Rebecca Solnit argues that the future isn’t fixed: through stories, ideas and small actions, ordinary people can reshape the world | Brian McHugh
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Similar to the Super Bowl Ring ad, companies are using dogs (and our love of dogs) to normalize and build permission structures around this unsettling tech.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
‘Of the four peoples in question – the Britons (Welsh), Irish, Anglo-Saxons and Picts (proto-Scots) – it’s significant that each group’s origin myth was first recorded by a writer of a different nationality.’
Barbara Newman on Britain’s origin stories.
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The moral panic over ebikes while motor vehicle fatalities have shot up over the last 15 years…is annoying.
In the US,
32,479 traffic fatalities in 2011.
42,795 motor vehicle fatalities in 2022.
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States have started proposing steep reductions in disability services to cope with Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Idaho is the first to suggest scrapping home care altogether — An action with a high human cost. My latest @19thnews.org.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Back last year, Thom Tillis warned a group of us reporters that the One Big, Beautiful Bill would force states to cut home and community-based services. @slooterman.bsky.social reports how that is happening in Idaho. 19thnews.org/2026/03/idah...
Art: "War is not healthy for children and other living things."
Lorraine Schneider, 1967.
I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - while back home in Chichester my daughters are furious, the labradoodles are sick and, worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge
new iconic meme format just dropped
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IT’S OUR TIME. EVERYBODY CELEBRATE THE WEDDING THIS MOMENT CREATED www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
We are really going to regret the technology we have built.
While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.
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Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!
Hey, sewists!! You are needed.
if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal
Bring Congress back into session. Now. We should vote on Senator Kaine's War Powers Resolution today.
This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.
Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.
Ignore the clowns who come on here periodically to say Bluesky's irrelevant. Just this week I saw @katelynburns.com @ziibiing.com and @posters-madness.bsky.social raise tens of thousands of dollars for mutual aid for trans people and immigrants through this website for dorks.
Younger generations will find it hard to believe but ALL healthcare in the US was non-profit until the 70s, when for-profit HMOs were foisted on us as some miraculous way to save money on healthcare. It did no such thing, of course—healthcare costs started soaring and have never slowed since.
Deductibles should be $0
Premiums should be $0
Copays should be $0
Prescriptions should be $0
We could have guaranteed healthcare with Medicare for All and save up to $450B and 68,000 lives per year if politicians answered to us instead of billionaires and corporate donors.
I'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause.
I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does.
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