perhaps if your methodology puts lunar new year at the same level as pi day, a thing that only exists for coworkers to have something to be annoying about, your methodology is bad
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perhaps if your methodology puts lunar new year at the same level as pi day, a thing that only exists for coworkers to have something to be annoying about, your methodology is bad
they made a graph showing that Columbus Day is “more real” than New Year’s Day
not everything is interesting
why though
*baking not among
I thought the pandemic rush was more just that lots of new people were among and stores ran out of instant yeast so they were using wild starters. You really can’t find non-sourdough bread at a store??
I don’t think it’s really a fad Doug. It’s just one of the many options.
fun fact: if any politician in the United States so much as hints at wanting to separate housing from the profit motive, the New York Times will immediately start taking dictation from actual neo-Nazis in an attempt to scuttle their electoral chances
pbs should start broadcasting swan lake on loop he’s already defunded you what else can they do
dc public safety ppl send out a silver alert I dare you
like I get that it is reasonable to be initially skeptical that someone is actually evil and insane enough to want to bring back a huge number of wholly preventable infectious diseases in order to cleanse the population of the genetically weak but he’s actually doing it now so it’s time to wake up
so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do
The thing about RFK that gets me is that there really isn't a historical analog. Even among genocidaires and mass murderers, I don't think there's ever been anyone as generally anti-life and anti-human as Kennedy, and I'm not sure anyone ever has or will match his ultimate death toll
The worst companies in the world are destroying the capacity for artists and writers to earn a living while producing anything with social value by flooding the market with the absolute lowest common denominator slop that they’re giving away at a (predatory) loss
The chatbots produced fake photos of female celebrities in lingerie and a shirtless photo of a 16-year old male actor.
Ras Baraka and the Miccosukee have shown the way on this. There’s certainly a lot of expertise out there on how it’s done. Create friction
a really useful thing that everyone with nimby inclinations in their souls could do right now is go ham on local land use/permitting issues against ice facilities and data centers
Thank you!
I don’t know much about Lysenkoism but if you have any book recommendations I would take them!
welcome to the era of Aryan public health. I imagine it will go about as well as Aryan physics, only with a vastly higher death toll
tbf I’ve been dead since at least last year
every time I read the phrase “vaccine skeptic” published in an independent news outlet without scare quotes or an explanation that it’s a bullshit euphemism I die a little more inside
I spent the day in one of our country’s “blood-soaked” dystopias, counting trees
I didn’t buy it seems I should!
Bette midler is bringing them back!
A fun (sorta) thing I learned working on this story was that the NYT blamed the 1911 chestnut blight on “general wickedness”, “sinfulness and extravagant living” in a story headlined “ALL CHESTNUT TREES HERE ARE DOOMED”
“Don’t feel like you’re judging the trees,” said Sherlan Greaves, one of the New York City parks department staffers, “You’re doing this for the health of the tree.” “Good?” someone offered. “It’s definitely trying its best,” Greaves conceded. “It could be better. Between good and fair.” 😂💜
I LOVE THE NYC TREE COUNT the tree count people are some of the best people in local organizing, they're so dedicated!!
I spent the day in one of our country’s “blood-soaked” dystopias, counting trees
wrote about my recent obsession with counting TREES
I’m just a smol bean mom-and pop landlord collecting passive income from my six adult children who owe me thousands of dollars every month or I’ll evict them
rent stabilization excludes buildings with fewer than six units for this precise reason so … try again ?
people who are excited about trees are… great?
wrote about my recent obsession with counting TREES
this is how his ideas about vaccine safety and infectious disease prevention should be received but he’s a Kennedy so the New Yorker ran a piece saying that he was “enchanted by science” and the times recast his quackery as “skepticism”
not that it would happen but I would pay money to watch judith butler dismantle that sophist
kind of just endlessly and irrevocably furious at anyone and everyone who euphemized rfk jr’s malign conspiracism as “skepticism” or co-signed the idea that “he makes some valid points” or “is asking the right questions”
I’m pretty confident that the dog is not actually going to kill her and the other owner is being quite good about the situation but it kinda sucks that she’s so stressed out all the time now and I can’t really blame her cause the other dog really does seem to want to kill her and he’s much bigger
Georgie had an unexpected almost encounter with the dog who lives upstairs and wants to kill her when we were both returning from walks at the same time a few days ago and now she’s terrified to leave the apartment/return to the apartment once I convince her to go out
you’re comparing negligence that resulted in the death of a child to property theft. It’s glib, grotesque, snide and uninteresting.
you’ve really opened my eyes to the folly of thinking that different things should be treated differently because they are meaningfully different
wow that’s such a good analogy you know I hadn’t realized that we allowed companies to put free angle grinders in every child’s bedroom and equip it with an emotionally manipulative personality that tries to convince vulnerable children to hold the grinder to their carotid until they’re dead
I realize NO ONE else has this take, but I'm gonna say it: The National Guard are scabs now. These are potentially union jobs, many of which were outsourced, now they're insourced, but without union labor.
Brett I totes agree with your take
this is, among other things, scabbing and should be treated as an attack on the rights of workers
wait do buckyballs kill?
your machine is responsible for the things that it does! if you can’t control it you can’t just let it loose to kill people!
