I went on Millennial Excellence and I had a whale of a time discussing America's most culturally enduring representation of a Trans Woman, Bugs Bunny. Listen to hear my eerily good Will Forte impression.

Today is the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Do you or someone you know need a giant box of N95 masks? 440 pack of 3M 9205+ for $30 www.amazon.com/Aura-Particu... Shipping was slow, but from Woot.com, which means they came through the direct supply chain 3M established with Amazon after Amazon had some "selling counterfeits" issues.

Absolutely sending me how I look like an innocent baby and Kat looks like an evil mastermind

We'll be hosting a lawn sign drop off event tomorrow Monday, November 10th, from 4-6pm at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center (3400 15th Ave S) if you'd like to return your sign! 1/

also, there are plenty of text to speech tools that just record and don't analyze and they've existed for nearly my entire life. we've got to stop allowing people to conflate direct, non-generative tools with genAI when they have a financial incentive to do so

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Let your kid study liberal arts, it'll be fine, what's the worst that can happen? He has a sick day and then comes to lounge all pale and wan on the sofa because his bed "is developing cathexis".

This is the best explainer on what Lovecraft’s elder gods actually do to your mind—they don’t instantly drive you insane, they force you to comprehend the futility of human society. He uses covid lockdown as an example. It’s brilliant.

The cinematography on the Dark Winds series is remarkably good.

Yessss! Also: if caucusing sounds scary, don't worry! I am going to hold trainings in January for people attending precinct caucuses. They're going to be very 101, accessible training, explaining the whole thing from start to finish so you can attend your precinct caucus on February 3rd confident!

In operations management, everyone is taught the beer game to demonstrate how bottlenecks occur and how easy it is to underestimate capacity, problems with demand forecasting, and the impact of a lack of trust between parties, leading to a bullwhip effect. mitsloan.mit.edu/teaching-res...

90 minutes later and we have people signed up from 7 of our 8 congressional districts!

To which I add this wonderful Bruce Sterling passage, which for many years I kept beside my keyboard.

ICE is retaliating against Oak Park right now, where most of the moms who were arrested for protesting at Broadview yesterday are from. This is my sister, who's on the ground. ABOLISH ICE. www.instagram.com/reel/DQzuhMO...

Just woke up from a dream that combined a former teacher telling me I suck as a writer and an adult AND the airport security of JFK.

TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED!! when we fight, students win!! ✊💙

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Yeah :D

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

Strictly speaking, neither Pope Francis nor Pope Leo were/are liberation theologians. The option for the poor is a tenet of Catholic Social Teaching that both popes emphasize.

We’re on Liberation Theology Pope 2 and the mainstream media can’t even frame that right

Molly White has a new sticker and I need it. store.mollywhite.net/products/im-...

I know it's in bad taste to speculate on this, but when two women are the best of friends for decades, never marry again (divorced from brief marriages that led to children), and then build a shared lavish mausoleum to be buried in together with their families, one can't help but wonder

Arguing against extending ACA funds, GOP senators are circulating charts showing insurer profits rising since the enhanced subsidy began. Bernie @sanders.senate.gov appears fascinated to learn that they consider this a problem, saying they should then cosponsor his Medicare For All bill.

BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Found it. The non-disparagement clause in 2K's employment contract from 2020. The whole thing was the most draconian read and the reason I pulled out of an interview (this was sent prior to a Zoom meet).

BREAKING: Minnesota SNAP recipients should get their November benefits as soon as this weekend, state officials say. The Trump administration has complied with a court order requiring the U.S. Department of Agriculture to use contingency funds to cover SNAP this month.

This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area. “We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”

Baz and I went to see the new Frankenstein. Baz: It's so alchemy-pilled! Me: GDT not beating the monsterfucker rap. We got your duality of human nature right here, folks.

"Strikingly, more than 24% of the 45 officers have killed community members while on duty."

state legislators should be paid more. otherwise the legislatures are full of dilettantes, cranks, and nepobabies. this is why you keep hearing about the craziest fucking state laws

this op-ed from Brad Lander is fire but also I laughed out loud at the "I have friends everywhere" reference. what a nerd. I hope Tony Gilroy is proud that his art has become part of a national lexicon of resistance and community

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

100%. The entire system around politician compensation needs reform, which is not going to happen with the current politicians support by that system.

If you haven’t, read this post too, and Charity’s. If you squint hard enough you’ll realize I’m actually secretly agreeing with both of them 😇

Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder. Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined

this is my philosophy too! make life better with software. it’s not hard, actually! software is a unique point of leverage and most of it is SO bad i gave a talk on this subject years ago at a conf in pisa, of all places but it wasn’t as succinct and pure as hazel here BANGER

HELP. Baz is trash-talking Newton’s Christianity, and then he referred to Faraday as a fucking nutter. I’m dying. He says that Faraday built “a giant-fuck-off death machine in the lecture hall and grounded it on the sewers of London”.

The unhelpful urge to write back to automated job rejections with my own automated response about how their website is breaking accessibility rules with their infernal jiggly chatbot popup.

got to post-Zohran blog @thecut.com — multiple election outcomes on Tuesday showed that refusing to fold on trans people, migrants, Muslims, and marginalized communities while pushing kitchen table issues is a winning strategy. the pundit class’s “Decision to Win”-style arguments can be put to bed

I love it. They agreed to take an excavator to the fkn White House, I don't have any sympathy.

My favorite comment on the FT story

The upcoming AI revolution will separate winners from losers based on who can experiment with multiple models and iterate rapidly on feedback. You can't do that with scarcity thinking. itrev.io/4ngWheX

That the NYT printed that latest Douthat sewage the day after Mamdani announced his transition team doesn’t feel coincidental.

My ask: if you are feeling generous and have the ability to, you could send me a wedding present (contribute towards this large surprise vet.) my venmo is @dandeliondaddy. If you can’t easily PLEASE don’t, we’ll be okay and I’m going to spend my weekends doing DoorDash. I am also…mildly panicking.

stop doing phrenology with the computer!!

Applying for jobs, and can I just mention that salary bands by state are ridiculous? You think my housing costs less than Walla Walla? Than the vast majority of very vast Texas? please.