TIL what the Clever Hans effect is and goddamn if that doesn't just perfectly describe the AI hype. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_...

The news is out in @publisherswkly.bsky.social! I am VERY excited to announce a new print comics publication - The Comics Staple, a monthly comics zine filled with reviews, recommendations, interviews and more. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief...

#Libraries, vital community resources, are only as strong as we make them! @librariesftp.bsky.social helps library lovers exercise power & become #LibraryDefenders. Come to our Feb 19 open house to learn how Friends & Foundation groups are part of this: www.librariesforthepeople.org/events/ftp-f...

An average-sized stadium goes through *5.4 million* disposable, single-use cups every year. Some organizations are helping them break the addiction to plastic with reusable alternatives: https://therevelator.org/replace-disposable/

What will those feisty Gen-Zers purchase next? Recklessly splurging on the $1.50 hot dog at Costco? An actual vegetable every other day? Perhaps even a second serving of gruel?

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.

Simple, really. To create good art you need to have empathy for other people.

While cancelling Nitro is all well and good, just a reminder that age verification itself won't go away as a whole unless KOSA, the SCREEN Act, and tons more are buried and done with. Please contact your reps if you don't want this to spread to other platforms.

I've never wanted something to flop harder than this fucking misbegotten television show for transphobic 42-year-olds

I'm not saying that Canada is perfect, I'm saying that the bar is pretty low right now.

So close to 50 followers on SCATTERED FUTURES! You won't want to miss this #kickstarter #comic of hope and human connection in a harsh and uncaring galaxy. Written by me. Art by @sierrabravoart.bsky.social @m3rtyn.bsky.social and @jnyfmg.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/ben...

We are often given a false dilemma: Western lands must either become ranches or suburban sprawl. Ranchers benefit from this myth. But there is a 3rd way: conservation. Protecting nature for everyone. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a... from @kurtisalexander.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com

Reality: Mars sucks. No one can live there. Also reality: the Moon sucks. We can’t live there either. More reality: Earth is the only place we can thrive.

tl;dr - it's the nutrient content, not the processing For a healthier diet: - less meat, less sugar, less salt - more veggies, more legumes Also makes the under-appreciated point that cooking from scratch requires more labour (typically female & unpaid) that isn't an option for many households.

Cows are an invasive species that damage nature. Tribes are showing that less grazing benefits native wildlife like sage grouse. Yet ranchers dominate public land policy. In the American West, less grazing would mean undoing deeply ingrained “settler-colonial” beliefs www.hcn.org/issues/58-2/...

Considering the challenge in suggesting we eat more plants, proposing insect products seems ridiculous. But it's received $1B to try to scale & now ~80B insects are farmed. It can actually emit as much as some beef & has major risks. My first in the Drawdown Explorer: drawdown.org/explorer/dep...

“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Here's Suda talking about using Tezuka's star system. A bunch of other good nuggets in this interview, too! www.inverse.com/article/2232...

This book has the most scathing dedication by an illustrator I have ever seen (and he is completely right) #kidlit

I have two primary vehicles. One is an automobile, the other an e-bike. Automobiles kill approximately 100 people a day in the US. E-bikes, fewer than 10 a year. Guess which one has a speed limiter on it?

literally billions of people spent their lifetimes improving human technologies and knowledge, working in all the humanities over thousands of years in thousands of societies NOT so that a dozen of the worst men on earth could own it all, poison the planet & use it to imprison the rest of us today

I don't see how self-publishing world survives GenAI. It's going to be an absurd increase in slop books with no reason to expect any increase in paying readers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

I'm going to win.

Today is what we trained for. Clear Ears Full Hearts Can’t Lose

Taxing billionaires out of existence may be the most critical domestic policy fight of our lifetimes.

Memorial (1/3)

It's not just the WaPost, @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social writes: "It reflects a wider weakening of the institutions responsible for producing and maintaining a shared factual record, particularly on subjects that are politically contested and structurally complex." news.mongabay.com/2026/02/what...

To add to this, I don't know why people don't understand that genAI is following the same playbook as tech in the 2010s - disrupt the market and labor with low costs, then when you have market share, charge more. It will never be cheaper than even an iPad. You are renting a service you can't keep.

It feels insane that stuff like webcomics and podcasts are things people now have to "break into" when they were created as a way to make stuff ourselves, without big corporate hurdles.

AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

"DOGE’s objective was never to save taxpayer dollars. Musk did not 'fail'...DOGE was—and remains, through Vought’s OMB—an effort to extinguish the existing government and create a new one in the image of oligarchs and far-right ideologues."

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

The decisions that the rich and powerful are making by prioritizing profit through the extraction and exploitation of natural resources to fuel militarism, war, and genocide are creating the conditions for a world unliveable for everyone because of climate catastrophe and collapse.

Everybody has it backwards. Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies. They’re creating a world they control completely

We have enough evidence for UBI in general that this policy should be a given. But the difference is, to understand UBI works is to believe that people are fundamentally good. And a big chunk of society is built around the belief, *must maintain the belief* that people are fundamentally bad.

killing off a major source of books coverage goes really well next to Amazon/Goodreads on Bezos' resume for being the single most destructive individual for American literary culture in our history

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

wizard interview

The Department of Homeland Security thinks this 29-year-old named Chandler is "the leader of Antifa" (seriously) www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...

I dunno how you look at this as anything other than Musk hiding debt inside SpaceX and making the government pay to prop up xAI and Twitter with government space contracts.

Hi, I'm Jasmine Walls, an award-winning writer, editor, hot chocolate connoisseur, and founder of @bonedustpress.bsky.social My work is unapologetically queer, inclusive, and heartfelt. Portfolio: www.jasminewalls.com I'm open for writing work, ready with original pitches, and viciously anti-AI.

Back when millennials and Gen z were considered the same thing lol. I hate how perfectly right he wound up being, but he was always right

every damn day I’m reminded

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30. 📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad