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submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

submitted 14 hours ago • 482 comments

Sticker seen in NYC

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

submitted 11 hours ago • 838 comments

submitted 10 hours ago • 44 comments

If you work in a legal, medical or government office in one of these trials: RELEASE THE FUCKING DATA HOLY FUCK LEAK THE DATA SAVE THE FUCKING WORLD WITH A SINGLE USB STICK AND AN EMAIL ADDRESS HOLY SHIT FUCK IP

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Taps old post

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

Andrew Carnegie did all that philanthropy because he was convinced that otherwise he was going to Hell for, well, all the other stuff he did

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

this is a really an unfathomable level of evil “shut off all foreign aid” is of course just as evil but it’s a blunt instrument, where you don’t have to directly face the specific programs you’re killing but these little fucks were manually vetoing PEPFAR time and again

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

lol of course

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

My fellow historian of early America, and fellow student of the very conservative historian Gordon Wood, wrote a very sober piece recently that came to a similar conclusion. It's truly crazy-making how many of our fellow Americans look upon what's happening as if it's totally normal.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Following on from the convo yesterday, it's with probably saying that AI and machine learning tools are generating a moderate amount of value, but Silicon Valley is so deep into hyper scale growth at all costs, and has bet so hard on this, that expectations are an order of magnitude too high.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

Imagine being an evangelical Christian apparently and looking at a guy's plan to fill what you call your holy land with literal golden idols to himself after genociding the humans there and going "what a great guy"

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

It might absolutely flop and only make it to the third book and a bunch of actors will have torched their reputations with trans people and allies for three bad seasons of telly.

submitted 21 hours ago • 42 comments

The federal government is methodically hunting and rooting out LGBTQIA+ people from service (with the help of alt right trolls) and this is the best NYT could muster. It’s pathetic and dangerous.

submitted 19 hours ago • 107 comments

The fascist specter of JK Rowling hanging over this production aside why would you want the last chapter of your career defined by IP slop marketed to overgrown children

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

This is why I'm hammering the Big Medicaid Lie. Even some Republicans are pretending not to get it. And the press is reporting it credulously. Trump wants to cut $900 billion from Medicaid and say he didn't do it. The millions uninsured were just gaming the system! www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

Congrats to the WHCA, now officially less courageous than the French

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

election campaigns at the national level cost millions of dollars, running for prez over a billion dollars, bribery is legal via superpacs and lobbyist bundling, but way too many of you still can't wrap your brains around the notion that billionaires have purchased the loyalty of both major parties

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

Interesting that at least some of the anti vax people aren't anti vax so much as they don't think a problem is real until it's imminent

submitted 18 hours ago • 745 comments

the number one thing that turns people against capitalism is learning what it is

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

In case anyone was wondering why the Right is so obsessed with boosting the birth rate.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

It's time for Radio Dead Air, only $19.99 plus shipping and handling. And if you act now, you'll get a second Radio Dead Air absolutely free! That's two Radio Dead Air for only $19.99! live.radiodeadair.com

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I think I figured out why his spaceships keep blowing up.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

Three former Biden administration officials, who requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to share operational details, said the Border Patrol Chief Agent “went rogue” with the January raids. No higher-ups knew about the operation before watching it unspool in real time, two of them said.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

This piece is fucking fantastic. It's not that the Dems can't fight back; it's that they WON'T.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

AAA is fucked. AAAA is fucked. AA is fucked. Indie is fucked. It's all fucked. I've never seen more across-the-board devastation in this industry in the decade-and-a-half I've been here.

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

Everything is going great you guys

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

I've been assured by Democrats for years that everyone should want a "strong" Republican Party.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Truly incredible how Americans can go to the polls, choose a bunch of incompetent jerks to run the country, then immediately recognize "welp everything's gonna suck now." I dunno, maybe don't choose the incompetent jerks next time? Just sayin.

submitted 1 day ago • 151 comments

Discord has apparently added generative AI "apps" users can use to modify any image posted in any discord server. On by default, no way to disable them, no moderation tools. Fuck discord, support artists (discord sure doesn't).

submitted 2 days ago • 190 comments

Just feels like it’s all spinning wheels until one of them dies or someone lays hands on them. If a judge won’t send US Marshalls out or if the military won’t decide it’s enough, every “going bad for them in court” report is just infinitely closing exactly half the distance to a consequence.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Something about Soviet bread lines, something something.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

They’re not called Rare Earth Metals because they’re scarce, but because as a group of elements they took a long time to isolate. It’s an antiquated English use of rare meaning “widely distributed or isolated” that died in Victorian times.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

huge news and probably a ton of layoffs. monolith has been around since the 1990s (and the source of tons of drama which @chetsucks.com wrote about hilariously). and now it's just holding corps turning out all the lights.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

WELP. They sent everyone home, and now they've just reopened the series and put the bill back on the floor. Members had left Capitol Hill for the night, now they are turning around and driving back, I've never seen this happen before in 10+ years working here

submitted 1 day ago • 154 comments

I HAVE WAITED 18 YEARS FOR THIS MOMENT

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So I'm at dinner with some folks and I read out this story and said, "I bet 27 people have already sent this to @radiodeadair.com." Everyone present agreed.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Poker Face returns to Peacock this spring, and here's your first look at season 2 of Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne's mystery hit. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/poker-fac...

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And as usual, not one mention of the fact they were bought out by private equity in 2010. This leaves Michael's and (gag) Hobby Lobby as the main remaining craft chains in the US.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Wow those nonconfrontational savvy behind-the-scenes negotiations to address the White House blackballing the AP really paid off huh

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

This is great, but we knew Tesla's Europe sales would go down. Not a lot of suspense there. The real battleground is the US. Don't get comfy because the Europeans are doing their part, we need to get out there and make sure Tesla's US sales see this kind of double digit decline too! #TeslaTakedown

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

My favorite Kurt Vonnegut quote--"you are what you pretend to be"--comes from Mother Night, a novel about an American spy who pretends to be a Nazi propagandist only to realize later in life he was just being a Nazi propagandist

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

Bosses don't do real work and thus don't know how work works

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

today would be mitch hedberg's 57th birthday, his comedy was kind-hearted silliness and the world is a less funny place without him, love you mitch, happy birthday - please share your favorite mitch jokes ♥️

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Well get on with it then, Helen.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Imagine you're really enthusiastic about a group of people because you think they're fighting the bad guys but it turns out they're working for the bad guys instead, so you get really really mad at everyone who noticed this

submitted 100 days ago • 4 comments