Yes the world is on fire and there are many things to discuss but pausing to mention this is still a great album

Here’s my thing: I do not give a fuck how famous/powerful/connected anyone is if they can’t manage to be a decently kind person. Like, great, dude, you have so-and-so’s name in your phone, you’re still condescending. Man, I have no patience for that game.

Quite a read: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You know, not every class needs to be (or frankly qualifies as) a masterclass. It can just be a class or a webinar or whatever. Just like not every speech is a keynote bc by definition a keynote sets the theme a conference or event and there’s only one of them, usually right at the start. It’s okay.

Regular reminder this website exists and the music will always get a yes-vote from me (cc @nerdseyeview.bsky.social) : www.cameronsworld.net

is anybody else's amulet glowing

I’m noticing some folks are starting to *talk* like AI (“It’s not THIS. It’s not THIS. It’s THIS.”) and makes me fear they’ve outsourced some of the best parts of their minds. Just say the thing. The “not this” throat-clearing bullshit preamble sucks and dilutes your fucking point.

Root canal ✅ Woof. Heavy painkillers are not for me so I’m riding it out with ibuprofen. Please shower me with photos of your beautiful pets and visiting bird friends. Thank you in advance.

Humans are like “we needed this” and it’s just watching smart and kind humans in space and on the ground at their best, doing awe-inspiring, history-making work and showing humanity and care to each other and making us all ugly-cry and not think about the horrors here on earth for a moment, nbd.

FFS, I saw a video in which an influencer shared the “amazing smoothie hack” of storing peeled bananas in Tupperware to save yourself the time of peeling a goddamned banana.

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is very cool and while I’m no cartographer, I am glad to pass this info along

“she has deep knowledge of women’s pay…That research has included the role that discrimination plays in pay gaps between men and women. Goldin won her Nobel for advancing understanding of women’s labor-market outcomes.”

Between the ornithological bird and the cartoon bird, what do I choose, you ask? I choose chaos.

Meanwhile, in Alaska: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

This is, without exaggeration, the smartest, clearest discussion I have heard regarding AI in the workplace. You should listen.

I need everyone to listen to this episode of CANNED pls

When I die, if you turn my image into a shitty computer facsimile of me I swear to God I will rise up from the grave and haunt you

I have lived in Los Angeles for nearly two decades and I have never experienced the kind of yellow smog that used to define this city why? because we cleaned that shit up none of this is beyond salvation

Seattlians! Seattlites! Pls show up for Pam and listen to her radical brilliance. Internetlandia: you too.

and she asked all the women in the room to stand up because (paraphrased) “i wouldn’t be here without all of you.” such an amazing moment.

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I recently went back through the bajillion screenshots of things on my phone to prune them and some of you prob have no idea a comment you prob said as an aside meant so much to me at the time. In one hard era especially, kindnesses I screengrabbed were absolutely carrying me through it. Thank you.

Rebooked on a flight after weather threw some curveballs last night. Hello from the middle seat I am grateful to have after two canceled flights but also where all 5’10” of me is ready to give a power point to folks called MIDDLE SEAT GETS ARMRESTS. Thank you.

What women do w their bodies/clothes is nobody’s business but this long sleeve trend that covers most of the hand? That makes us look like helpless toddlers playing dress-up? Do you think that’s a coincidence? Bc we sure as hell can’t make a fist and do much of consequence if we’re fucking w that.

Seattle and Seattle-adjacent, I beseech thee 👇

If @katelovesmath.bsky.social wrote it, you know it’s going to be smart and good 👇

And in stark contrast to (*gestures broadly at everything humans are wrecking*) here are three people who literally just decided to be decent rather than harmful.

Among other projects, I’ve been working on a crime series w/ a Canadian production team. In a zoom meeting, we unpacked U.S. v Canadian gun framing/laws for each other and the level of surprised “wow i don’t think anyone here would ever think of that” in both directions was kind of incredible

Reader, I was WARNED and was still not prepared

Read every damn gutting word of this: 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

I’m not saying I’m buying orange pajamas with cigarette-smoking bucks on them, I’m just letting all yall know orange pajamas with cigarette-smoking bucks on them exist: www.tokyover.com/collections/...

This is really a hell of a read: www.politico.eu/article/germ...

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some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...

Damnit. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

The number of children in ICE detention on a given day has skyrocketed, jumping more than sixfold since the start of the second Trump administration. We analyzed data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and found that ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump.

Hey so that’s a headline you don’t love to see

This is all so good and on-point and THIS PART in particular "Contrary to the 'wine moms' trope, these parents say their efforts are a natural, if unfortunate, extension of the ways in which school-based groups normally attempt to fill gaps."

You know things are crummy when even the text spam/scam folks are using offers of jobs and friendship as bait.

Please note that NYT is leading with what the videos show, not the lies from the feds. This is what every news organization should be doing. This is how you cover a government that lies as it breathes. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice

Death of man detained in El Paso ICE facility is ruled a homicide: the county medical examiner said the man, Geraldo Lunas Campos, was asphyxiated and restrained by law enforcement. Fed officials had cited medical distress then later called his death a suicide. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

“What the fuck” isn’t even close to cutting it anymore. We need new ways to express the higher tiers of what the fuckedness. Even wtaf isn’t strong enough. We need new and improved industrial strength wtf.

You know what, this email I got today is better without any backstory.

Bah, search is so shitty and consumerist. Looking for a recipe and not only is it buried, but buried under ads, sponsored content that’s really an ad, shitty AI, and influencer content clearly written by AI. (“…it’s not THIS, not THIS or THIS. It’s THIS”) Fuck this to the moon and back. Honestly.

I visited this place and its small, lovely congregation of folks many years ago out on book tour. Really sorry to see this, and some of the miserable, hateful comments about it today 💔 www.cnn.com/2026/01/11/u...

California is completely drought free for the first time in a quarter century! www.latimes.com/california/s...

Not even a week into the new year and already admonished a man so hard (read: merely pointed out his folly) that he removed himself from my corner of the internet 😂

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WARNING: WE SWEAR A LOT AND PAM’S LAUGH IS A DELIGHT 👇