mollie bryant

It’s a boss in octopath traveler. It’s pixel art of a seated wizard guy with long gray hair and he’s holding a staff

Oh man, I’m replaying octopath on the switch 2 and it’s beautiful + I just discovered there’s a hidden class but you have to fight this guy with incredible hair

To throw a wrench into things: today's revisions in the BLS jobs numbers are bad and a sign of a decline in data quality from BLS that's been growing for a while. The BLS actually hasn't been doing a great job adapting to falling response rates and issues with their models.

Thinking about this @sarahana.bsky.social quote while I dance around to the new Sofia Kourtesis!

"Don’t despair, organize. You can either be immobilized by despair, and internalize all of your frustration. Or you can join a community of people who are trying to change something."

Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report President Donald Trump on Friday had his team remove the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures, after a weak report showed hiring slowed and was much weaker in April and May than p...

Like, i’m to the point where even if we were to lose the bulk of reliable federal data, the truth is people can see what’s going on around them and know the contents of their own lives, and the government can’t censor that apnews.com/article/trum...

Jobs data isn’t the only sign things are off with the economy. the public isn’t blind to the fact that tens of thousands (I mean, idk, not looking it up but at least that many) layoffs this year + hiring freezes in the public & private sectors + inflation sort of affect things lol

as we fall to questioning the integrity of federal jobs data, I’ll throw out that bankruptcies are up 12% over last year www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...

How many past presidents have had a bad jobs report (since they existed) without firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics? I'm guessing, all of them?

Sometimes I think of all the generations of lives spent in service and sacrifice to establish all of the freedom, the opportunity, the rule of law, the civil rights, worker rights, human rights and constitutional rights, that America is now needlessly, catastrophically forsaking.

yes!! I'll for sure check out the collection

the other day I was wondering why David bowie and Iggy pop were changed to fictional characters but Oscar Wilde is portrayed as the first glam artist and possibly an alien. but maybe you're not supposed to get too deep with the logic of the movie

VELVET GOLDMINE IS ON HERE!! it's probably my favorite movie of all time but kind of hard to find

that movie is crazy! she has great taste

all this is to say that I dramatically have to reorient my life & work to disrupt the toll this shit is taking on me. & it's also to say, I often feel so frustrated & alone, like I'm the only one who cares/worries about this shit, and if you're feeling that way, please know you aren't the only one.

all of this has made me so mentally exhausted and burned out. and I loop around to asking myself, what is the solution to this? and I always answer, more information access, more journalism. and I loop around again to hopelessness bc I don't see how that's possible in this environment

They don't care that these choices are driving inflation, creating a bubble & making a few people richer while the rest of us can't afford a home, food, etc. AI is the perfect mechanism to conceal their actions & role in building a world that exploits the most vulnerable and *was not inevitable*

People in positions of power and tech companies have proven repeatedly that they don't care about this dynamic (AI eroding opportunity for many people + the switch to an authoritarian government) or that it's depriving people of hope.

I hope when the bubble bursts that it does so before the economy is even more reliant on AI & before most journalists & publications are gone. meanwhile, nonprofits like ours are facing the reality that there is way less funding that will be way more competitive to get + donors have less $ to spend

every career I've ever wanted (except to be a musician, which is also something the tech industry thinks AI can replace) was on that list. yet I keep reminding myself, wait, AI can't come up with a story idea, ask people questions or analyze information, so how tf is it supposed to replace me

that's a morose thing to say, but it's how I've felt throughout this year. I saw Microsoft's list of jobs most likely to be eliminated by AI, a tech that doesn't work, is a bubble that will wreck the economy and that deprives people of access to information while purporting to do the opposite

when we started our news nonprofit in 2017, I thought maybe someday there might be government funding for publications like ours. less than a decade later, it's a much different world, a world that I often feel people like me have no place in
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"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

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It’s one of the greatest comedies tbh

I think about that line, "I miss the real," from sinners all the fucking time

I didn’t realize until this year that several ai platforms had sucked my site into their system and I get zero compensation or acknowledgement for that. It’s demoralizing af

You absolutely aren’t alone. It’s going to cannibalize our industry even though it depends on our work; it’s devaluing our labor and leading to chaotic errors; and it’s making everyone who uses it less able to identify good writing/high-quality info, while making them, uh, stupider.

And with that I’ll avoid bsky until later when I fill yall in on whatever pauly shore garbage I inevitably watch tonight ;)

I wouldn’t feel so anxious about this kind of thing if the people involved didn’t love the hell out of eugenics

Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help The Trump administration is pushing for Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies

I shouldn’t have read this but it makes me quite uncomfortable that the government could be so involved in the private health care industry and if it’s really for record sharing between providers & patients, those kinds of systems already exist abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...

News: legendary Washington Post sports columnist @sallyjenx.bsky.social is leaving The Post.

Cool! Carlito's Way is on tubi but it's leaving in a few days. I haven't seen raising cane and I think there's something blocking it from streaming in the US, at least on netflix