“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Today at @fastcompany.com Innovation Festival, there was a panel with 3 experts from the @aclu.org. When asked "Are we in a constitutional crisis?" Ben Wizner said: "That requires an active answer, not a passive one. We're in a constitutional crisis if we allow it. We're not in one if we resist it"

A major study of more than 200 heatwaves this century has found that as many as one in four would not have been possible in a world without human-driven climate crisis. Just 14 companies were responsible for a third of additional heat. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

a lot of these tips say to use your laptop for things like social media instead of your phone, which sure, great idea—except for instagram in particular, the web version is so bad and so limited in terms of functionality. wonder if that's intentional.. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Definitely don't repost the research that anti-wind groups are trying to bury using lawsuits www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/services-1 drive.google.com/file/d/1TAZw...

Trump doesn't care about crime in D.C. — which is at a 30-year low. He's creating another fake "emergency" in an attempt to show force. If he actually cared about keeping the city safe, he wouldn't have stoked insurrectionists to attack the Capitol on Jan 6. Hello?

Over seven days in July, a rotating crew of GM workers drove a Chevrolet Silverado EV Work Truck for 1,059.2 miles on a single charge. It's a feat for EV range, but it required some behaviors you might not want to replicate—like not using the AC at all www.fastcompany.com/91379667/che...

post a picture of black lung next

very apt day to get this fact from my @usafacts.org calendar...

“An aid worker providing psychosocial support spoke of the devastating impact on children: 'Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.'"

This piece on what the Tesla diner gets wrong about EV charging is so good, and a reminder that we can have more innovative solutions instead of just slight updates to current systems www.fastcompany.com/91372486/tes...

“Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies—they are sabotaging them,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in a speech Tuesday “Driving up costs. Undermining competitiveness. Locking in stranded assets." www.fastcompany.com/91372559/tru...

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Because electricity is more costly for data centers than water, companies often prioritize building their facilities in places with cheap power, even if the area is drought stricken. “Water is an afterthought”...The thinking is, ‘Someone will figure that out later.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

there is something so...wild about seeing science come under attack broadly in this country, grants taken away from researchers who want to do actual research, while at the same time rich people cosplay making scientific discoveries via a glorified auto text generator

remembering a time when, as a young reporter, I was on a team tasked with publishing 5 stories every day before noon... they were, as you can imagine, not great, and the effort did not pay off!!

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose. www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

what the fuck???

Since Eric Adams has been mayor (since 2022), & before last night's vote, rents on rent-stabilized buildings had already increased a combined 9%! In de Blasio's 2 terms — 8 years! — he oversaw 3 rent freezes & a combined overall 6% increase in rents. www.curbed.com/article/nyc-...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

This week @fastcompany.com put out its Queer Changemakers list, & I wrote about Rose Marcario. At a time when things feel bleak, it was inspiring & hopeful to speak to Rose & hear her belief that businesses can—and must—be “the greatest force for good." www.fastcompany.com/91344048/ros...

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

fun fact: this was the topic of the very first article I wrote for Fast Company ~6 years ago www.fastcompany.com/90429169/her... — and it's still true obvi! this video does a great job of explaining it

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

efficiency is using AI to fact check and then having to fact check the errors that AI introduces into your text

Nearly every time I call my Senators lately I only get voicemail. I leave voicemails, obviously, but is that a bad sign? I'd like to express to a real person how concerned I am about this country, and make sure they are hearing me. Are other people having this issue?

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

Seeing Brad Lander, NYC's comptroller and a mayoral candidate (also my former neighbor and city councilman) violently arrested by trump's immigration gestapo is making me sick to my stomach.

This is what gen AI is. There are countless examples of LLMs doing this. AI is not intelligence. And the energy use to just have an LLM lie to you is wild. It is so upsetting to see this taking over every service at the expense of our planet and our own thinking and etc etc

Fast Company's World Changing Ideas list is out today, highlighting the people & companies making the world a better place. One winner, Soli, is a lamp powered by the healthy, living organisms in soil—a lesson for how to be more in tune with our environment www.fastcompany.com/91336562/sav...

