everyone should read this book. i’d bet you’ll look at (and hopefully use) AI very differently if you knew about all of its consequences.
care about the environment? AI is not your friend.
care about the well-being of workers from the Global South? AI is not your friend.
if i had a nickel for every time i’ve debbie downer-ed a conversation for this exact thing…
(a good test of true friendship as well 🙃)
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."
Here are the hard numbers:
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.
There were reports that the Palestine Football Association Canadian visas were denied ahead of FIFA Congress on April 30 in Vancouver, BC.
It's more complicated than that. No question on the importance of them being there.
Looked into it with Aloysius Wong for CBC News.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sports owners are using tech to build private surveillance states — while taking public money.
Which means that Knicks owner James Dolan is the future.
In a new collaboration with @wired.com, we go inside how MSG secretly watches fans, surveils kids, tracks players… youtu.be/yNZ3hJPN5Vc?...
Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast
And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...
Umpteeth reason to boycott the Men’s World Cup this summer. If FIFA is going to continue finding ways to betray the world’s game, we don’t have to go along with it.
ummm wtf canada?!
reposting to encourage everyone to use alt text like this 👇🏼
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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...
Gaines probably wasn’t the first person Trump insulted after criticizing him. My guess? Tied for fifth at best, but if she’s not careful she might still make that her whole personality
Dispatches from the intersection of queer sports & pop culture: Out of Your League
Sports are gay: Out of Your League
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Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Indian Act. Over on @activehist.bsky.social, we’re running a year-long series examining its controversial history. Here’s the series introduction I contributed to: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/01...
Love this. Supporters of St. Pauli & Bayern Munich unveil matching banners last weekend at their Bundesliga match: "In the stadiums & everywhere: let's fight the right-wing drift & the Nazis"
for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built
image of a green book titled: "Red Card: The 2026 FIFA World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine." by Jules Boykoff with introduction by Dave Zirin. The cover features a hand wielding a red card.
❗Excited to announce my new book "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, & the FIFA Greed Machine," with an introduction by @edgeofsports.bsky.social. Hope you'll consider pre-ordering (with 15% discount) via @orbooks.bsky.social: orbooks.com/catalog/red-...
brianna turner has been leading from the front for a long time and she’s never missed a beat.
play this one on repeat.
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:
Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%
Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
Indiana Fever player Brianna Turner speaks out against the IOC trans/intersex women ban on the pages of USA Today: ”Transgender women are women. Women with intersex variations are women. I welcome these women – and all women – onto my teams.” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
sure, let’s use the tool that’s obliterating the environment to help the environmental department.
I think this is really important, and I'm worried it's never going to filter into the mainstream: Finland is producing studies that their researchers claim cast doubt on gender affirming care for youth, but they hide the ways their idiosyncratic approach itself could be to blame.
It is extremely important to understand two things about darts, as presently constituted:
1) There is one (1) trans woman who plays in the Women's Series, this is basically just a ban on her
2) Darts has pretty much always been a "coed" sport, and women compete at majors all the time!
a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate
annoying AI summaries spread misinformation? no! who could have predicted that?
ps as someone who left google and chrome in the dust, you can too! come join duckduckgo (and tell its AI functions to STFU).
Kind of sad that 10 years after the TRC, this edition had to include a section on what residential school denial is.
