Incredibly disappointed by the price to see @hankgreen.bsky.social at Space Center Houston next month. I was excited for this, but $200 is too high for a teacher to afford on a whim. Quite disillusioning. Enshittification even comes for the Green bros.

all the news stories you see for "AI" products that seem more like advertisements are exactly that, they're hoping that if they keep astroturfing the idea that "AI" is real and everywhere and unavoidable it will eventually become true

Reminder that Duolingo laid off most of their staff, including their localization teams, so that they could invest heavily into AI. Don't support Duolingo. Disable drops for a few days.

#AbolishICE and #UnpackTheCourts

If you're interested in Paramount, CBS News, the Free Press, or the right-wing takeover of the media, please help spread this around and let's see if we can find out anything interesting :-)

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy! Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster. Competence matters.

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.

"I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy." -Army Cpt. Gilbert

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

History has many painful lessons.

“Protecting workers from high heat improves not only their lives but employers’ interests in maintaining productivity. It shouldn’t be a political football.” calmatters.org/commentary/2...

"This is a very race-conscious administration. It just happens to be the case that its policies, its prescriptions, its advocacy, its project is in service of whiteness. ...Whiteness is a race, too. It's also an ideology," says @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social. newrepublic.substack.com/p/race-and-r...

Finally, a major media outlet will be headed by a true free speech warrior who got her start trying to get her professors fired

This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000! To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

You may not like it, but this is what peak Libertarian looks like.

libertarians not beating the "my girlfriend shouldn't have to sit in a car seat" allegations

I think part of the plan is to outsource a lot of the logistics to broligarch cronies like Erik Prince and Peter Thiel. Big fucking government contracts with little or no oversight. Dream come true.

this guy has no idea what the american military is (the most sophisticated logistics operation ever assembled in human history)

Finally watching The Godfather. Regretting I never saw it before the entire culture spoiled some of the best moments for me.

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum “She’d never, ever asked for anything in return. And the trouble with not asking for anything in return was that sometimes you didn’t get it.”

79. American citizen.

so @chatterton.bsky.social turned off replies and quote posts so i can't reply to him, but eagle eyes will notice that all of the posts he says are about bluesky's reaction to today's interview were posted between 16 and 120 hours ago

If trans people had spent less time complaining about jokes and more time beheading Jamal Khashoggi, wealthy comedians would never have called them out for the horrific crime of woke cancel culture.

"Mona" was pruning citrus trees in CAs Central Valley. It was over 100° on this day. She sat down, putting an ice water bottle on her head to cool off a little. She is glad she's able to rest & cool off when she needs it, thanks to the CA heat laws the UFW fought for. #WeFeedYou

Concur, wholeheartedly. Look, if you think Comey's error of judgment cost Hillary the presidency and put us in this mess, you should also know that, as Deputy AG, he stood up to Dick Cheney and refused to endorse the Bush warrantless surveillance program until critical changes were made.

Perfect!

If we’re renaming departments and calling the DOD the “Department of War”, we might as well go ahead and make the DOJ the “Department of Revenge”

We taught our raccoons sign language and the first thing they said was "The trouble is, you think you have time.”

In this short clip, John uses the actual Bible to explain why the Christianity of Republicans is unrecognizable to Jesus. youtube.com/shorts/r8UHl...

I'm really out of things to say about the Richardson situation. It has been made very clear that he is unqualified to lead FEMA and that his presence at the agency is directly putting lives at risk. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Cool new way for cars to kill people

“In 1960, ten leading Reformed Afrikaner theologians published a series of essays condemning Apartheid and the claim that the Bible endorsed racial separation. They were put on trial for heresy, found guilty, and denounced by the prime minister, Dr. H. Verwoerd, himself a theologian. /1

It is still striking, but is no longer surprising, to witness a group of largely self-identified atheists reinvent very specific Christian ideas. ("Roko's basilisk" is Pascal's Wager; "the singularity" is the Evangelical Rapture; and "recursive simulated reality" is Mormon eternal procession.)

New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists. www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...

"Strays from science." No, Goddamnit #BrokenTimes, he tells dangerous lies and endangers lives. Throw away your fucking thesaurus. Have the courage to speak truth. That would be journalism. On Covid and Autism, Trump Strays From the Science www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

There is no scientific basis whatsoever to the claim that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism. They are pushing that lie because they want to blame women and force them to suffer. That's literally all it is. They hate women and want to punish them.

This is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpism -- because of its obsession with imagery, the White House crew caused a problem but blamed it on other people, leading to MAGA making threats against the United Nations for their own screw up

big laugh at this one

researching a maritime disaster in 2025: Option A: 350 word article by someone from politics beat Option B: 60 min netflix docu with 45 min of unsubstantiated vibes Option C: some rando YTer called Brick Immortar who has a 4 hr breakdown with all court docs & interviews with every survivor

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

chotiner’s real gift is very quickly revealing how many powerful and influential people are complete morons. Sunstein is asked about his friendship with Kissinger and it’s pretty clear that he’s never really thought about it.

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “As a general rule, humans (even Christian ones) resist anything that threatens their place or privilege. Should slave-owning theologians have been allowed to be the loudest voice in theological debates in the 1800s? /1