Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

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Stop fucking around and write the thing you need to write.

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears.

"She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.”

“'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."

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The President is threatening genocide and possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran.

It’s clear the President has continued to decline and is not fit to lead. The members of his Cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment immediately.

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

5-year-old B.C. boy celebrates birthday at recycling centre | CBC News For most people, recycling is a chore. But for Himmat Rai, a five-year-old living in Maple Ridge, B.C., he says it's his "favourite thing to do." And to celebrate his passion for recycling, Rai and ov...

Omg, a five year old had his dream birthday at a recycling centre and got to see fridges and stoves crushed!

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Perhaps people whose job is not literature don't know exactly *why* AI text longer than a paragraph is such a slog to read, even with its supposedly perfect grammar, but we know. It's bad. There is no there there, no thought, no throughline. Non-readers are trying to push mostly unreadable text.

“All authors are using AI now”

Not true! A lot of us use crippling childhood trauma.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

"(We were) cuffed and shackled...and shuttled on to a plane in the middle of the night" Seamus Culleton, detained by ICE, calls us live from a detention centre in El Paso, Texas. His wife Tiffany and sister Caroline also speak to Kieran about Seamus' plight.

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Some writing advice from Project Hail Mary’s Andy Weir The author explains why you should never approach writing a book like a movie.

"If you want to write a movie, write a screenplay. But if you want to write a book, write a book. And you should be focused on the reader’s experience while they’re reading your book."

Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained

Concentration camps.

Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague.

This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

Fantastic piece. The scariest thing about AI is that it damages our ability to believe. As Chuck says, "its mere existence makes it harder and harder to tell what is truth and what is fiction."

We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her.

Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Spoke to a Dean recently who told me she was adding a How To Use AI class to her curriculum. She said, “I don’t like AI, but I have to include, right? I just feel like my students need to know how to use it.”

FUCK NO!!!

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I feel for the author who had their book pulled by Hachette due to AI use. It seems like it may have been a case of naivete. If you're trying to write professionally, in any capacity, it's really safest to just not use AI *at all*.

The Girl Who Cried Pearls Oscar® Winner, Best Animated Short Film. In Montreal, at the dawn of the 20th century, a poor boy falls in love with a girl whose sorrow turns into …

The NFB is showing The Girl Who Cried Pearls for free!

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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Ontario to introduce bill exempting Premier, cabinet from FOI requests Government’s proposed changes follow its loss of court battle over call logs for Ford’s personal cellphone

I am begging my fellow Canadians to take a break for a second from obsessing about American corruption to focus on our home grown versions.

Ford is a corrupt crony goon who has done countless shady backroom deals. He wants to remove one of our most powerful tools to hold him accountable. Fuck that!

Made it to round 2! Please drop The Guest Children a vote if you have a moment and thanks to all who voted in Round 1!

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Voted! I absolutely loved reading your book!!

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Stop Calling Stakes High or Low: Call them Near or Far Instead This Saturday I’m reading at Babylon Salon in SF! You can still get a signed personalized copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, my novel about a trans witch...

"I would like to throw the concept of low stakes and high stakes into the nearest volcano and never speak of these concepts again. Rather, I would like to talk about stakes that are near or far."

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