Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

"we need kids to get an early start operating machines that are routinely wrong and may try to coax them into suicide and/or psychosis" is a fun education perspective i disagree with actually

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

A parking sign that reads “No ICE. Please Get A Real Job” Headline reads “Who Is L.A.’s Hero Posting Up These Anti-ICE Parking Signs?”

In a city where bureaucracy moves at a glacial pace, a new wave of activists has decided that if the government won't act, its citizens will.

The full story: lataco.com/anti-ice-par...

By Lauren Bethke

A large turnout of NoKings protestors in Culver City.

Sign says, “No FauxKing Way”

Poster in Russian propaganda style with image of Putin holding a baby Trump who is waving a fascist flag

Woman wearing a pink lizard mask with a sign reading “Honk if u can’t afford gas”

#NoKings in Culver City:

Update: Judith and I are moved beyond words by the outpouring of support. Whether it's buying a book from the store; offering tips on how to navigate The System after a layoff, or just writing to express sympathy, it all helps, tremendously. We will pay this forward. Love to you all.

Various philosophies

Various philosophies

There is a version of this world that could exist where, at any given time, the majority of humans beings are just chillin’ and eating fruit.

“We’re hearing that we’ve raised the second most in history in our annual fund drive, & there’s no indication of where that money is going,” another former editor tells me. “It’s not going to staff salaries, and it’s not going to writers’ rates”
💥Devastating piece about Los Angeles Review of Books💥

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

By Julianne Le

Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

And so quick! We're #1! We're #1!

Important perspective from Greenland.

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

Always identify your exits! Good luck

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.

I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

OLD MEDIA MODEL: advertising
NEW MEDIA MODEL: 12-part “my struggle” series about your breakup

I love Clifton’s Cafeteria in LA and I had no idea the founder was so bad ass.

PUBLIC ENEMY "The Hits Just Keep On Comin" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO YouTube video by Channel ZERO

YOU GOTTA DO SOMETHING ✊🏾

m.youtube.com/watch?v=iX6L...

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

Brb just writing a screenplay about a struggling inflatable costume factory in a wholesome but dying American small town that unexpectedly helps save democracy, and democracy saves it right back.

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Every SCOTUS ruling feels like America slowly writing its own obituary in Comic Sans.

Front cover of book, I Knew 3000 Lunatics by Victor R.Small, 1935, Farrar & Rinehart.

Feeling's mutual