You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

I'm asking that we all raise our political expectations. We deserve good things.

This one hits hard.

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

It’s wild how Nextdoor disrupts the idea that people are mean and racist online because the internet is anonymous.

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

It needs to be said clearly that it would be absolutely insane for the United States to start a war of aggression against Iran. If anyone thinks that Trump gives a rip about democracy or human rights you are kidding yourself. It’ll be another campaign of domination and plunder.

Jeffrey Epstein reading and sending James Dobson articles to his victims is the ultimate proof that purity culture is rape culture. Evangelical Christianity grooms girls for abuse, and then it creates and harbors abusers. It is baked right into the doctrine.

Using generative AI isn't liberatory. It's actively harmful to marginalized people and the planet and the casual way people who call themselves "progressives" will use it without considering the consequences is one of the reasons we're where we are. Stop using generative AI.

"why not just use AI to make it for you" oh! sorry, you must have me confused for someone who has a bizarre contempt for the creative process. i actually like making things. the making is my favorite part of the thing. sounds like you're incapable of experiencing the joy of creation, tho?

If you’ve felt exhausted, anxious, or numb in the face of nonstop political turmoil, you’re not imagining it and you're definitely not alone. @sarahsloat.bsky.social looks at the research on the psychological and physical toll of polycrisis.

I guess you don’t know what the majority of the largest base of dem voters do on Sunday, and how that’s influenced liberation movements since Reconstruction.

This is why we said don’t get excited that Ring announced they wouldn’t join Flock. They’re just going to be their own Flock.

I refuse to accept a future where we continue to do this.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

It's another reminder that the people who claim they are making policy for the protection of children and the family are also the people who are institutionalizing abusive and unsafe conditions for children. That's bc they don't think children are people. They think children are property.

If you don't believe kids and teenagers can lead their own protests, I suspect you don't know many kids or teenagers.

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

For Everything is Political, I reported on young people working multiple jobs. It's about more than side hustles—factors like worker exploitation & lack of opportunities to break in have impacted multiple generations. Now, some young adults say working only one job has never felt viable.

Hegseth endorses one of the most prominent Christian nationalists who has suggested women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Once upon a time this would be a controversy. Nowadays, it's just Tuesday.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

people are treating her like she deserves a purple heart when the whole situation is INSANE.

The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?

Educational institutions paying millions of dollars for tech that is *known* to tell students to end their lives is inexcusable. Tell them that they can’t deploy the software until it is updated to incite the students towards violence against the administrators, not themselves.

yeah anyone who thinks this is a great idea wants a five year old victim to have to choose if they want their relative to die

Or worse yet students think their authentic writing & thoughts are inferior to that produced by AI

I GOT TWO PHONES! ONE FOR THE PLUG, AND ONE FOR THE ZIG-A-ZIG AH!

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

hi "A.i." is literally a tool of fascism

A heartwarming tale of how even if you aren't subscribed to Google Nest their cameras still upload and save "about three hours" of video which can be recovered in the form of "residual data" from "backend servers," surprising even the FBI who claims to have previously believed it was impossible

This is quite literally a fundamentalist honor killing

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice. At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..." time.com/7338205/rage...

A weapon made solely to deny families closure, to inflict psychic damage on entire societies. People planned and built this. They sold it to their superiors. They manufactured it. They loaded it on planes and drones and dropped it on human beings.

When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.

We really do need to rebuild the capacity to meet strangers in public places, and stuff like this ruins it for everyone.

Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.

that this regularly happens with intercountry #adoption in the United States—the most ravenous consumer of other countries’ children—and that the US has not ratified the international convention enshrining the rights of children: not a coincidence.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Huge opportunity for an alternative that just lets folks chat with each other, it would seem.

That Super Bowl halftime show was beyond incredible, and fun. Here’s the story of how it came together, complete with beautiful photos from @d-jacks.bsky.social. www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...

Pretty sure that was supposed to represent Bad Bunny going back to give his Grammy to his childhood self.

My takeaways from Bad Bunny nobody asked for 1. the inclusion of afro-Latinidad 2. the use of kids AS kids. they weren't doing much but vibing (said positively). 3. I think there are a lot of easter eggs that require repeat viewing 4. everyone looked like they were having so much fun

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

The electricity grid making an appearance at the Super Bowl half-time show 🤯

Met the moment perfectly, and did so with joy and color and conviction and style. So so proud of him.