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The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.

This is an incredible opportunity to get feedback from some of the best editors around. Don’t miss it!

Public media is really special. Shame, shame, shame on this regime and its campaign to make everyone scared, obedient, and stupid. They are stealing from all of us and from our futures. Despicable.

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

The em dash (aka “the OG vibe shift”) speaks up.

This is like those treeless house developments where they clearcut all the trees and then name the roads after them.

ChatGPT spits out these words because the stolen labor products it was trained on consisted in large part of academics’ writing.

Opinion | When Novels Mattered

This is simply wrong. I've been running a book club all year focused on reading commercial fiction & have had to deliberately ignore the many lit fic books that have been on the charts all year. Brooks also misses the real story... (1/8)

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Shitty Advice for Progressive Protestors Seems like a lot of folks will be out protesting against monarchy this weekend. That’s super. It also seems like there’s a lot of bad advice for protestors floating around the socials. That’s not supe...

Hey! It’s me! Back on my bullshit! And this time I’m mad at Peter Coyote.

Em dash lovers, AI haters, and lovers and haters in general will dig this piece.

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Genius. Crumbled potato chips improve just about everything.

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Self-driving taxis can't sexually harass you?

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Happy Earth Day, Bluesky nerds!

If you’re an environmental scientist, environmental advocacy professional, or environmental non-profit, introduce yourself below and I’ll share it with my audience.

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*This* is the energy and collaboration we need to see: Civil society (esp. funders) stepping up to not only fill the science gap but expand the possibilities, dreaming and doing bigger and better than before. 🙌 🌍

#EarthDay

Superheroes!

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Suki Waterhouse!

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The en dash contains multitudes, and I will always stick up for it.

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Even bigger and better on The Facts of Life!

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Mostly profane punk rock, but also the Resistance Revival Chorus's version of All You Fascists Bound to Lose.

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On Organizing time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

The point of Senator Booker's filibuster is to be INSPIRED by this man to go find YOUR ROLE, not to wait for them to go save us now.

That is not this assignment.

Thread of places to go to get started. More coming out of LiST this Thursday.

This is how you do it! ❤️

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Yes and yes, but to clarify: Newsom is termed out and not running for governor in 2026.

man he's a perfect synthesis of patrick bateman and gob bluth, isn't he? so perfect that i don't have to say his name for you to know exactly who i'm talking about

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I see they started with the copyeditors.

What a cutie!