Clip from linked story: "...probably perceive him as a very normative masculine man because he eats meat" and he's fit, she told me. "But then he breaks his boundaries of masculinity by eating vegan food, and for a lot of people, this brings a lot of tension and a lot of questions." [...] One day, just a couple of weeks after he had launched the Soy Boy Chronicles, he tried to log on to Instagram only to find that his account had been taken down. The reason? According to a screenshot Smith shared with Vox, Meta said it doesn't allow its users to follow, praise, or support people or organizations it defines as dangerous.

Much great reporting and analysis in here 🫛💪

Carefully doesn't say that Insta banned a fitfluencer for transgressing gender boundaries around meat (or, more likely, for generating a whole bunch of reports from people who thought he did) but it also doesn't NOT say that

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn

personally I think "Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn" is a bad thing to read in the newspaper

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

The famous DaShareZone "Just Walk Out" image of a skeleton purposefully walking away from something in a blue-and-white liminal space. White text over the image reads "JUST WALK OUT / you can leave!!! / work / social thing / movies / home / class / dentist / clothes shoppi / too fancy weed store / cops if your quick / friend ships / IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!! [finally, in cursive] real winners quit"

Many highly developed (& correct!) consequentialist arguments for how veg(itari)anism helps animals, workers, or environment through social, political, or economic mechanisms

But what made me take the leap years ago was much simpler virtue ethics: "I don't like this & I don't need to be part of it"

you can opt out of participating in this system entirely and it feels so great!

important story here by @jesslsr.bsky.social

We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously. 1/7

These attacks, like all phishing, rely on social engineering. Attackers impersonate trusted contacts or services (such as the non-existent “Signal Support Bot”) to trick victims into handing over their login credentials or other information. 3/7

Join me for an ~Ask Me Anything~ about this story on the extreme confinement of dairy calves: Americans ditched veal, but what replaced it is just as bad

On the r/iama subreddit, TODAY! at 12pm ET!! reddit.com/r/IAmA/

AMA HERE! www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

"A more helpful question than “Is it intelligent” might be: what does it mean to know? What does it mean to believe that others know? How does this impact trust in a society, and how might AI colonize those mechanisms to seize that trust? "

^^^ THIS.

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

With tax season in full swing, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.

(Published 2019)

Was Epstein a Russian agent? Was Epstein an Israeli agent? This debate that's is "either/or" is raging in social media right now. It's far off the mark. Epstein ran an operation on the model of Robert Maxwell, who networked with at least 7 intel agencies,

Beefing with a five year-old should be an impeachable offense for the stain to the national honor alone. It's frankly pathetic.

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

Cute talking parrots have gone viral on TikTok, yet these animals were likely bred in abject cruelty (or were even snatched from the wild). See for yourself in this new Vox investigation:

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

I feel like a lot of folks sharing this article didn't read it. People are acting like the cars are being remote driven & this has been hidden when the article makes clear it's the opposite.

Guess what! I wrote about OpenClaw née Moltbot and Moltbook in this week's episode:

Newsletter version: newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s21e...

Podcast version:
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uh more in thread I guess...

LiberalCurrents Official subreddit for Liberal Currents, an independent publication that promotes thinkers who advance ambitious agendas to foster a truly open society. Read us at liberalcurrents.com

I saw that Trump polls -40 on Reddit and finally sat down and made us a subreddit, please join if you're active over there www.reddit.com/r/LiberalCur...

I absolutely understand the museum folks who want it restored but it looks SO cool and provocative and improved tbh in the damaged form that it immediately gives me like seventeen different ideas for making it a special exhibit centerpiece

Secrets of Intelligence Services I asked Claude code to build Claude code. You won’t believe what happened next.

I asked Claude Code to build Claude Code. You won’t believe what happened next.

These historic computing labs teach kids what technology was like before phones, social media, and the cloud - Fast Company The labs help students and researchers understand computing’s history and future—and stoke an interest in cloud-free technology.

Yay, our glorious @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social and her fearless leader @loriemerson.net appear in @fastcompany.com this week! Come visit us sometime.

www.fastcompany.com/91483774/the...

The case against owning small pets Your pet fish — or bird, or hamster — is probably miserable.

It is weird that we normalized keeping caged wild animals in our living rooms

www.vox.com/the-highligh...

The secret to better public housing Subsidized housing can greatly improve the lives of low-income kids — if we design it right.

"The scarred legacy of the projects has strained public faith in public housing, but there is still an important role for government to play... cross-class living and mobility is, after all, the great promise of city life." ~@mbolotnikova.bsky.social

🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe...

>doesn't know the lore

If you have an interest in mixing computation and experiments to understand microbial evolution (for example antibiotic resistance) and you think you might be a good fit for a postdoc in my lab, reach out. If it seems it might be a fit I’m happy to help you frame it as AI for Biology per this call

To be clear, big fan of this idea, even if I'm not an oat milk guy (soy milk 4eva). Saves loads of money and carbon on shipping too

Oat Milk Slices Oat Milk Slices are finally here! This revolutionary product is easily proportionable for always fresh plant-based milk - just blend with water! This precycled product utilizes 85% less packaging, and...

On the other hand you can get oat milk that comes in slices now www.milkadamia.com/products/oat...

"In our book, Why We Fear AI, we argue that it is in fact precisely the error-prone and brittle nature of these systems that makes them work so well for political repression. 1/2

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org