lol okay so back to Workday: what is categorically wild about this is how companies using AI "tools" ignore how AI simply embeds the past. If your past is discriminatory, the tool will be trained to precisely DISCRIMINATE. Duh!

ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray. The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter. These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby. We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I just feel like they'd be friends, they're both from Canada, and they have similar fashion sense.

If true, this is worse than if Trump knew who he was pardoning. All it tells us is that there are people in his orbit that know exactly how to manipulate him to do whatever they want him to do.

All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl

In trying to answer the question, "What is your favourite photo of a novelist with a cat?" I have probably forgotten some absolute crackers but right now the one that immediately comes to mind is this one of Georges Perec and Duchat, taken by Anne de Brunhoff in 1978.

Max Huntsman, the inspector general tasked with holding the LA Sheriff’s Department to account, is retiring… and going out with a bang in this letter 🔥

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

I think this, analytics on using our toasters, advertising before you can open the fridge, and Alexa telling you what people in your neighborhood are buying is exactly why people are going to old tech and Linux. It's not retro, it's wanting a thing to just be a thing.

no idea

is the fridge covering up my wife's cheating is my car selling me viagra is this projector my therapist

My favorite piece of writing in a while

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

I think it would be fun if writers who love language started intentionally writing more strangely as AI flattens written "content" into a mono-voice. it would cool I think if writers responded by focusing their individual efforts on cultivating a really unique voice that's hard to copy

The Home Alone house, now in Cloud ☁️ Dancer!

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

WELP. wtop.com/lifestyle/20...

MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes

The high pressure question of the holiday gift-buying season descends upon us once again: Is this dad a Civil War book dad or a World War II book dad?

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

Outdoor Concerts? Uncovered Hair? Shimmying in Public? Is This Iran? Farnaz Fassihi and Sanam Mahoozi www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w...

sorry, still not over him just saying this out loud

That impact analysis has been done, by leading independent experts. Here it is, open-access in the @thelancet.com —> doi.org/10.1016/S014... "The complete defunding of USAID would cause an estimated 2,450,000 all-age deaths annually." Two. And a half. Million. Deaths. Each year.

The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge "Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."

DC is nice, man. the bike lanes are coming along, Metro is pretty good, drivers are not psychopaths, etc. miss this place

Subscribe your loved ones to literary magazines for the holidays

"In Bed With the Right" is easily among the smartest, most incisive analysis of gender politics, culture, and whatever is happening on the Right you'll find anywhere. Grateful to @adriandaub.bsky.social and @moiradonegan.bsky.social for what they are offering with their podcast. Please listen!

A raccoon was found passed out in the bathroom of the Virginia ABC Store in Ashland after breaking in and ransacking shelves, according to Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter.

DOGE isn’t gone. The 19-26 year olds burrowed in to the agencies they were assigned to. We’ve got dozens of unqualified 19-26 year old GS15s still pursuing Musk’s agenda, which is stealing everyone’s PII/data, all contracting info, moving it onto his servers, & mining it for his profits. 1/

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Marlboro: yesssss it is also against our TOS to get cancer from smoking our cigarettes

I hope the court slaps this down, because you cannot say that something is against the terms of service, and then _help a user do that thing_, and then claim that they violated the terms of service doing the thing. That is pure nonsense.

I've never had a trans woman tell me to get back in the kitchen, or make a "joke" about how women shouldn't be allowed to vote. I've never seen trans women outside the planned parenthood calling women murderers and whores. trans women have never dogged me out for incorrectly performing femininity

My favorite piece of content today.

My other conclusion was that learning to mend clothing was probably the single most sustainable thing I could do, and that at least was wholly in my control.

they're expanding a probe to include the Holocaust denial www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...

It's as if going all in on car dependent sprawl was a terrible idea and now we live with bidding wars for basic "perks" such as walkability, leaving those without deep pockets financially obligated to cars, so they can access more affordable housing. What a cluster. www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

borbtastic

"The transit system is one of the greatest tools communities have to combat climate change and reduce emissions. “You can make a pretty immediate impact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

btw i post so many links to longer form content because i believe we can get our attention spans back but only if we actually do it, not if we sit around complaining on short form platforms about how bad our attention spans are

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"Bronx high schooler Joel Camas was freed today from immigration custody on bond after nearly a month." "His case [..] became highly publicized in part due to his Special Immigrant Juvenile Status." #NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

so this is not ~fully like to like~ from ACA credit changes (relationship status change in there), but my marketplace premiums for next year are ~3.3X my 2025 premiums. probably going on my spouse's employer plan, but wow!

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

kinda thinking about buying something to try trick my body into thinking it's *not* depressingly dark outside have any of y'all tried any of those natural light simulators, and what did you think of them?

I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”

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