No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.
And as for antisemitism, well, Acker loved to claim that any critique of his behavior was "antisemitism", a move that cheapens a very real threat and makes us all less safe. He's the boy who cried wolf.
He must have had such a busy week frowning with each downed tree and deciding which get funerals.
1. In devastating news, the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of conversion therapy, a practice the UN calls torture.
The ruling could have catastrophic consequences, writes Jackson in her sole dissent.
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LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)
A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...
When people ask us if self-driving cars will make roads safer... maybe?? It's not clear yet. They'll definitely add congestion. But we have existing technologies - like speed limiters - that will DEFINITELY make roads safer and can be implemented today. Let's start with the easy solutions first?
When a car literally kills an entire family, it's just a tragic accident and there's nothing that can be done, because it might inconvenience a driver.
Like listening to otherwise normal people talk about a bike lane or a traffic-calming measure is just nuts. You'd think a speed bump killed their entire family
A screenshot of the landing page for a story from the Independent reading: Delta flew 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father to ICE detention in Texas, new video shows A photo of federal agents detaining Liam Conejo Ramos in Minnesota outraged people across the nation last year Ariana Baio Tuesday 17 March 2026 16:15 EDT
A screenshot of the landing page for my story reading: Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center Three plainclothes federal agents can be seen boarding a Delta flight while guarding the 5-year-old boy and his father, right under unsuspecting passengers' noses. Gillian Brockell 16 Mar 2026 - 8 min read
A line from the Independent story reading: “The airport footage was obtained through an information disclosure request to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport by activist Nick Benson with MN50501 - a Minnesota-based organization that advocates against Trump's policies.” I’ve highlighted the part where it links to MN50501.
A screenshot of a browser window showing that the MN50501 link includes “?ref=gillianbrockell.com”
This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL.
And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story.
In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/
#a2council nobody knows how anything works and they do not care to learn
Weird to see a historic district advocate arguing against permitting mixed use in historic neighborhoods that were historically mixed use. It’s almost like historic preservation isn’t the actual goal … #a2council
Update: yes.
A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow. A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk. It crashes into a rental scooter. It backs up. It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles. The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again. A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.
The Amazing World of Tomorrow
Britta Perry from Community saying "I can excuse obliterating a school, but I draw the line at gas price hikes." Second panel is Shirley Bennett asking "You can excuse obliterating a school?"
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
anthropomorphic clock being threatened by figures with an axe and a hammer, caption reads SMASH YOUR CLOCKS! ending time opens all possibilities
PSA
“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social
Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”
UTC or bust
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉
CNN gas tracker: $3.41
vibe check: CNN now has a gas tracker on their front page
The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants
As the election season ramps up, listen for the candidates who are centering their campaigns on the “Taylor machine” fallacy and consider what else they might be ignorant of or mischaracterizing.
I am not making it up! #a2council is much more contentious than the rest of the country! district.myhamlet.com/articles/ann...
As someone who pays a lot of attention to #a2council politics and knows many of the people involved to varying degrees, the “Mayor Taylor machine” narrative has always been a strong signal of either ignorance or bad faith. These data show this clearly.
🧵 Living in Michigan, if a political issue seems frustratingly impossible to advance, you can almost always find the roots in policies motivated by racial and economic segregation. When you scrape back the "housing theory of everything" you find racism and classism under the hood.
Small pack of chicken that costs about $10
A large pack of chicken that also costs about $10
The living alone tax is real. Same chicken two very different prices per pound.
Sure your local library is great but does it have a Kigurumi groundhog named Akako G Shins