I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.

Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.

This is great news. 📚

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There was a popular book predicting just that but it was afraid to go this far (Future Shock)

hey so even if you do sweep Dems into power again all those people who are openly calling for your murder will still exist so what is your plan because last time Dems were in office they didn’t do anything about it and now we’re here and my god we can’t keep doing this why do you refuse the lesson

Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants

A tweet from “Mara @wydmara” says: “Can we have this button fuckng everywhere.” Below is a tweet from “lumi @dainlou” saying: “can we have this button on Pinterest plz,” with an image of a toggle switch labeled “Exclude AI,” switched to the “on” position.

Stop the slop.

Last time I was there, the hotel put a fresh pitcher of port and a bowl of fresh figs on my coffee table every day. It was heaven :)

By definition, AI algorithmic engines repackage an aggregated, mathematically averaged version of what has already been thought & said. This means they are best seen as ideology machines: mechanisms built to recirculate the common sense of a social formation back to itself as though it is knowledge

Is there a style manual for psychosis?

Read a few of those leaked emails between illiterate billionaires and the first paragraph of the NYT glazing Nuzzi and you will be inoculated against impostor syndrome for the next 10 years. Do you have a halfway functioning brain? Congratulations you are a golden god

Raphael Bostic at #appam2025 on his journey to becoming President of the Atlanta Federal Reserve - notes that he almost quit grad school multiple times, because “it is hard”: up to that point you are absorbing information as a student - in grad school you are a producer of information.

Imagine at the federal level.
And imagine if it was done on capital gains tax too

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

"It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 members of the United States Senate over $1,000,000 a piece and we are robbing people of their food assistance and healthcare to pay for it. How is this even on the floor!?"

Rep. AOC

Joni Mitchell Applies for a Tenure Track Philosophy Position Dear Search Committee: I am applying for the position of Assistant Professor in Philosophy. I am an advanced doctoral candidate in Philosophy (wit...

"My dissertation, Both Sides Now, applies a bilateral, hylomorphic analysis to the phenomenon that is described by the signifier 'clouds.'"

the Dems keep operating like this cynical shit has no effect. It’s why their core voters don’t fucking show up. When they say “we fight for you” nobody believes them, because they constantly pull shit like this and say “what else are you gonna vote for.” But then people STAY HOME.

As someone who has managed to not cross a picket line even when it was nearly all the grocery stores in the metro area on strike, really don't wanna hear anyone talking about how they just HAVE to cross the Starbucks picket line. This is like the easiest solidarity ever.

Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive Even with more info, web giant says agent can't be trusted to keep you healthy, wealthy, and wise Google's Gemini Deep Research tool can now reach deep into Gmail, Drive, and Chat to obtain data that might be useful for answering research questions.…

Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat: Did Women Ruin the Workplace?

Did the New York Times ruin journalism?

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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

In plain English, this means “get ready for a huge pay cut, peons.”

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

a photo of a sunny summer day, with a wrought iron sign reading "EVERWOOD FARMSTEAD" in the foreground, with a grassy lawn and a large red barn in the background

Great opportunity for MN and WI artists - apps are open for the 2026 Everwood Farmstead Retreat.

I had a chance to spend a week there this past August and had a lovely time.

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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

What I said still applies. We only got Garland leading DOJ because Biden saw it as a "win" after McConnell blocked Obama's pick for SCOTUS. Without Obama's first bad choice, Garland wouldn't have ended up in DOJ.

Please stop telling people to be “less negative about ai”

Ai products are telling children to end their lives, stealing hard work and the cap ex it all sucks up is causing redundancies.

I don’t have to be “nice” about products like that. I won’t be obscene or unhelpful but I am not here for nice

Exactly.

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

People forget that Obama purposely picked Garland, a terrible choice he KNEW would be sympathetic to Repub causes, because he wanted to find a nominee that could be easily confirmed - which didn't happen, anyway.