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Journalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contempt
A Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023
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today @prismreports.org is launching its partnership with Visualizing Palestine, featuring this reporting on media bias from the incredible Laura Albast. i'm proud as hell of prism's work every day, but i'm especially proud of this; please give it a read. prismreports.org/2025/09/09/j...
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AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling
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If there’s not an Etsy candle store called Votive Confidence I will eat my fuckin computer
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
If there’s not an Etsy candle store called Votive Confidence I will eat my fuckin computer
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I didn't think that this voicemail message for this municipal district a thousand miles away would make me cry, but it did.
I'd say these guys need to be running the country but they seem to be exactly where they need to be
I'd say these guys need to be running the country but they seem to be exactly where they need to be
this is not our customer service number. it’s just my voicemail inbox.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
November 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I didn't think that this voicemail message for this municipal district a thousand miles away would make me cry, but it did.
I'd say these guys need to be running the country but they seem to be exactly where they need to be
I'd say these guys need to be running the country but they seem to be exactly where they need to be
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"We know from rigorous scientific observation that grief and love aren’t exclusively human," Barbara J. King, a professor emerita of anthropology at William & Mary and research fellow at the animal-ethics think tank PAN Works, wrote in an email.
"They don’t belong to us; they are not human terms."
"They don’t belong to us; they are not human terms."
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
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defector.com/why-wont-nor...
Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"We know from rigorous scientific observation that grief and love aren’t exclusively human," Barbara J. King, a professor emerita of anthropology at William & Mary and research fellow at the animal-ethics think tank PAN Works, wrote in an email.
"They don’t belong to us; they are not human terms."
"They don’t belong to us; they are not human terms."
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“To assume the absence of emotion would enact anthropodenialism”
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“To assume the absence of emotion would enact anthropodenialism”
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When one of your readers is actually better at summarising your books than you ever could be…
To give a flavour of each: Notebook is a modern almanac of psychedelic thoughts about life, nature and writing; 1983 is about family, community and the pursuit of freedom set in a Nottinghamshire coal mining village just before the world tilts. Both will bring warmth to your winter.
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
When one of your readers is actually better at summarising your books than you ever could be…
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I remember this scene in Redwall
It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
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merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I remember this scene in Redwall
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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When a fire erupted on my street during the LA wildfires in January I had 10 minutes to throw whatever I could in my car and get out. I don’t have jewels or fancy artwork. Family photos are all digitized. Only thing irreplaceable were a lifetime of handwritten journals and notes and story ideas.
That depends. Are AI companies going to keep stealing my published work without permission or compensation to train their models?
Should I be allowed to go into your house and steal what’s most valuable to you in order to enrich myself then throw a fit when you don’t welcome me with open arms?
Should I be allowed to go into your house and steal what’s most valuable to you in order to enrich myself then throw a fit when you don’t welcome me with open arms?
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
When a fire erupted on my street during the LA wildfires in January I had 10 minutes to throw whatever I could in my car and get out. I don’t have jewels or fancy artwork. Family photos are all digitized. Only thing irreplaceable were a lifetime of handwritten journals and notes and story ideas.
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the food you like? it's bad. the food *i* like? good. checkmate, losers
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
the food you like? it's bad. the food *i* like? good. checkmate, losers
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literally always saying this!!!!
“i wish there was a normal place to post now” — @mollytaft.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
literally always saying this!!!!
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
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Reader, it was so good that I bought the book.
I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
The Village Message Board
Its authenticity was discredited because of his reputation, but also because he was quick with gin at the time and wearing an item of knitwear back to front.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reader, it was so good that I bought the book.
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Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.
What if the A.I. bubble “is an inevitable part of developing and adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity and growth?” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.
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If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
(KRON) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that it has settled claims of hazardous waste violations at an Apple microchip factory in Santa Clara. In August 2023 and January 2024, federal regulators inspected Apple’s facility at 3250 Scott Boulevard after receiving a tip from the public. The inspections, according to the EPA, [...]
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November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
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Thanks to staff of the Harvard Crimson for demonstrating the importance of local, community journalism (and for running a wiser, more informative, and more righteous editorial department than the Washington Post's). www.thecrimson.com/thread/2025/...
Amid Epstein Fallout, Summers Retreats | News | The Harvard Crimson
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thanks to staff of the Harvard Crimson for demonstrating the importance of local, community journalism (and for running a wiser, more informative, and more righteous editorial department than the Washington Post's). www.thecrimson.com/thread/2025/...
hell yeah, cools! (didn't appreciate the side swipe against my precious milwaukee admirals, who are NOT a crappy team barry!! but i do love seeing ads-alum-and-father-of-tito thrive)
World’s most normal goalie: “Nothing matters, nobody cares, we’re all gonna die” defector.com/worlds-most-...
World's Most Normal Goalie: "Nothing Matters, Nobody Cares, We're All Gonna Die" | Defector
When seeking optimism, one wouldn’t typically look to a backup goaltender for the Calgary Flames. The Wet Logs are bringing up the league’s rear, and they’ve contractually and metaphorically hitched…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
hell yeah, cools! (didn't appreciate the side swipe against my precious milwaukee admirals, who are NOT a crappy team barry!! but i do love seeing ads-alum-and-father-of-tito thrive)
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I took this photo on Monday night and told one of my co-booksellers that I'd cry if they won the National Book Award!
Read these books!
Read these books!
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I took this photo on Monday night and told one of my co-booksellers that I'd cry if they won the National Book Award!
Read these books!
Read these books!