On Saturday, workers at NYC's Attaboy went public with a union drive. It's a big deal in part because the bar is world-renowned, but also because there just aren't many unionized bars, period. In this week's FREE column at Fingers, I framed up why: www.fingers.email/p/there-are-...

Job title of a guy who charges $500 an hour to tell you to try the food in the back of Aunt Ginny’s

if jeffrey epstein was for some reason my money manager and then I found out about all the stuff he did, but I had to fill out paperwork or other forms to have him not be my money manager anymore... lets just say i'd be really embarrassed right now.

It was more of a reality competition show than a game show.

holy shit

theyre doing a remake of mean girls where they guy from dirty jobs plays a triple role as gretchen, karen and regina. they're called the mike rowe plastics.

cant stop singing 'pink pony club' to the tune of 'epstein island' in my head

Why would Iran ever negotiate with the US on anything after we started bombing them while they were at the negotiating table last time?

i guess those celebrating soras death didnt get the memo that some of us need daily personalized greetings from james bond—for mental health

I want to do a show like Punk'd where its just telling cancelled men they're uncancelled. Imagine secret cameras filming fake Netflix execs telling Kevin Spacey "we're bringing back House of Cards, you're the lead again" then it's like "sike!"

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

I think some on this website and in general are confused. Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. I have written I do not know how many pieces saying this. Also, if you are using anti-Zionism as an opportunity to say hateful things about Jews qua Jews, you are, I am sorry to say, being antisemitic.

Happening now: Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders just tried to meet w/Speaker Johnson, calling on him to censure fellow Republicans such as Rep. Andy Ogles for recent anti-Muslim rhetoric — such as Ogles tweeting "Muslims don't belong in American society." No meeting — they prayed in his office.

Last yr a big NeoNazi on Twitter started a mass campaign of antisemitic attacks on me: measuring my nose, posting 'one less Jew' on my Mom's shiva announcement, etc MANY pro-Palestine friends checked in on me. NONE of the pro-Israel ppl still in my circle said a thing. It's not about antisemitism

Am I crazy or is it very weird my banking app (SoFi) has a ‘social banking’ feature where you can click a stock, see what other users own it, then see their full name and what else they own? Looks to be opt-in the language of the setting isn’t fully clear:

think about age gating for "adult content," think about anti-trans laws, think about period tracker data being turned into abortion tracking data, think about all the times and ways gender and bodily autonomy and consensual sexual activity between adults has been criminalized. You Do Not Want This.

New from 404 Media: Tinder plans to use AI to scan your camera roll. AI will scan users’ locally-stored photos to help construct profiles by determining what users’ interests and values are. Designed to filters explicit photos but users may still be concerned www.404media.co/tinder-plans...

This is speculation based on a loose connection but: Being reminded of how Pokemon Go was a map data scheme made me think about how both Elon Musk and Sam Altman's first companies were social/user-generated map & location apps Did they get a tip that map tech would get In-Q-Tel money or something?

mad dog mattis doing standup: ‘Believe women?!’ The last time I believed a woman I invested my life savings in Theranos!

kinda crazy that 'mambo italiano' dropped like 8 years after italy surrendered in world war ii. It's like america went "we have defeated you and now we're going to distill your entire culture into 'Calabrese do the mambo like-a crazy, shake like a Giovanno'"

shocking investigation by @sergioolmos.bsky.social @bellingcat.com for @calmatters.org identifies & names 5 Border Patrol agents using aggressive force across the US: tear gassing crowds, tackling teens, choking protesters, arresting citizens as Gregory Bovino moved across the country, so did they

So far this year, Sludge has: - mapped every ICE contractor nationwide - compiled all AIPAC PAC donations to Congress - uncovered Palantir lobbyist donations, and more A generous reader has offered to match 25 new subscriptions this month! We are truly reader-supported. Keep us going in 2026:

"so you had to deal with a bizarre inescapable bureaucracy? damn bro that sounds kafkaesque" "franz, seriously man, stop trying to get that to stick"

I love seeing Chris Anderson criticize Katie. Chris was so ethics-free that he put HIS OWN DRONE COMPANY, WHICH HE OWNED WHILE EDITING WIRED, at the heart of a cover package. I was covering drones as death-instruments for Wired at the time & wasn’t even told about the cover. Wont happen under Katie!

How did I miss that Kristi Noem fired a bunch of FEMA employees for allegedly: -accessing "racially charged" and "bestiality" porn -typing "explicit phrases into a chatbot" on a governmentt device and "having the comments read back to him in an accent." -going to Reddit "578 times" in a month.

There you have it folks, venture capital jabronis don’t care about progress or making the world better, “investor types” are just “interested in mony,” which I believe is money.

If AI is gonna read my data anyway, can it at least be useful? I don’t need or want my texts or emails written for me, because I’m not an idiot or freak, but I’d love to be able to ask ‘which of my friends have birthdays this month’ or ‘what was the name of the Italian restaurant I went to in 2019’

I have a confession to make. I briefly worked for DOGE. They put me in charge of cutting the budget at PBS and sent me to the HQ to root around. I found the unreleased Infinite Jest episode of Wishbone and five guys in suits and black sunglasses came and beat me up and took it.

Larry Ellison. David Ellison. Larry. David. Larry David. And they just bought HBO. I'm on to something here.

wtf is Sheriff Country? is it about a country where everyone is a Sheriff? if not, why is it called that?

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

America sets up no infrastructure for the elderly, tells us we're responsible for caring for our own families, then the biggest corporations don't let us do that:

Today, NYT celebrates their successes from the past year, but we are witnessing a major failure of leadership: @nytimes.com mgmt is denying one of our members, Rich Quan, permission to continue working remote, even as a certified caregiver for his 96-year-old father, who suffers from Alzheimer's.

If you want to help a gamer understand why AI-generated art and writing is worthless, ask them to compare the human-crafted dungeons of Persona 5 to the procedurally-generated dungeons of Persona 3 and Persona 4 and they'll get it.

the meaning of life is doing your best to increase the net happiness of other people at least marginally. you should make yourself happy too, of course, but the primary goal of existence is to make things a little better for others. don't even need to succeed. try. anything else is bullshit. duh.

All this talk of advanced AI targeting and the U.S. still fired a Tomahawk at an elementary school where an outdoor playground has been visible on Google Maps since 2017 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?

The files are driving everyone crazy. I can't stop thinking about one viral post that used an email from Arthur Sulzberger saying "Thank you for your support" as evidence of collusion btwn Epstein and the NY Times, when it's clearly a generic email to subscribers. Stay focused on the real stuff!

There is no evidence that Epstein blackmailed American policymakers. This is getting insane.

weird mandela effect thing, I totally thought this line was from uncut gems

the only time i ever personally experienced woke going too far was being told the preferred nomenclature for "elderly people" is "people experiencing aging." like buddy... I got some bad news for you... about everyone.

yeah 9/11 was an inside job. inside al qaeda.

do these idiots think that the word pandemic was invented for covid?

Oh I was looking in the weird refrigerator

Apologies to my fellow annoying men who also like obnoxious retro tech aesthetics but I must unfortunately share that Koss did a collaboration with Anduril for Anduril branded Porta Pros.

this is totally based on my own understanding of the situation but I believe two things to be true: 1. bill clinton did awful things to women but 2. he didn't do them with jeffrey epstein.

what the fuck are we doing www.wsj.com/business/med...

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

posturing anthropic and amodei as 'the good AI corporation' is so dumb, doesnt anyone remember when the 'good billionaire' was Elon Musk?