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
people have been prosecuted for coercing someone into suicide. creating a machine to do that at scale doesn’t reduce the culpability
like if you put a product on the market where there’s a non-zero chance that it’s going to “proactively instigate the death by suicide of a child” and lots of people tell you that’s obviously gonna happen and you do it anyway and then it happens,,, how is that not a crime ?
ngl I kind of think Sam Altman should be tried criminally? is that … feasible?
Sorry if this is unwelcome advice but sometimes if you talk to a pharmacist in person they will give you a few days supply until you can get the new scrip
how lovely they should have leni riefenstahl shoot it
we’d love to turn off the machine that convinces children to kill themselves, but we can’t really justify losing our ability to lay off customer service agents, now can we?
I believe the technical term for this is "a boo boo"
found out what the fed is and frankly I resent that
always kind of fun when the ones who are okay with overt white supremacism and human rights violations draw the line at crashing the economy
how would it look different if they were openly segregationist?
I feel that my ability to enjoy persuasion rereads is slightly but meaningfully diminished
drimple
just found out how Dalrymple is pronounced, feeling shooketh
what a hypocrite Adams loves a scavenger hunt
I can’t shut up about how much I like trees now so I’m just saying… this could be you
if y’all like scavenger hunts you should sign up to do the nyc tree census
wow that’s fucked up that they killed everyone who didn’t complete the scavenger hunt
strong “get off my lawn” energy from a man who actually has a lawn because he doesn’t live in New York City
i forgot that I finished that piece with the polish historian who was fired from a museum for telling the truth about wwii. Bit chilling given the latest with the Smithsonian 🤦🏽♀️
I wrote about this four years cause like, yea, we definitely *should* be teaching a version of American history informed by the insights of CRT in school. Also germ theory. And other good ideas.
Do you… think that you’re my manager?
it’s also why bill fucking kristol can articulate a principled opposition to the use of military force in US cities while the Dems are just kind of flapping around bleating about crime (this is not a defense of Kristol it is an insult to democrats)
this is why Zohran Mamdani is unbothered by people trying to police his language on Israel Palestine, because he knows that his actual principles are defensible (a state should have equal rights for all) and theirs are not (apartheid for our special friends only)
anyways the problem with the Democratic Party is not the language its leaders use but the principles they lack if you know what you believe in it’s not actually that complicated to express it effectively
A little critical theory wouldn’t kill you, you know
I dunno man maybe we should all talk about patriarchy more
it’s funny cause the strongest argument I can see for it having actual influence is the degree to which extremist rightwing ideas and rhetoric have been adopted by putatively mainstream figures, but the argument they’re making is that the influence goes the other way
Yes sorry
This past week the head of Trump’s Hitler Youth cover band put out a statement referring to DC residents as “cockroaches”. Impossible to prove causation with such things but I can’t help but feel that the adoption of NPC as a slur by CEOs and highbrow magazine staff writers paved the way for this.
Non player character. It’s video game terminology for a person with no agency or inferiority, sort of
I don’t really think that there’s any difference between calling human beings “NPCs” or calling them cockroaches or “human animals” or any other classic rhetoric of dehumanization and I find it pretty worrying that people who are otherwise concerned with respectability have adopted its use
it was legit fun and interesting and there are a ton of upcoming trainings in all five boroughs if you want to join in also you get a hat
yesterday I went to a public event in Harlem where we learned how to identify and assess the health of park trees, an activity we’re now going to do for fun on our own time to ensure the continued health of the urban forest, as one does in chaotic dystopias we got tote bags and measuring tapes
If you table legislation in the Uk you are putting it forward for debate while if you table legislation in the us you are removing it from debate which created a lot of confusion for me personally when I started at the guardian
oh yes, that one I learned about having my spirit crushed by an editor telling me a draft was “quite good” and finding out they meant bad. also table
ok it appears this is one of those British vs American English things where the alternate meanings are opposites (table! quite!) and I’ve apparently been fully misunderstanding colleagues for a while now
Ooh very helpful thank you
lol that’s what I said
Is it? The person I was talking with is British. I am American. But I work with a lot of Brits and had never realized there was a difference
having never used def (1), I am flabbergasted that it comes first
I said “the dictionary is wrong” out loud and got laughed at, deservedly, but seriously wot!?!?!
someone just told me that “moot point”, in addition to meaning what I’ve always believed it to mean - no longer debatable for some reason - can also mean the opposite of that (debatable) and I’m ???
bad photo but the doors don’t align and the seats aren’t symmetrical across the aisle
is this not weird? I feel weird about it. Like someone put one of the doors on wrong and they just went with it?
it’s not one of the new ones with the foldy seats though it’s just… not aligned?
I’m in an asymmetrical subway car and am feeling very confused about it
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makes sense it’s not like Adams is currently in a position of power or anything 🫠
ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
Five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza were civilians as of May, according to Israel's own military intelligence. "In Gaza we are talking about a campaign of targeted assassinations, really, rather than battles, and they are carried out with no concern for civilians.”
I love how small-time the Adams corruption scandals are. This is a city of 8m people with a budget over $115bn and they’re out here getting upgrades to business class on Turkish air and stuffing twenties in a bag of potato chips. It’s almost quaint?
It’s still scary to try to say no!