all I remember is "people chew on wheat stalks?" and "why do the women have no shirts under those overalls?"
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all I remember is "people chew on wheat stalks?" and "why do the women have no shirts under those overalls?"
FYI folks, the Big Holidays coming up are: Rosh Hashanah is Mon 22 Sep-24 Sep Yom Kippur is Wed 1 Oct - 2 Oct And also? You don't have to KNOW who's Jewish to not schedule meetings these days. Just do it. (AND DON'T BE ALL "WE HAVE TO MOVE IT BECAUSE [PERSON] IS JEWISH" THAT'S TACKY & GROSS)
I have used the greatest computational power in human history and recreated a 1977 grocery store newsstand in suburban Knoxville
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Still disturbed by this. Clearly I am naive but I was not expecting a mostly-forgotten Appalachia-shtick show from the 1970s to become smothered in AI slop, but it is too easy to produce and we are too dumb to stop it, I guess.
Good one.
New podcast drop! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
NASA scheduled a major workshop for early career researchers during the most important week of the Jewish calendar, during two of the most important days of that week and expects me to accept that this was “difficult scheduling conflicts” That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like
Greetings from Kyiv, where the air raid alert has been ongoing for three hours. Drones. I’m furious that children have to spend their second day of school in shelters.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Yes, thank you! Excited to be part of this drive to support independent media projects.
I mean, an Interregnum can be a nice break, a little electorate "me time."
Wow doing some research on a thing that tangentially touches on "Hee Haw" and there are like a bazillion obviously AI- generated "films" about the dark secrets of "Hee Haw" on YouTube — and presumably for every other TV show ever made. Truly we live in a time of abundance, thanks AI! 🫠
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1982 called, wants its Interregnum back
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
You can find my newsletter on broadcasting history, Continuous Wave, and support it there if you would like to see it (so to speak) continue. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/poetic-jus...
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Of course I know there is no Comintern! Hence the unfunny joke.
Comintern plays the long game!
wow
Also he just plagiarized Michael Crichton for most of it.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
all praise due to @anthonymoser.com
so good
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again." I am here for this h/t @biblioracle.bsky.social anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
PS also talking about this guy, who no did not really retire in 1982, who in fact would still be hanging around the @cbsnews.com boardroom if he possibly could today at age 123.
The Trail of Tears displacement was not just “ethnic cleansing” but meets the legal criteria of genocide, writes distinguished historian Jeffrey Ostler — read this while it’s still up at the NEH website www.neh.gov/article/trai...
Pope Leo pleads for end to 'pandemic of arms' after Minnesota shooting reut.rs/46fNC7i
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VA is a disaster right now. I generally don't trust the private sector with my healthcare, yet had wrist surgery three weeks ago at Baylor Scott & White in Dallas because VA couldn't handle it. First time I've had a major procedure or serious condition treated outside the military or VA since 1996.
I was gonna say.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
hmm seems like widely available vaccines might be a good idea
:: blinks :: Um…huh.
A public health catastrophe. Not “immanent,” not “potential.” This is the catastrophe.
Rock on, @maketheroadny.bsky.social!
"These raids are not law enforcement, they are fear enforcement." Preach!
"I filled all my closets to the brim with grandma's dacha-garden pickles, I am a true patriot American."
Vaccines have been the foremost breakthrough in medical history Not of this year Not this decade Not this century Vaccines are the foremost medical breakthrough in history
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
In the 19 states that have enacted significant abortion restrictions since Dobbs, many pregnant women experience “delays, confusion, and other substandard care,” @olgakhazan.bsky.social reports:
Cleveland Clinic had a whole special program for guys. www.theguardian.com/world/2003/d...
Migrants sent by the US to the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba earlier this year faced “abusive and inhumane detention conditions” that seriously affected their physical and mental health and even led to some suicide attempts, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.
we will be shamed for not gardening our own food
Court rules bank heist illegal, but allows robbers to keep cash for now.
Happy 101th anniversary to us not figuring out who is to pay for broadcasting and how. cc: all media + @niemanlab.org ! www.niemanlab.org/2024/07/in-1...
The clearing of the rubble in a Kyiv high-rise house bombed by russia — which claimed 25 lives — has just ended, and already a new swarm of russian drones fills our skies, with Tu jets preparing for takeoff and the launch of cruise missiles. This is a never-ending 9/11.
9th grade American History. He told us to put away the textbooks and showed us Eyes on the Prize.
Politico - President Donald Trump threw a grenade Friday into September government funding negotiations on Capitol Hill, declaring the unilateral power to cancel billions of dollars in foreign aid by using a so-called pocket rescission.
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Nearly all PhDs take 5 years--with finishing in 4 a rare outcome. This is deliberately designed to eliminate the international powerhouse that is US postgraduate training.
CONTEXT: The timing of the revocation of US Secret Service security protection for the former Vice President and Democratic Presidential challenger to Trump is very much intentional, and is essentially a call to action to the militant extremists within the fascist MAGA movement.
(4,6) It is a fact that we have more gun violence today because we have more guns in America. As shown below, we have more than doubled the number of guns in America over the past 20 years. That is the reason we have more gun violence.
Thank you for reading!
I also wrote about Norman Corwin over @transom.bsky.social transom.org/2025/audio-a...
