Nobel Peace Prize status.

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I love a good chuckle in the morning (though incomprehensible of course).

The entire internet right now

It’s been 3,174 days since I escaped corporate life. I was 44. My children were tiny. Now they're teenagers.

Today I turn 53, and we are infinitely happier here, in our farmhouse by the ocean. No more meetings. No more commute.

If I can escape, you can too (because I'm a dumbass). #Life #Art

Young Cooper’s Hawk portrait

Saturday evening Coop 🪶☀️🌵

I hope someone has hired a cadre of ratfuckers to go into right-wing spaces & foment as much dissension as possible over this Epstein stuff.

A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity. Photo from The Samuels Public Library After being targeted by anti-LGBTQ book banners and having their funding pulled, a local library in Virginia successfully stopped a threatened takeover by a pr…

Are you aware that private equity, in addition to destroying numerous other venerable US institutions, is now going after public libraries?

Just saw Superman. Was gonna do a whole bit about it walking in. That’d be a disservice. It’s an important piece of work and I’m not joking. I don’t even like superhero movies. Sprint to see it. Bring your kids and explain it to them. James Gunn had a time machine when he made it.

trump remade the Republican party in his own image over the course of like six months

so yeah, i do think political parties can pivot to do things that work

MacKenzie Scott paid me $100k for this tweet

hi! @newmediamentors.bsky.social has a class on Visual Strategy lead by the amazing design strategist behind the NYC No Kings protests and if you work for a nonprofit or union you should take our course. bit.ly/vizstrat

‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...

Another day testing the limits of resilience.

The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels.

Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels.

The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.

RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Not enough people realize that Merrick Garland let an entire network of White Power groups that literally built Timothy McVeigh's bomb off the hook because he had the one guy that was easy to convict because he admitted to the bombing. They are still out there plotting. Garland made sure of that.

We want to be able to say stuff that other people, for institutional reasons, can’t say, or they’re too afraid to say. You may be the only CEO in America making that promise. We’re in a unique position, certainly. And other places have to learn from this — being afraid all the time and just constantly making transactional moves. How long can you survive like this? What is even the point of being alive if you’re just gonna continue managing rot? And it seems like that’s what 98 percent of people are doing in these media companies right now. I don’t know, take a chance. Nobody likes what’s happening. Especially if you’re a journalism company or a media company, you’re [meant to be] actually reflecting what people want or what people believe. So get some guts and do something interesting. It’s not that hard.

I had a REALLY lovely time talking to @milesklee.bsky.social at Rolling Stone about why The Onion is thriving.

It's because we're one of the only legacy outlets unafraid to accurately reflect the mood of this country.

That mood? Everyone fucking hates this.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

republicans are about to tweet things about mamdani that are like the hatred you read about in the bible

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

Andrew Cuomo was the US Secretary of Housing and is now running for mayor, where one of the largest agencies they manage is NYC's Housing Authority.

And yet Cuomo literally had ChatGPT write his campaign housing policy.

This is who the media and establishment want you to think is "serious"

the detail about the dog lying in state beside them has unexpectedly fucked me up

‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home

i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Incredible how Cuomo is absolutely DWARFING everyone else in money and spend and yet it’s still close enough that they’re pulling these stops out.

They’re scared.

A laboubu is 2025s answer to a troll doll or a beanie baby but uglier and even more expensive

A thing people don't remember about 2003 is that "they have WMDs" was the pitch to *high-info* voters.

The pitch to low-info voters was "the dastardly muslims attacked us on 9/11 and we have to hit them back by deposing the muslim king saddam hussein who attacked us"

Timothy Snyder on war.

Easy to start, hard to stop - like Pringles, but with more body bags.

Another failure of privatisation. Taxpayer money literally going up in smoke.

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

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When it came out WHY they were so desperate to get people to use messenger (to spy on them) it taught me a valuable lesson. If a service wants you to use it too much it's not in your best interest.

And that's how I feel about AI.

If AI was THAT good they wouldn't be pushing it on us so hard /2

There was a period Facebook app made it basically impossible to send messages through the app - you had to use the stand alone messenger app. I found that so annoying (I did not want the messenger app) I ended up deleting the facebook app altogether. /1

Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at Jan. 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.