I have a view… I have a view and I love it

All that corruption for nothing

Reading a book on Edvard Munch as I watch a happy Norwegian dominate the World Cup

Wisconsin residents sue Microsoft over noise caused by new data center

The Founders always feared the emergence of an autocrat. Now, on its 250th anniversary, the US is under the thumb of an idiot Caesar. Everyone knows it’s a betrayal, which is why the celebrations are so muted.

Well it's incredibly hard to get paperless dry wall in 1/2. I am trying and using my research skills but wow, capitalism here is a failure. Light a candle, say a prayer, cast a spell so that I can source this myfbm.com/all-products...

Does anyone have any opinions on these paperless drywall products? Please share. I doubt I will get much traction here, but it never hurts to check.

So true

Excellent statement by the AAA on the shoddy quality of the Wash U/Vanderbilt report, with a wonderfully concise accounting of the state of anthropology. Makes me proud to call myself one! americananthro.org/advocacy-sta...

The person living here is so sick (was fine before moving here) and is afraid to leave the rental, as it is stable and cheap. Landlords should be liable for this BS

We're gonna need to clone @mattblaze.org a few hundred times.

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

Scott Pelley thank you for standing up, speaking out, and doing what journalists should do. Tell the truth to the best of their ability at the time of reporting.

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

Free Speech Champion(tm) Bari Weiss demanding CBS News smear an American executed by her government for protesting bsky.app/profile/elio...

The summer I’ve planted wild flower seeds, already sprouting, and added some cosmos and Gelato flowers as I patiently wait for the wildflowers to catch up

Elementary school talent show: low on talent but super high in solidarity making it just perfect

Since it’s impossible to avoid that other platform, if you’re studying the politics of medicine today, I’m able to come across these gems on the side. Hunter is kicking ass rn

#ClaytonHighSchool #NorthCarolina The valedictorian at Clayton High School, Leen Hijaz, is pulled off stage & threatened w/losing her diploma after speaking for the world's oppressed people. Video: TT: @leenhijaz_ Shameful Melissa Moore Hubbard 👎🏽 #1A #FreePalestine #Sudan… @apnews.com @reuters.com

New course alert Vulnerable Bodies: An Anthropology of Disability, Contested Illness, and the Politics of Legitimacy

I am sorry to hear the news: @carolafrediani.bsky.social has passed. She was a fierce journalist, a chronicler of hackers and Anonymous, and a bright star fighting for all the right things. I admired her and her work. She will be missed. personaldemocracy.com/speaker/caro...

“19 full-time faculty members, 10 of them tenured, were told… that they’d been laid off… Dozens more have taken early-retirement or buyout offers… Among those laid off Monday was Sanjay G. Reddy, a professor of economics + prominent critic of the university’s financial management.”

I'm looking for a copy of Born That Way (an Irish movie on disability). Any pointers? www.instagram.com/reels/DR7Oto...

My current anthropological Muse? Jad Abumrad. Want to know why? You have to listen to his latest podcast and listen until the very last episode podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

My current anthropological Muse? Jad Abumrad. Want to know why? You have to listen to his latest podcast and listen until the very last episode podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Cheer me up or cheer me down reading? I’ll report back

Submissions are still open! If you've been sitting on a bug, technique, war story, weird research rabbit hole, or beautifully cursed idea: now is the time. Write something worth archiving. Phrack CFP closes June 30. More details on how to submit at phrack.org/news

Can you guess what I did?

Boston maybe had swagger in the revolutionary period but even that is questionable www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/26/n...

Wonderful, just wonderful www.sciencefocus.com/news/dust-st...

She killed three baby bunnies but at least she’ guarding my wildflowers, which are just starting to sprout

Not only do we lack housing, but so much housing built in the US is also crap. This is why we have mold (& why those of us who get sick from mold are so vulnerable here). And no, no one wants to pursue legal action. They do so often as a last resort www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

It's dope we can now assign the Pope in our media studies classes www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/w...

The last 5% of editing a piece feels like a damn marathon; it never ends.

Every once in a while, an op-ed shines with a truly original argument that sheds light on an important topic (the problem of the lack of housing in the US), honing in on, in this case, the elevator. Housing and STS scholars, you will love the piece www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/o...

Ken Martin claimed that “there was no smoking gun” in the DNC autopsy report. No, Ken, the autopsy report WAS the smoking gun. If the best a political party could muster is a document so incompetently produced that it lacked a conclusion, it proves the party’s leadership was the problem!

Pope making a media studies move from the joint lens of anthropology and philosophy

What an absolute terrifying nightmare abc7.com/live-updates...

It's fun how nothing makes sense

RIP: My interview/visit with Peter Neumann was among my career highlights. Onstensibly a computer scientist, he was but he was also a full-on hacker. Crafty as crafty can be, curious & wanting to do the right thing. Hhttps://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/science/rethinking-the-computer-at-80.html

Between front loaders and patio furniture Americans accept mold as routine part of their life. It’s a health hazard for some of us and frankly disgusting especially if you are trying to clean you clothes

I'm an anti-fan of the privilege concept (hello baggage, hello conjuring feelings of shame), but this very clear piece of writing on pitfalls for clear writing by Corey Robin is excellent and worth sharing widely: coreyrobin.com/2026/05/15/t...

Every month, thousands of working class New Yorkers use Western Union to send money to loved ones. Now Western Union wants to buy its top competitor, Intermex, so it can jack up remittance fees and squeeze families even more. Families shouldn’t pay the price for corporate monopolies.

AI Cyborg Allyship? www.wired.com/story/overwo...

Excellent. Enough with the fragrance www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Cancer seems like a pretty good reason to ban potassium bromate. This encapsulates everything wrong with the USA: let's keep poisoning our population just to keep food slightly cheaper, which ignores the long-term health and financial consequences of doing so www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/d...

Inflation up dramatically - a direct result of Trump's Iran war. Blaming others won't help. Without a change of course, Americans will keep paying the price.

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

I had somehow missed that the fascist surveillance company had cooked up a sad little fashion line for soulless manbaby shitweasels how adorable, you working overtime for the kakistocracy in your robin egg blue frump coat