INBOX: Journalists at the five McClatchy newspapers in Washington and Idaho (the Idaho Statesman, Bellingham Herald, Tri-City Herald, Tacoma News Tribune and The Olympian) are calling a one-day strike today over wages and AI protections. That means no clicking on any links to their sites for today.

tolkien catching strays in the pope discourse www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

I think it’s so awesome how many people developed a disease where they think that giving someone 20 dollars means you are now their indentured servant. They think they’re shark tank & making a big investment and not someone who bought a toy that said “work in progress” and already played with it.

Counterpoint: No I will not

I realize no one over there thinks beyond their own vesting schedule, but what happens to Google when the publishers whose content they've co-opted go under and the web itself shrivels to nothing?

My main reaction to all of the agentic AI things we're seeing from Google and others: We are working so hard to avoid being actually present in our lives.

Just another reminder that anyone who tells you that it’s smart or forward-thinking to use a chatbot for research is absolutely full of shit.

A good example of how X drags normal-ish people into over-engaging with a far-right echo chamber is how a bunch of them are seriously discussing the "controversy" that there are non-white actors in The Odyssey as if anybody outside of the nazi website will ever give a shit or even think about it.

This is the stuff www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-as-the-...

The Dispossessed Great Expectations VALIS

Texas Children's caved and ended care under pressure in April 2022, over four years ago and they still got targeted by DOJ and Paxton. NYU caved and they still got served with a grand jury subpoena. Caving and abandoning will not save you. You have to fight these bastards or they will destroy you.

This is the only Tolkien adaptation that could possibly interest me in the year 2026

The funniest thing about the “fertility debate” is that it has an easy answer as far as America is concerned (let in more immigrants) but people are like that is neither racist nor misogynist enough

The Internet going to war with itself over whether Lupita Nyong'o is hot enough to start a war is the kind of marketing money can't buy

sometimes you can make a little bit of difference around certain things using social media, and most of the time you can't, but the main thing is that you absolutely can not let yourself come to believe that fighting some kind of society-scale battle is the reason you're on social media

"Predictably, the huge spike in productivity that these companies claim their own AI products have enabled hasn’t resulted in more or better products, shorter work weeks, or better consumer experiences." www.404media.co/software-dev...

one reason i keep repeating my “we need more social media sites not fewer” mantra is i am just hoping the people who are terminally miserable here can find a new place to post

Deciding that the political situation depends on where and how individual freelance writers, tech furries, and underemployed democratic consultants use social media is a sure way to contract Poster’s Madness

RIP Rex Reed, a man who hated kimchi opus.ing/posts/rex-re...

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: what newssss from the kingdomsss Kathleen Stock: terrible bone-chilling news, dark lord!! Rowling: sspeak Stock: well, you know the holyrood? Rowling: Rowling: the what

Roko’s Basilisk gets funnier with every passing year

America fucking rules

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In honor of the period once known as APA Heritage Month, I wrote an essay about the knee-jerk backlash against Jin Chao in #DEVILWEARSPRADA2 and how it shows why Asians need to become better critics if we want to see continued progress. Please read—and share: blog.angryasianman.com/2026/05/just...

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

1. empire strikes back 2. a new hope 3. the last jedi 4. return of the jedi 5. i guess … revenge of the sith???

A delayed response to a @caseynewton.bsky.social segment from Hard Fork last week: Casey’s right, I think, that the AI bubble is more like railroads than crypto. But we should also be thinking about broadband in ‘00 and housing in ‘08. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/what-sort-...

Thinking we need some coding bootcamps that also have you read some Marx tbqh

Everyone is like "oh you're a poet? You're not working class anymore then you class traitor" like bitch stop doing the work of the powerful for them.

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

I Hate Danger - B Kill Desolation Row - B Dylan Visions of Johanna - B Dylan Your Type - CR Jepsen Dancing On My Own - Robyn They Can’t Take That Away From Me - S Vaughan Solidarity Forever - P Seeger The Drama You’ve Been Craving - S Kinney Old Friends - S Sondheim This Must Be The Place - T Heads

"Bluesky will never be Twitter." Then how come I look at it every morning and it makes me sad, hmm? Explain that.

In 1964, when my father was 20 years old, he went to Mississippi to register voters as part of Freedom Summer. NPR interviewed us in 2021: www.npr.org/2021/07/14/1...

The Mummy made me do it (write a 1-star letterboxd review) boxd.it/e9N3I7

Everyone survives White House Correspondents' Association dinner: defector.com/everyone-sur...

Can’t even imagine the battle royale in the Atlantic offices over who got to write the article about Hasan Piker endorsing shoplifting. Chairs flying. Bloody noses. Fine, fine, the editor cries, two of you can do it. Everybody else, we need some more genocide apologia. It’s been an hour, let’s go.

"I can't, I have to attend my building's centennial" is such a Batman The Animated Series thing to say

Michael (2026) dir. Antoine Fuqua www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2QB...

“It is no longer enough—or even that useful frankly—to discover the hidden forces of reaction in the world. There just aren't that many hidden forces to find, because reaction has stopped hiding. What is necessary is to fight it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...

“Nowhere is it written that a multinational conglomerate with a market cap of roughly four trillion dollars is fated to command our public schools […] or to monetize the inefficient children who attend them.” www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

happy earth day. out of every place in the known universe, this is the only place we can survive without major intervention. we are a blip in earth’s history. it will go on without us. but we are nothing without it.

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

The funniest part is how this stuff - like all the Marvel post-credits sequences - is NEVER actually "critical." It'll be some new MacGuffin added to the background of one scene, or Tony Stark saying, "In another universe, I might have been evil ..."

My new litmus test is that any Democrat who lectures the party on how they should talk to “ordinary people” is unbelievably full of shit and doesn’t deserve your attention or your vote.

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Not sure there exists a more unemployed statement than "you're getting owned in the comments"

let me say this again: come and take it