Let me guess, the advice is: be thin?

"Are you on social media? Do not delete your account. Are you off social media? Do not get an account. But if you post you do not sin, and if a person with no social media joins, she does not sin. Yet those who post will experience distress in this life, and I would spare you that."⚓️🕯️

This is an excellent rundown of what I was getting at on the Vergecast this week - there just isn’t some competitive market that will generate better experiences for people, and there’s virtually no regulation, so instead we’re going to get real weird litigation forever. America, basically

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

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Title-Poem I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might please you-this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?

Mary Ruefle

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened.

And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

Facts. And if you really want to turn it up to 11, have them add a little creamy jalapeño sauce. *chef’s kiss*

"We have frequently printed the word Democracy. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps." Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871

Listen to your elders and sages: do not do to others what you would not have done to you.

Best Picture, no real competition

The Case for War, by Someone Whose Kids Won’t Die Fighting in It “The next days will be decisive. The best course for the United States is to spell out clearly to Iran what the paths of escalation — and de-escala...

"As someone whose kids won’t die fighting in the war, it’s important that you understand the flimsy, morally bankrupt justifications for war, and why it’s vital for you to throw more of your children's lives at this one."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Scribbled on/in a bathroom stall, the opening lines from Farewell Transmission by Songs: Ohia: The whole place is dark / Every light is on this side of the town / Suddenly it all went down

Seen in a bathroom stall at DEN.

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Read this in print over the weekend. Me and Michelle both in tears by the end.

If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.

There is not this seething horde of bigots that needs to be checked by the Ivy-educated Good People.

In fact, many of those Good People have prejudices deeper and sharper than anyone, and will burn society to the ground to express them

the ninja turtles and the power rangers putting aside their differences and teaming up

lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day

I Am Pam Bondi’s Shiny Gold Cross Necklace In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was “accessorize.” I am equal parts holy relic and regional pageant tiara. I...

"I am forged of divine gold sourced from the sacred hills of Medjugorje. I was purchased at a Miami-Dade jewelry store that is really a front for a Medicare fraud scheme. As God intended."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...

No Kings includes Draft Kings

in order for any progress to take place we ALL have to be prepared to see things get better in ways that contradict our beliefs about what's possible and where

Excellent advice for much nonfiction, too.

A newsletter from the vapid hypocrite Congress Man John Moolenar, sent the Monday after CBP agents murdered Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis, begins "I believe every life has value and deserves protection." And go on to offer a one-question survey about . . . abortion. My response: "What a timely survey, Congressman John Moolenaar! As it happens, I'm very right-to-life. I think you should definitely look into the abortion your president's operatives performed on Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis Saturday. I mean, he definitely had a heartbeat and seemed perfectly viable until they threw him down on the pavement and shot him in the back a dozen times. I think he had a right to life. What do YOU think?"

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

Just found out this dude’s store is called Dreamhaven Books. dreamhavenbooks.com

"they don't deserve our fear" is a profound thing to say imo & I'm grateful for it

distrust yes caution yes. fear God maybe (proverbs 9:10 though I have long-winded thoughts about the fear of God). these men terrorizing citizens may be a lot of things but they don't know the first thing about God

someone in a nail polish subreddit created a shade that matches the one in this photo and is selling it on etsy so she can afford to buy her boyfriend a bulletproof vest to wear while doing ICE watch at home depot. we live in hell but we are going to fucking win.

Also, please feel free to invite Mitt Romney and any other national U.S. political figure from the last 20 years.

Seen in Los Angeles

(Credit: Zurita Carpio)