Ars Technica

hooray!

I shared this earlier. Here's the update:

AND IT IS ABOUT FREE CHILD CARE!!!!!!

Despite the troubles and horrors, we're also living in the most meet-cute buddy movie ever.

Oh hell: this picture!

Bina Venkataraman!!!! D.C. on the 25th.

Rebecca Solnit Discusses "The Beginning Comes After the End" With Anand Giridharadas | Brooklyn Public Library BPL Presents welcomes Rebecca Solnit back to our stage, whose The Beginning Comes After the End offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural...

OMG! With Anand Giridharadas!!!! In Brooklyn! March 24th.

The Forum with Rebecca Solnit: Notes on a World of Change (In-Person) As white nationalist and authoritarian movements push toward isolation and individualism, other currents continue to gather strength. Antiracism, feminism, expansive understandings of gender, environm...

Back in San Francisco at Grace Cathedral on the 15th. gracecathedral.org/calendar-eve...

Solo in Reno on the 13th, where so much of my imaginative/intellectual odyssey began with the great activists there....https://theradicalcat.square.site/product/march-13-rebecca-solnit-book-launch-author-talk/MSY4CJIMT2F7I5YX5T23NY7S?cs=true&cst=custom

Nicola Pitchford, aka @npitchford.bsky.social!!!! Point Reyes on the 7th. ptreyesbooks.com/event/2026-0...

Annie Leonard!!!! In Berkeley March 6. www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

Jeff Chang!!!!! In San Francisco March 2. app.gopassage.com/events/solni...

I wrote a book! (Yes, this often happens to me.) And yes, it's the pink stripe in the rainbow flag when you stack them right. It's out Tuesday and I start doing events on Monday with the most amazing people. List here and more below: www.rebeccasolnit.net/events1.html

What a great sentence: "I say all of this first to explain why, although she is a deeply unserious person, we must unfortunately take Candace Owens seriously."

10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch

Her in the library

DHS illegally arrested me please help Text against image of her knees

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

That's not true either.

In 1938, the German Reich invalidated all German Jewish passports.

They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as a Jew.

In 2026, the state of Kansas invalidated all correct trans drivers licenses.

They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as trans.

Both hunting and horses seem to be elite things over there. They're often part of blue-collar rural life and indigenous culture here (I'm in California, grew up with a small quarter-horse farm on the other side of the back fence, learned to ride from a tough woman married to a farrier).

But I do wish people wouldn't respond by tossing out largely imaginary facts about horses, history, and human use.

Sounds like you haven't been to a lot of rodeos?

Not sure where you live, but there's a big blue-collar rural and indigenous equestrian world out west here.... Had the honor of supporting Carrie and Mary Dann, these two Western Shoshone matriarchs in their land struggle in the 1990s.

Which is not a particularly encouraging analogy for what AI will do or rather what AI corporations would like to do to us.

Nope, sloplords, there were just far fewer horses after they ceased to be the central transit and hauling technology.

He's clearly sounding out words like they're surprises, and proceeding through them word by word without grasping the meaning of the sentences. There's such a disparity between Trump blathering on boastfully and Trump tentatively, resentfully doing his homework by reading words handed to him.

YouTube video by CGTN 'We are all here,' Zelenskyy says in self-made Kyiv street video with key aides

Four years ago, when people thought Zelensky would flee....

She’s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota – she thinks you can do it too Ashley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town – now donations are pouring in, and families’ rent is being paid

I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this.

I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it.

I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.

Somebody is getting a C+ on his reading comprehension test.

This should be a much bigger story. Kegseth is essentially saying he wants to use the Anthropic software to commit war crimes and will therefore not agree to be bound to well established US and international law rules. Outrageous.

Should've said, by the January 6 Jogger about the Epstein best buddy.

Excellent use of rapey language by the January 6 Jogger.