“A person wearing a chicken suit and stylized American-flag cape appeared to be the ringleader.” apple.news/ApnAw_7soQDW...

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

The race to the bottom almost everywhere apple.news/ADyoIbKZDTx-...

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query 'does trump show signs of dementia' as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

www.theverge.com/news/789152/...

“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

If you’re at all concerned about digital privacy, don’t miss this free webinar on 10/2! @jessedamiani.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/damiani/...

California bans most law enforcement including ICE from wearing masks

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

What kind of birth control does the Trump administration consider abortion? Well, the contraception the statement refers to was a stockpile of IUDs, birth control pills, and hormonal implants.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Superb explanation of the imperial boomerang effect by @jessedamiani.bsky.social

www.realitystudies.co/p/the-depart...

I had to save this post to read it with my morning coffee and my human literacy capacity fully charged. A deeply personal and caring message by @eryk.bsky.social which makes me think and feel things

Meaning is the point. But meaning is the hardest thing

mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...

Video shows the family fleeing after masked and unidentified men attempted to detain them and firing three gun shots at the passenger side door behind where the son was sitting.

lataco.com/agents-shoot...

By @afroxander.bsky.social
Video via @ic4ij.bsky.social

I would like to amplify this post by 1000x because Reuters f'd up this story to start with -- by falsely reporting that Costco would no longer carry mifepristone, when it never did -- and other news outlets ran with it and far-right legal groups are taking credit for something that didn't happen.

Just as AI critics need to acknowledge when AI works, AI boosters need to own the fact that much of AI's value prop is stuff like this. AI is profitable when it serves as an accelerant for exploitation and enshittification, and that's obv relevant to evaluating the net social merit of AI

@marcelias.bsky.social: "I want everyone to pay attention... Trump is laying the groundwork to steal the 2026 election."

I’ve just published a new essay, Reading the Cosmic Web, inspired by Mark Neyrinck's Rivers of Galaxies in @aeon.co. It explores how the filamentary structure of the universe is echoed in rivers, mycelium, spiderwebs, and other branching forms of life.

honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/r...

Excited to read this

BREAKING via NYT

The Trump administration’s agenda suffered another setback late Friday when an appeals court upheld a decision that temporarily halts federal agents from making immigration-related arrests in the Los Angeles area without probable cause.

also, this is very Soviet, except that Stalin then arrested and executed the statisticians