The way we are being told it is normal for the US to bomb people while negotiating is genuinely disturbing.

the miraculous thing about jazz greats, imo, is that the magic is really inside them. it's not just being well-practiced or having a deep understanding of theory or being naturally gifted. it's the instant creative genius that imo no other genre really has sonny rollins, obviously, had that

Reform has defended Robert Kenyon and his deeply misogynistic comments saying it was just "locker room banter”. That's the "Trump defence." It's the one that says its "ok" to be a truly dreadful sexist wanker if you're with "the lads".

Just woke up from an increasingly distressing dream in which electronic medical record (EMR) software would not accept valid diagnostic codes. Sigh #medsky

Sun shrunk to moon. Cold comes soon.

More evidence that @davidebybc.bsky.social is in the wrong political party. "Education critic for the B.C. Conservatives, said she was "disappointed" to see the board being reinstated" #bcpoli #bced #yyj #NDP

This was a stupid, bullish, move by the province. They bet on cops over educators and results are embarrassing. Sd61 was trying to raise up the perspective of marginal voices and were punished for that. What a waste of taxpayers $ #yyj Fired Victoria school board to... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"With DIY venues becoming increasingly scarce & affordable spaces for emerging artists harder to come by, there’s a genuine appetite for events that feel accessible, improvised, & community-driven." Great write-up in RANGE. Photo: @seanorr.bsky.social crowdsurfing. readrange.com/wtf-is-up-de...

The most selfish and cynical people in Portland still blame racial justice protestors for every local ill rather than say, I dunno, wealth inequality, a global pandemic, or two Trump presidencies ravaging the economy.

This story is shocking. I am right now reading Han Kang's incredible novel Human Acts about the 1980 Gwangju uprising. I can't recommend it enough as a powerful account of this horrific event in recent South Korean history & its afterlives in the present.

"Would you have been against the industrial revolution?" is not the gotcha that you think it is. IR led to an era of unchecked corporate greed, robber barons, immense wealth inequality, environmental disasters, & worker deaths. It was only reined in by union power and government regulation 1/2

“One of the problems with autopsies is that voter psychology takes a lot of work to understand well, but the people who have that skillset largely aren’t the type of person the DNC is hiring to audit their choices.” Must-read from @gelliottmorris.com

Everybody be quiet and look at this baby toucan.

“as the capability is in the data…”

“How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave's government also.” —Henry David Thoreau

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “At this point, many in the world have heard of the brutality of El Salvador’s prisons. A year ago, my wife, Ruth López, vanished into one,” Louis Benavides writes about the cost of Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on crime.

A very important preprint to check out: The holobiont is not a useful model for most host-microbiome interactions By Gavin M Douglas an S. Andrew Inkpen ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Country diary: A jaw-dropping bounty of wildlife – and a reminder of what Britain has lost | Amy-Jane Beer

The May heat records may have fallen, but there will always be an England—as proof, the most English headline of all time 🤣: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

On Memorial Day (or other times) I encourage you to find a small-town courthouse to see how they remember military members who died. Spend a little time. See what you feel. There’s no wrong way. There’s a particularly detailed vet memorial at Saunders County Courthouse in Wahoo, Nebraska.

my quest to witness and video a black crowned night heron jumping down a trash can like its a pipe in mario brothers continues. 🪶

This is the Canadian mining CEO who took BHP from its ambitious commitment to carbon transition under Andrew Mackenzie in 2019. Henry quotes Canadian Atlas Network partner Fraser Institute as if it isn’t a neoliberal, pro-pollution spin machine. #Auspol #Cdnpoli www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Here's the Canadian arm of the global #AtlasNetwork, founded and funded by oilsands investors Shell, Exxon & many other less well known fossil fuel interests who've worked for decades to defeat climate policy (and clean energy, and democracy) with endless propaganda. #Canpol #UKpol #Auspol #NZpol

Anthropic and OpenAI account for 50% of Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s revenues, and OpenAI’s ability to pay as much as $70 billion a year represents a mortal contract with Oracle. OpenAI and Anthropic will both - can’t just be one of them! - need to be at $200bn/yr by 2030. They cannot slow down.

These companies cannot afford a slowdown. Anthropic and OpenAI have signed up to more than $1 trillion in compute commitments in the next 5 years. They cannot afford to have people say stuff like “it’s getting harder to justify spending money on AI because it isn’t providing a measurable return.”

We are going to win! This stuff can and will be brought to a halt. None of it is inevitable. Anthropic cannot afford to slow down. It has to grow to at least $100bn a year in revenue or it doesn’t have a hope in hell of paying its compute bills. Same for clammy little Altman.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

Xerox developed GUIs, the mouse, WYSIWYG printing, networked computing and much more. In 1974 they shut down their research program stating "computers are not the future, the future is in copying" 2 visitors had toured their labs as kids: Bill Gates Steve Jobs source link: bsky.app/profile/stev...

Speak of the devil

To explain the significance of this, Anthropic moved enterprises to token-based billing in Q1 2026. This is at most four months of having to pay the true cost of their token burn and they’re already begging for mercy. AI has a revenue ceiling and an economic mismatch with its customer base.

Not sure why the media doesn’t care about this. At the age of 24, single white male Mike Johnson brought a Black boy home and decided to keep him. Years later, the “son” Johnson “adopted” was himself accused of being an adult predator unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/man-...

PHOTOS: Chicago police disperse a "large gathering" of young people near the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, in the Hyde Park neighborhood, Monday, May 25, 2026. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Liddell’s famous power station chimney stacks crumble into history in massive blast

And there's this little part of me screaming about the clay tablets left in the charred ruins of Mycenaean cities and the husks of monasteries left by wars from Byzatine times up through, like, April and May of this year. But we don't. Know. What's. Happening. Other than a lot of chaos.

There's no money for me to preserve these books. Most of them don't even sell for much - maybe $10 or $20 each in most cases - and I do not have the budget, the staff, the MLIS holders, or the time (good god the time) to 'save' them. And I need that $10 to buy more books to share with you.

I can't stop putting books up for sale online. For good or ill, this is how I get obscure books into the hands of people who will read, use, and keep them. I catalogue for hours every day, carefully providing information to help scholars and readers find the books they may not know they need.

Hey tweeps - big and ominous implications our intellectual / cultural heritage!

I'm not arguing that anything ✨Classic✨ is being lost. Those books are everywhere. I have stuff that is almost NOWHERE ELSE. Some of it is in copyright, some isn't. Some of the authors are living, some are not. Maybe some would never have sold. But I loved them. I kept them. They were part of me.

I'm not talking about the B&N Classics editions of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson here. Or The Cat in the Hat, or Goodnight Moon. Or any of a dozen popular histories. I'm talking about Black Sparrow Press and 70's letterpress editions. Hard-to-find 20th century illustrators. Scholarly work.

Friends, they've come for the poetry section. And the illustrated children's books. And the medieval history. The unknown company is buying up good stuff, and (for contractual reasons, and also because maybe? these books really are for humans? in a different market?) I can't refuse to sell them.

If I believed my books were going to be scanned and kept, as long as IP law got followed, I'd feel differently. An article earlier this year, about Anthropic, described a process in which the books had their covers torn off and their contents scanned - but not saved, not made available, not reused.

I buy books so that they can show you a different facet of your world, or give you fresh words to describe what matters, or inspire you, or amuse you, or challenge you, or satisfy you.

If I believed that someone was trying to assemble a collection of obscure books, that would be different, too. Like, go ahead. Make a seed bank but books. I'm on board. Instead, the obscure books are just... gone. And I'm not alone in suspecting that. www.democrata.es/en/digital-a...

@stuartbuck.bsky.social is way out over his skis on this as usual. If he wasn’t tied to the libertarian/right donor class, he’d be easier to ignore, but money talks.

Denmark is trolling Trump The Iranians are better at it, but used Danish Legos

Calling it a night. There will be more mobilization at Delaney Hall tomorrow. I will share details from friends and comrades on the ground as I am able throughout the day. Abolish ICE. Free them all.

More details on Oregon’s contribution to the uninterrupted greatness that has been Trump 2.0. www.wweek.com/news/2026/05...

On the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, the country’s oldest living survivor of the Japanese bombing was far below deck helping repair one of the boilers of the USS St. Louis. READ MORE: https://lvrj.com/post/3829014

Some of the Great Americans who gave their Lives for Freedom, Democracy, the Rule of Law, and the United States of America

🎶 All my life I'm either eating or napping Just to paddle right next to you 🎶