"Oh Christ any asshole with an *Italian milsurp* rifle can pick off like 99.999% of any of us, the most important people in the world in 1963? We're actually fine if you guys think that us, the Mafia, and three space aliens working together was ALL necessary to pull that off successfully, thanks."

Oswald was in fact a lone gunman who pulled it off, and the federal LE/IC apparatus got so freaked at the fact that *any whacko with a Carcano could just fucking DO that* that they wink-and-nudged at conspiracists for years to discourage copycats as well as obfuscating how easy it was for a rando.

Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data The models are designed to predict someone’s risk of diabetes or stroke. A few might already have been used on patients.

This is why I keep banging on about the importance of trained humans in the loop for data analyses. You *cannot* just take a dataset and run, especially not unattributed data from kaggle. You *must* do the due diligence to look for artifacts, outliers, and edge cases with your actual human eyes.

Our country is so corrupt. JFC

*or any year.

Reporters should not socialize with the elected officials they cover. I will die on this hill.

Flooding in Chicago is getting worse. Here's why. Blamed in part on climate change, the threat of water ponding in your yard or your basement is growing, a Sun-Times/WBEZ investigation has found, putting health, homes at risk.

"Over the past century in Chicago, the likelihood of heavy rainstorms has increased sevenfold."

I’m from Shreveport. I wrote about the tragic murders of these kiddos.

www.thecut.com/_pages/cmo7c...

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

www.theatlantic.com/business/arc...

paywall but....we always knew

Advertisement in the MTA: AB > AI Downgrade now. Picture of a gameboy.

Even marketing execs smell AI blood in the water. Look at this ad I saw in Manhattan last week.

If you're in line for the AI Is Fucking Over Party STAY IN LINE

The Black Muslim Bakery used to sell terrific veggie burgers at A’s games in Oakland.

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: March 2026 - Reactor This month's stories focus on unstoppable disasters and satisfying revenge...

My ten favorite short speculative fiction stories from March were full of vengeance and fighting against unstoppable disasters. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

Need to feel like you’re actually DOING something to kickstart what’s left of our democracy? Sign up to send letters to new midterm voters. All it takes is a little time and a couple stamps.📬💪🏻

My horror and distaste for gambling seemed has always felt like a niche belief that was mostly irrelevant to my daily life. I don't like how salient it has become.

Every time I read a piece about somebody with an “ai-assisted editing process” I feel like I’m watching someone trying to intellectualize a deliberate choice not to think or concentrate

Is the U.S. 'empire' beginning to show cracks? : Code Switch The Trump administration's recent military actions have had certain observers asking... are we going full empire? But Daniel Immerwahr, a historian and the author of How to Hide an Empire, argues that...

Man, I was all set to recommend this focused, clear interview with the author of HOW TO HIDE AN EMPIRE.

www.npr.org/2026/04/18/n...

And then I found out he sanewashed RFK Jr in the national press. ARRRRRRRggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/05/sane...

We still tap MAC and go to concerts at Spaghetti Warehouse. Philly doesn’t accept new names. Our defiance builds community. Don’t like it? Go pound sand up Delaware Avenue.

As a Philadelphian, I agree wholeheartedly with every word of this article (gift link). share.inquirer.com/sYJXm1

Now we just need @farfarraway.bsky.social to do an article on our tendency to give directions based on where things USED to be. "Take a left at the old Girard Bank...."

second base umpire wanted nothing to do with no goose

“I didn’t know you knew how to use the computer” omg immediately in love with her

My reflection on COVID is that it sucked for everyone, but it sucked for everyone differently, and a lot of broken friendships and family strife are the result of people assuming that everyone else had the exact same COVID experience they did.

Dead grandma left a note on her history project desk that archivist granddaughter finds in the attic: “history is not a luxury. It is a necessity.”

Shot of the slavery exhibit at the presidents house site within the first minute!

Stream It Or Skip It: 'To Philly With Love' on the Hallmark Channel, where a historian researching a Revolution-era romance falls for a local archivist …and of course there the romance features cheesesteaks, it would be a crime if it didn’t.

Settling into “To Philly With Love,” the Hallmark movie about a historian falling in love with an archivist in Philly. decider.com/2026/04/18/t...

The future of making sure you don’t leave this guy alone with your drink

The Capitol has something called "the office of the attending physician" — in other words, Members have their own, on-site, doctor.

Oh, and there's also WRNMMC, you may have heard of Fetterman going there?

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Please don't be like this well 'akshually jackass'

1) Understand that "health insurance" is not the same thing as "health care." Your MoC is not getting care in the overflow hallway you got stuck in for 12 hours, he's on the VIP floor (you know most, if not all, major 🏥 have a VIP area, right?)

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

Everyone needs to read Matthew's latest post, because this is what's in store for all of us at some point--being harmed by HCWs whose inadequate training & supervision are policy choices--unless we mobilize to reverse MAHA's cuts to Medicaid & Medicare