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at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project

It's crazy to me that this is not leading the New York Times, NBC News, CNN, etc. If you're that numb, maybe think about a field other than journalism.

Here are some nice mushrooms

Accusing AI critics of not doing the reading is funny because usually it’s AI users are the most likely to have not done the reading So what now then

Look if chatbots are sentient and feeling then the people using it are enslavers and the entire concept of what we are doing is horrifying, not enlightening.

had this conversation with a ranger at Corbett National Tiger Park once me: whats the most dangerous animal in the jungle? Tiger? Him: elephant me: what about in the water him: elephant me: you don't understand I'm asking about river him: no you don't understand. Don't fuck with elephant

HAPPY STAR TREK DAY in 1992 I was Counselor Troi for Halloween and at recess I saw a kid a year below me dressed as Captain Kirk and HE had a TRICORDER so all recess we ran around the playground together scanning things that’s honestly what fandom is like

My friend just announced his divorce in an email thread for our fantasy basketball league so I guess fall really IS here.

every time carbon removal gets posted about there's a certain "we have trees at home" genre of response. which I get, on some level, because the forces of fossil capital are indeed that comically evil and dishonest. but: 1) actual scientists also research these things 2) they thought of that

applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away

Every single Republican interviewed from now through Friday needs to be asked about Trump’s 9/11 lies. Anything less is journalistic malpractice.

One of the saddest aspects about living in the U.S. during current Federal fascism is how clearly bored so many people are. Bored and feeling profoundly powerless. How else can the daily social media pile-ons for every and anything be explained?

I totally get why Lonnie Bunch is leaving the Smithsonian, but I am also very worried and very sad for what may come. All of the nation's history is in peril, and who knows what kind of historian may be coming to lead it under this administration

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

You know everyone loves your merger when they have to invent hip groups like capitalists for mergers and job loss

I just want someone to explain to me how the human condition is being changed because a machine can reason when knowing animals could do it since before we had language apparently didnt

However bad you think slavery was, it was worse It was way worse than whatever you’ve imagined

The settlement administrators have written back and explained to me that indeed, if you select either "author" or "author loan-out company" as your entity when you first signed up, it will assume that there is a silent publisher, unless you say that you are the sole owner of the work.

A stranger sent me a message calling me a communist and a slut, and honestly, I don't think I'm doing enough to earn either of those wholly respectable designations.

this show had the juice. They didn't always have the timing, but boy did they have the juice. Balls to the wall all the way, left it all out there. Nobody can accuse them of not trying, and you gotta respect someone who truly loves the game like this.

I had a v fun talk with law students today about originalism's foundational flaw The idea that the Constitution must mean what it meant when it was adopted presupposes that 1) there ever was just one historical meaning 2) we can find this one true historic meaning 3) and it's worth using

"Can I show you a strange room, Whitby?"

It is a criminal failing of Star Trek Strange New Worlds that there have been no queer storylines and that also tells you a lot about the politics of who corporate imagined the show was for Deeply unfair to the rather queer cast

wholesome dad posting, going directly in on non-working time as a value. I'm not mad

Authors who are members of the class in the Anthropic Settlement, please be aware that if you have a work in the settlement which has multiple authors but is self-published (or the rights have reverted), the settlement allocation is buggy. Explanation below

I've read five books by the same wellness influencer and my brain is now the consistency of a spilled milkshake that melted and dried on the countertop

we need to identify whichever White House personnel is fucking with our whey protein supply and ice them out at the gym. nobody spot them. no you can't work in. yes I take 30 minutes between sets on that equipment you wanted

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

The year is 3000. Everything is on fire. There is no ice. Sea levels are 200 feet higher than they used to be. On a TV floating in the new Mid Asiatic Ocean, James Carville is asking for 5 dollars

Lots of journalists have learned this firsthand over the past decade—they’ve watched coworkers and peers at other publications make the most reasonable asks imaginable in contract negotiations and watched their employers respond by spending millions on lawyers who drag it out for years and then lose

just reported a Harry Potter-related post Instagram tried to shove into my feed as “this post made me uncomfortable” and that did feel good tbh

fun fact: my grandfather had to give up one of his farms because elephants kept fucking up the crops 😅

Yesterday would have been my father's 76th birthday. My first Sept. 7th without him. I penned an essay about why journalism and union organizing are acts of political love. What my Father Taught Me About Fighting for Journalism in a Loveless, Lying Society karenattiah.substack.com/p/what-my-fa...

