PJ Manney

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

Perhaps if she’s in the “… and Zombies” version?

We think Russian spies are cool, sophisticated killers like in The Americans. But nah. They’re just putting us on.

My mom told her physical therapist she wears a mask because her husband and daughter are immunocompromised. The PT said she is too but isn't worried bc she knows if she dies she is going to heaven. Then her co-worker yelled, “Shut up Debbie you wear a seatbelt and take blood pressure meds” 👀

Hey AoNZ, this is a must read 🧵about the future of education. Atlas/ACT has redesigned the curriculum, and oh boy, is it a doozy of medieval nonsense.

Thanksgiving Dinner Headed for Tragedy as Disastrous AI Recipes Devour Internet Food bloggers are warning home cooks to be wary of AI-generated recipes that could turn this year's Thanksgiving dinner into a tragedy.

Don't be an AI holiday statistic: Thanksgiving Dinner Headed for Tragedy as Disastrous AI Recipes Devour Internet
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There are parties in these countries trying to do the same, paid for by the same folks who bought the GOP.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

In case you needed one more reason to boycott the Washington Post…

Their editorial board has come out against releasing the Epstein files

They’re dismissing them as having no public interest & praising Clay Higgins (the one “No” Vote in Congress)

It’s safe to say some journalists are on the list!

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors A stunning development over the past 24 hours.

NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.

This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:

Never stop being you, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social . On the money as always.

The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...

You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

After changing my gender to male on LinkedIn to see if it changes exposure and engagement (yes, it does), I discovered to my astonishment (not) that I'm now getting erectile dysfunction drugs and treatment ads on YT. Oh, surveillance enshittification, what a tangled web you weave.

As a US/AoNZer, yes, can confirm they’re paid by the same people and testing NZ, prepared to go the entire way to remove human reproductive, relationship and gender rights. Full stop. You can pass or fail the full test. The US failed. AoNZ, they’re waiting for your answer. You know what to do.

It works better for men than women. Women’s hormones can be terribly messed up by it. Our bodies think it’s too stressful, shut shit down and we crash. But that’s what happens when men think they’re the default model and default promoters.

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say

“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.

Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives

My 20-something daughter and her book club have just read it and adored it.❤️

“Survival of the fittest”
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Lost in the plot: how would-be authors were fooled by AI staff and virtual offices in suspected global publishing scam Book publishing websites in Australia, the UK and New Zealand appear to be using fake testimonials and AI staff pages to lure aspiring writers into handing over their money

Good article on the targeting of Australian authors by scammers posing as publishing service providers (I've been reporting on these scams since 2022--one of the markers for them is that, unlike other publishing scams, they sell ghostwriting services) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.

Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'

'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'

www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...

40 years later… And the thing is, we already have mountains of data NOW that show what COVID does to brains. Why can’t we acknowledge it? Why can’t we face it? Why can’t we say it?

And now he’s going back to be a medical doctor?! Who would want to be his patient?