There's a reason why a Zoomer (me) built the first starter pack of newsrooms that don't use Generative AI!

Many People are talking about it! bsky.app/profile/alex...

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this i 100% agree with. spoke to a defense atty once who was like, i am the first professional many of these people ever deal with, and its only after they commit a prosecutable offense

yes, sorry was a casual post. i mean, there are many who are abused who do not do that. and some who do bad things might do it for a reason other than abuse they received. i don't like dealth penalty either, and generally am for restitution. but i think tying to abuse is somewhat reductionist

might be more important even than jesus memes

to be fair, some who were never abused also grow up to be bad adults and kill people

This pattern holds a crucial lesson for America’s current moment. As democratic norms erode and elections become increasingly tilted, anti-corruption movements offer what partisan politics cannot: the moral authority to unite society against a rigged system. When traditional opposition fails, these movements succeed because they transcend party lines, mobilizing citizens around a cause larger than any candidate: the fundamental fairness of the system itself. Research shows that in polarized societies, the most effective opposition doesn’t fight on the traditional left-right battlefield where positions are entrenched. Instead, it creates an entirely new axis of conflict.1 Framing the stakes as clean versus corrupt shifts debate from rigid ideological divisions to a universally resonant moral question: are you on the side of the people or a corrupt elite?

Truth is, Orbán is just the latest in long list of authoritarians to be defeated by anti-corruption politics.

A Democratic landslide is possible if they can credibly take up the anti-corruption mantle. But that can’t happen if voters see them as corrupt and beholden to wealthy donors.

Business Declares business declares a climate & ecological emergency

this is sort of interesting, i think there are a number of these sort of things in parallel, trying to figure out the right words that might get us out of here www.businessdeclares.com

Reminds me a bit of @mmasnick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy 's tech manifesto resonantcomputing.org

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

Comic. [Crack of lightning making BOOOOM sound over dark background. On ground, there are two figures looking at it.] PERSON 1: Don’t worry, I’m wearing an anti-static wrist strap.

Lightning

xkcd.com/3231/

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"

The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

What Viktor Orbán’s Landslide Defeat Can Teach Anti-Fascists Across the World Philosopher Jason Stanley, who has been visiting Hungary for over 15 years, breaks down the historic defeat on Sunday of Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu’s top EU ally.

"Orbán’s Hungary has been the model for the global fascist assault on democracy. Maybe it can also serve as a model for its defeat."

Important piece from Jason Stanley for Zeteo on the big story of the day:

At a packed Budapest metro station, crowds of Hungarians are chanting: “Russia, go home.”

It’s our turn now. #Vote

aaand the results are in www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Young tropical forests help to reverse biodiversity losses Forests that regrow on farmland are resilient and regain much of their lost biodiversity and species richness in 30 years — a finding with implications for conservation.

Forests that regrow on farmland are resilient and regain much of their lost biodiversity and species richness in 30 years — a finding with implications for conservation

go.nature.com/3O6gR6t

morning thoughts about correlation, causation and cold showers

that whole thing about cold showers make you healthy, maybe its that only really healthy people will stay in a study about cold showers...

This Network of Regenerative Farmers Is Rethinking Chicken The team at Tree-Range Farms is pioneering an approach to raise chickens and trees in tandem, storing more carbon and water in the soil while providing an entry point for new and BIPOC farmers often l...

they got a nice write up in civileats.com/2023/08/16/t... a couple years ago

@civileats.com hi!

just heard about treerangefarms.com , trees and free chickens, what could be better?

(makes sense too - some protection from hawks then roost inside at night - and free fertilizer...)

#regenerativeagriculture

cover of Sgeering the Craft, the opening pages of a book

"The misuse of language induces evil in the soul

and

"A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it

for you, specifically; from Socrates and Woolf, respectively. both lifted from Le Guin's Steering the Craft

wat u mean tbat is some professional cosplay...

the level of propaganda in Israeli schools is not discussed enough imho.

the opposition to him ... isn't anti-war tho

🚨 #NY10 SCOOP: Brad Lander joins call to end U.S. aid to Israel, including funding for Iron Dome, in quest to replace Rep. Dan Goldman.

“Israel should have access to purchase it with their own funds,” Lander tells me.

Read more forward.com/brad-lander-...

can you/we please just start going nuts on 'rich embeds' in @bsky.app ?

can't we just go all @npmx.dev on bluesky/atmospheric embeds and implement dozens of these in a few weeks?

handout photo of Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, wearing a white button down, with flowers behind him.

ICE pulled over a man in Patterson, CA + shot him 6 times, hitting his face. ICE now says he is part of a gang in LA – a city he has no connection to.

Carlos Mendoza Hernandez, 36, now in ICU, says he's "never ever been in a gang" + was shot without justification www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

the "fucks" chart post from boris cherny "This is one of the signals we use to figure out if people are having a good experience. we put it on a dashboard and call it the 'fucks' chart"

this one thing, the measurement of user annoyance and more generally suffering, this is the one innovation we need everywhere! i have wanted this for years and years, its the one good thing we can agree on no?

oh they did and then cashed out anyway. sucky family. ok never mind. but strategy, please, someone

oh its dual class like NYT tho so no go, need the decent Murdoch kids to win the lawsuit instead.

then don't change the programming all at once totally, do it smart and funny and snarky and in a way that gets people, once you have their attention