C.H. Romatowski

Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...

‘He's my home': Maryland gamer detained, faces deportation to Cameroon A Prince George’s County man is facing deportation to Cameroon. Ludovic Mbock’s loved ones and friends say he’s been in custody for two weeks. According to Mbock’s attorney, he was detained by Immigra...

A Prince George’s County man who loved ones say created a life working in the DMV while competing in and winning multiple regional gaming championships is facing deportation to Cameroon.

I am hardcore team you on this question lolol. One of my besties is doing a coaching cert and tried to pull nearly exactly the same bs on me like a week ago. Was not having it!!!

a helpful starter pack courtesy of Mindy as usual

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The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

“My little girl was completely burned,” he said. “There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”

specific guys aside—it is politically and morally bankrupt to be told we must seriously consider how many is too many pieces of nazi flair

This is a introspectional must read especially for journos. It dissects how a series of investigative stories on a trove of leaked docs containing data & gruesome photos of Syria's forcibly disappeared, ended up retraumatizing families.

Critical reflection on the duty to inform, & minimizing harm.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.so... • 3h Who got us into "a situation like this?" Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com • 4h Comer on "boots on the ground" in Iran: "Sometimes that's unavoidable in a situation like this"

Sometimes one can only look at a post and marvel.

I probably know some people who fit the bill here—

#LongCovid

I wonder how many white supremacist podcasts Graham Platner can appear on, and gush to the host that he is a fan, while still being vigourously supported by some very prominent leftists?
What’s the end game here?

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

NEW: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.

Cambridge is leaving X. Our policy order to take the city off the platform passed unanimously Monday night. Yesterday morning, the city posted a final farewell message—and then went dark.

Thread below on how we got here and what we do next

this seems like a design flaw

Grim. "The administration seems entirely undeterred when it loses in court."

If I was charmed by the HBO/BBC Three series Starstruck, what should I watch next?

You know the rules

the absolute best you can do in defense of this guy is to claim that he has no idea what's going on in this country and no desire to change that. as political pitches go there are better ones

it’s wild how everyone hates Fetterman (correctly) and there’s a guy running who’s basically holding a huge I’m The Next Fetterman sign and it hasn’t slowed him down at all

I also think there is a lot of shaming of folks here when we talk about culture. You get some version of “must be nice to not be consumed with the dystopia!” Lol

Like culture posts on this app simply don’t get the engagement and I think it’s because people feel it’s frivolous and actually it’s the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works

I do actually think there is a serious imbalance on this app. A lot of politics and not enough culture. Some of that has to do with the fact that Black Twitter mostly went to Threads.

Feature not bug.

This framework explains so many actions by Democratic leadership: they’re not weak on XYZ, or being conned, or whatever. They’re making a choice in line with their commitments.

DMV folks—

😭😭

It is completely reasonable to email your dean and/or Provost to ask what is being done at your university to stop this from happening to your students

Because of the way social media works, during primary season I tend to repeat myself often here. For @yuhline.bsky.social, let me repeat this true and important statement:

THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE: WE WOULD NOT HAVE MATCHING FUNDS AT THE STATE LEVEL WERE IT NOT FOR YUH-LINE.

Right—"look how alarmingly influential the cops are" seems like a reason to mobilize, not a reason to stand down.

Clearly there’s a need for counterpressure.