my 5 #thetenx5 HMs: 1. Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles (2016, USA) 2. Rich Gang (Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan) - Lifestyle (2014, USA) 3. Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex (2018, USA) 4. Mondo Grosso - Labyrinth (2017, Japan) 5. Grimes - Flesh Without Blood (2015, Canada)

By the way when you see reports about how Israelis are going to bomb shelters, you should keep in mind that the vast majority of Palestinian *citizens* of Israel (in the 1948 territories, not the oPT) do not have a single bomb shelter nearby due to the apartheid system Israel has implemented.

This statement is appallingly bad--like, the administration *illegally bombed a school.* It's mind-boggling to me for this to be the reaction from a human, much less a purported leader of the Democratic Party. I need a new senator stat

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance. Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

important canadian cultural production dawk26.bandcamp.com/album/folx

who up charming their worm

just heard someone call tiger woods wasian. saw a bunch of people saying the fully korean girl from bridgerton is wasian bc she's australian. why don't people know what that word means, why has everyone lost their mind, etc.

tescreal but the 'c' stands for 'cat immortality' and none of the other letters mean anything.

I think that if sunfish could, the would be sunbathing in the sky ☁️ #art

This new Lancet study would indicate that the death toll in Gaza is actually around 120,000 at minimum, if the undercount rate is similar since January 2025.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

For SFGATE, Alysa Liu www.sfgate.com/olympics/art...

I don't know why, but the judge is now citing the historical precedent of Charles I of England. This is an incredibly ominous sign for Yoon.

incredible paper title no notes

I like this, but I do kinda favor this one:

Economists and tech bros don't know what to do about information. It's not a commodity--and more of it doesn't make us more productive. On the blog, I'm revisiting "The Computer and the Dynamo," a paper I love, and the productivity paradox as applied to LLMs: advaitcore.substack.com/p/informatio...

my wife works in public schools in the Bay Area, so I was following the SF teachers strike very keenly. I think this postmortem from @esksf.bsky.social is the best overview anyone, from diehard labor supporters to those grousing about "greedy teachers", should read missionlocal.org/2026/02/sfus...

sold me on it with "composed almost entirely of side characters"

it’s very important to me that the warriors have the best brazilian player in the league

i just feel like if you rent NORTE online you should get more than 48 hours to finish it. it's a big time commitment!

we are making a magazine (again) and it would be cool if you pitched ! joinreboot.org/p/kernel-6-p...

we are making a magazine (again) and it would be cool if you pitched ! joinreboot.org/p/kernel-6-p...

in arrears for #thetenx5 (i sent a list in); my first 4: 50. Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now (2019, UK-Albania-Kosovo) 49. LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean (2010, US; non-single) 48. Mahmundi - Eterno Verão (2015, Brazil) 47. Vampire Weekend ft. Danny Brown, Heems, Despot - Step (Remix) (2013, US)

looks like a 1:1 marcher:journalist ratio

maybe the greatest name for name trade in nba history

these poor guys trying to import 300GB of new data

Nature and Science journalists denied entry to event featuring NIH Director

making a few last revisions to my #thetenx5 list on account of having 11 songs from 2016 and 1 from 2019, which feels... not quite right relative to my subjective experience of the years

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In more bad Fed news, the BLM canceled grazing permits for American Prairie’s bison program. It’s bad for a number of reasons, the worst is that bison *still* aren’t managed as wildlife. Why do does AP need to buy permits to run bison?!? They should be everywhere www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...

I have a piece today in Defector making the case for "more training" for ICE agents. A *lot* more training. defector.com/i-have-a-gre...

Here's the deal, @icegov.bsky.social: If observing your operations and alerting people about them is illegal, then you must arrest me. Because I'm doing it many hours each day. But here's the deal, everyone else: if they DON'T arrest me, they don't have a case, and you should do what I'm doing.

protest music youtu.be/Aoo3dk1_8LY

By Saturday afternoon, some Trump admin. personnel had already begun scouring the internet and other resources trying to find information on Alex Pretti, including social media posts, that could tie him to what Team Trump call “extremists,” two sources familiar with the matter tell @zeteo.com …

YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents** substack.com/@gelliottmor...

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

If you're interested in seeing how framing contests are taking shape after the ICE killing of another person in Minneapolis, here's a window into the conversation on X this morning. Link to interactive graph: faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot... * I put this together quickly. Sorry for any errors

the post about this on r/nba, which is an enormous forum that gets millions of visitors a week, is full of comments from people who have seen the videos about how this was “an execution” or “murder” in case you wonder how this is playing outside of here

To put a finer point on it: Republicans have embraced the “insurrectionist theory” of the Second Amendment—the notion that you have a constitutional right to stage an armed rebellion against the government if it becomes tyrannical. Now they’re lining up to say ICE can shoot any armed protester?

They put five more bullets in this guy when he's already lying prone on the ground, five feet away from them, in addition to the previous several bullets they shot him with.

Anyway I’m still not convinced that prosecuting killer feds will change any of the core dynamics here but I think it’s probably time for local officials to do some testing for science

album of the day (album of the year, so far); very much like the depths of the ocean americanroadinnewjersey.bandcamp.com/album/americ...

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

Rough timeline of on-ness expression in popular song: - 1977: E (Blondie) (decades-long gap) - 1995: 5 (Luniz/Marshall, with object implied) (decades-long gap) - 2011: 1 (Khaled/Graham/Wayne/Ross) - 2014: 2 (Tinashe/Q) dampened oscilation pattern implies we are ~3 y.o. from 4 on

huge day to have a big csv file

✍️ “The world is shifting underfoot. Even on the most isolated trails, I can feel the tremors. The renewed popularity of building walls, the growing backlash against the injustices of globalization, a slide back into old nativism...." — Paul Salopek outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/papers-please

current #thetenx5 list features: - numbers summing to 223 in the top 5 - at least two love & hip-hop cast members - 9.5 repeats from my 2020s list - 15 different countries

watched someone sing “take me out to the ball game” at bar karaoke. happy new year.