“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.
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Flour or corn?
It’s one of the most important decisions that the millions of us who live and die by L.A.’s Taco Life make every day.
The full guide: lataco.com/best-tortill...
By @theglutster.bsky.social
Red, green, yellow and white art deco style illustration on a poster for the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco. Images of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge, ships in the bay, an airplane in the sky, the city skyline, and a gigantic tower appear with a green sea and red sky.
1939 World's Fair poster
Image: Smithsonian
This is utterly unacceptable.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
didn't see an obvious support link, and maybe you've heard -- but i couldn't complete the link from my iPad (Arc Search or Safari browsers) -- but it worked fine on my laptop
As I said in my quote post I think this is awesome
I love this
I'm looking to talk to journalists who are not AI evangelists but who are experimenting with using AI in their journalism work (but not for writing!). If this is you and you'd be willing to chat about it, DM me here or email me at megangreenwellprojects at gmail?
“If you think Claude Code is a better social scientist than you, then you’re probably right. But that means, at some point, you stopped trying to answer interesting/puzzling questions and started trying to win the publish-the-most-articles race. That isn’t a game worth saving.”
Nobody plays the national media like Rahm Emanuel. Here in Chicago, no one is fooled.
This morning @status.news produces a long list of his attacks on press freedom before asking:
"Should the WHCA treat Trump as just another president participating in a century-old Washington tradition—or as someone who blatantly attacks First Amendment freedoms at every turn?"
Read to remember...
Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.
some shit is about to go down
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
The idea is to use the federal government to retaliate against people, individually, for any opposition—real or perceived—to their goals.
Frankly, if this isn't stopped completely and the offenders prosecuted, then I expect the next Democratic admin to do it to Republicans. It's just the way now.
Organic search traffic to ten of the internet’s most-read tech publications has dropped 58% since 2024, according to a new report. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/traf...
With immigration raids targeting multiple parts of the city and suburbs, here are tips from local community groups on what to do. https://www.citybureau.org/newswire/2025/9/5/ice-raids-chicago-how-to-get-help
Glad to see these cases tossed out. But as anyone who's been through a criminal case knows, just being charged and dealing with the resuliting legal process is a punishment in and of itself.
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
Raja is an absolutely terrible choice folks.
Marimar Martinez says says it's "even worse" if Noem truly does not know about her shooting
"She's the leader of DHS and one of her agents attempted to kill me, a U.S. citizen on the streets of Chicago. It was reported in every national news outlet for months. Does she not read the newspaper?"
Good replies to this one
“Fifteen drones, each weighing 80 pounds, will be stationed at each fulfillment center in Matteson and Markham.”
Another effect of careless leadership at the top and DOGE’s war on personnel is nobody in charge cares and nobody who knows how to do things can help
SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.
This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
New post!
Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies. Question wording effects can swing opinions by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights.
That's a problem for people who interpret polls for a living.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...
‘We argue that evaluation methods in AI often overlook an important conception of culture: not as a variable to be measured, but as a dynamic, contested space where social meaning is made.’
You can't just factor out the people.
‘We argue that GenAI can, and should, be understood as “doing” interpretation in ways that reflect the entanglement of culture in their input, processes, and outputs.’
38 (!) author paper exploring the framework that AI is a cultural technology rather than a digital brain
