Fitting that this came up in my feed as soon as I posted that prior about how generative AI is hollowing out the way we learn, interact with each other, and live. The mechanical turk of it all is deeply sinister.

Here we are again. In 2022–23 Europe spent €800bn subsidising fossil fuels to keep energy bills down. Imported fossil fuels mean volatile prices. The real solution is not new suppliers but a shift to clean energy.

Aside from how wrong and racist this article is, O’Neill can’t even bring himself to have a position on the war itself. He just reflexively attacks people opposed to it, however powerless they are

Just follow the money, or follow the pedophile behavior, or both😡 They're all connected to it somehow🤬

'The only thing prohibiting shipping is Iran shooting at the ships' is an all-timer

Fragile Snowflake Hegseth.

sorry i know it sucks but if you work for an ellison controlled property you can either quit or go gown in history as a fascist enabler, those are your only two choices now

They are being explicit about turning corporate media into state propaganda.

In the last two days, Iran struck: - Oil tankers in Iraq, killing an Indian crew member - A French base in Iraq, killing French soldiers - An oil depot in Oman - Fuel tanks in Bahrain - Buildings in Dubai hit by missile debris - A Thai cargo ship - Various Israeli targets

It's only 8:30 am and we already have today's Quiet Part Outloud winner

An effective long term strategy for those who care about independent and credible news would be to fund nonprofits to enable nonpartisan journalism. We can see where CNN is going, we need more ProPublicias.

Such a tough guy that when someone criticizes him he asks his friend to make them stop talking

Q: You have said US military has aerial and naval superiority over Iran, yet we're not escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz. How did you not plan for this? HEGSETH: We planned for it. We recognize it. Um, because ultimately, we want to do it sequentially in a way that makes the most sense

Defense Secretary Hegseth used his press conference on Trump's war on Iran to browbeat the press & weigh in on CNN's ownership: "More fake news from CNN ... the sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better" (Hegseth spent more time attacking media than he did on US casualties)

This is video of the Iranian foreign minister at a march in Tehran today. youtube.com/shorts/jmVen...

"War is peace"

Defense secretary openly states that a pro-Trump billionaire taking over a news network (following regulatory help from the administration) will result in coverage more favorable for the administration.

Cool for him to admit on the record they are officially making CNN state TV.

Super pathetic if this were off the cuff but it enters stratospheric levels of ultra sad beta manbaby when you realize he actually wrote this out first

The “eat more protein!!!” message is popping up all over, usually in the context of encouraging more meat. This could have huge impacts on land use requirements, water use & pollution, emissions etc. Americans consume >200 pounds of meat/person/year. We should eat more plants/less meat instead.

whoa whoa WHOA THEY ACTUALLY NAMED THIS EVIL INTERACTIVE DOLL "GABBO"?!?!?!?

dinner at the brontë house

Suddenly, MAGA voices are talking up solar power--including Katie Miller, podcaster wife of Stephen Miller. "Over the past month, ... Miller has published nearly a dozen posts promoting solar—often highlighting China’s build-out while arguing that US solar investment is a nat'l security issue."

I meant 'insurance OR navigation', but the sentence works, just about, either way.

I'm not sure that Lloyds of London (or any mariner in a ship anywhere close to the Strait), will wear that for insurance of navigation purposes, Mr Hegseth.

"The feature will be deactivated starting March 12, 2026. We're sorry, and we appreciate you holding us to a higher standard." Of course it doesn't "surface" the work of experts. It SLOPIFIES their voice and VOMITS things it's fished out of the barrel. 2/

Result! Just received from Grammarly: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces." 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

I just heard about it recently, and absolutely lost my temper hugely when I found out they'd stolen my rep/identity! If there is a class action lawsuit -- I hope -- I will post about it and I hope many of us leave a smoking crater where these smug thieves used to be www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Astute nymag.com/intelligence...

looks like we traded generations of healthcare for 4 days worth of missiles

The U.S. *government* spends more per capita on healthcare than most countries with universal healthcare.

relatedly, older folks in the us love to pull out the "i paid into medicare/social security my entire life, you can't cut it" - like, if you just want what you paid in, it would cut your benefits by 50-65%

The Trump administration's war memes are not merely grotesque — they are symptomatic of an administration that experiences the online-media world as more real than reality www.vox.com/politics/482...

"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better." - Hegseth on CNN. There are no more quiet parts. It's all said aloud. (And I'll bet he wouldn't like this shot.)

go look at mlk warning about goldwater, nixon yakking about "the jews," reagan laughing at aids patients and calling africans monkeys, bush presiding over katrina or romney pushing for an endorsement from birther trump. theyre all connected.

democrats keep pushing a narrative that before trump the republicans were just the guys who wanted to cut taxes but bush literally wanted a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. come on.

we keep operating like trump flipped some kind of switch to make the gop more misogynistic and racist but this path has been clear since the 50s. you dont get here without goldwater, reagan, nixon, the bushes and mccain/romney. trump didnt come out of nowhere. the monster was always there.

The health impact of this will play out over years, not days.

GA 14th Dist. Special Election is tomorrow. Brigadier General Shawn Harris is the top Dem candidate, and I am again FURIOUS that the DCCC and DNC haven’t done a DAMNED THING to get Dems across the country to help with GOTV. If you live in GA 14, PLEASE PLEASE vote tomorrow! There are like 8

New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online

If you took your kid to the doctor recently for any reason, there's a one in five chance you walked away with an off-label prescription. Nearly half of all pediatric prescriptions are off-label.

Get your shiny things here! The clock is ticking and I'm up to my elbows in medical nonsense, but there's plenty of pendants ready to ship.

"It's not just the usual, you know, ‘radical Antifa cells,’” Reilly, a 42-year-old trans Texan told @kitoconnell.com, “it's crossed over into the minds of your SUV driving soccer moms.” thebarbedwire.com/2026/03/02/l...

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

The New York City Council is considering a bill to allow the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development to seize buildings from landlords who have racked up housing code violations and debt from unpaid taxes and fines and turn them over to better owners. gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

This technology doesn't spring out of a hole in the ground. It's built on unsustainable resource extraction and the burning of fossil fuels, and used for monocropping. Farmland needs to be protected, and farm workers need dignity and collective ownership. Corporate tech is not going to get us that

It's bizarre to me how many people in the comments here seem to think that automation is going to translate into more freedom for the working class. When has that ever panned out? How much leisure time do you have, after years of these "innovations"? We are Charlie Brown trying to kick the football

how does no one know what happened to agricultural employment over the past 150 years

This is amazing. When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels. That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.

Excellent piece in @theguardian.com featuring @mattseybold.bsky.social, @dorazhang.bsky.social and others (including a shoutout to against-a-i.com) on AI in the humanities classroom.