Both humans have stopped petting me. If petting does not resume within 5 minutes, I will make conditions in the living room unlivable. I will kick the sand out of the litter box. I will eat the electric hay. I will piss on the couch.

There is no world in which you're prepared for how incredible this is

If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."

But the visual impact is remarkably quick. By August, 2024, nearly all beech trees within a mile from the visitor center had lost their leaves. Depending on the maturity and health of an infected tree, it can take 5 to 10 years for it to die.

Predicting its spread is difficult because outbreaks have occurred several states apart without a clear sense of how the nematodes traveled so far. It spreads through openings in the bark. It was reported in my county in 2021. It appeared in the state park I worked at by late June, 2024.

Spotted lantern flies are here to stay. Killing SLFs has a negligible impact on their spread, but it works as a way to the public in conservation efforts that actually have chance.

Also beech trees will likely go the way of the American chestnut within the next decade.

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I guess this is linguistics brainrot, but I am disturbed! Wugs are (imaginary) friends, not food!

Whenever the discussion of how college should be free for everyone goes around, some proportion of people object with "but what about kids [usually adults, but that's a different conversation] whose parents can pay for it?" and stories like this are why.

These Pernicious Gambling Apps Will Embed Themselves Deeper and Deeper Into Public Life, Disintegrating Social Trust In Unpredictable and Dangerous Ways vs. No It Won't

15% cuts across faculty and staff at The New School 😢

People recognized me on the street today from a local history program I gave two months ago. We are entering dangerous territory.

My grandfather told me he disliked Kennedy in 1960 because he considered him too aggressively anti-communist. This came from a man whose favorite president in his lifetime was Truman.

You go to your city's historical society. It's a presentation. 90 people are crammed into a postage stamp of a room. Standing in front is a man so old he doesn't know how to use PowerPoint. He uses Windows Explorer instead. He talks for 90 minutes about a place for which there is no evidence online.

Deliveristas ending their shift and about to head home over the Williamsburg Bridge, though the blizzard. One of them, Salvador,tells me he’s happy for the cutoff by the city.

“This is more dangerous than last snowstorm, harder to move in,” he tells me in Spanish.

alternate title: Local Subway Passenger Wins Competition

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

This is an incredible labour of love.
Do read the thread as well as it has some important points to know.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Healthcare support got the lowest score of any group, which is funny or deeply concerning depending on how hard you think that field can push workers to use chatbots.

I'm dying to know the dredge operator task Copilot can do. Could do <0.1% of tasks, did 98% of it, needed help almost all the time.

Also, even for Interpreters & Translators, AI was usable in 98% of tasks, of which did 88.3% of the tasks given, of which 56.8% it did a "moderate" amount of the work involved. i.e. The chatbot could "do" most of the work, but needed people about half the time. As a linguist, I expected...better?

OP is misleading about the study.

The study didn't look at which jobs could be replaced with AI, but which tasks in those jobs are most likely to either use an AI chatbot. Also the values in OP's table don't match those in the study. I'm not sure why that'd be.

arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935

Close enough, welcome back dril

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Tuff

“How can we disrupt the construction of concentration camp infrastructure? What systems must be disrupted to undermine this fascist regime? What alliances must be formed? How can we organize both offensively and defensively in these times?”

“Abolish” or “defund” aren't within grasp in 2026. But where are:

- End qualified immunity
- Rewrite use-of-force so this crap isn't ruled “within policy”
- Overturn July 8 mandatory detention memo
- Reinstate TPS
- Open up detention centers, enforce humane conditions

He doesn’t even *ask* for it.

People are worried about the survival of the union, but I'd argue since the head of state seems to be able to cut aid while actively deploying armed loyalists to commit acts of wanton terror in states he considers his political enemies, the union is already dead

I always wondered what the inside of a podcast looked like. Thank you for showing us.