Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically & Knowing Pseudoscience When You See It www.openculture.com?p=1124852

Am I the only person that gets a single red in a roll of SweeTARTS? Two times, now - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

The way that the press has turned from mildly disapproving of fascism to actively working for it is so deeply disturbing

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

I wrote a book called "Stories Are Weapons" which is a history of psychological war in the United States. In it, I describe how the US military came to a simple definition of rhetoric used for destructive purposes in war (so-called psyops) vs. for democratic debate. Want to know what it is? (1/3)

I learned all of those things in my 30s, as well.

Reporting is now confirming the Denver area Evergreen school shooter, who shot two students who remain in critical condition, was a far right antisemitic white supremacist. Previous reporting described him as having been "radicalized" by an extremist network. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Please acquaint yourself with the Reichstag Fire if you do not know of it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichst...

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

report from former student yesterday that they were instantly auto-rejected from a civilian position to which they were specifically invited to apply; they were given menu in HR portal to opt-out of feeding their materials to AI, and doing so seems to have opted them out of any consideration

It's such a strange, revealing argument. Why should any of us give a shit about protecting people in Epstein's files? Why do they think we do? Since when is the most sacred tenet of society "privacy for relationships of the rich & powerful with the pedophile child trafficker"? Reveal them all.

Who needs special effects when the cosplay is this good?! 👻 Check out this incredible Ghostbusters build from the Portland Ghostbusters. Video credit: ansolo00 via Reddit.

These corporate spaces are a monkey's paw.

they’re selling dollars for 70 cents

The jobs report is only bad bc it doesn’t factor in all the openings there are about to be at the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Oh HELL yes

A while back, my old friend Brennan Lee Mulligan made a great video about this for a mental health organization my friend started. I felt a shameful sense of recognition when I watched it. youtu.be/2-iWyqhx9Xk?...

Aaaaand the main business case for consumer LLMs is revealed. It's for gathering data on users, creating profiles, and targeting us with ads and propaganda. Hooray -- it's Web 2.0 with chatbots!

C64 hand-me-down from family, at 9. I learned BASIC, was obsessed with Jump Man, Space Taxi and Ghostbusters. The latter came on ~4 double sided floppies and took ten minutes to load.

Silicon Valley doesn’t sell tech, it sells the concept of innovation

Don't give them an inch. Use an ad blocker. Find a bot blocking list on bsky. Block any rando who likes or messages you that looks like a bot or a business. You are entitled to have social spaces without commercials, enforce it vigorously. Every minute you spend on it will return to you 1000x.

When it comes to flavor shorthands used by major brands, "pumpkin spice flavor" and "chai flavor" are nearly identical. If you have a mental block on one that has more to do with our culture than our, just pretend it says the other.

I would rather die than create an account to continue

THIS IS HUGE! The FIRST 100% effective HIV PrEP drug, Lenacapavir, is APPROVED AND GOING GLOBAL. The makers are providing AFFORDABLE access to the drug in the United States AND beyond, signing ROYALTY-FREE licensing agreements with SIX generic manufacturers to produce AND supply it. 🧪🧵⬇️

They handled these red flag audience members so incredibly well.

I don’t really care what this place is or isn’t. Alls I know is it’s been great for the business of The Onion and that both Zuck and Musk have experience cooking and/or hiding the books on their own traffic. Doesn’t really matter if there are more page views if they’re not real people.

One of two enormous art walls that I've built for Lakes of Fire this year. It would be easier if it didn't have to be portable! #lakesoffire #lof2025 #doorwaysintime

Switching Bluesky accounts on my PC is a delight. Switching accounts on my phone is absolutely terrible, and I forget where it is nearly every time because I don't do it every day. It honestly makes the experience less enjoyable.

A win! A federal judge has ordered the government to restore hundreds of NIH grants slashed by the Trump administration, ruling the cuts were discriminatory against minorities and LGBTQ individuals. The judge said he’d have to be “blind” not to see the discrimination and declared the cuts illegal.

every state needs to enact a version of this, yes even red ones. People live there too

Sadly this becoming an evergreen post

@minnesotareformer.com editor J. Patrick Coolican on rightwing influencer disinformation about the Minnesota assassination wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/14/a...

it would be wild if there was a famous thought experiment about a machine that could translate Chinese into English without every understanding the language, like this is such a hyperspecific torment nexus to invent

We're phasing plastics out of our food chain here, and I'm really digging wide mouth mason jars.

Brad Lander really is a champion and in any other race I’d be ride or die to see him as mayor. And the fact that he’s doing this is a further sign of how much he’s really in this because he wants to serve his city, not climb political ladders. I’m proud to rank him #2

I told you we’d be back

Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

Avoid the violence/nonviolence debate. It’s a trap. The only thing that matters is what actions lead to more justice and less harm. Inaction and complicity in the face of brutal oppression is the worst form of violence. Never forget it.

ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is *wild*

So it begins. Discussions are underway within the administration, and Pentagon, about deploying National Guard or active-duty troops to cities beyond Los Angeles. We’ll be sending updated guidance to all coalition members. Please follow every step, even if some sections seem irrelevant right now.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

What points would you add to our Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Protest Edition from 2018?

“You’re telling me I’m going to have to think for myself??? I’m gonna have to summarize my own emails???????? How can I steal other people’s work if the chat meister is down?????”

This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.