Liz Wise

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

I hope there’s at least one person on the sandwich jury who’s passive aggressively eating a sandwich while they deliberate, just to see what happens

Yeah, He Won, but He Was Up Against a Deeply Flawed Candidate “I’m skeptical. The odds are that Mamdani’s victory is actually less significant than you think.” — Ross Douthat, New York Times - - -I was as surp...

"In normal times, against a normal candidate, we have no evidence that picking a friendly, relatable, likable candidate without a history of sexual abuse will work. Let’s not read too much into it."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yea...

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

This is good. On the linguistic roots why, people say Mandami and why it's not just linguistics (i.e. the impulse is linguistic but at this point for certain people it's deliberate)

Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.”

This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

I hope the centrists learned a hard lesson last night. No more reaching across the aisle to people who have been spitting in our faces for decades. Run young people, run socialists, run on actionable ideas that seek to make our lives better.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Book banning isn't popular and isn't what parents nor taxpayers want.

The average person is sick of hearing about the unhinged sexual fantasies made up by the genital obsessed party.

I think Dick Cheney’s death today highlighted this divide.

The Democrats who still say shit like “reach across the aisle” and praise evil people are playing to a political audience that no longer exists.

Mamdani wasn’t cruel to Cuomo in a Trumpism style, but he didn’t concede anything either.

we were told AI would cure cancer. that it would bring us quantum computing.

instead we get slop, and racist propaganda.

the (historically accurate) Luddites were right, man. Smash the machines built with the sole purpose to demean your humanity.

Entrepreneurial spirit isn't inherently virtuous.

The reason not to be empathetic toward genAI users is that if your boss and coworker went "hey check this out, it's a hefty bag full of hot dogshit, it's a valueble part of my workflow now" you would not be expected to be empathetic.

People would fully expect you to go "the fuck is wrong with you?"

FALL BACK
(INTO SEASONAL DEPRESSION)

I saw this and said “UGH bad news from Weather is Happening,” and my husband went, “OMG is he okay?”

A good reminder that we need to repent to our weather lords.

it has never been more time for bed

Homework shouldn’t exist 😭

My dog sure sighs a lot for somebody who can’t read the news

Holy fuck.

Email receipt for donation to the Greater Boston Food Bank.

GBFB FTW!

Chicago Over Everything

a cartoon character is sitting in front of an orange emergency exit sign Alt: A cartoon character (Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons) is sitting in front of an orange emergency exit sign. The caption says “I’m in danger.”

Wow 1st graders are A LOT.

Cover of Merriam-Webster's All Caps dictionary, a red background with a white circle and text for people who are mad.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

I hope this email finds you on a ladder propped against the side of the Louvre.

A lot going on here but, every Social Studies teacher knows that the number of school leaders and decision makers who dismiss and have dismissed Social Studies content/standards as not their biggest issues for decades is directly correlated with *how we got here*

"How do you expect to win back men...?"

We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

If being against a guy with a Nazi tattoo makes me a purist I guess I'm an anti-Nazi purist. If you think that makes me an anti-Nazi single issue voter, you're wrong, but also it's a pretty good single issue.

There is more than a year. Go get another real progressive who doesn't have a Nazi tattoo.

There's nothing ableist about criticizing generative AI. It's not a disability aid. It's not an aid at all. It's a hindrance and a blight and a waste of water, power, and land resources, and the disabled will suffer before the fascists let go of it.

Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre Andrew Harding Paris correspondent, at the scene

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year