I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Act up activism is actually an amazing model for social change, in your face direct action, inside outside organizing, science led policy platforms, no monopoly on action, incredibly savvy media strategy, etc. and what a legacy to have been affiliated with this movement

Go Voyager!!!!

Its contents include a sample of global human culture as of its launch in 1977, and a powerful message from a president who believed in its mission, Jimmy Carter.

Cybertrucks Are a Safety Disaster w/ Dara Kerr - Tech Won’t Save Us

“They basically found a spine. That's it. This man was cremated inside his Cybertruck ... Tesla’s trying to get the case moved to private arbitration ... When you buy a Tesla it's like when you sign up for an app.” @darakerr.bsky.social on @techwontsave.us [29:08]
techwontsave.us/episode/324_...

Kenyan firm sacks more than 1,000 workers after losing Meta contract Meta paused work with Sama last month after allegations about staff viewing private scenes filmed by smart glasses

I’m sure this is unrelated to the fact that last month data workers revealed they were asked by Meta to review video from Meta Ray Bans of user’s intimate moments like having sex or using the bathroom.

“Here Comes the Sun” Book Talk with Bill McKibben - The Sanctuary For Independent Media Acclaimed environmentalist Bill McKibben will be at the Sanctuary to share his hope for our future in Here Comes the Sun, a call to harness the power of the sun and rewrite our scientific, economic, a...

This talk at @mediasanctuary.bsky.social by @billmckibben.bsky.social was so good, you should watch it!
www.mediasanctuary.org/event/bill-m...

Did you know that most ER’s do not have the ability to test for GHB/roofies? They usually only have a 5 screen drug panel available to them in the ER.
If you can’t test for it, there’s no stats for it. So the public won’t know how many women are really being attacked.

This week is the first at the Daily News since Heath Freeman's Alden Capital laid off our entire print production staff.

It's embarrassing to open the paper we work so hard for each day and find mistakes like this.

Is this the level of editing New Yorkers can count on going forward?

Recovery crew opening the hatch and welcoming the Artemis II crew home after a nearly 700,000-mile journey.

Video: Reid Wiseman

“Even more troublingly, other researchers say, the fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers.”

It's a new profile pic day.

not only are wire services the core of an enormous amount of reporting, AP plays a very specific and authoritative role in election calling

Border Patrol Agents Sold Challenge Coins With ‘Charlotte’s Web’ Characters in Riot Gear Nonprofits run out of US Border Patrol stations are also selling other “operation”-themed coins that include a phrase popularized by the Proud Boys, potentially in violation of government rules.

NEW: I found IRS paperwork for several nonprofits whose addresses matched Border Patrol stations. Some of the groups, named after the military's "morale, welfare, and recreation" program, were selling challenge coins commemorating last year's enforcement surges: www.wired.com/story/us-bor...

It says something really ugly and frightening about us as a country that we can have a president spouting deranged threats to commit unambiguous war crimes & it’s just another week; no immediate action to remove him from office.

The DOJ Misled a Judge About How It’s Using Voter Roll Data The acting head of the DOJ’s voting section told a judge last week that the agency had not touched the nonpublic voter roll data it has collected. That wasn’t true.

The acting head of the DOJ’s voting section told a judge last week that the agency had not touched the nonpublic voter roll data it has collected. That wasn’t true. www.wired.com/story/doj-mi...

Ceramic Nest Eggs Durable, realistic ceramic eggs are as versatile as actual eggs. Encourage laying, retrain hens, test for broodiness, discourage chickens from pecking eggs, and more. Available in brown or white. Fake...

Is it for broody hens?
happyhentreats.com/products/cer...

There are now 10 toilets in Space

International Space Station: 4
Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1
Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1
Tiangong Space Station: 2
Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1
Artemis II on way around Moon: 1

This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

A skinny big-eyed brown lanternfish. Image by Emma Kissling from wikimedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanternfish

Please remember when you swim in the ocean:

200 meters below you, there is a layer of fish that stretches all around the world. It is so dense, that when it was discovered during WWII it scared the navy so bad they bombed it.

This is the ocean's thin inner shell of fish [🧵]

Merely declaring that no quarter will be given is a war crime. This formulation is from the Rome Statute, but it is well understood as a war crime.

If you read cursive, the Newberry has a job for you. The Newberry Library in Chicago is scouting transcribers to demystify its handwritten collection. As Dan Kelly wrote in yesterday’s Chicago, the archive’s hunt for “living Rosetta…

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you...

The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

“We’re ready to walk out if management doesn't come back and substantively address the major demands we have.”

Listen to ProPublica Guild Secretary @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social’s interview on @wbai.org (starting at 34:30):
wbai.org/archive/prog...

1/ My first story as a @propublica.org climate reporter:

I discovered that the Trump appointee in charge of rewriting methane rules at the EPA was – just four years ago – an unnamed author of an oil industry response to those same rules.

His name isn't in the document itself, but…

Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Deaths in ICE custody are inhumane and inexusable.

As are the deaths of more than TWENTY THOUSAND people in U.S. jails and prisons each year.

www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/23/d...

#AbolishICE #PrisonAbolition

A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses. It Didn’t Work The incidents in Austin raise questions about how self-driving cars “learn” and adapt to their surroundings.

This is fine dot gif

www.wired.com/story/a-scho...

Hundreds of people carried off thousands of CDs from my Dad’s collection yesterday.

From his octogenarian friends to his former jazz history students to his radio colleagues to my 6th grade teacher, Lafayette really showed up for one of their own.

I was incredibly moved by it.

I Decompiled the White House's New App The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Jon Passant of @status.news says a line was crossed by these words. I'm inclined to agree.

www.status.news/p/brendan-ca... [no paywall]

“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young representative named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...