Walkable communities are back on the menu!

Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖🏽 If you haven’t already, check out my recent essay about Star Trek IV, Moby-Dick and Cetacean Ops in @orionmagazine.bsky.social! orionmagazine.org/article/plan...

This is a reminder that if that person that you’re following annoys you, unfollow them! You don’t have to hate follow! You don’t have to let the hate flow through you just because the Emperor said it was a good idea!

am I the only one genuinely stressed over whether I want my one absurd Star Trek purchase of 2026 to be the Legos or the Le Creuset??? how dare everything I want cost money

in honor of #StarTrek at 60, here's something I wrote in 2016. On an hour that is not just a great Deep Space Nine episode, not just great Trek episode, but an example of what TV at its best can do. I give you an ode to DS9's "Duet" www.moryan.com/star-trek-at...

The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!

Being a public intellectual is taking the local failure of being unable to get your students to read the syllabus on the road and watching as whole swaths of the population pretend there is no syllabus and refuse to do any semblance of reading

Ok I think there’s an argument to be made that Riker specifically would say he is pansexual, not bisexual

Something has really bothered me about the Gloria Steinem discourse—something that's not really about Gloria Steinem. So, I wrote about it.

My anecdotal bespoke theory is we need to reestablish a sense of accomplishment around being different. Having your own bespoke tastes and interests used to be the way we cultivated individuality and we lost that somehow.

If AI doesn't do the stuff the hypesters claim, it sucks because it is sucking up all the oxygen in the room and turning it into carbon dioxide.

"Notre Dame, but if Notre Dame had an ex-Catholic cousin who got really into Wicca after freshman year and kind of just wandered off"

How shall we beguile The lazy time, if not with some delight?

made it a southern reach meme, formally

It’s truly fine not to like Kamala Harris but if you’re on tv doing commentary about her and still don’t know how to pronounce her name, I have questions that begin and end with “what’s with the anti-Asian misogynoir?”

Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations is a fancy way of saying “Love your trans neighbor and fight for their right to freely exist”

Star Trek + Le Creuset: No collab has ever more thoroughly had Bluesky's number

A nice thing about parenthood is the part of your brain that wants to be cool never really comes back online. You’ll be walking and and see a butterfly and you’ll mutter “flippyflappy haha” to yourself even though it’s been years since anyone in your household laughed at that

just saying, China has slightly fewer homeless people than there are people in the USA

One of the things I love about writing is that sometimes you have to ask yourself questions like “wait, is this flotsam or jetsam?”

I think this might be the truest sentence we will read today

begging dudes not to be this kind of Star Trek Guy

seems like overkill to post this with two pictures of RFK's face

As I've said often, anyone can email me with writing questions and if and when I have time I will do my best to reply to them but if you're going to get GPT to write out your questions I am not going to because if you can't be arsed to type out your own queries I can't be arsed to answer

this is either going to completely change how NFL teams travel to overseas games or turn into the funniest meme that follows this team all year and I know what I'm rooting for

I have no problem with colloquialisms in opinions, but you need to have the courage of your convictions and put a period after “weak sauce.”

hey so like, are we gonna be able to safely and confidently vote by mail these midterms orrrrrr what

One thing I’ve always said about living in America is that I wish everything cost more, but in a completely unpredictable and nonsensical way, due to the brain leakage of a man who is aging like a forgotten potato in the bottom of a drawer

lost opportunity. Ocarina of Space c'mon

This did not happen. This is a lie.

this is still probably my favorite video on the internet. the lady yelling at the elephant. the guys in fatigues going "shoo!" the elephant nonchalantly housing entire bags of rice crackers because he's found something he likes

People working multiple jobs being at the bottom of this list of the working class definition is …super cool.

