I have news for you

it is not just games, it's tech, it's the arts, it's academia

we are all going through a billionaire class induced, intentional global economic recession right now (other than "AI" grifters who WILL inevitably be out of a job in a year) and it's going to get much, much worse

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity

Step 1: Take food assistance away from millions of families.
Step 2: Stop measuring food insecurity so nobody can count how many hungry kids your policies make.

No this is how Gonzo was born

Stacy Wescott for the Chicago Tribune.

Curtis Evans, veteran, Marine Corps intelligence under Reagan, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the ICE facility in Broadview, IL on Sept. 19, 2025

MS. Magazine, you up?

Anime avatar? Also joined in November 2024?

looking at IA, the pubs page has been rerouting to the main CDC site since at least 8/17

Learn the Signs indeed

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Cartoon tiger, fox, bird, and turtle search the forest. Caption reads Learn the Signs, Act Early

10/10 to the web team who posted this image and caption right before CDC's Pubs on Demand service was killed

Ah, so I have to buy a case. Got it. Where do the price breaks happen for bulk orders?

they fired people contributing to cancer research

I feel like there was a tweet - and this was maybe even before Generative AI - where someone described tech bros and their jealousy of the creative and educated as “they don’t want to write a book, they want to have written a book” and I think that’s only increasing.

What's next after the BLS chief's firing? A former staffer weighs in Last week, president trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after a revision to previous jobs reports. What does this action mean for the agency and for the future o...

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"Having objective, nonpartisan data, just boring data put together with high quality and integrity -- THAT is needed for our economic and political debates.

And to threaten that just makes us poorer as a country."

I was thinking with a friend about how to describe the harms of AI, especially in a teaching and labor context, and came up with calling it a “coordinated campaign of mass deskilling” and I feel like that succinctly describes a lot of the problem.

Dersh has been banging this drum since Trump1 & the really good news is: ostracism works, even on the shameless.

Tons of people miss this--the shameless are hyper-sensitive to stigma.

Civil society should use this free, non-violent tool to punish destructive people a lot more often. It works.

This administration is much, much weaker than they would like you to believe. In many cases they're making themselves weaker through incompetent self-sabotage. Claiming they've successfully brought about a fascist regime because they've committed lawless acts of cruelty is doing their work for them

Analysis | Democrats try to flip the script on red tape In today’s edition … Trump’s new fiction about gas prices ... Democrats are already publicly angling in the 2028 presidential fight.

“The reality is that requirements like these move people off programs not by requiring work but by requiring more reporting of work.”

@washingtonpost.com examines new “red tape” for Medicaid recipients, with comments from @mmilleradams.bsky.social
and @truesdale.bsky.social

#booksky

Ever wonder where the tomato on your July4th burger comes from? These Central Valley tomato harvesters spend hours bent over under the sun harvesting. On an average they lift around 170 buckets a day. Each bucket weighs 25 Ibs. It's exhausting, physical labor. WeFeedYou

This is also what transformed the US from a state willing to found and fund programs to aid its citizens to one trying to convince the populace that they should ask for and expect nothing from government.

Land giveaways, grants, etc. Can no longer legally be White Only, so now no one gets anything.

Excerpt: Uranus in Aries is going to be the 1960s all over again. The greatest time of upheaval will be between 2015 and 2019, when the square of Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn will create the seeds of revolution everywhere. Forces of repression are going to clamp down even harder on those who want to speak their minds. Then, in the years 2023–25, the final stages of the Pluto return and the Capricorn effect will reach a climax. Some astrologers believe that an empire lasts no longer than one Pluto cycle, and by 2025 this cycle will be played out. And no matter how you look at it, the U.S.A. is an empire. Just as the British Empire began enduring sunsets after the fledgling colonies won their independence, our turn may be coming. The Pluto return of 2025 will demand a redefinition of the United States and create the ultimate identity crisis. We will have to put ourselves on the line, as we did in the 1770s.

Do I believe in astrology? No. Am I still sharing this Vanity Fair article from 2006 that reads the United States stars? Hellls yes. www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/12...

short list of new policy sources added to Altmetric since June 2025

Dave followed the link, but it only lists the new ones. Where might he find the complete list of 900 sources?

Where might I find the list of all 900 policy sources? Dave wants to know.

And once again: there is only one government in the Middle East with nuclear weapons. Undeclared. Zero inspections.

Israel.

Let me know when a single mainstream outlet highlights that fact in their daily news coverage.

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no accidents

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

A Brief Ode to Data Minimization Data is real, and it can hurt you. Conversely, data cannot hurt you if you do not pluck it from the ether and rudely force it into existence in the first place. Let's talk, briefly, about data minim...

Dumpsters attract raccoons, dead zebras attract hyenas, and huge stores of data will inevitably attract Elon Musk and violence-minded feds.

And that's why I think data minimization is really important, as I explain in this newsletter article:

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