The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
A shocking amount of people approach fiction as if it is the news or internet beef, not a method of art making meant to communicate ideas and emotions.
I haven’t watched the Pitt but predicting things has infected most every fandom from gaming to music. There are prediction threads about what Olivia’s fourth album will be like. Art isn’t an extended universe! Sometimes people just respond to the world and make things. It’s not all a plan!
Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent
god created two genders and it’s important we all accept that (russell crowe in master and commander and paul bettany in master and commander)
My random thought for 2028: Campaigning directly to parents on the issue of closely regulating AI friend programs used by minors could be a big winning issue for a Democrat among a lot of key constituencies.
“you need to learn how to use ai” what the fuck are you talking about, how hard is it to type a prompt
ok but this demonstrates you listened to the entire album, so good!
please Zohran. Please !!!!!
It doesn't matter whether you are on twitter or bluesky, you will always see long threads of men arguing w/ each other about whether economic feelings are real without seeing anyone mention childcare costs, rising unsheltered homelessness or the fact that uncountable numbers of families live in cars
The image shows a flyer designed to match the homepage of Archive of Our Own, including the logo and banner from the website. The left column says “Survey Participants Needed! Fanfiction Writers, Fanfiction Readers, Fans, Fandom enthusiasts.” Below that says “Contact Information: Hannah F. Benton, Graduate Student, Rhetoric & Composition, College of Arts & Humanities, hannah.benton@ucf.edu. Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, Faculty Adviser, department of writing & Rhetoric, stephanie.wheeler@ucf.edu. The right column says “We are looking for Fanfiction readers and writers to participate in a short 10-minute survey. The purpose of this study is to better understand to what extend fanfiction Author’s notes (A/Ns) may function as recognizable, textual genres within online fandom communities. If you choose to participate, you will be asked to respond to several questions about your experience reading or writing fanfiction Author’s Notes as well as your understanding of how they function, their purpose, importance, and features.” Below that says “Information: No identifiable private information will be collected. You must be 18 years of age or older and have had prior experiences with either reading or writing fanfiction to take part in this research study.” The bottom of the flyer has the AO3 logo, a QR code, and “Access the survey here.” https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1XmdiMTnzfc9EFM
The image shows a social media post with “Survey Participants Needed” at the top along with the Archive of Our Own logo. Below the title says “Fanfiction readers & writers wanted. Must be 18+ & have had prior experiences with either reading or writing fanfiction. Less than 10-minutes. No identifiable information.” The bottom text says: “We are looking for Fanfiction readers and writers to participate in a short 10-minute survey. The purpose of this study is to better understand to what extend fanfiction Author’s notes (A/Ns) may function as recognizable, textual genres within online fandom communities. If you choose to participate, you will be asked to respond to several questions about your experience reading or writing fanfiction Author’s Notes as well as your understanding of how they function, their purpose, importance, and features.” The bottom of the image says “Questions? Email hannah F. Benton at hannah.benton@ucf.edu” and has a QR code with “Access the survey here!” https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1XmdiMTnzfc9EFM
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(@fanstudies.bsky.social @scmsfaas.bsky.social can i get a boost for this student's research solicitation?)
oh, this is very important to know!!
He's threatening nuclear war with the kind of language they'd use to promote a special episode of Celebrity Apprentice
Jewish h New Yorkers in the lobby of Palantir getting arrested
Jewish New Yorkers in sanctuary, not surveillance T-shirts getting arrested in the lobby of Palantir
Jewish New Yorkers have taken over the lobby of Palantir on the 6th night of Passover to protest corporate complicity in ICE’s deportation machine. NYC Jews demand #SanctuaryNotSurveillance!
This stuff is basically propaganda, and probably more dangerous than more obvious propaganda, because it performs the overcoming of objections to AI in a way educated readers are meant to find aspirationally sophisticated
this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender.
Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
“By July, the rabies team will be down to just one person with the clinical expertise to advise state and local officials, and the pox virus team will have none.”
"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."
I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you
March 30, 2026: Trump's Iran War Costs: $35.8 billion And your gas prices are... In Massachusetts: $3.80 In the US: $3.99 Donald Trump pointing: Trump at the Pump
It’s been 30 days since Trump started his illegal war with Iran.
Here’s what it’s costing Americans:
When you run a business cooperatively you understand exactly where the money goes, and realize how much money is wasted on unproductive bullshit from rich idiots. No market force is going to solve that. This system was not working before and it was always destined to break.
There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.
A predictable #NoKings take from Jeremy Peters: A small turnout will be ominous, a large one will be meaningless, all protests from the left are merely a "primal scream," and none of them mean much. The NYT has always loved protests as history but hated them as news. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...
Dan Radcliffe in his press tour talking about Brennan Lee Mulligan and How To Hide An Empire … twin ?!?!
A black and white graphic describing the sale of a shipping warehouse to the Choctaw Nation of OK.
🟢 Durant, OK warehouse has sold… to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma!
ICE previously sought to buy the space to create a mega detention center capable of holding 8,500 people. This is the 13th warehouse they have been denied.
Please sign this petition to ban "A.i." for two years from NYC schools.
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harry potter trailer
When you've never had a decision bounce back and hit you, when there are always buffers, lawyers, PR people, etc. who absorb the consequences, money to make problems go away, social networks that protect you from accountability, you don't develop the mental habit of thinking past the first move.