Charlotte Willner

The thing that always gets me is that Tolkien obviously would have hated Silicon Valley generally, and these particular guys specifically.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Millennials are middle aged now but not me. I stayed young somehow

We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change.

The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.

For 17 years working in trust and safety, I've watched talented people burn out on impossible tasks. The problem isn't the people, it's the systems. Traditional moderation requires months of retraining for every policy change. Only big companies can afford it, and even then it works poorly. 🧵 1/9

just a silly goose on the loose

Dan Driscoll [answering cell phone]: Hello?
Voice: Hi it’s the moon
Driscoll: I told you to stop calling
Voice: I going to hit your eye like a big pizza pie
Driscoll: I HAVE ALERTED THE FBI TO THIS HARASSMENT
Voice: I have a man in me
Driscoll: THIS IS DISRESPECT TO THE MILITARY

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.

This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

literally me

An extremely stocky and muscular ox, painted by George Garrard in 1813.

"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak"

our beef:

Remember these guys did multiple days about a squirrel that was killed by animal control right before the election as if it was the crime of the century. And now they're dismissing human trafficking an innocent guy to a foreign slave labor camp as no big deal.

Roses are red
Violets are blue

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

New Yorkers and DC residents trying to talk with @schumer.senate.gov are having to push notes through a locked door with police posted outside.

the blood moon? where all my vanquished enemies come back to life???

Rep. Maxine Waters: "Elon Musk, bring your ass over here."

the republican-run congress could pass a law tomorrow shutting down USAID or defunding lutheran family services or whatever, but reps and senators don't want to have their opponents spend a year hounding them about it. they are cowards

Yeah, you'd think the guy leading the Pentagon would know that celebration of diversity has long been a theme in American military history.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

As a free thinker alpha male one of my highest values is unquestioning obedience to authority. Boss knows best, that's why he's the boss

Exclusive: Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.

Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Walter: “Learn the damn language”
Also Walter: apparently doesn’t know that “descendants” and “ancestors” aren’t interchangeable

I know it’s banging my head against a wall at this point but the reason your ancestors came over legally through Ellis Island is because back then all you had to do to come legally was not die on the boat

i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

on “Wonderful Christmastime,” Sir Paul McCartney set out to make a timeless christmas classic and also to figure out what every button on his synthesizer did, and he absolutely succeeded at one of those things