Kristine Smith

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine Alt: The classic cartoon that depicts a dog is sitting at a table surrounded by smoke and flames with the words it's fine everything is fine

Idk—did he give the audience time to escape?

Breaking character: This is a good thread. One my fixations is that Dems blow money on ads rather than building political infrastructure. My theory is they do this because the data tells them too just like the data told Robert McNamara to destroy Ford by cutting R&D to the bone.

Some union history

The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended

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Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite — The Wall Street Journal Layoffs at companies ranging from Amazon to Target are sending young and experienced workers alike into unwelcoming market

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Yeah, great again.
Right.

BVC Announces Gideon by Kristine Smith Gideon by Kristine Smith Just because you don’t know your past doesn’t mean you don’t pay the price for it. While going through her late father’s

*Just because you don’t know your past doesn’t mean you don’t pay the price for it.*

Book View Cafe is delighted to release GIDEON, by @ksmithsf.bsky.social writing as Alex Gordon.

Sometimes the only response to being born a witch is not knowing.

#suspense

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I heard discussions of the usual "kitchen table" issues. Repeatedly. Online. News clips.

But if the MSM doesn't bother reporting this, who's to know?

I was recently laid off by ARTnews, a few days before the theft at the Louvre. The terms of my TN work visa means I can't freelance unless I donate the funds to charity. I'm open to new FT roles in business reporting and communications, and am willing to relocate to other cities, including Toronto.

A friend scours the 'net for AlphaSmart keyboards. Swears by them. My quibble is that the display isn't big enough, but if you just want to write with absolutely no interference they look pretty hard to beat.

Love her hair. Love. It.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

If you make $60,000/year, $36 of your taxes pays for SNAP while $700 of your taxes pays for corporate subsidies. Guess which one the Trump administration is going to cut off at the end of the week?

I think the key line of fracture in our information environment remains — for some of us this was a warning and for some of us it was a campaign promise

I have a student (who is currently unaware of their looming zero) begin a response with:

“Here’s a natural, human-sounding response you could give for that assignment, using your data and explaining things clearly but conversationally:”

The Housing Market Is Already Terrible. A.I. Is Making It Even Worse. — Slate While digital staging is nothing new to real estate, bot-made listings are forcing homebuyers and professionals to ask themselves if this is a straight-up deceptive practice.

The housing market is already terrible. AI is making it worse. - Slate

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Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

“OPENAI’S CHATGPT, GOOGLE’S Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok are pushing Russian state propaganda from sanctioned entities—including citations from Russian state media, sites tied to Russian intelligence or pro-Kremlin narratives—when asked about the war against Ukraine, according to a new report.“

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

Why don't you just bring out school shootings to round out the full complement of Americans living rent free in your mind in a competition only y'all are waging?

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Wow.

How can you tell?

And I am admitting that I cannot tell the difference between Russian and Ukrainian.

gah—pastA

Thinking of chili-three-ways or—when I lived in Ohio— Cincinnati chili. Sketti topped with chili topped with cheddar cheese.

Chili and spaghetti go well together. Chili and any past, for that matter.

Um...am I wrong to think that accounts that claim to be Ukrainian are actually Russian bot accounts?

It's impossible to miss once you stop and actually *see* it...infuriating.

Good article.

Bit enraging, but good.

Very helpful field guide