The thing I wish people like Carville et al would realize is that you cannot have ‘pure populist economic rage’ if you leave out the ‘woke’ bits. It doesn’t work like that. It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out. 1/

can’t help but notice it’s ‘they’ when a single mother might manage to use SNAP benefits for food that actually tastes good but it’s ‘we’ when a handful of ketamine addicts wanna ruin the economy

Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.

Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds. So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...

xAI is currently in talks to raise $15 billion at a $230 billion valuation. The flagship product is self-identified "MechaHitler" chatbot with training so warped it describes Elon Musk as more physically fit than LeBron James. It is powered by gas turbines poisoning South Memphis.

“The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, haha bitches, I got a new scooter!” @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social had me hooked from the jump:

this is not me saying i want less film criticism btw im a culture writer myself! i want MORE film criticism, i just need it to answer the most important question way more reliably

AI porn generator and ERP chatbot Secret Desires left millions of images and videos exposed in unsecured cloud storage. I took a look and found folders called "faceswap," where people had uploaded tons of stolen content and random photos of women www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

there are so many episodes of the x-files in which some eerie shit happens and I just desperately want to know the global implications so i'm absolutely tickled that in plur1bus vince gilligan is finally like "and also if this happened then every 11-year-old would have a medical degree and also"

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

AO3 is also down, so between the two our whole acronym is affected

Most folks know I've been banging the drum about the AI bubble for awhile, and this brilliant piece from @lopatto.bsky.social dramatically reinforces that hypothesis and is as meticulously researched as it is brutal: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.

White House aggressively posting “trump is straight” content amid the blow job e-mail

How do journalists get records from government agencies through public records requests? Is that something anyone can access? 404 Media is gonna teach you how to FOIA🫵 Join our LIVE session happening on Nov. 19, 1pm ET: www.404media.co/our-new-foia...

This piece by Alice Wong is essential reading.

periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

'Even the notion of “quality of life” as a measurable standard is based on assumptions that a “good” healthy life is one without disability, pain, and suffering. I live with all three intimately and I feel more vital than ever at this point in time, because of my experiences and relationships.'

You could also find Alice writing for High Country News about technology dependence and power outages; her advocacy on this helped shape work to get backup power solutions to disabled people for emergencies.

I will spend the rest of my life thinking and writing and talking about Alice, but my voice isn't what's needed right now. Her own words are, so here are some of them.

don’t smoke kids

AI advertising going from "AI technology will revolutionize your company" to "we know that only 8% of AI projects work but our AI technology, specifically, will revolutionize your company!" means we're really close to this being over, at least

Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out. Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent

very funny to deny that Bubba refers to Clinton but not clear up whether Trump giving head was a bit

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

i cannot wait for my class action omny overcharge payout i'm counting on it as a stimulus check in the next 1-3 years

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

PBS did us a solid and dropped the whole Epstein emails. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

waste of a good potato

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Due to the organizing of LGBTQ & Palestinian activists fighting to end the genocide in Gaza, @hrc.org has confirmed it is no longer sponsored by weapons companies Northrop Grumman and RTX Corporation Out joint statement w/ @adalahjustice.bsky.social www.adalahjusticeproject.org/hrc-victory-...

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As the Trump admin creates more chaos over funding SNAP benefits, uncertainty is taking a toll. Young people I spoke to while reporting described how profoundly stressful the chaos is: "Uncertainty over SNAP delays “builds this anxiety of, ‘Well, if this is going to be taken away, what else is?’”

once i got a terry's chocolate orange for christmas & i wanted to save it for a time when i really needed a pick me up so i put it in the cabinet for months & when i finally unwrapped it, feeling truly miserable, it had maggots in it! anyway i'm soooo glad democrats are saving their leverage

The bigger fight? Buddy, I die without health care and your pals in the Senate — none of whom will ever go without access to lifesaving medical care — told me they were gonna fight so my premiums don't go up 50%. And then they folded.

A commendable Edmund Fitzgerald cover. (The sinking was 50 years ago today.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JLU...

liberals and conservatives alike talk about defunding the police and decarceration as if these are extreme, radical, unthinkable ideas— but truly what is more extreme, radical, and unthinkable than what's happening *right now* in our police state.

I wrote about the bizarre, delightful, and reverent resurgence of the Edmund Fitzgerald—on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the ship's wreck. slate.com/technology/2...

Overheard at work: Student 1: Of course Socrates isn’t real, do you think anyone would talk to Plato? Student 2: Low-key, I feel that way about Saint Augustine. He HAD to be close with God because he was like, a weird homeschool kid.

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

many people have been saying

NEW: Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn ruling that legalized gay marriage: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

they're rebranding "self-determination" as the opportunity to "do your own research & negotiating" about things you're dangerously under-qualified & under-leveraged to assess & navigate, & it's especially galling bc consolidation means the same 3 companies get your money no matter what you "choose"

I didn't really use my health insurance for my first six years in the US. Then last summer, I was diagnosed with pre-cancerous cells in my cervix and then a broken neck in May, requiring months of physical therapy. I have spent more than $8k, even with employer insurance, just in the last two years.

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

I don't really understand what just happened but it seems like checking the news was a bad idea

listen you can either rip toxic farts for 90 minutes or watch tiktoks at full volume without headphones on the train but you can't do both