You could also try a wild experiment and pay reporters, editors and fact-checkers!
In 2022-2023 the restoration of Soviet geopolitical constructs was carried out by the Russian authorities using the most market-oriented methods while in 2024-2025 it is being implemented on the basis of a rapidly «Sovietizing» economy. Spoiler: it doesn't work as well ridl.io/sovietizatio...
Here is Joseph Weizenbaum on the “hubris so bombastically exhibited by the artificial intelligentsia” who believed, even back in 1976, that the human (and animal) mind can be adequately simulated by machines:
further proof that success is no defense against capitalism
Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.
"A prescience lay heavy on me, an unparticularized hunch that there were dirty days ahead. Not disaster, necessarily, but embattlement, with a good chance that it would be on many fronts....Behind me lay a crowded and coruscating world. Ahead, I felt, an emptying room."
I wrote this one in response to great pieces by @alexlaughs.bsky.social in @defector.com and Eric Benson in @rollingstone.com about what has happened to narrative podcasting. Check them out! defector.com/the-future-o...
"Had I not, I asked myself, done better than just pull my own weight? Were there not works, praises, prizes, far travels, very important people? All hollow tokens, said the prosecutor inside me." Reversal of fortune is the only consistent story in media. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/poetic-jus...
🇷🇺 oil exports to 🇮🇳 are set to *rise* in Sept as producers cut prices to sell more crude b/c they cannot process as much in refineries that were damaged by 🇺🇦 drone attacks. If 🇮🇳 imports of 🇷🇺 crude were halted, knock-on impact could lead to a short-term spike in global prices to nearly $100/🛢️.
In a significant policy shift following the firing and departure of over 100 immigration judges, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday that temporary immigration judges will no longer need to have experience in immigration law.
basic human rights are not something u put up to debate like some influencer game show shit
even the lysenko comparison is at this point an insult to lysenko
🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:
There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry. [gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...
A couple months ago, I heard a spellbinding talk by a futurist named Tracee Worley, who's spent a lot of time thinking about sci-fi writer Octavia Butler and her stunning predictions. I talked to Worley about futurism, prediction, and collective survival: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Here’s better reporting about that which seems to be missing from most U.S. reporting
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In every third-country removal to Africa that we know of — Rwanda, South Sudan, Eswatini — the people were imprisoned there. There may be third-country removals to Mauritania, Equatorial Guinea etc, that ICE hasn’t confirmed, with people there also imprisoned. hardghistory.ghost.io/exclusive-ic...
Wow 300 of the DOJ civil rights division’s roughly 400 lawyers have left since the start of the Trump administration, per its head Harmeet Dhillon
The sheer amount of time, money, and resources this government has spent to torture one random guy is astounding.
Yup.
Breaking news: About 150 FEMA employees sent a letter to members of Congress, arguing that the agency’s direction and current leaders’ inexperience harms the agency’s mission and could result in a disaster on the level of Hurricane Katrina.
thank you.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza killed four journalists on Monday, including a freelancer who worked for The Associated Press, according to health officials.
“This kristallnacht is just Hitler trying to grab some headlines and make you look away from the rising cost of beer all over Germany” - how Democrats sound
Surrounded by ICE facilities in rural, remote Louisiana, an immigration lawyer tries to keep up with the churn of Trump’s deportation operation. New in @washingtonpost.com’s Deep Reads today: wapo.st/41W1NMa
Tell me again that this isn't a statement of endorsement for the Pulse massacre, and an active attempt to blot out the victims from public memory. This is the government and the police of the state of Florida saying: "We're glad they're dead, and if you memorialize them, we will arrest you."
Artem Morozov hoped that the war in Ukraine would end on his 16th birthday, when President Trump welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Instead, Russia killed Artem and his entire family.
Something I’ve been stewing on for days now but am having a hard time conveying my thoughts on: Trump’s pulling NG units from red states with R govs because he knows the govs will be loyal, and using them to invade states. He’s turning parts of our military into sectarian militias before our eyes.
I have a kitchen table & an issue: Not wanting to live in a military dictatorship
It's just Socialist Realism, endorsed by Stalin.
The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.
Blunt, bracing: "Trump wants Putin to get the best deal possible out of this war. Trump would not mind if Ukraine ceased to exist as a nation and was all/partly subsumed into Russia." phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...
Today, Ukrainians worldwide stand tall with immense pride, celebrating 34 years of Ukraine’s independence.
YouTube is using AI to tweak videos on its platform—without creators' knowledge. Alex Reisner reports on the concerning experiment:
www.imdb.com/title/tt2300...
The defining feature of U.S. democracy has been the unwillingness to hold white conservatives to the rule of law. Time & again, when democratic systems seemed to threaten their power, white conservatives sabotaged existing systems. That dynamic makes democracy impossible.
everyone demands to speak to the manager but uh there is no manager
His status is unknown at this time but he's married to a US citizen and presumably also a citizen. I keep warning people that being legal or being a citizen (birthright or not) will not protect you from ICE if you don't look white.
Russian media report the death of propagandist Kirill Vyshinsky in Moscow. He led RIA Novosti Ukraine, supported the annexation of Crimea, and after a 2019 prisoner swap became executive director of Russia Today and editor-in-chief of Sputnik.
