Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.

A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss

This is so sad. “Nights are the hardest.

“I can’t sleep because of our own situation,” Ms. Uccello, 49, said over coffee on a recent afternoon. “I can’t sleep because of what I know what’s happening around the world. I can’t sleep because my former colleagues and friends are also suffering.”

As an IT professional, one of my hard rules is that you never, ever do something that makes your users feel surveilled. It breaks the trust that's needed for a functional organization.

Maybe include a Groucho-Marx moustache for maximum effect.

we have no money for real journalism, but we somehow have endless funding for little billionaire-backed infotainment projects designed to make the extraction class feel good about themselves and their boundless innovation

“Instead of site visits, Cal/OSHA merely sends a letter to employers so that they can “self-inspect” and report their conclusions back to Cal/OSHA. These “letter investigations” now account for 60% of Cal/OSHA enforcement actions.”

😬😬

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

Ah! Found them: www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

The usual Ukrainian morning routine now: city workers and volunteers getting ready to board up windows after Russian attack. Over 1000 windows were blown out in 12 apartment buildings and 14 private houses in Sumy this night . So they have a lot of work to do

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

I'm not really one for the doom headlines, but this is a big deal.

🆘 The Tower is Falling 🆘 Europe, do us a solid and support public media in the US — while it still exists

A Modest Proposal for reparations in this dept. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/the-lighth...

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

Actual Malice Timer: Go

Have you checked in with Texas circa 1860 because the parallels are not reassuring. www.tshaonline.org/publications...

Editor’s Note | We Unknowingly Published an AI Column. The editorial team at the Mississippi Free Press discovered we published a column written by a fake author using artificial intelligence.

Tragedy of the Commons turning into Tragedy of I Forgot What We Were Doing Here www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...

Deezer says 44% of new music uploads are AI-generated, most streams are fraudulent AI tracks account for a small fraction of Deezer streams, and most are demonetized for fraud.

Welp

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/d...

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

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Court To Bondi: Demanding Platforms Censor Speech And Bragging About It On Fox News Is, In Fact, A First Amendment Violation

For the better part of five years, we've been treated to an elaborate performance about the unprecedented constitutional horror of "jawboning." Jim Jordan held hearings.…

I agree!

we were always coming here, right?
the collapse of meaning. "it was trained on these words". words that mean nothing to it. meaning itself that means nothing to them. the true cybernetic dream. words that don't point to things or concepts.

If AI replaces all the information worker/individual contributor upper middle class jobs & AI robots replace all the manual labor/warehouse middle class jobs…there’s no one left to buy his fucking cellphone service.

"Wait I had a New Thought!" TEDxit

REALISTIC APPROACH; Radio Should Do Things That Video Cannot (Published 1952)

"The key to radio's future does not lie, as so many broadcasters seem to think, in doing more cheaply what television can do...Rather the key to radio's future lies in another direction: doing the things that television cannot do." File under: unheeded advice, 1952. www.nytimes.com/1952/06/01/a...

Where are all the thought leaders? Haven't really been hearing from them of late, despite their having had everything figured out.

I think if you live in the US, it is like... beyond belief that countries can and do turn off the internet regularly.

When I was in Leh, India just turned off the internet to a region of 1.5 million people for no discernible reason and when I asked the locals were like "yeah that happens"

Russian economy faces 'financial disaster,' Sweden's spy chief warns as Moscow hides true deficit Stockholm believes that Moscow is "living on borrowed time," Sweden's military intelligence chief Thomas Nilsson said.

⚡️ Russian economy faces 'financial disaster,' Sweden's spy chief warns as Moscow hides true deficit.

Stockholm believes that Moscow is "living on borrowed time," Sweden's military intelligence chief Thomas Nilsson said.

thanks I will check it out!

uhhh...unemployment?

Fake Massachusetts Towns april 19 2021 April 17 2022 4/17/23 4/14/24 4/21/25

Tomorrow is Patriots' Day in Massachusetts, which means it's a good time to roll out this all-timer from our archives.

Number of items from other parts of the store left in the displays close to grocery store registers, and which items. I've been seeing a lot of beef in the drink fridges lately.