marithlizard

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Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

WE’RE NOT DOOMED: Fri Feb 20, 2026

Yes, I know this is late, but, think of it this way, you get some bonus stories on a saturday, how exciting!
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He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials.

Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.

🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

By the way, this new chick bouba-kiki @science.org study fits nicely within bottom middle of my handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences, for anyone keeping track. 🧪

Most and Least Expensive Supermarkets - Consumer Reports Consumer Reports compares the prices of baskets of goods across dozens of grocery retailers in five cities representative of their regions.

We compared the prices of baskets of goods across grocery retailers like Costco, Safeway, and Trader Joes, in 6 major cities. Find your favorite grocery store here:

Trump's Board of Peace in front of sign reading "Bored of Peace"

ahh, ok

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

I'm crying this is the funniest "Tam Lin" joke I've ever seen in the wild

“Make bad game? Fired. Make good game? Fired. Make incredibly successful game? Believe it or not, also fired.” Original source of meme is from Parks and Recreation.

the video game industry is a mess

So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it.

WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY

Christina Rossetti: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpeck’d cherries, Melons and raspberries,Bloom-down-cheek’d peaches

John Ruskin: Your whole poem can't just be listing food

Rossetti: SWART-HEADED MULBERRIES, WILD FREE-BORN CRANBERRIES, CRAB-APPLES, DEWBERRIES, PINE-APPLES, BLACKB

Dial M for Muppets

The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.

“Publics are made and maintained, not discovered preformed, like rock formations. It is a sign of a fatally limited imagination to assume that we can only ever desire the pittance to which we are currently reconciled.”

ily Becca Rothfeld

I had to gently back out of this on account of "404: Brain Not Found" but IT IS MY BIGGEST REGRET BECAUSE OH MY GOD THE LIST OF FOLKS IS OFF THE RAILS!!!!!!

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

I WANT TO SEE NUREMBERG 2 LIVESTREAMED

It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.

The frustrating thing about ✨The AI Discourse✨ is that ALL the tech critics said “hey, shit like this👇will happen unless we take regulation seriously.”

And the tech hype men were like “no it won’t, don’t be so pessimistic.”

And now it’s all happening and they’re like “lol shut up we don’t care.”

After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.

#DHmakes 🌈

Everyone's talking about wuthering heights but no one wants to acknowledge the very real risk of wuthering lows

William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night

What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!

I didn't know if @marthawells.com knew about this Easter egg that Alexander Skarsgård snuck into the #murderbot TV series!

Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

(Robot drives away with Catie's food) "Don't Share and Enjoy!"

I am Graham Platner's age. I too was in the post 9/11 military. I also grew up in a small town in the Northeast US. I am also a college dropout with PTSD. And I am telling you: anyone from my demographic who had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years is either a Nazi or too dumb to be an effective US senator.

How reliable is the detection, though, being itself AI? (I honestly have no idea. But it's hard to trust anything at all at this point.)

Virginia Faulkner's most successful comic creation was that of Princess Tulip Murphy, a blowsy dame of doubtful origin who traveled the world (including to Hell) crashing into high society and busting bubbles of prejudice and pretention. Learn more in my book, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts.