It frankly boggles my mind that we have invented a computer that cannot do math.
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It frankly boggles my mind that we have invented a computer that cannot do math.
Right now there’s a lot of articles about how 2025 US total box office so far proves movies are in decline. It’s mostly bullshit. The real story of 2025 is original movies audiences want to see are doing individually far better than anyone expected, and studios seem to not know, or what people want…
Rest in power, Graham Greene ✊🏽
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
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Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.
The essay, signed by nine former directors and acting directors, comes amid a crisis surrounding President Donald Trump's firing last week of director Susan Monarez.
God damn, this is sad. He was just so amazing in even the smallest roles.
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
Growing up, our elders would challenge us to get an education, get experience, and then come home and help our communities. That's exactly what I did. I served as Navajo Nation President, and now I'm running for Congress to keep delivering for rural Arizona.
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...
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
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Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:
As rumors fly that Trump has suffered a stroke, I was reminded that the motherfucker has always been a loathsome piece of shit. To make more money with a different tenant, Trump threw 74-year-old widow, Mary Filan, who had recently suffered a stroke out of her Queens apartment.
#photography "previously unseen Early Work may be some of [Stephen] Shore’s most uninhibited and daring pictures – and they were taken in the early 60s, when he was a teenager." via Charlotte Jansen @theguardian.com Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Mack
Fred Hampton is one of my major political role models. He was assassinated by the Chicago PD (with the go-ahead from Hoover's FBI being an open secret), because he was too successful in both helping Black America and getting people to see the real enemy.
#photography A diner with Shore reflected in the window. Stephen Shore picture taken in the early 60s via Charlotte Jansen @theguardian.com Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Mack
Weeks before an assailant opened fire on a Catholic church in Minneapolis, the Trump administration cut funding to a program in Minnesota aimed at preventing acts of mass violence, documents show.
Somehow driving taxis has become even worse than before, people dying of overwork "driver income has dropped 23% year-over-year, while the number of drivers has grown 18%."
The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
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Donald Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health
he'll always be dead in our hearts
"There’s going to be a couple years where cars are rocketing into highway embankments at seventy miles per hour due to completely impossible-to-predict events, like a dog running into the road, or drizzle."
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Hey Firefox users.
trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
While ICE agents can note in their database if someone they’ve investigated turns out to be a citizen, they are not required to do so. As a result, records are often wrong and left uncorrected even after agents have been told of a mistake. (Published March 2025)
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Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia, and the District of Columbia your state/local legislators can fix this and you should badger them until they do.
My newsletter from Hangzhou! Just 50 min by high-speed train from glitzy Shanghai is a city of 13M, home to DeepSeek, Unitree, Alibaba. I was there to see the metropolis emerge a nerve center for China’s AI ambitions (Gift link -- free to read until Sept 05) www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... #AI
The new CDC director is trying to kill you. Not just “the most vulnerable”; you, me, everyone. This is a comic book-level evil scenario.
I got an NYT push alert about Taylor Swift getting engaged, but not about the United States spying on Greenland
Funds for monitoring foodborne infections including listeria (primarily milk products), campylobacter and salmonella to be cut by CDC in move to reduce food safety by MAHA - which again, akin to environmental protections and vaccines being reduced will make Americans much less healthier 🧪
rent stabilization excludes buildings with fewer than six units for this precise reason so … try again ?
Susan Monarez had two lines she wouldn’t cross when she was sworn in as CDC director, a former acting CDC director says.
Consider this my belated letter to the editor. I wrote about the legacy of Katrina, the use of criticism, Robert Polidori's images of my destroyed New Orleans neighborhood, and John Updike's review in the New York Review of Books for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social. oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/what-...
Beautiful and powerful essay, @laurenleblanc.bsky.social ! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Congrats!
El documental de Spike Lee sobre el huracán Katrina te ayuda a entender lo que pasa cuando tienes un gobierno racista, además de inepto
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
The Epstein “Birthday Book” & other items have been subpoenaed from Jeffrey Epstein’s Estate. Congressman Robert Garcia gets us caught up on the latest developments in the Epstein Files, as well as how the proposed redistricting maps in CA impact his own district. youtu.be/Z9M-lNB2sSw?...
Me: this is great, glad to see authors ripped off by AI getting their due. Me after using the search tool: I am one of these ripped off authors. Academics, it only takes a minute. Seven of my papers are in this and I had no idea.
