, only one: @sentinelcolorado.com Our 2 part series: journalism, trust, press freedom & how a local newspaper serves its community-and democracy. open.substack.com/pub/mediaand...

I find some incredible things when looking for top images

1. We have a new tool for exploring how corporate concentration has hollowed out grocery access in your region: an interactive map that shows food deserts along with the location of every grocery store in the US by type — independent, small chain, large chain, or megachain like Walmart or Kroger.

There is no farm suicide epidemic. If you line up rural & blue collar occupations by suicide rate, farmers are way (WAY) down the list. It's a good talking point for shaking money out of the gov't though, so the farm lobby keeps talking about it. Debunk video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rvi...

This is what Rumsfeld would call an Unnoem Unnoem

Never let them tell you that enshittification was a mystery. Enshittification isn't downstream of the "iron laws of economics" or an unrealistic demand by "consumers" to get stuff for free. 1/

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Hiya! Anyone in the SF Bay Area/Remote need a cool programmer for your team? I've been messing with computers for over 30 years now, I can program anything with bits, and I've got a lot of experience with all sorts of different systems, environments, and languages. wiki.averlong.com/My_Resume

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Here's the fun part, it's not gambling! A) Federal crop insurance covers "Awww, prices were really low. Here's some $ to make it up to you." B) The taxpayers pay for most of that insurance, not farmers. C) The White House likes to give extra bailouts on top of the subsidized insurance.

If you haven't been aware, Physics Girl (Dianna Cowern), @thephysicsgirl.bsky.social here on BlueSky, has been sick with long COVID, and specifically COVID-induced ME/CFS, since 2022. Here is her first science video in 3+ years. Here's how solar neutrinos work! www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3...

New Physics Girl Video! Let's GOOOO! www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3...

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

Echoing this, I know too many people who nobly and heroically cooked their brains watching Israel blow apart children for a few years and now they are functionally insane and blackpilled. Do not watch the footage of war crimes. You don't need to.

Conspiracy theories are rooted in actual conspiracies pluralistic.net/2023/05/03/p...

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

I’ll share this banger

In case you’re wondering this thread has been active for an entire fucking month because these Nazis are all rapists and pedophiles and etc

thinking about lee marvin’s 1969 playboy interview in which he talks about how he’s played gay in ways only a person with seasoned knowledge of homosexuality could comprehend, his sympathy for the gay rights movement, and says— in theory— he could’ve been arrested for cruising

It’s Lee Marvin’s birthday. Here’s Jane Fonda on working with Marvin on Cat Ballou & getting schooled on workers’ rights by him. What a guy. www.vulture.com/2023/05/90-m...

Do we reckon that Woke 2 will bring back puritan-style hortatory names? I'm excited to name my daughter something like Be-sure-to-ask-people-for-their-pronouns Meredith

Sore Fuckmann New York, Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1925