Michael Young

In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.”

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I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Kirstin Dunst explaining in Spider Man

He tried everything else and now he's going to put on a frog costume and dance like Gene from Bob's Burgers okay

As a news nerd I'm always fascinated by org charts, and to me even more telling than who Bari reports to is who will report to her. Troops, territory and budgets are the actual stuff that shapes news coverage. Controlling them is how you control the narrative a news org shapes.

the person who published this is about to run CBS

A jobs program for angry men. Handouts for brown shirts.

American Psychiatrist Association Statement on White House Announcement on Autism

‘Never would have imagined it’: Pennsylvania NPR station set to be first to shutter following Trump’s cuts WPSU, which has been broadcasting out of Penn State since 1953, will shut down following federal cuts to public media organizations

WPSU is set to be the first in the country to go dark after the Trump administration stripped away federal funding for NPR and PBS.

“The news devastated me, it devastated all the employees,” said Jeff Hughes, WPSU’s former program director.

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

The Sickos meme with the guy at the window only he’s quoting Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff, it’s me, it’s Cathy I’ve come home, I’m so cold Let me in your window

my contribution to the discourse:

The reason people self-censor among their peers is to avoid criticism of their views.

The only way to reduce that is to demand people censor their criticism of other people’s views to be “charitable”.

That’s not less censorship, it’s just shifting the burden of who holds their tongue.

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Grok used to say that misinformation and disinformation were greatest threat to Western civilization. Elon Musk changed the answer to something more in line with his personal views: “demographic collapse.”

Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site.

This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

I am so so so proud to have been part of this effort.

Climate change is already a major threat to human life, health, and thriving. It is important that we get the most accurate science on the record to delineate that threat, so we can build a better future.

www.npr.org/2025/09/02/n...

RFK Jr. rushing to the White House with a wheelbarrow full of beef tallow to save the President

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

[looking at the gettysburg address]

“that sign won’t stop me because i can’t read”

there’s a phenomenon in politics where on certain issues the general public is genuinely deluded about reality, and if you don’t buy into that delusion the political media will accuse *you* of being out of touch

Reporting on the way conservatives planned to promote Prager U while they were defunding PBS would have been useful context for readers and the general public.

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

Hulk Hogan, lying inexplicably sideways in his open coffin, being visited by a chihuahua dog, who looks distraught. The people behind the coffin do too

I'm sorry, but this may be the funniest Facebook AI slop I have ever seen. Bury me sideways in my coffin, brother. Let my dog see

It's not that LLMs are passing turing tests, it's that journalists are failing them.

My college basketball coach, Tara Vanderveer, had a saying: “The repetition of error shows a lack of intelligence.” I just don’t understand how folks in media keep falling for the same tricks, over and over again… except that they never acknowledge and reflect upon how they’ve been used.

pretty sure the world we live in is proof that “don’t platform fascists” was the correct position but now that they have control of all 3 branches of government that ship has sailed. “beat the fascists and ruin their name so badly nobody wants to be associated with them for decades” is the only path

New York Times headline: "Is it Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?" Above the headline a photo of the vampires from Sinners, asking to be let in. The photo has been modified with a downward-facing word balloon to create the effect that the vampires are speaking the headline.

What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens

What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others