Ryan

Palantir used to have affinity groups and DEI as late as 2022, and I had the logos saved on my phone because they pissed me off so much and of course they buried those pages. But I never forgot.

ME FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS: look, i know it's a useful shorthand, but i don't think there's any such thing as a literal "epstein list" in the sense of a list of names
JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN AN EMAIL TO HIMSELF:

Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed

This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.

This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

apparently the virtual town hall only happened because of an organization fighting hard for it, but I never heard the organization's name name-dropped. Seems like they've been effective lobbyists on the issue of ICE and LAPD crackdown on anti-ICE protests.

she was willing to call Trump names and condemn ICE but like, that's not showing that she's commanding the city? She'll talk about big DNC narratives about the republicans being racist but not like, substance about what the city is doing to stop ICE. Those answers came from other experts in the call

got out of a karen bass town hall that I only knew about because of a flyer someone posted near my work. Dawg. this woman does not know what is happening in her own city. Several questions were met with a Mike Johnson style "I'd have to look into that." All authoritative answers from outside experts

I work in a museum but don't come from art history training. I'm trying to dig deeper into art history as a discipline on my own when I can - would you be willing to share a list of those foundational books are? If not no worries ofc

I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)

el froggylado

The Vinland Saga artist seems as cool as you'd hope he'd be.

hi i have a collection of resources, including layout templates requiring minimal html knowledge + guides that will teach you that minimum, on my own indie web page. god please make an indie website

Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210" It reads: "Dear Joel: I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country. I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities. Sincerely yours, Charles M. Schulz" At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan Pete Buttigieg Interview

watching this pete buttigieg interview and I keep getting struck with how he handles questions like a consultant, not like a leader. he doesn't have a position on zohran or gaza, but says that he sees that support and the party needs to be listening more. mckinsey roots showing through

Binging XOXO talks was a great way of keeping myself entertained during the sloggier parts of art school.

alas 😔

i enjoyed AI Mike tremendously last time, if that's still a solve you all enjoy

Jean Cocteau Le Livre Blanc (1930) ink on paper

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves.

Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

sent the link to all my east bay friends earlier this week! rock on y'all power to you

what's a comic or webcomic you wish more people would check out?

if your subjective take was actually substantive it would be published as criticism, analysis, or as a 'feature'. Even Ta Nehesi-Coates's response to the Klein piece was published as "Commentary." Not "Opinion"

this week's events continue to validate my belief that anything published by the opinion section of a newspaper is not worth reading.

she returns!!!! glad you got un-banned.

To be generous, Klein isn't remotely alone in this. Like, my Dad and my best friend also generally work within the framework that politics is about opinions that exist in reference to the material world but are not a part of that world.

I think there's a lot of people who still think about politics primarily as what rhetoric you agree the most with. Which (while flawed) was a tenable way of navigating US political conversations for most of the 20th century. Klein appears to think that that framework is universal and "true."

Alas 😔

I'm sure you're gonna get this a lot, particularly on Bluesky, but substack seems like a weird choice

If you're a Mac user, NetNewsWire is the closest to what you're looking for.

The depreciation of NYT as a reliable source has meant that I'm turning to more sources to get the same sense of the world. My current rotation includes The Guardian, The Verge, LAist, Hong Kong Free Press, Defector and the Comics Journal. Obviously there's still some blind spots