RIP Jesse Jackson. The only presidential candidate I've ever seen live at a campaign event, he spoke at my high school in Denver in 1989. Inspirational speaker.

Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during Kīlauea’s episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like I’m fixing to push someone in… Credit: Volcano Hideaways

Their "more efficient" process than having writers write: • AI identifies possible stories • Reporters do further reporting and produce notes • Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks" • Another person fact-checks/edits • Reporter reviews

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Disbanding DHS is not a radical idea. Inside of the profession we talk about it all of the time. DHS is the result of a moral panic and an elite panic brought about by 9/11. It isn't the product of best practices, or good long-term strategizing.

Anyway, to tap the sign

Didn't get up at 3AM to watch live, and the replay isn't available yet, but cheated by checking the score and we get to use the official Finnish emoji for beating Sweden in hockey! SUOMI!

i've talked about this before but clicking a substack link feels bad! it's not, at least for me, something active like a "boycott," it's just that it Feels Gross, in the same way that watching a harry potter movie on a streaming subscription i already pay for does. and i don't like feeling gross

Project teaser.

This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...

lovely place. please donate.

Lost our neighborhood dispensary last week and now our cider bar is closing (again). It was never Bushwhacker, but The Place really grew on us over the years and the regulars are family. Gonna be a hard couple weeks saying goodbye, and keeping Scott from buying ALL the bottles.

Bees 🐝

I know how the Congolese militant group m23 can very suddenly make themselves real popular kigalidailynews.rw/reports-emer...

If you want to understand how far-reaching the corporate rot in media is, read this gutting piece about the fall of Oregon Public Broadcasting. (And follow @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and @leahsottile.bsky.social’s new publication @thewesternedge.bsky.social which will be amazing bc they’re amazing)

This is easily the hardest thing I've ever had to write.

I think another good question a good reporter might ask here is what the fuck a bunch of PMC goons were doing in Eureka during this time. And who at Six Rivers National Forest signed off on $1M of their measly budget for ... what exactly?

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

the jurassic park ad was an idea that would've been a mild chuckle carried by the charm of sam neill and laura dern 20 years ago but no, no, gotta shoehorn in some deaging ai that makes two actors who have aged incredibly well look like horrible gurning goblins from your sleep paralysis nightmares

I heard that it's #SuperbOwl Sunday so here's a very judgy Spectacled Owl at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #owls #nature

i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want

Ya know, as a life-long die-hard atheist, I'd rather have these ads with people looking to Jesus for therapy than fucking AI.

Husband's buddy cancelled Super Bowl party due to illness (it's really going around in Portland) so now I get to eat this entire tray of smoked oyster deviled eggs! And I don't have to publicly display my football ignorance! Win win.

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

I still can’t figure out if the whole march for billionaires thing was a prank or not.

my version of this is that it costs more to be a sports fan (or a sports parent) than it does to be a classical music fan (or parent) but guess which one of these activities is widely considered elitist

It's a tight game going into Double Jeopardy, rooting for my old friend Veronica.

Can't help but think that other bureaus are similarly hiding funds from the city budget. (look at the water bureau next, please!) Corruption or incompetence?

If I disappear for a while around March 5, know that I’m just building with the beavers. Can’t wait for the full release!

Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

Wait, is that Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on a CHUNK bike at Renn Fayre? Ugh, it is.

This is something really special, from one of my favorite science communicators, but also one of my favorite cultural commentators. Do yourself a favor and set aside some time to watch it. Your dishwasher will thank you.

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

For those just realizing how right I was about creeps like Lawrence Krauss & Richard Dawkins, you should know that I’m also right about good guys like Robin.

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."

Nice day to visit my favorite stubby little lighthouse. Cape Meares, OR.

Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen share an enduring fascination with eugenics, race science, and transhumanism and there is an entire generation of public intellectuals who benefited and continue to benefit from their patronage. Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.

Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really. Genuinely bizarre.

Really some amazing stuff from the Cider Riot trial. It honestly feels pretty good to see these clowns get aired out. Now I know why Abe was randomly back in town when we ran into him on Monday. Here's a link to @alissaazar.bsky.social thread on mastodon. kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/...

A Multnomah County jury has awarded more than $760,000 to our client Cider Riot owner Abram Goldman-Armstrong after finding defendants associated with the far-right group Patriot Prayer liable for a violent 2019 attack. Even though the justice system moves slowly, we will always stay the course.

Congratulations to Abe and Juan! A long time coming and well deserved. It’s somewhat ironic considering one of the goons just got arrested for shooting two cops.

Up the punx, we won! $760,007 in total. Press release later. We drink cider now.

You should watch THE HIDDEN

"Americans express the least amount of confidence in Trump to act ethically in office. Just 21% are extremely or very confident he does this, while 60% express little or no confidence."

“There has been a dramatic shift in the way Apple operates worldwide," one Apple employee told The Intercept's @sambiddle.com. "Before they would focus on quality and design and doing the right thing, and now they’re just getting things out quickly and pandering to fascists."

Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

So the guy who allegedly shot two Portland Police officers last week of course turns out to be one of the right-wing street thugs who organized several attacks on my friend's cidery. Actually ran into Abe last night, he's making cider in Norway now and doing well. (note Andy Ngo in the photo)