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.

"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/3634...

This is the most important thing you will read today – and probably the whole year, honestly.

We cannot let the AMOC collapse. For one thing it will make Iceland uninhabitable, and I would really like my children and grandchildren not to become refugees. But the effects will be almost everywhere.

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

After these four companies settled with Trump in his shakedown lawsuits, the money was pledged to his presidential library. But the fund was then dissolved. Senate Dems asked the companies where the money went. They have now replied. I've obtained their answers:

newrepublic.com/article/2092...

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“There’s no peace in the Middle East bc Palestinians refuse to believe in the Torah. The Torah says it’s our [Jews] land. And that’s why America must always stand with Israel.”

Wow. He just came right out and said it.

He really needs to step down

Last year, in a conversation with two of his own law clerks, recent law school graduates chosen for their conservative views, Justice Thomas said he intended to remain on the Court until the year 2034. Why that long? one asked. Because that would give him a 43-year term, he replied, according to the clerk's account, explaining, "The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years, and I'm going to make their lives miserable for 43 years."

Thomas isn’t going anywhere voluntarily. www.nytimes.com/1993/11/27/u...

Yikes! Always something…

We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI.

📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

I think we all understand what our military is doing in Iran right now. The upward transfer of wealth is staggering.

Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation

An article I wrote for men about "Rape Academy."

Women already know this & I say this with full awareness of how uncomfortable it makes men: Most men are not safe to be around alone.

This is not sustainable & men must lead the change. Men, we need to talk: qasimrashid.substack.com/p/men-we-nee...

Far-right troll account followed by JD Vance on X unmasked “HowlingMutant,” who jokes about rape and the Holocaust, is Alexander Norden of New York City

NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.

I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

Elon Musk's ex just LEAKED EVERYTHING YouTube video by Keith Edwards

Not enough people know that this is how it works.
Influences are paid to promote an opinion. #CashForComment
youtu.be/nUrRGKeo9pg?...

Scientists Prove That Experimental Animation Can Cure Social Media Brain Rot A new study from UC Santa Barbara shows that watching experimental animation expands creativity and opens new ways of seeing the world. #Animation #ExperimentalAnimation #MentalHealth #BrainRot

A new study from UC Santa Barbara shows that watching experimental animation expands creativity and opens new ways of seeing the world.

#Animation #ExperimentalAnimation #MentalHealth #BrainRot

History Is Running Backwards Why reactionaries are taking over the world

Great piece, it delayed my breakfast today, couldn't stop until I'd read the whole piece, and I feel like it's mandatory reading for anyone trying to make sense of where we are today, and why.

It leaves me with more questions than answers, but it covers things worth thinking deeply about.

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Not saying things like war and AI and inflation aren't really important, but...

Our civilisation-sustaining habitat is at risk of collapse, and every kilogram of carbon we choose to add to the atmosphere makes that collapse more likely

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is what happens when you give a criminal president who attempted a coup a second bite at the apple. You allow him the opportunity to dismantle all the obstacles that stopped him the first time.

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

A researcher invented a disease called “bixonimania” and wrote clearly bogus articles on Medium and arXiv about it, referencing Starfleet Academy, Sideshow Bob, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Within months, major AI apps were diagnosing users with bixonimania.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Forbes estimates Trump’s net worth is now $6.3 billion, soaring 60% from before he returned to office, striking given how much the Trump Organization struggled previously. Conflicts pile up in this 2nd term that are considered unprecedented, blatant and dangerous to democracy. AP

About the nicest thing you can say about Trump is that he is very dumb. It just spirals downhill from there.

It speaks volumes about our president. It looks like an SNL skit.

Australia's gas exports rose by $48 BILLION in a decade.

In that same decade, revenue from the petroleum resources rent tax FELL by $450 million.

The PRRT is broken. This is why Australia needs a 25% gas export tax.
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

Exactly 💯

"If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the f**k alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records." - Kurt Cobain The Advocate, 1995

Mood, every single day.