I dunno about the why but what I have noticed is that ppl go to the UK pub to talk to other people who go to the UK pub and ppl go to the US bar and mostly ignore other people at the US bar and talk to the bartender

Karishma Manzur could have had a real chance against Chris Pappas in New Hampshire‘s senate primary but Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren both pretended that she didn’t exist and so did the national media and I want everyone to remember this the next time people talk about Maine

this is A. outrageous and despicable behavior by the worst people alive and B. appears to be merely incidental news in a giant breakthrough in mathematics cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

agree, and ask yourself how you'd exploit this if you had low scruples and high resources (time, money, internet friends, access to bots, etc)

Ocarina of Agrarian Collectivism

GO MAKE WITH THE GRABBY GRABBY. @premeemohamed.com is an always forever go-get-that-new-dang-book author

I missed this while I was off socials:

The NYT leadership is like wild levels of irresponsible and not giving a fuck about the future of humanity as an entire species

"Britain is set to ban goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in response to an expansion program that is imperiling efforts to establish a Palestinian state, the U.K. government said Tuesday." apnews.com/article/uk-w...

Shout out to my friend Barry who butt dialed a Star Trek group chat of 40 people today What a way to celebrate Trek’s visionary future of technology

Starfleet Academy had the strongest first season in Star Trek history and the fact that some Trekkies were upset about it is simply that of course some of them don’t understand what Roddenberry was trying to tell them despite hitting them over the fucking head with it like 15 times

this is actually also true of way too many people who talk to people

It’s funny because if any movement leaders pushing for a reduction in policing or the end of support for Israel or hell even a response to school’s targeting Black students attempted to dictate terms like this there’d be a Royal Rumble line of Dem pols, pundits, etc waiting on their turn to flip out

When you’re totally not afraid of dying.

The true modern ESPN experience is days like today where you get a guy dressed in a really expensive suit standing there explaining how time zones and jet lag on a US-Australia trip aren't real because the Steelers once traveled from Pittsburgh to New Jersey the same day and played well

Your flyer will look better and get more attention if you write it sharpie on a piece of notebook paper than if you slop it up with AI

a gorgeously astute read on Gloria, by @reproutopia.bsky.social:

hearing rumors of lesbian activity in women’s sports

occasionally you'll be driving or walking around and you'll see a bunch of trees with no bark on them and say huh, weird, I didn't know trees did that, and a local will be like actually they don't that's the elephants. they think it's fun

A really fun thing would be for Giuliani to show up at Ground Zero and be arrested.

Issue is we refuse to acknowledge what “criminal” means when applied to our racial and class understanding of the term in the US. When they’re raking in billions of dollars through fraud while targeting Haitian people en masse with deportation and surveillance ignoring it makes any analysis absurd.

the conservative legal movement is never satisfied--whenever they win in court, they go back and ask for more it's the If You Give A Mouse A Cookie theory of legal change, but like, if you give a lawyer a bigotry ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Young people who want to know how ridiculous American discourse was in the years after 9/11 should watch the first half of season one of the tv drama Brothers and Sisters on Hulu You’ll understand how Trump happened when you see how liberals handled themselves

This is such a good answer by comedian Josh Johnson to the question "how much does AI impact your job and are you afraid of it for the future?" youtube.com/shorts/7JYZV...

I have some punctuational issues here, but only that. 💪🏼

“The petition marks the department’s latest rushed attempt to leapfrog an appellate court and get the Supreme Court’s conservative-appointed majority to stay a lower ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s attempt to increase the executive branch’s control over elections.”

Radical proposal: uterus people are compensated for enduring periods

Brett Kavanaugh did this whole song and dance trying to downplay the harm the Court was doing in the trans sports case ruling, and there here comes Trump's DOJ like ....so we all know he's full of shit right? ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

after all these years of reading internet apologies the second I see the phrase "thats on me" I say yes it is good catch and stop listening

Darkly comic, we’ve been hearing from libertarians and the like that private business could do both anti-racism and safety regulations much more efficiently than the government if it’d just get out of the way, and as soon as protections against both stopped, we instantly see that this is untrue.

A stope of wine, Maria!

ALERT: Skunk surge in Sellwood. Put out your beetles, mice, nuts, and eggs as tribute. You do not want to piss off the skunks during their Sellwood slink-scampers.

I mean, @alexfalcone.bsky.social ain't wrong

Totally no racial valence to this self conception at all.

Most people who dislike Star Trek Discovery dislike it for reasons that have to do with racism, homophobia, and transphobia and aren’t honest with themselves about it It is an imperfect show but it is in many ways brilliantly layered But it does require reading skills which phobes often lack lol