“When are we gonna stop indulging this? Without undue sanctimony, I think one can say it’s wrecking the country. It’s a goddamn disgrace. Especially when so many worthy journalists, who dedicated their lives to their profession with ethics and seriousness, are being cast onto the ash heap.”

I was at an AI conference recently and it was ~fascinating~ how every panel I saw over multiple days involved someone processing this study out loud

Asking all the kids who come to our door follow-up questions because I am the scariest of characters for Halloween: Isaac Chotiner

Would you believe me if I told you that this lengthy Athletic interview with Mikel Arteta, held under the auspices of becoming a global ambassador for Under Armour, contains not a single question and answer on Thomas Partey? bsky.app/profile/thea...

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

This is not an acceptable re-casting of Tevye!

if we have a butlerian jihad against chatGPT can we call it Em-Daesh

Not the main issue here but why does the Ozzy in the lead pic look like Bono??

"I think I could get away with that stuff because I was this clean cut college kid in a bow-tie and horn-rimmed glasses, being kind of innocent and smart." -- Tom Lehrer on his career as a musical satirist.

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

Carving out Jews as the special exception to the general anti-DEI rules of the federal government makes Jews into a specially protected buffer class, which both engenders resentment from others and enables the government to make us scapegoats if things go bad. It’s Court Jews all over again.

Le Monde, top website story right now: "Ahmed Rashad, father of 5, must walk 5 km in suffocating heat to reach a water tap." … "10 ppl including 8 children waiting to fill their bottles by a tanker died from Israeli shooting." "Like the famine, the water crisis is entirely manufactured" by Israel.

> The project is a community of real human people. I'm interested in what they have to say. I'm much less interested in what a machine has to say. I don't think it's unreasonable for a swimming club to reject members who show up in motorised watercraft, regardless of how well watercraft can "swim".

This isn’t even an AI post as much as it is another anecdote in how social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.

How a new deal was ever in consideration under these circumstances is a mark on Arsenal, and that’s even before the public backing from his manager (“after everything he’s been through”) and decisions to make him the cover star of programmes and hero content on social channels while this was known.

Remember public editors?

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

I will just add that every Jewish hyperinsular diaspora politics grievance becoming national news and the subject of major political battles is not actually good for the Jewish community.

Paging State Island campaign delegate Nandor the Relentless

the promotional materials for F1 (the movie) even have the registered trademark symbol in the title, something I don't remember happening with Barbie

"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included

One striking thing from this (excellent) report on a DOGE employee's use of AI is that everything about it is antithetical to sound software engineering practices—an engineer hurriedly deploying an unfamiliar tool to meet an impossible deadline for a problem domain in which he has no expertise.

For long periods of time, the existence of a cover-up (or failing that, some sense of secrecy) was a pretty good indicator that you had a political scandal on your hands. The problem here is that heuristic is less effective in the current moment

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need!, is taping another live show — this one will be at #NASSH2025 on Monday night in Gatineau, Canada!!

We at the Tow Center have a major report out on AI in the newsroom - (absent any funding influence from the providers or users of the technology). ‘Journalism Zero’ is not too much of a stretch from the abstraction created by LLMs summary from @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/were...

“One day, you might ask why people are punished for standing up for Palestine, why truth and compassion feel dangerous to power. … I hope our story shows you this: the world needs more courage, not less. It needs people who choose justice over convenience.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

[Dick Wolf firing up another entry in the Chicago franchise]

someone needs to remind the other caridnals that one direction didn't win x-factor but still had the better career

Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari: “Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”

"admits" is underrated as a terrible headline verb, but this use is honestly delightful in its absurdity

My heart is still beating so fast. Thank you @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social Thank you @bloomberg.com and especially the CityLab team @kristoncapps.bsky.social @nicflatow.bsky.social and David Dudley Stories here! www.bloomberg.com/features/des...

People have internalized the climate disaster enough to deform their morals and laws against other people desperately wanting to get in, but not yet enough to imagine that they themselves might someday desperately want to get out

If you are pissed about the complete gutting of Polygon like I am, please consider donating to our fundraiser for all the great people who lost their jobs. www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...

surely all "three friends" references are to these three

By now you've probably heard the news: Polygon has been sold to Valnet and I, along with most of my wonderful colleagues, have been laid off. That said, I'm now open to new opportunities! If you've enjoyed my work and would like to work together in any capacity, please feel to hit me up via my DMs!

I'll say more later, but I no longer have a job. I'm looking for work, as are *so* many of my amazing colleagues. I have lots of ideas and things I'd like to write. I'm really in shock.

Je suis dans « Ville-Marie–Le Sud-Ouest–Île-des-Sœurs » 39 caractères avec les, espaces, tirets et traits d'union 🫣

as we settle in for a long night of Canadian-ridings-with-multiple-types-of-hyphens-in-their-names, shout out to Wayne and Shuster for "The honourable member from Peel-Potato." A perfect line in a great sketch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMOH...

I've read the Sun, this isn't possible

"What we are witnessing is not only a political crisis or a humanitarian catastrophe, but a collapse in moral and intellectual infrastructure. The tradition that once claimed to guide our judgments ... can no longer bear the weight of the present."

We're approaching the end of all of this nonsense. Pieces like these are the kind of bullshit you saw at the end of the metaverse and crypto bubbles - Roose wrote them then, too. Humouring the most empty, cynical, nihilistic people in tech and pretending it means you're curious is ugly stuff.

interesting to revisit this part of The Waffle Manifesto (1969) in the current Canadian political moment...

Hello, flamethrowers! Jessica here. BURN IT ALL DOWN HAS A NEW EPISODE! Check your feeds. We did a live show at Bowling Green State U last month and it's up! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

This is a very good point that I haven't seen made yet. It's not just Trump that is undermining trust in the US. It is also the inability of US institutions to stop him. And even if you make that "inability to stop him so far," it's already too far to maintain trust.

a four-headline homepage unit ... with not a single one suggesting that enforcing laws might be a good idea?

been thinking a lot about this passage from Shaul Magid’s book on Meir Kahane lately…

“While the US prefers dictators to democrats, punishes its friends, and lies, bullies and plots to steal allies’ sovereign territory, there is no going back. Many, perhaps most, Americans abhor this vile behaviour – yet unaccountably fail to stop it,” Simon Tisdall says what many of us are thinking.