J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈

Bar chart showing that 20% of Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results believe these summaries are extremely or very useful. Far more (52%) see them as somewhat useful, while 28% see them as not too or not at all useful. The chart is based on an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.

Bar chart showing that 6% of Americans who have seen AI summaries in search results have a lot of trust in the information they get from these summaries. Another 48% have some trust in this information, while 34% have not too much trust and 12% have no trust at all. The chart is based on an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.

So far at least, Americans are lukewarm about AI summaries in search results. Relatively few who have seen them think they're extremely or very useful (20%) or have a lot of trust in the information they get from them (6%). New data from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

KFF chart showing results from a new KFF Health Tracking Poll about the enhanced subsidies for those with Marketplace health insurance. Its title is "Most Adults Have Heard Little or Nothing About the Enhanced Subsidies for Those Who Purchase Coverage on ACA Marketplaces"

KFF polling suggests many Marketplace enrollees would be surprised by the jump in their premiums if the enhanced premium tax credits aren’t renewed before the 2026 open enrollment period begins on Nov. 1. https://on.kff.org/4q7ElGy

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The most over stimulated i’ve been in a long time tbh

Yes!

that’s why i moved to the midwest!

wow I was NOT prepared for Menard’s. I was expecting just like a home depot.

extreme close up of an orange cat’s face

same orange cat but now he’s looking at the camera alarmed

whoever invented cat rent deserves to suffer he can’t pay rent he doesn’t have a JOB,

Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara deported Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he wi...

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BREAKING:

*Massive* protests in European Georgia. Demonstrators have attempted to storm the Presidential Palace.

The pro-Putin Georgian Dream party which stole the election and has sent out a new wave of riot police.

It’s two sentences

Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

I really hope people in Minnesota are seeing my Massachusetts plates and wondering “what’s he doing at this Costco??”

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Irony isn’t dead

My big question for this is the extent to which it’s demand vs supply driven. My hunch is that people’s preference for keeping up with their friends is undiminished, but we’ve seen a boom-bust cycle in people’s desire to see the more easily-monetised churn of influencer content and now pure slop

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

mister pope
you could have saved her
i gave you all the clues

Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress A hacking group called the Crimson Collective says it pulled data from private GitHub repositories connected to Red Hat's consulting business. Red Hat has confirmed it is investigating the compromise.

Red Hat is investigating a breach impacting as many as 28,000 customers. We got some files related to it, shows impacted customers might include the Navy and Congress. Also Federal Aviation Administration, Bank of America, AT&T.

www.404media.co/red-hat-inve...

Personal opinion but it seems pretty outrageous to me for federal government resources to be used like this for overt partisan attacks. If it's not already illegal, it probably should be.

Fights over Tylenol, SSRIs highlight the enduring lack of pregnant women in drug trials Shutting pregnant women out of clinical trials to protect them and their babies has had the opposite effect, experts say.

With last week's announcement on Tylenol, pregnancy & autism — & an FDA panel in July on SSRIs during pregnancy — I've been thinking about exclusion of pregnant women in clinical trials. Talked to some experts about how we got here, and what can change:
www.statnews.com/2025/10/02/c...

Cancel culture run amok

FBI’s Kash Patel attacks ADL as ‘extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization’ The FBI director said the bureau is cutting all formal ties with the Jewish civil rights group

FBI Director Kash Patel called the ADL “an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization,” saying in announcement that the FBI has cut all formal ties with the anti-hate group.

oh the straights are doing this OF promo strategy now

Gjratics Cards

Goodbye Boston, it’s been real!

Starting the drive to Minneapolis with an absolutely stuffed full Honda Civic.

Same goes for someone’s appearance in video content and their voice in audio content. Amazingly, there is not a single person on this planet who has ever appreciated an email complaining about their vocal fry.

life pro tip: if someone you follow on social media frequently does posts you don’t like, the correct response is to simply unfollow them. Feedback about that sort of thing is almost never welcomed or appreciated.