The AI-as-fact-checker thing is something I hear a lot and still haven't heard a convincing case for. If you know you need to double-check its work, either you're spending more time on fact-checking as a result or you're not double-checking and just telling people that to get them off your back.

When someone attacks a synagogue, a certain segment of people go searching for something that synagogue has said or done in support of Israel, to prove why the attack is actually justified. This article is the Islamophobic equivalent, and it's equally horrific and racist. nypost.com/2026/05/18/u...

This is what I mean when I say Todd Blanche is a terrible attorney. He almost single-handedly lost Trump's criminal trial with strutting, preening, and sneering aggression. He's clumsy and a dipshit. He doesn't practice law. He's just an enforcer for his boss and wants to make him happy, end of.

No judge has approved this. No law has ratified this. It's just a pinky swear and a publicity stunt. It can be easily overturned. It's blatantly corrupt, but also functionally useless. It's not like it wasn't already Trump Administration policy when he took office again.

Libraries are such radicalising places. In a world where so many people get nickel and dimed for just sitting down, that anyone can access a free world of books, internet, and so many other resources, for free, and you get to be a space that doesnt reduce you to your bank balance. It is very moving.

The Trump $1.776 billion slush fund is not mere corruption. Trump is giving his brownshirts money for recruiting, logistics, AR-15's and tactical gear. Nobody in the national media seems to be talking about this, or about how the Paycheck Protection Program played a central role in funding Jan 6

If corruption isn’t impeachment-worthy, I don’t know what is. Just strike it from the Constitution at this point.

“The security guard was killed first… But before he died, he used his radio to warn the teachers at the school to lock the classroom doors. There were 200 children inside at the time” This security guard stopped a massacre from unfolding. Those 200 kids were lucky to have him that day

i’m wincing and grinding my teeth as i realize this is completely true

Barnes and Noble would like everyone to remember that, before Amazon came along, THEY were the big bad of bookstore chains.

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Hotel housekeepers used to track their work on a clipboard. Now they work for an app that docks points if a room cleaning takes too long. “You have a device telling you, ‘move here, move there,’ like if you were a robot." The latest from @proofnews.bsky.social: www.proofnews.org/hotel-housek...

They really led with the successful brewery nypost.com/2026/05/17/u...

"Only about 12 percent of trustees at American colleges & universities have professional experience in higher education. If it seems odd to imagine 88% of the directors at, say, investment banks having no particular expertise in investment banking, that is the situation in the field of higher ed."

I hate the decades-long push to deemphasize liberal arts degrees/departments and to elevate degrees designed for job hunting/careers. Liberal arts (which is the kind of department I assume is being "deactivated" here) are important: protect sociology; political science; literature; etc.

The refugee and asylum system in the US was modeled on the UN protocols established to protect vulnerable people after WWII. Many nations signed on to that agreement as the horrors of Nazi Germany became clear. This is a repudiation and an inversion of that spirit of protection. History:

I want a news channel that will respond to this kind of lying by saying, "Oh, you're saying you haven't heard about it? Well, let's give you 24 hours to learn more and we'll have you back tomorrow night. Sound good?" And then actually do that.

Cis athletes should show some solidarity and refuse to step onto the podium in question is this happens.

1. California has reinstituted its anti-trans athlete policy. In track and Field, the California Interscholastic Foundation will force trans athletes to share the medal and podium with the next highest cisgender athlete. We talk to A.B. Hernandez in our latest piece.

Me, for the past year: Why are there so many pro-AI articles in The New Yorker…?

Yesterday, three American Muslim men were murdered at a San Diego mosque by two young men who came armed with stolen weapons, anti-Islamic writings, and hate. A security guard named Amin Abdullah, father of 8, gave his life so that others could live. This was terrorism. Let's Address This.

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

I have a case right now where a child - a LITERAL CHILD - was segregated from the other children in their elementary school because the parents of the other children said they didn't feel safe around them. You know the ONLY reason given? Because this child was Muslim and 10/7 happened.

what is even going on i ask u

I don't read Polish, so I don't know if this is what the link says, but I just can't. She's brilliant. She doesn't need this. And she just lost this reader.

This dude needs to get the Willie Horton treatment. Sadly we don't have a big enough megaphone to make it happen.

Ads for plugging back into the Matrix.

It would be a real shame if they were overwhelmed with applications written to confuse whatever AI program they go with to screen them.

Ordinary wrongs are still wrongs. And we should be suspicious of suggestions that they are extraordinary.

They’re at it again. None of this is valuable historical research. It’s about exploiting historical artifacts and historians to develop computer vision further and to make a soft cultural argument for surveillance tech. This nonsense has been going on since c2010.

The Chinese should be writing in God's language, American.

One reason why many didn't report on the Holocaust as it happened was because many believed the reports were too extreme to be true - even as the reports were corroborated by multiple independent sources.

Did not know until I read this that there's a protected nature area in Tobago as old as the United States, in case you would like a different 250th anniversary to celebrate globalvoices.org/2026/05/19/t...

I think we really need to do something about misogyny in this world, and more and more it seems to be not just a matter of justice and social functioning, but existential for the human species.

This security guard died protecting children at the Islamic Center of San Diego. If you can help support his family, it would go a long way. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Unbearable. No child should ever have to experience something as traumatic and violent as this. No child!

1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.

Awww yeah! This is a fantastic fantasy novel with magic, music, the power of community...and harpies.

HUGE NEWS: ICE’s courthouse arrests have been STAYED by a New York district judge. That means that ICE will have to stop arresting our immigrant neighbors on the spot when they show up to court at places like 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick. (1/2)

"This means a staggering 96.7% of users are rejecting the premium AI features, yielding just a 3.3% paid adoption rate. When viewed against Microsoft’s estimated $37.5 billion quarterly AI spending, this is an alarmingly low adoption rate." rofl

Unbelievable malfeasance

The whole AI-to-make-graduation- efficient is bizarre. The most efficient way to award diplomas is by mail; there’s no logical need for ceremonies. The whole reason they exist is for the human touch & so people can celebrate each other. AI for “efficiency” here is nonsensical (& doesn’t even work🫠)

Only insofar as the wealth gap in our country has reached satirical levels, producing a daily dystopian reality that provides 30rock style absurdist cut aways on the hour.

Jesus fuck

In 1952, Richard Nixon's career was nearly derailed by revelations that he had access to a slush fund of $18,000 -- less than a quarter million today." People used to give a shit about that kind of thing, you see.

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

New UN report out today: "..Palestinian detainees had been subjected to widespread and systematic torture and other ill-treatment while in detention. Reported treatment included brutal beatings...and the use of rape and other sexual and gender-based violence.." www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

The Momnibus Act was previously known as the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act, but the word 'Black' has been removed from the title and appears only once across the latest package