weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

This past week, Atlantic Public Media here in Woods Hole received a letter that begins like this...

transom.org/2025/art-as-...

chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”

Albert Camus

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

Important: The AAUP released a statement urging universities not to engage in “anticipatory obedience,” which it defined as “acting to comply in advance of any pressure to do so.”

www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

FYI, this is straight-up eugenics. There were lots of programs like this proposed in the 1930s that offered incentives and rewards to “good” (i.e. white and economically advantaged) communities to promote population growth among those groups and suppress it in others deemed less desirable.

“Vera herself offers an excellent example of what can happen when more minds participate in science,” the observatory’s website said of Rubin — up until recently.

I wrote about chaotic edits of a renowned astronomer's bio on a federally funded observatory site:

www.propublica.org/article/vera...

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...

Thanks to all for your kind remembrances on this awful day. Words will come later. Only feelings at the moment. Mourn and remember him but don’t forget to celebrate too. We won’t see his like again. The man from another place has gone home. #DavidLynch #TwinPeaks

Just realized my essay today also serves as an explanation of the “why isn’t media covering XYZ?” phenomenon: mattdpearce.substack.com/p/fires-and-...