The lady who took my pic at the Real ID Supercenter: "Thank you, sweetie. You're very handsome. Follow the ropes." I'm going to be riding this high for the rest of my life.

NEW: AI data centers are meeting fierce resistance across the country. In Maryland, residents turned their concerns about power bills, pollution, and land use into a successful political movement. @nitishpahwa.com reports. slate.com/technology/2...

These Activists Might Have Cracked the Code to Fighting the Data Center Boom

Communities across the country are trying to keep data centers out. A victory in Maryland shows a blueprint—but no guarantees.

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i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten

We need to bring back shame www.espn.com/college-foot...

Sources: Indiana DL Stephen Daley to return for fifth season

Indiana star defensive lineman Stephen Daley will return to the Hoosiers for his fifth year, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel.

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Credit is where credit is due: Haley Stevens has permanently altered my regular vocabulary with "Stick it to 'em!"

how many grams of protein is in wildfire smoke?

She sounds like she's about to cause a moral panic around the town's new pool table to create a boys' marching band.

Jordan Uhl@jordanuhl.com · 2mo ago

🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

breathing in air that kills you on the way to have a salad that kills you

The virgin "post-literate reading crisis" feature vs the Chad "this man has so many books his building wants to evict him" article

Me thinking about General Hospital: this show must be about a hospital Every clip of General Hospital Man in military fatigues: I’m proud to announce we’ve captured the radioactive ape

do taylor and travis have a the knot page?

lol he signed it at VERSAILLES? the place famous for treaties that do not last???

we also have @tonyhotran.bsky.social with a lil Sad!-libs to put you inside Trump's glorious head slate.com/news-and-pol...

Experience What It Feels Like to Live Inside Trump’s Baffling Brain

We need more beautiful things in this country.

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Sam and many others (@schweather.bsky.social, @rebeccaonion.bsky.social, @c-cauterucci.bsky.social, @lukewinkie.bsky.social, @fredmkaplan.bsky.social, @calllmenadira.net, @madelineducharme.bsky.social, @scaachi.bsky.social, still more) helped me break down the cultural recesses of Trump's brain:

Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I wrote about Donald Trump's enduring obsession with '80s musical-theater schlock, and why he's probably not crazy about the new version of Cats.

Theater employee scanned my ticket for The Backrooms. Before he could tell me the auditorium number, I said, "Let me guess: the room in the back?" His angry silence is a sound I will never forget.

This is my Barbenheimer

reupping for the morning slate.com/technology/2...

I Read the Pope’s 240-Page Encyclical. I’m Astounded by What He Wrote.

It’s an urgent warning—and a celebration of humanity and what we can do at our best.

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Nitish Pahwa@nitishpahwa.com · 3mo ago

took some time this week to read and process Chicago Bob's full A.I. encyclical for myself—and took away something way more interesting, and fulsome, than either its detractors or proponents would have you believe

Announcement: My essay about my family’s return to Vietnam has been selected for The Best American Food and Travel Writing. I am so grateful to @slate.com for providing me the space to write, my editors who helped shape the piece, and @marinerbooks.bsky.social for selecting the piece.

Yesterday I signed a bill to return 3,400 acres of land to the Fon du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa - a joint effort between the Tribe, the state, and the University of Minnesota.

Really funny to me that you can rate the Pope's new encyclical on Goodreads. www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

Pope Leo XIV

Author of Dilexi Te, God Loves Everyone, and APOSTOLIC LETTER 'IN UNITATE FIDEI' ON THE 1700th ANNIVERSARY OF THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA

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Babe what’s wrong you haven’t touched your shrimp ass chips

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

English chip flavorings are nuts

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

ACLU@aclu.org · 3mo ago

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

There's 60g of protein in building affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods.

Is anyone else a lot more okay leaving in grammatical and spelling errors in things nowadays? Like sure, I wrote "your" when I meant "you're" but at least it shows an A.I. didn't write it.

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

Morbid fact: The hantavirus has such a high mortality rate (~40%) that its chances of becoming a pandemic are relatively low. As anyone who's ever played Pandemic can tell you, a virus that kills its hosts too fast doesn't spread well.

New from me: Elon Musk Is Probably Going to Lose the OpenAI Case - But he’s not doing this to win. slate.com/technology/2...

Elon Musk Says He’s Suing OpenAI Because They Abandoned Their Mission. I Think His Real Reason Is Much More Embarrassing.

This is a master class in being petty and vindictive, and burning tons of cash.

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We need to arm schoolteachers with ballrooms.