Maia

some insane mouthbreather puts out a "if i was a child today i'd have been transed" dirge. meanwhile these are actual news
bsky.app/profile/evan...

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

Quite literally “we have always been at war with Iran.”

i'm gonna be honest i think enough is going on in the world that "aging reactionary puts out moronic anti trans article in the atlantic" isn't really worth it. we're all seeing what the anti trans agenda actually is. this "but our tomboys" shit won't work. who even cares about that bullshit anymore?

what's her read on this anyway

AYATOLLAH MAMDANI, WILL YOU CONDEMN TRANS RIGHTS

i am rating the experience... unfavorably

The Tinder-ization of the job market Why nobody's getting hired in a "good" economy

I have a new piece in The Argument.

We haven't (yet?) seen AI affect the labor market by increasing number of people who are unemployed - but there's reason to believe it's contributing to a stagnant labor market by making firms less willing to hire.

www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-tinder...

A rapper who sings about never taking bribes, crashes weddings to the delight of his supporters and takes selfies with Gen Z fans is dominating the race to become Nepal’s next prime minister ft.trib.al/6RcaJOA

Two photos. The first show JFK Jr. with Carolyn Bessette Kennedy walking their dog. The second shows JFK Jr. setting his bike against some pole.

Two photos. The first shows JFK Jr. wearing a navy suit and scarf as he exits a building while riding a bike. The second shows him walking in purple gym shorts, a black t-shirt, and some sneakers.

Two photos. Both show JFK Jr. walking with Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. In the first photo Carolyn Bessette Kennedy is wearing a black coat with blue jeans, while JFK Jr. is wearing a black vest, dark colored shirt, and taupe trousers. In the second photo, JFK Jr. is wearing a brown jacket with tan pants, while Carolyn Bessette Kennedy has a long charcoal coat and black boots.

Two photos. Both show JFK Jr. in sweats while rolleerblading. In one photo, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and a dog are with him.

Wrote something for @thetimes.com about why JFK Jr. is popular again. IMO, what you're admiring isn't just his handsome looks and style, but the fact that he lived in walkable urban neighborhoods and had enough time for exercise, hobbies, and a lover.

www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

one of the ten most popular games in the world every year for nearly two decades has been a swedish block game whose community has relied on modded content to share it online for the better part of a teenager's lifetime. there's let's play videos older than a big chunk of the player base

and just like that i wondered, could a third party's intervention make me change regimes from big to aidan?

you know the conservative vibe shift is dead and buried when people are scurrying back to this idiotic "if i was young today i'd have been transed" bullshit

jean twenge somewhere

Miranda: I woke up and we're at war! It's like getting dumped via text

Charlotte: it's awful, all those American patriots getting shipped off there

Samantha: plus I've been with a few Iranians... big nose, big you know

Carrie: Big got blown up by a shahed drone

can't believe the new ayatollah is a nepo baby

kinda funny how this is the exact plot of the secret agent

hannah arendt leaving germany was enormously complicated by the german government invalidating her citizenship and passport. in france she wasn't german - she was stateless. as were all jewish emigrants

not making a strong case against polyamory

you know the conservative vibe shift is dead and buried when centirst pundits are going back to doing anti trans and "bisexuals are faking it" punditry on the atlantic

I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is

the original is like this 👇

is it like 2022 again that we must subject ourselves to this bullshit

True for the corporate world too, not just academic scientific research.

I’m reasonably confident we’ll figure this out over time but the transition will be painful

gonna be honest i think an 80 like post is not telling of anything. this insane trend where intellectuals shadowbox with 0 follower randoms is pretty unfortunate

I think the fact that so many people who dislike BlueSky are reposting a weird person making an unpopular and insane claim about Jamelle Bouie as a sign of some deeper trend is probably more telling than the weird and unpopular claim. Noah Smith suggests it is a cultural norm that enabled fascism.

Teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork % of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who say they do all or most of their schoolwork with the help of AI chatbots U.S. teens — 10 Household income <$30,000 — 20 $30K–$74,999 — 15 $75,000+ — 7 Note: Those who did not answer or gave other responses are not shown. Source: Survey conducted Sept. 25–Oct. 9, 2025. “How Teens Use and View AI” PEW RESEARCH CENTER

According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.

ICE training was slashed, records show, corroborating whistleblower claims Previously unreported records also offer new details about what was cut from ICE’s basic training program. Concerns about the quality of ICE agents’ training have mounted for months.

"The previously undisclosed records obtained by The Post show that, as the whistleblower said, ICE last year removed about 240 hours from its basic training program, or more than 40 percent of instructional time."

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...