Underlying everything that's happening, even if the public isn't super aware of it, is that there aren't many journalists left. 75 percent fewer journalists now than 25 years ago, and newspapers, the bastion of American journalism, are in even worse shape. share.google/2KL2PkERkgnQ...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

The Department of Homeland Security is flooding social media platforms with subpoenas demanding they unmask the people behind anti-ICE accounts. This crackdown on speech shows EXACTLY why online age verification laws are so dangerous. Here's why: 🧵

This stuff is the equivalent scandal to landlords exploiting grants for buy to let mortgages. Massive data brokers will lease the hardware back to the public at a profit having bought it all out with government subsidies and destroy everyday amenities in the process.

Every one of our governments around the world who have committed to vastly expanding data centre construction funding has probably contributed to this insane economic partition in who can afford to buy computation.

I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that

Sorry but it’s not a free press if there is a class of people too powerful to risk telling the truth about.

I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Rewatching the premiere episodes of Superman: The Animated Series. The entire first episode is about climate change deniers trusting an AI over their top scientist The AI knows the planet is doomed but prioritizes self-preservation. They're so desperate to be ok they believe it This is 1996, btw

Not to fear-monger but authoritarians are not just targeting journalists- they’re targeting dissenters and truth tellers. You should be prepared and know how to lock down your phone folks! Steps are similar for Android phones 9.0 +

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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

happy pitchers and catchers day to all who celebrate

it’s wild that it’s been a year since we shot bad bunny’s “nuevayol” video; the two days I was on set were so affirming, surrounded by mi gente, working hard but fueled by joy. maybe the rest of the world got to feel a little bit of that last night. it’s infectious www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU5V...

i wouldn’t want it to end either

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

“The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found…” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

essay i mentioned previously on how independent music gives you the basic tools for organizing even if you didn’t realize you were building those skills, and how great it’s been to watch people hit the ground running

In the greater story of Minneapolis’ resistance to ICE, one chapter absolutely belongs to the punks organizing at every level. They’re observing, fundraising, running supplies, opening their spaces, coordinating, etc. A story for @rollingstone.com. Thanks to everyone who spoke on the record.

A perfect mom-and-pop affordable housing provider 🤗 story in 3 images

wow. not looking forward to trying this but still gonna do it

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

another reminder to back up your work. firefox has a built-in tool that will let you screenshot an entire webpage in one image. back it up 3 times, on at least two types of media, with one copy off-site. you will literally never regret this.

"hey I know I should have sent you a note six weeks ago but I'm here now what's up?!??!" -my favorite genre of email

listen to the new haram it’s quite literally fire

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

not sure if this has been previously reported but there’s a nice lil nugget in here about the demo for the original samurai champloo theme, which Nujabes refused to release, and is still out there, somewhere…

interviewing Watanabe-san about the music in his anime has been on my bucket list for about a decade. the undisputed GOAT www.vulture.com/article/shin...

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