Esther Schindler

This reassures me:
The annual report found that kids and young adults ages 10-24 prefer to see onscreen portrayals of “fathers enjoying parenting” or “fathers showing love to kids” by a 5 to 1 margin vs. those who wanted to see less of those dynamics.
deadline.com/2026/02...

When startups scale quickly, founders often make hurried hiring decisions that unintentionally disadvantage women, according to a new study from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Cartoon: 'Any old AI can write a novel, but it takes a human to have writer's block'

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Every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough.

I agree with this sentiment.

Really, all these shows have been SO much better than the books. Which is not to disparage the books, but the TV shows add welcome nuance. #Bridgerton

A basket of stuffed animals, one of which is actually my dog.

This is your doom-scrolling checkpoint. Stop for a moment and remember joy before you continue.

How the Sausage is Made in Arizona What state do you live in?

"In Arizona for the past few years, we’ve had a legislature that reflects the schizoid nature of a fast-growing state: our executive branch is run by women Democrats, while the legislature is run by male Republicans."

Overheard: Sorry I cannot attend the Friday happy hour as I have a prior commitment to be unhappy at that time.

An "I voted" sticker

Remember: If voting didn’t matter, they wouldn’t work so hard to ensure that you can’t -- or don't.

We are training undergrads (18-22) to digitize vcr tapes, cassettes, and vinyl. We introduce phrases like "rewind" into their vocab and made diagrams of what a tape looks like from 6 angles. And we get questions like "how do I rewind a record" which is understandable but turns my bones to dust.

Speed, hoaxes and mistrust: How AI is transforming freelance journalism Reporters and commissioning editors from around the world share how the GenAI revolution is reshaping the way they work.

Freelance work is mutating, not disappearing

‘These books are pushing boundaries’: winners of £30,000 Inclusive Books for Children awards announced Supa Nova by Chanté Timothy, a graphic novel about a young Black girl with a love for science, won the children’s fiction category and inaugural children’s choice prize

"The literacy charity’s prizes celebrate the best UK-published inclusive titles for children aged one to nine. This year marks the second time that all the winners have been women since the prizes were launched in 2023." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Law Enforcement Without Cruelty Or, 5 actions to promote civil policing within the civil state

"The question, then, is not whether human beings are capable of cruelty—we apparently are—but whether we can build systems that make cruel behavior in law enforcement rarer, riskier, and less acceptable.
The answer is, we can."
reselbob.substack.com/p/law-enforc...

Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas. "There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

folks we’re going to see some wild litigation between the world’s worst people

ServiceNow resolves 90% of its own IT requests autonomously. Now it wants to do the same for any enterprise ServiceNow's new Autonomous Workforce framework inherits enterprise permissions from deployment — so AI specialists can't exceed scope or self-escalate. CVS Health's CISO explains why governance architecture, not capability, is the real unlock for enterprise agentic AI.

ServiceNow is serious about automation. Apparently the key isn't about being smarter, it's about having the right roles, permissions and use cases.

"Don't chase butterflies. Focus on gritty, unsexy, operational use cases..."

venturebeat.com/orchestratio...

Two Cottages at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer-May/June 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3108959

Washoe Tribe buys 10,000 acres in one of California’s largest ever land returns Tribe, which was forcibly removed from its lands near Lake Tahoe, used $5.5m grant and private donations for purchase

The Washoe Tribe has purchased more than 10,000 acres of land near Lake Tahoe for conservation in one of the largest tribal land returns in California history.

It's AI-generated terracotta owl tiles all the way down, forever, folks.

Seed sowing time — entry for #March in the Labors of the Months section of the Très Riches Heures, probably the most important illuminated manuscript of the 15th century: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/labors-of-the-months-from-the-tres-riches-heures

A man standing next to a waterway, 1955 Pretty sure it's at the Panama Canal From the family collection

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin

Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk By Maureen Dowd April 30, 2016

happy 10-year anniversary to this razor-sharp political prognostication

Important March Dates

1 Pig Day
1 Compliment Day
7 Cereal Day
8 International Women's Day
9 Panic Day
13 Fill Your Stapler Day
14 Crisps Day
14 Pi Day
16 Quilting Day
20 Happiness Day
20 Winter Ends
25 Waffle Day
30 Pencil Day
31 Back up your Computer Day
31 Crayon Day

Khamenei’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

Congressman boldly comes out against Furry’s

The 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century From 'Idlewild' and 'Bright Star' to 'The Magic Flute' and more, these are TIME's most underappreciated movies of the 21st Century

The 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century
A listicle to inspire your next movie night

Whither 'Wuthering'?: 12 Words from Wuthering Heights Say hello to our Brontë thesaurus

Whither 'Wuthering'?: 12 Words from Wuthering Heights
Say hello to our Brontë thesaurus

orange cat curled up

don't look at the news. look at this

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 1.6k adults):

Approval of Iran strikes: -10
Approval of Trump's handling of Iran: -15
Should Congress approve wars first: Yes +31
Will intervention make Iran better/worse off: Worse off +20

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