Yesterday Fast Company & Inc had layoffs, 4 of which were union members. Our union had recently bargained a new contract, which included stronger severance (including paid out PTO up to 2 weeks; previously laid off workers lost all their PTO). It doesn't solve the issue of course, but it's something

When people say that LLMs are not actually capable of doing the work that they’re advertised to do, this is a good demonstration of what they mean

Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist: “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

And don't worry about not sounding smart to the expert. I remember a veteran journalist talking at a conference about how it's essentially the journo's job to be the dumb one, to ask all the questions & make sure they understand, so they can translate everything in the simplest terms for readers

Happening now: climate scientists and meteorologists are doing a 100-hour livestream to talk about the importance of their work and how Trump administration cuts will endanger Americans www.fastcompany.com/91341967/how...

The bill House Republicans passed on Thursday would add an estimated $3.3 trillion to the national debt as written. Here's a look at the cost or savings for nearly everything in the bill, as estimated by the CBO.

"The problem, however, wasn’t “one single post” about AI, but the company’s policies around AI. If the problem were just a cute post that went sideways, it could be solved with another cute post. But this is something Duolingo can’t cute-post its way out of." www.fastcompany.com/91338068/duo...

NYC! We brought back Meet Your Mayor just in time before the June primary. The mayoral candidates told us where they stand on big issues. Who is the top match for you? Take our quiz, in partnership with @Gothamist.com, to find out: buff.ly/1FJjfrXhttps...

NEW: President Trump's policies and actions have been stopped by US courts more than 200 times. We've been tracking lawsuits from the moment he was sworn in, identifying at least 320+ by the start of May -- and more keep coming. A deep, deep dive into the data: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Jamelle Bouie calling AI "glorified auto complete" is so good. "There's no thought happening. It's prediction. ...These things are literally bullshit machines." stop outsourcing your thinking to AI, because AI is not actually doing any thinking www.tiktok.com/@jamelleboui...

The Trump admin has taken a lot of devastating climate actions already: gutting NOAA, pulling clean energy funding. But I really can't get over this move to shutter Energy Star—a program that saves Americans $40B (yes, B) annually, with a budget of ~$50M (yes, M) www.fastcompany.com/91329624/tru...

cool cool cool cool cool www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

DOGE initially promised to save taxpayers $2 trillion. Now it admits it's only delivered $160B in cuts. And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B. We're losing vital government services (that are efficient!) for basically nothing in return.

Some Americans have already seen direct energy price increases—especially those who have relied on LIHEAP, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. And broadly, experts note that Trump is eschewing the cheapest forms of new energy: wind and solar www.fastcompany.com/91326181/tru...

solidarity with @propublicaguild.bsky.social ! Also: management blocked attempts to ensure jobs will not be replaced by AI?? there is no way AI could do the amazing investigative reporting ProPublica reporters do. they are such a valuable team that deserves protections

shamelessly shilling for my husband's company: I know some of y'all are feeling burned out & could use this Alone Time shirt www.ericwlee.com/shop/fine-co...

Slate Auto just announced its forthcoming EV pickup that can be converted into an SUV. But to keep the price tag down, it won't come with things you might be used to seeing: power windows, an infotainment system, cup holders, etc (though you can add them on!) www.fastcompany.com/91322801/bez...

“You’ve got people you employ who feel so strongly about the way you are mistreating them that they’re willing to put their body, their being, at risk to demand change.” We’ll continue doing what it takes to get the working conditions and contracts we deserve. www.fastcompany.com/91321619/aft...

For Getty Images photog Mario Tama, the LA fires were right in his hometown. That meant he could cover them in a different way than other climate disasters. I spoke to him about how he's continuing to chronicle their impact, & the importance of climate photography www.fastcompany.com/91319961/thi...