from the Tylenol social media account in 2017: "We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today."

thinking of Tylenol's PR firm rn

will be an educational presidential announcement - we'll find out who gets sued in this scenario

‘I think Stein was right. All art emerges from conditions of intimacy and privacy and private jokes.’ Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"..and the bacon every morning"

I wrote something up about how the H-1B fee could harm US higher education and the communities that rely on it. open.substack.com/pub/brendanc...

Important to remember that H1B visa holders have their whole life in the US. The home they rent or own is here. Their family. Their kids go to school here. Being locked out of the US is also in many cases rendering them homeless and away from their family, with no obvious path to return

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"To construct a model of political strategy based primarily on existing empirical patterns of belief and action is to express a fundamental skepticism toward the possibility that these might be changed."

you guys are in groupchats?

afaict, people concerned about the changing public health guidance haven't been updating their knowledge about why ppl are ignoring them nor about which arguments and perspectives from MAHA are gaining ground

‘People from the Make America Great Again movement aren’t going to call reporting via the new tip lines “snitching”, or even “whistleblowing”, because these are liberals’ words.’ Sheila Fitzpatrick on the politics of denunciation: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

what's a polite way of dealing with ppl wearing these, like personal blocking spaces, ew but make it civilian www.theverge.com/tech/779566/...

"my efforts now are a placeholder for when we have autonomy. There are hundreds of applications of polycropping | stacking enterprises and it’s about the only way to not be a bitch of the machine… which is the next thing coming to grain production. Contract growers just like pork" - @ jasonmauck1

democrats trying to get power back by persistent verbal sniping try instead the basics: food, energy, shelter, protection credible plans for dealing with them they're all a mess right now eg what are dems going to do to rebuild shipbuilding capacity? to rapidly develop drone capability?

Art Berman: "Blind spots from Chinese stockpiling & Russianflows leave traders flying blind, writes @ronbousso1 "I say the “oil glut” meme looks shaky when no one can even measure supply & demand with confidence" www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

"The Milk To @GuinnessIreland Ratio 1980: A farmer would need to produce 2 litres of milk to buy 1 pint of #Guinness 2025: A farmer needs to produce 15 litres of milk to buy 1 pint of Guinness at @NPAIE A farmer today has to work 7.5 TIMES HARDER just to afford the same pint" - @ ConceptDairy

frailty and undermuscling is the core problem in the US due to misnourishment lots of food but it doesn't build muscle since everyone is focused only on the overfattening part their "solution" - undereating the wrong type of diet - is worsening the problem bc it also leads to muscle loss

The Economist, on where they are putting their audio marketing dollars: ‘So we piled into podcasts last year, but actually when we look at the econometrics on our podcast marketing vs our linear radio marketing, linear radio is much more effective for us’ shows.acast.com/623317507e51...?

"It would be interesting to see whether India reconsiders its oil relationship with Saudi Arabia on the back of the Riyadh-Islamabad deal | #OOTT" - @javierblas.bsky.social

how do i get to int'l news bluesky

META's AI demo stepped in to fill the comedy void

Oligarchs are working overtime: To destabilize any ability you and I have to govern ourselves. To foster unrest. To attack democracy. To destroy checks and balances. To remove privacy and private communications. To poison the information ecosystem. Nothing to do with "right" vs "left".

it's not in European standard recos either why are you wasting so much dry powder on this instead of doing some googling first

the pace is a bit faster than I expected, 3-6 months earlier, but the direction is not a surprise

The amount of money now being spent on US datacenter construction (excluding compute) is now twice as large as retail and about to overtake office space

I Badly Want a Map to the Likely Consequences of the AI-Infrastructure Construction Boom & I do not have one. I do have scattered observations on how it might work out for the tech industry. How it is affecting the overall business cycle—that is another… braddelong.substack.com/p/i-badly-wa...

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collective noun: an intimidation of notifications

slompting (slop prompting) h/t @ Sauers_

"frontally collides precisely with the spirit of the times" - from a google translation

Ukraine's drone command, dashboard "You'll find there: • Today’s results (Renews 18:00 Kyiv time) • This month’s tally • The entire Rotation #7 strike stats (1 yr on Donbas) "The dashboard renews every 2 minutes and also includes a full "Rozblyadovochka" – target breakdown." x.com/414magyarbir...

1/2 From the good trouble portion of today’s @dailybeanspod.com: How to file with ICC about the human rights abuses at the FL concentration camp. Use the link below to file your complaint. 🙏 otplink.icc-cpi.int coalitionfortheicc.org/how-file-com...

Ventura County, CA— Wed 7/16 at 3 pm PT, George Retes, U.S. citizen and Army veteran unjustly detained by federal agents during last week’s raid will hold a virtual press availability. - United Farm Workers

space ket

TIL Kurt Godel died of starvation. He was paranoid, would only eat his wife's cooking, and thus died when she was hospitalized for six months.

"We don’t make enough money to put up with this." Last year, US K-12 schools opened short 55,000 teachers. Between book bans and political attacks on schools and educators, it's looking like this year's shortages will be even more dire, especially in red states. newrepublic.com/article/1967...

the new companion model "Miss Alignment" - @ deepfates

Dems: how do I correct all misinformation so that everyone knows the One Real Truth and recants previous beliefs? MAGA: how do I get the chemtrail believers' votes?

Poland: Approximately 235,000 Poles will receive summonses to appear before a military commission. Women and individuals over 50 will also be eligible for the qualification process. goal is determine fitness for military service -- from Gazeta Wyborcza

🇸🇪 Sweden plans to raise the conscription age for former officers from 47 to 70, - Sveriges Television Ukraine and Finland are raising theirs from 60 to 65

Lithuania and Finland pulled out of the Ottawa treaty (anti-landmine treaty) so they could fortify their border and are manufacturing landmines with Finland www.reuters.com/business/aer...

so this

excerpts from the Sydney Morning Herald interview with Alexander Stubb “What is my secret? My secret is I played college golf. I was in the Finnish national team in golf.” /...

"Train is the new private jet." Dua Lipa continues to promote taking the train over flying, boarding a Eurostar to London at Gare du Nord. This is climate-conscious messaging done right. Posted by lejeuneengage on IG.

what's going on from 414 Birds of Magyar, ukrainian drone unit "02 On June 3rd, Major Robert “Magyar” Brovdi was appointed Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces (USF), Armed Forces of Ukraine. "He defined the primary goals upon taking the role as: rest at x.com/414magyarbir...