"How to Report ICE" regional zines available for free printable download: Northern California Southern California Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Durham Massachusetts NYC Philly Pittsburgh More to come! Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
The ideology of the techlords is directly opposed to democracy, which they see as an obstacle to the accumulation and maintenance of wealth and power by the rich. They advocate corporate monarchies and authoritarian city-states controlled by themselves, praising Singapore as a model.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired."
The primary recourse that everyone has right now against the scourge of the AI scam is to disable all AI features we have control over, and where we lack the ability to disable those features, to replace the products that are embedding AI scam software with AI-free competitors.
Love this.
Demetre Daskalakis was a key figure in the Covid, mpox, and bird flu responses. This is a huge loss.
It’s easy to forget, or maybe not realize, that the four students murdered at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, were shot in a parking lot. I went to Kent State last month & thought we didn't need an essay about that now, but maybe that's exactly what we need: jukeboxgraduate.com/visiting-ken...
Oh noooooooo!!! 😱🤣
🚨 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:
Tom Clancy’s Eat, Love, Pray
They don't feel shame, but they care deeply about status. Wanting to be liked--or at least envied--is their Achilles heel. We can use that against them:it's cheap, non-violent & effective. Social shunning of elites supporting Pinochet helped bring down the Chilean dictator: it can work here too.
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Perfection.
Sounds like things are going great over at the CDC today
FDA is authorizing anybody with a risk factor from this list to receive the vaccines, as well as anybody 65+.
The bastard is currently displacing native Hawaiians and developing his doomsday bunker on top of their ancestral burial sites. It's villain shit straight out of a pulp serial. www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
Amazes me there are 37 percent who still approve
I am once again telling you: MAGA is a coalition of men against women. It's a coalition that spans the divides of race, religion & class. But misogyny is so pervasive in the US that most people can no more see it than they can see the air they breathe.
Delta Air Lines agreed to pay $78.75 million to resolve a class action lawsuit over a 2020 fuel dump that doused tens of thousands of properties, including homes and schools, in Los Angeles and Orange counties in California. https://cnn.it/47jkXzq
Today’s news includes limiting access to COVID vaccines, how Trump is using tariffs to stop *other* countries fight climate change and more news about Trump’s use of the DOJ and paramilitaries to fight his enemies. These are straight down the line super villain, evil policies.
BREAKING: An email shared with The Associated Press shows "Alligator Alcatraz" will likely be empty within days.
Why? Well the states with the *highest* murder rates in the US are as follows: Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, New Mexico, Missouri, Arkansas, South Carolina, Maryland, Georgia, Tennessee - all but one of which is a Republican and comparatively rural state.
Another great summation of where we are & how we got here, by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/sara...
Immigrants aren’t stealing your jobs. But employers are stealing $50 billion in wages from workers each year.
That number means most Americans
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
Just so were clear: its most package mail. Letters will still get through and so will gifts worth less than $80. It's because of the tarrifs and the elimination of de minimis exemptions. Trump as usual made big sweeping changes with no details so they don't want to ship shit that will get sent back
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) swiftly pushed back, saying Illinois never asked for federal troops and that Trump has no legal authority to unilaterally seize control of the Illinois National Guard. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."
What I'm looking for in the 2028 primary is someone who will put Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem in jail, and so far, that's Pritzker
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Just saw a headline called “Maria Sharapova’s superpower” and was genuinely shocked that it wasn’t “losing to Serena Williams”
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
Like this @governor.ny.gov !!!
They're trying to kill us. The Trump administration will pull the COVID vaccine off the market "within months," one of RFK Jr.’s closest associates said. “It could [happen] in a number of stages, including learning more about the data.” www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
It's always @teenvogue.com that steps up, while the rest of the media is still in the "is it authoritarianism? Some experts warn of rightward shift in Trump administration" mode. www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...
From @bloodmoneycampaign.bsky.social @pvamplify.bsky.social & defend Myanmar democracy A statement to mark the 8th Rohingya genocide remembrance day. Not only recalling the past but also speaking on the present persecution & the hope that the future will bring justice & dignified return.
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Carlos Roberto Montoya, a 52-year-old father and grandfather from Guatemala, died while attempting to escape an immigration raid in California last week. “We want people to remember my dad in the same way we will remember him: as a loving, respectful, brave man.”
Witnesses say Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinian aid-seekers traveling through a military zone south of Gaza City that is regularly used to reach a food distribution point.
An “unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity. .. If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This is the school with all the economists if I recall correctly.