AI is poor people.
I bet Mary Shelley would have an amazing substack in 2026 (though given her ethics she probably wouldn’t host it on that site)
Best wishes for a quick recovery to legendary musician, and reluctant politician, Jello Biafra.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand has entered the chat
Michelle Obama suggested people eat vegetables and conservatives lost their minds.
The measure “is a cruel and craven threat to public safety all in the name of fostering fear, division and paranoia,” Harper Seldin, a senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a news release.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...
Oh my god ...
Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
You’ve taken your daughter to a birthday party. In the air, invisible, is the measles virus. Even if she survives, the virus may never be done with her. Elizabeth Bruenig on what measles can do to a body, to a brain, and to a family:
What if it's one of those shark-mounted lasers I keep hearing about?
post a banger that isn't in English
youtu.be/P7PqAAZS8dk?...
I've been to some countries where people live under military rule or autocracy. And without fail, one of the questions I get when they ask about life in the U.S. is whether it's true that Americans just let homeless people die on the street.
I've asked so many people to please quit substack, and if I see a substack link, I rarely, if ever, click on it. and I know amazing people that I love and respect and learn from are on there and it makes me so sad. in case it helps you to finally quit that place:
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
It's Elmo's birthday
It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
It's funny how all these billionaires started buying up all the social media apps, newspapers, and television networks right as all these revelations were starting to come out.
In response to the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration officers, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a note to his staff praising Trump for “his openness to engaging on issues that matter to us all”
Which is it?
“Why would you bring a gun to a protest?”
Pal, there are people who bring AR’s to the grocery store and you’re totally cool with that so maybe sit this one out.
The Rodney King video is one of the most important moments in American history because it showed people, particularly comfortable white people, irrefutable evidence that marginalized people’s stories of how police behaved - which were never believed - were in fact true.
They lived, worked, served—and hundreds of them gave their lives—side by side with American troops. Anyone who served in Afghanistan knows how much this mattered, and we will never forget.
no it didn’t. that isn’t true.
it's difficult to remember, but there was in fact a time when you could wake up and the news would not be stupid
The 2026 journalist’s digital security checklist freedom.press/digisec/blog... from @freedom.press
a thing that happened when I lived in hong kong is the police went from being a trusted branch of the civil service to an organization that a huge chunk of society feared and distrusted. and that genie doesn't really go back into the bottle
Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult
apnews.com/article/fake...
