If only this wasn't a seemingly evergreen book, as devastating, relevant, and important today as it was 10 years ago. bookshop.org/p/books/miss...

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

From bestselling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana ­— stories that illuminate the human drama behin...

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À quelques semaines d’une introduction en bourse record, Anthropic inscrit le risque d’extinction de l’humanité dans la documentation fournie aux marchés financiers. Pour la dernière fois : les discours apocalyptiques servent le récit de toute-puissance des industriels. www.ft.com/content/c768...

Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus

Long-awaited S-1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue

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I've been saying for a while that the motion to scare people about AI's capabilities has a clear line straight to "too big to fail bailouts": 1. Get people scared 2. Gov't bans competition and blesses major labs as only safe providers 3. Financials fall apart in a year or two 4. Public bailout

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The solution to the whole ever-expanding A.I. terror starts with remembering the lessons of the 2008 crisis: No company should be too big to fail,” Bethany McLean writes in a guest essay.

I lit a fire in the woods behind my house. When my neighbor asked if I knew anything about how his garage burned down, I told him the fire I'd lit in a pile of leaves and promptly ignored must have done that on its own accord. The government should really do something.

The Independent@the-independent.com · 4w ago

An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet

The thing people need to take seriously is that science fiction threats are also real threats when the people who hold power over you believe in them (though the nature of the actual threat is different)

Dystopian Arthur Wyatt@arthurwyatt.bsky.social · last mo.

No real threats, only science fiction threats.

Unnerving to see the extremely weird stuff I ran into at the bottom of a deep, dark internet rabbit hole many years ago come bubbling back up like toxic gas in the words of the world's wealthiest and most powerful, the front page of the NYT, glossy magazine covers, and group chats with friends.

Adam Becker@adambecker.bsky.social · last mo.

Just absolutely wild to see so many people discovering the massive influence of the rationalists in real time and say things like "I wish I could unlearn what I've learned in the last 24 hours." I, and others, have been researching these people for YEARS. There is so much I wish I could unlearn.

No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York.  That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.

Ridiculous phrasing here. As if tariffs and the war in Iran are somehow good things that the rest of the world is just whining about??

This is palpable if you spend time driving in both the US and Europe. Driving in the US is much more chaotic and stressful. A small % of drivers in the US are pathological and shouldn’t be allowed to drive, but are anyway. A bigger % are on their phones while driving, which is barely enforced.

Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 2mo ago

Road deaths in the United States have fallen much more slowly than in other rich countries. Most high-income countries have reduced road deaths substantially over the past decades.

Barely comprehensible how little learning and introspection there has been within the DNC given the last 10 years. I genuinely don’t understand how you can review recent happenings and decide what’s needed is more central planning and blessed candidates.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The DNC wants to ban states from using ranked choice voting in presidential primaries thefulcrum.us/electoral-re...

The administration claims a deal with the algae is imminent, but sources within the green slime say no such deal has yet to be proposed.

American politics is bananas. I can’t believe there is a whole generation growing up to think that it’s normal for known criminals to win party nominations and public office.

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.

Probably my favorite scam email sender name and subject line ever… From: The One Who Always Has Tea Subject: I’m still trying to understand how this happened

15 years in NYC and one thing I have not gotten used to is the widespread practice of double parking in the middle of a busy street (and/or crosswalk, sometimes sidewalk) for an hour or more while attending church. Just ridiculous. Almost too on the nose, honestly.

Absolute perfection in the "customers also bought section" for this automated breakfast sandwich making appliance.

New phone for the first time in years and it is WILD that presumably whole teams of people decided that, when you’re playing audio, there should be this little dancing waveform visualizer animation at the top of the screen that can be hidden but never permanently disabled. Apple is off the rails.

we need to get off of fossil fuels

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

Few things annoy me more than having to listen to a hovering news helicopter buzzing away in the sky on an otherwise quiet morning while it gets footage of a TRAFFIC JAM.

I joke about this stuff but 15 minutes before the Trump post hit the tape there was a surge in e-mini price and volume. Someone knew and traded.

While the big headlines latch onto every nonsensical word out of Trump’s mouth I’m finding these smaller-headline reports about oil shortages awfully reminiscent of Jan/Feb 2020 in a “Wile E Coyote is still running in mid-air“ kind of way. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/b...

War’s Attacks on Energy Could Turn Economic Shock Into Long-Term Damage

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Some of my best runs over the years have been enjoyed while listening to @michaelpollan.bsky.social talk about our minds and bodies as I slowly convert the rubber of my shoes into endorphins in my brain—this latest is no exception! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

A World Appears Audiobook on Libro.fm

The Instant New York Times Bestseller

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Quelle belle victoire !  Ce soir Paris a choisi. Et Paris a choisi l'avenir avec la gauche démocratique et l’écologie. Merci aux Parisiennes et aux Parisiens. Je remercie les électrices et les électeurs qui se sont déplacés en nombre pour exprimer leur choix sur l'avenir de Paris.

What really jumped out to me from the NYC DOT report this stat came from is how fast the risk ramps up—at 30 speed camera tickets/year the risk is *50 times* the average. The government knows which drivers are extremely disproportionately dangerous, they just getting them off the road.

Transportation Alternatives@transalt.org · 7mo ago

"Drivers who get 16 or more speed camera tickets in a year are considered twice as likely to be involved in a crash that causes severe injury or death. This life-saving technology is already used in other parts of the world and in New York City’s own municipal fleet."

No more talk of "transit death spirals" in New York City. Since Central Business District Tolling Program (congestion pricing) was introduced in 2025, ridership on #NYC subway is up to 1.28 billion/yr—a 7.7% increase. 72,600 fewer cars enter Lower Manhattan/day. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NYC Subway Ridership Jumps 7.7% Due to Congestion Pricing Toll

New York City’s controversial congestion pricing toll is helping to boost subway ridership, according to a committee that represents transit riders.

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Once upon a time I worked at a tiny cafe that was mis-delivered like 300lbs of "cooked ham in water" intended for a nearby school. I don't know why someone actually accepted the delivery, but it was a mad scramble to find enough fridge space for it all so it didn't go to waste. Dip sounds better!

Philadelphia Inquirer@inquirer.com · 7mo ago

Restaurants around Philadelphia have been receiving entire pallets of Helluva Good! brand French onion dip for the past month, sometimes mysteriously and without little warning.

It's really quite remarkable how the whole "Republican leadership is good for jobs & the economy" thing persists in the American psyche.

fwiw Americans are very bad at understanding that the 2 things you're not supposed to discuss - politics and religion - infuse literally everything that the country has done, is doing, and will do it's the water we swim in, which is why we don't see it