This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...
It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."
Just saying it right out loud now.
newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
struck by a dumb pathologic meme idea and could not rest until it was fully realized, please enjoy:
Recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “Well, they’re killing people in the streets. I don’t like to say I told you so, but I saw this coming years ago, and they said I was being too alarmist. But it’s consistent with what the United States is as a country.“
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
what’s even more extraordinary is that the economy was mostly doing okay despite his absolute best efforts - as damaging as his tariffs and immigration policies are, we hadn’t tipped over into a recession
and so, unsatisfied, he decided to kick the economy in the dick with a huge oil shock
Wow interesting! you can find out more here
nogamesforgenocide.com
Reminder that Microsoft is one of the biggest forces behind GenAI "adoption" on top of funding and wildly profiting from the continued genocide in Gaza, it seems like games media has forgotten this
Cancel your Game Pass, don't play MW or Minecraft, cancel your WoW sub.
a single paragraph guide to taking pleasure in both the games you play and the material you put into the world. via @meredithgran.com
meredithgran.com/perfect-tide...
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
Your opposition to war can just be that war is evil. it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.
What’s really striking in Saruman’s speech to Gandalf is how broadly (and unusually for Tolkien) relevant it is. Take out the one specific reference to the Elves and Númenor and it is just an absolute classic rationale for collaborating with evil in the confidence you can ultimately direct it.
I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…
Did a rich person write this? 🤔
American Sakamoto
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
first time in new york since zohran took office and other than having to recite the shahada on arrival at laguardia nothing much has changed
Imagining Jack Frost, Pikachu, and Agumon having a conversation
Bad Bunny: Before I say thanks to God, I'm going to say, ICE out. We're not savages, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.
Just an amazing image of @ilhanmn.bsky.social
I am not digging at anyone in particular truly but one of the ironies of the worker owned journalism movement is that it is born from instability that starts when bipoc journalists are laid off and then white editors are like “damn time to get off this sinking ship and start a bold indie venture”
Leaving this here...
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
Andor was cooking so unbelievably hard good grief
Kept waiting for Lara Croft to show up
been thinking a lot about James Baldwin recently - from a 1970 documentary
