Anais Ninja

Here’s one example why book reviews can be awesome:

Huge +1

(above an image of Governor Tim Walz) "Shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus. ... That child deserves our support. Don't worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity."

I wanted to shout out to my "tireless" colleagues at the Texas Tribune reporting on the weekend's flooding, but on Monday morning it's clear that they're very tired. The reporting is insightful, the photos visceral, and the tips for how to help purposeful. www.texastribune.org/series/texas...

Patrick Healy NYT response to critics of their hit piece on Zohran’s race categorization. We sometimes receive information that has been hacked or from controversial sources. The Times does not solely rely on nor make a decision to publish information from such a source; we seek to confirm through direct sources, which we did with Mr. Mamdani. Sometimes sources have their own motives or obtain information using means we wouldn't, like Trump's taxes, Wikileaks or Edward Snowden. It’s important to share what we can about sourcing, but we always independently assess newsworthiness and factual accuracy before publishing. On sourcing, we work to give readers context, including in this case the initial source’s online alias, as a way to learn more about the person, who was effectively an intermediary. The ultimate source was Columbia admissions data and Mr. Mamdani, who confirmed our reporting.

The Times should be reflecting on why their newsworthiness standard here dovetails with the motives of a discredited race scientist and white supremacist.

This appears to have zero relationship to the source material but I’m here for the renaissance of 1990s dollar theater action movies

ONLY MURDERBOTS IN THE BUILDING --> when? @marthawells.com

Twitter also failed to become a thriving business. There’s probably less of a market for public social media discourse than there was a few years ago.

it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts

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This post really made me realize how "woke" doesn't even just mean "anything non-cishet white," it literally means "anything that I perceive as being different from things I saw when I was 12 years old"

“Apartheid was so visionary”

What in the hell did I just read

Then clock twink turns reactionary and ends up a mass murderer in The Last of Us

Horrific

I grew up watching this show with my family and LOVED Margaret, who got to be complex, flawed, extremely good at her job, and still hilarious.

::cough couch:: was it ever cool?

Is this not…Hacks

Stop automatically making your AI agents women and giving them women names and then making marketing videos where you demand things from them. Your engineering team is all men. It's deeply weird and uncomfortable!

Good point!

Chicago Sun-Times response to May 18 special section

The Chicago Sun-Times published an apology for publishing an error-riddled AI-generated book recommendations list. I’m trying to imagine a world any reader would want a list of great reads generated by robots instead of people with taste and discernment. chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2...

Free idea: add Rachel Weisz and sit her next to Kathryn Hahn

glad that this is being written about but lol, how depressing that "the new boss came in and made sure the website was actually usable" feels revolutionary for the media in 2025

That’s because they haven’t met ME, the queen of semi-colons

I enjoyed imagining Cher from Clueless read this out loud

Guys I’m going to say something difficult… fail them

Congestion pricing has improved life in New York City by: reducing cars on the street, speeding traffic (especially at peak hours), speeding buses and making them more reliable, expanding transit ridership, reducing car crashes, reducing noise complaints, and increasing the number of visitors.

Fire response times fell in the NYC congestion zone, even as they increased in the rest of the city.

Car crashes with injuries fell citywide, but they fell especially dramatically in the congestion pricing zone from 2024 to 2025

Local buses have sped up dramatically in the congestion pricing zone.

NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Bunch of Pink Floyd songs! Goodbye Blue Sky for one

Why are y’all so horny for the US to get involved with India/Pakistan. The US’s history in this region has not been great! See, for example, the Taliban.