I can't believe we have reached this point, but this bears crystal clear emphasis: Our global climate system ensures that even "limited" use of lower-yield "tactical" nuclear weapons against civilian or industrial targets would have major regional-to-global scale consequences.
Somebody was talking about how all the single use plastics that we absolutely need for hospitals and medical settings are going to suffer from this petroleum crisis at some point, yet all i see in most publications is concern about gas prices.
The limitations on violence established after World War II were not brought by pacifists or peaceniks but by literal old soldiers. They knew. They had seen.
I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact
I’m completely sick and tired of hearing about HP but this article is excellent.
“What you feel in your heart towards the series is almost entirely irrelevant. What matters is what you do, because J. K. Rowling is out there doing a lot of things.”
defector.com/its-time-to-...
actual nytimes headline FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.
you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides
the nytimes:
I dunno I think neoliberalism’s grand plan of dismantling the welfare state and the social contract and replacing them, respectively, with nothing and nothing created a pretty fertile breeding ground for fascism and this isn’t even particularly controversial anymore.
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.
The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.
Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
Writing is thinking, not just transcription of knowledge.
Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.
IDA PEARL AGE 20 LIVED AT 355 e 4th St Died 3/25/1911 Triangle Factory Fire
Lizzie Adler Age 24 Lived Here 324 e. 6th St. Killed 3-25-1911 Triangle Fire We Remember
Gussie Bierman Age 22, Lived here at 8 rivington st & died March 25th, 1911 in the triangle factory fire
If you're in Manhattan today, keep your eyes out for these sidewalk chalk memorials for the 146 victims of the Triangle Factory Fire.
The Chalk Project was started by Ruth Sergel in 2004 and is now organized by the Tenement Museum.
Meta and YouTube were both found liable by a California jury for harming a plaintiff's mental health with the design of their products. A massive ruling in a bellwether case that will open the floodgates for other lawsuits
I just suggested the daycare center I sent kid #1 to as a solution for someone. I paid $650 a month. I knew it had gone up, but they are usually considered the affordable option. So let's say $7800 a year. It's almost $19,000 a year now. In Central Illinois. No one's having babies.
The Jetsons lied to us
if ICE is actually going to be out there thugging people at airports SF conventions and stuff better start prepping the whole virtual attendance thing again because there's whole swathes of panelists who aren't going to want to do flights for a bit
For many years, the US government persuaded most of its own citizens - and many others - that its intentions and behaviour were benign, despite the perpetual wars, coups, murders, resource grabs, the ecocide and neocolonialism. If Trump has done one thing for us, it is to rip the mask away.
BREAKING: The White House is out with a new National Policy framework for AI.
The proposal says: "States should not be permitted to regulate AI development."
It also says that states shouldn't be able to penalize AI companies when people break the law with their models.
Nation Doesn’t Have Anything Left To Enjoy Once Scented Candle Burns Out
Nation Doesn’t Have Anything Left To Enjoy Once Scented Candle Burns Out theonion.com/nation-doesn-t-have-anyt...
Cesar Chavez is accused of sexually assaulting fellow labor rights icon and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta.
Huerta discussed for the first time at length about her new public disclosures in an exclusive interview with Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa, who spoke with Democracy Now!
Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
BREAKING: Workers at CBS are walking out.
The unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are going on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco.
The walkout comes after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded.
Racism + 65 years of people being told that we do not live in a society.
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Try to list three things, only 3 things that a Democratic House would do in February 2027. You can't do it and it's not your fault.
- Rosa Luxemburg, 1915
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
