Today, @wired.com is publishing Choke Points, an 18-month investigation into how Israel’s network of checkpoints, gates, and roadblocks is reshaping daily life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. A thread on the reporting, and what we found:

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

A few shots from Bar Harbor and @acadianps.bsky.social Maine. Kodak Ultramax 400 shot on a Yashica T4 Super

This issue has made me so mad. I’ve told family members and friends who thought it was about protecting “girls” to “shut the fuck up” it’s all about restricting rights and discrimination

Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d ago

The trans women in sports panic has got to be one of the GOP's most successful manufactured culture war campaigns. Somehow they got a lot of people who would otherwise say they support trans rights to somehow fear "fairness" in sports. It's a non-issue.

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

Last call from Comerica Park for the season. Next Tigers game here will be from Fifth Third Park. Whatever the name, looking out across the outfield to the Detroit skyline will never get old.

This is long read by @iankduncan.com (link) but well worth the read to try and understand what is happening in the AI world, with the tech billionaires, and the US Government. And Faine’s 🧵s on the topics are good as well.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 4d ago

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

Student journalists have been heroes over the past ten years and the fact that we have allowed the world to reach a state where hardly any of them will be able to serve communities as journalists after they graduate is something we should all feel shame about

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 4d ago

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

"You see, they sign up for health care, they pay for health care, and then they don't *use* that health care. It's the perfect crime and they thought they were going to get away with it."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Assistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."

it’s interesting how rhetorically juiceless the pro-Israel side is. they’ve basically given up on trying to actually win people over.

Evergreen advice

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

i'm not reading what that dumbass wrote

Proposal: Malgeri Stadium

Jason Beck@jasonbeck.bsky.social · last wk.

On the day Tigers unveil Fifth Third Park, No. 53 has a game. Coincidence? Proof we’re living in a simulation? Endorsement opportunity for Ben Malgeri? “I didn’t really think of that. Now that you put that idea out there, yeah, maybe I should go for that.” www.mlb.com/news/ben-mal...

We should revert to calling it “the CoPa”

Jason Beck@jasonbeck.bsky.social · last wk.

Comerica Park will become Fifth Third Park starting next season.

you think it's a coincidence that the most evil and corrupt people alive want you to believe that trans people are the real problem?

#TeslaTakedown@teslatakedown.com · last wk.

Elon has already spent over $5 million backing Ken Paxton. Nearly all of it is filling Texans' feeds and mailboxes with vile anti-trans slop. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

This man is a national treasure

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 2w ago

Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

EPA is going to stop regulating power plant emissions but start quixotically testing water for medication

Jessica Valenti@jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 2w ago

The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.

TFW your entire country's path into the future gets fucking bodied by a 10-year-old named Riley Grunch

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

“.. NYT asked a bunch of ten year olds what life will be like in 2050.” (via @shashj.bsky.social)

Literally touch some grass buddy

Guys, I think trump is lying

Tbh as a first draft it isn’t bad

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST@chathamharrison.bsky.social · 3w ago

Here you are, you animals. The Twenty Correct States of America.

Every day I learn about new and different nazi tropes and phrases.

Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Doctors, lawyers and engineers" is an international online Nazi trope. The "joke" is that non-White people are too stupid to be anything other than a criminal or someone who leeches social services. Read a Spanish newspaper about Ceuta, e.g., and you'll see "médicos y ingenieros" in the comments.

The whole league should have, but hat tip to the Rockies for standing for players

Casey Drottar@caseydrottar.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Cardinals, in response to home-plate umpire Doug Eddings telling rookie Hancel Rincon to fix his hat last night, all wore tipped caps in their dugout tonight. The Rockies did, as well, after Eddings claimed Hunter Goodman asked for Rincon to fix his hat, something Goodman strongly denied.

Nice place to co-own

Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

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With the return of college football I’ll re-up my totally correct take. Football games are slower, more boring, and take longer than baseball games.