JB Emmons

It's launch day for the US edition of ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM!

What is the future for human art in the age of AI? What kind of AI is actually helpful? These are some of the questions driving this techno-thriller.

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2016 was a failure, 2024 was an abdication forced by a takeover

What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

Bridge over Chicago Waters. This morning during the Chicago Marathon.

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming The Frog is owning the president.

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

OK, marketing idea, it's not a "shutdown," it's a "government rapture."

Well, not *entirely* joking.

I think he's known for playing a Space Masshole in one of the newer Star Wars TV shows. (I'm not joking.)

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Welp, looks like I'm done posting on @bsky.app for the day. I didn't even realize the daily video limit was still a thing. Any help, @support.bsky.team?

ok I will. They are all smart enough to do fascism and are doing it. They are doing a fuckton of harm and the aesthetics are a big part of it because they excite their supporters enough to continue to support them and also they demoralize everyone else. 1.

This is one of those cases that you can view from different perspectives. One perspective is the First Amendment and the importance of journalistic freedom. But the other perspective is that someone in the FBI leaked investigation documents to harm the target of an investigation…
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On this #NDTR, we wear orange honour the survivors of residential schools, recognize the multigenerational impacts of white-settler colonialism, and confront the ongoing systemic violence faced by Indigenous communities.

But an orange shirt alone is not enough. 🧵⬇️

JERUSALEM (AP) — In 'unprecedented operation,' Israeli army takes over mobile phones of Gaza residents to carry Netanyahu UN speech live.

Screenshot of Bluesky timeline; it depicts the parent post of this thread, but the image below is a Simpsons character saying "May I see it?"

My Bluesky timeline is cursed

Do Not Give In To These Fucking People

Do not self censor. Do not let them scare you

Or let them scare you, but do the damn thing anyway

Fuck Charlie Kirk. Fuck Trump. Fuck anyone who tries to strip us of our God-given right to say those things

if kimmel is edgy we are so fucked

There was no meeting scheduled today. The first meeting of this committee this week is on Thursday. This is bullshit theatre designed to make people angry, and we used to shame MPs who engaged in it. Quoting MP Larry Brock: UNBELIEVABLE. Parliament is back, but Liberal members of the Justice Committee are MISSING IN ACTION.

Over in the Bad Place, Conservative MPs are faking committee meetings to make people angry.
I wish I were making this up.

"You know, I'm something of a hack, myself."

This is a good write-up. If reports are true about this being your last for RS, that's a damn shame, and the loss is all theirs -- and this is clearly you going out in fine form.

The ole Harper’s letter free speech brigade has really fallen down on the job eh?

Moving countries isn't something you do on a whim. I wouldn't have done it if I didn't have personal reasons that long predated Trump 2.0, and I don't recommend it as the first option at all. But if you need to get out, now is the time to start making those moves.

The thing is he actually is pretty funny, I just can't for the life of me figure out why

UK comics will really be like "this comedian is literally the funniest man ever!! I can't keep a straight face around him!" and then you watch and it's just the villain from late-series Ted Lasso throwing out manic one-liner dad jokes in a high-pitched voice and calling himself Mister Swallow

Space Command is coming to Huntsville. Many of Space Command's employees might not. | Alabama Reflector Space Command officials fear many of their employees might not move from Colorado to Huntsville. It's not hard to understand why.

My column from Monday. Huntsville is a great city. But Huntsville is in a state that treats women as children and has juvenile and dangerous attitudes toward gun access. It’s no surprise Space Command officials have repeatedly warned that many of their civilian employees might not move to Alabama.

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...