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I'd be more worried about generative AI destroying my career but its going to destroy the very notion of thinking you can trust what you see on a screen ever again well before that

‘Hidden costs’ of climate emergency are worsening California’s affordability crisis – report University of California, Berkeley, study found that those who experience severe effects will see upto a $1m in costs

“The average [Californian] born in 2024 will likely face up to $500,000 in additional lifetime costs from climate crisis, and those who experience more severe effects will see up to $1m in costs." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I can't believe we did the Pivot to Video, but with an entire national economy?

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

A snow and ice covered landscape with blue-tinted mountains under a purple and orange sunrise

Today's entry on the very small list of things that make being out before 5am acceptable

The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control.

It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

A photograph of The Ottawa River and Ottawa and hilly Québec tree lined shores. The view is predominantly mists and clouds over still waters further softened to convey the quiet of the moment.

The Onion will be available in almost every Barnes & Noble in the country starting this month! “RFK Jr. Fires Piss Czar” will be a visible headline sitting directly next to Bon Appetit and Guns & Ammo.

Chinese literature is tough to find in English. One editor hopes to change that The novel Women Seated is a thriller about a nanny for a rich family and a kidnapping gone awry. It's the first in a new effort to redefine the types of Chinese literature get translated into English.

The novel Women Seated is a thriller about a nanny for a rich family and a kidnapping gone awry. It's the first in a new effort to redefine the types of Chinese literature get translated into English. n.pr/4mjJ2dM

Professional criticism is not the same as individual reviews. They can both be useful but criticism is a skill-based genre like any other writing. The yelpification of criticism isn’t evolution.

i distinctly remember a decade+ ago when all the creative jobs started going out the window being told to “learn to code”

Brooks: Minnesota archivists scramble to document national park signs before they’re gone See something, save something. If you come across an educational sign in a national park this summer, snap a photo and send it to Save Our Signs.

Good on the U of M folks … they are doing what needs to be done in the face of memory-holing and you can help www.startribune.com/brooks-minne...

Mark Butcher 1) Sandra used AI to write a report 2) Bill used AI to summarise the report 3) Bill used AI to write questions about the report 4) Sandra used AI to respond to the questions 5) Bill used AI to create a presentation about the report 6) Jane used AI to take notes from the presentation 7) Jane’s team used AI to summarise the notes she shared No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers. No business value was achieved But but but AI adds business value

Even linkedin gets it

Spotted:

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election.

A new generation of leaders is here.

wild how sports has become a rich kid activity

Outdoor Afro tells me they received 300 applications overnight following this post! People are learning how to swim

This…

Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.

NEW: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). www.wired.com/story/airlin...

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

Tumblr post that reads: kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this

AI can't be depressed enough to make real art.

Kinda dumb that I can't eat a whole pizza while on a diet

illustrations of some carnivorous dinosaurs. featured are allosaurus, ceratosaurus, tyrannosaurus, and carnotaurus

dinosaurs 🦖

Ledecky breaks own record in 800-meter free Katie Ledecky broke the world record in the 800-meter freestyle Saturday at the Tyr Pro Series meet, bettering her own mark by clocking 8 minutes, 4.12 seconds.

American Katie Ledecky shattered her own 800-meter freestyle world record on Saturday, clocking 8 minutes, 4.12 seconds at the Tyr Pro Series meet 👏

Picture showing a groudon in a picture book

where is groudon

you hate YOURSELF?! that can't be right... you're supposed to put people into groups and then hate some of the groups

yourself?!

“You seem anxious” thanks it’s the anxiety