It's not lost on me that the majority of the folks doing ICE watch stuff in my area of Massachusetts are women, two of whom stopped an abduction with their presence over the weekend. In spite of all the risks, people *are* fighting to protect their neighbors and that should give us hope.

before and after hegseth's directive

This is great work. But this article in particular should be raising eyebrows and a LOT of questions www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

Stress-Free Eric Adams Spends Day Bribing Pigeons In Central Park

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

Still can't quite believe that this is a real thing but @alexwinter.com and Keanu were great

I can’t believe Kaleb Horton is gone… His life wasn’t long enough. Not even close. But in the time he was here, in all the countless hours he spent writing — for which he was criminally under-compensated — he never typed a single line of bullshit. You did it, my friend.

Kimmelist forces seize control of communications infrastructure.

This is EXCELLENT. 1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome. 2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

"The style guide warns on its first page that "Many citations in this guide are fictitious," meaning they are made-up examples used only to demonstrate proper formatting. Yet someone (or some AI chatbot) copied the fake example directly into the Education Accord report as if it were a real source."

My kids don’t care about Taylor but they care about fandom and they loathe AI. Spot on.

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

We're rethinking on-site digital for SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst. The future is bring-your-own-device based, QR based and extremely data-driven. We can't wait to get started and there's even a blogpost (!) #musetech

This is an important time to remember that responsibility is not a zero-sum game — recognizing one person’s fault does not necessarily diminish another person’s. The Trump administration is fascist. And ABC cynically caved and abandoned American values for money. Both are worthy of your contempt.

What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history? sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

Level99 raises $50 million for real-world gaming venues www.axios.com/2025/09/09/leve... Matt DuPlessie, founder and CEO, says "I started to see patterns of what was working in location-based entertainment and what would go stale."

"The use of seat belts during car accidents has been linked to countless debilitating conditions in children, such as friction burns and mild bruising around the neck and shoulders."

Finally, the response I was looking for!

📢 An Invitation: Black History at the Vassall Estate Virtual Presentation Thurs, Sept 25, 6–7pm ET. Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi... ft @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social, me, and a village of researchers & descendant community members who contributed to our forthcoming 200+ page report!

Possibly my favourite experience at Venice Immersive, The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up feels like walking directly into a movie. Enjoyed this roomscale narrative experience www.uploadvr.com/the-clouds-a...

ICE has just ramped up its presence in the BOSTON area. If you see something -- a raid, cars with masked agents, etc. -- call LUCE right away and record everything you can. Support your neighbors!

Such a responsible + humble critique: @hawthorne.bsky.social engages with the V&A Storehouse, which has won nearly universally glowing reviews from architecture critics, by engaging with *curators'* reservations — a great example of the value of *rdg outside your immediate field*! :)

Now this sounds like the kind of immersive show I want to see more of in the world. Chicago friends, go see this and tell me how you liked it!

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

In the dog world, humans are elves that routinely live to be 500+ years old... BRB CRYING

All right, putting it out into the world… if anyone back in Australia has hot tips on a job for a museum studies professor who loves teaching and public programs and has leadership and strategic thinking skills, I’d love to hear them. Holding on here, but longing to be back in Oz.

Great read on Wikipedia's survival in an era of AI slop.

YOU GUYS. DAVID BOWIE WAS WRITING AN 18thc MUSICAL CALLED THE SPECTATOR WHEN HE DIED. Between this and Hilary Mantel’s unfinished rewriting of Pride & Prejudice… I cannot. David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study www.bbc.com/news/article...

Okay the Earl of Grantham I wasn’t familiar with your game

An absolute masterclass from UK Quakers on how organisations of all kinds can stand up for the rights and safety of trans people, even post Supreme Court ruling and with all of the EHRC's cruelties: www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

Just got home from the Eric Adams scavenger hunt. We had to find 300 children’s teeth hidden in the alley behind Zero Bond, and use them to build “an electric chair for rats.” The winners got to keep the teeth. I hate this city.

Utterly delightful essay.

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

As a convicted felon, the President can't legally possess a firearm under federal law.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

Look at that solidarity gets the goods

"But nearly three years later, it’s becoming clearer and clearer — the Massachusetts millionaires tax has been a total success, and an incredible benefit for our state’s businesses. " #mapoli commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/the-...

You're in luck, there's an official PDF online 🙏 assets.debut.disney.com/documents/An...

funny story, I signed up for personal training at a local gym and was assigned a former NFL linebacker as a trainer giant man, covered in tattoos, big muscles, loud voice I am someone who just… doesn’t have a particularly well-assembled body

Asbestos as a metaphor for where I suspect we might be going with LLM tools: rapid push to shove it into everything as a "modern solution," then an eventual "oh shit" walkback.

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...

Join us to learn everything you always wanted to know about the #Voynich Manuscript but were afraid to ask!

A tipping point is happening. From the Chair of Israel Studies at UCLA:

Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.