Creepy Babies In Art
@huntervaughan.bsky.social
Environmental media scholar/prof, author of Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies Researching social/enviro threats of digital growth - but mainly posting weird old baby paintings Born of the winter solstice. 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
For $500: what does “hubris” mean, and how has it been demonstrated through mythologies for millennia?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
They are unregulated and believe themselves above the law. Shut them down.
WIRED@wired.com · 21h agoIt’s officially getting hard to keep track of all the times and ways AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic have been involved in “security incidents,” going outside the confines of their testing and interacting with the wider internet in unintended, often unwelcome ways.
There are no trans women in the WNBA. There are no trans women NCAA basketball players. Hell, who knows if there are even any trans girls playing HS basketball.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 24h agoDid we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?
Are people really debating whether this dude should removed from office??? This f’ing place…
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 24h agoRep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."
Great journalism. Well needed exposure of next gen influencer Merchants of Doubt!
Emily Atkin@emorwee.bsky.social · 6d agoAlexandra Fasulo runs one of the most prolific anti-solar campaigns online, regularly telling over 2 million followers renewable energy is threatening farms and wildlife. But how much of her rhetoric is actually true? @alexhannaford.com spent months parsing through the nuance for HEATED:
Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them
Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them
William Weaver could add an extension onto his Tuscan villa, which he called the 'Eco Chamber.' The Biblioteca Eco, or Eco Library, whose ribbon-cutting earlier this month you can see in the Italian n...
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Argentina in the knockout stage of this World Cup: 1' to 67': -3 goal differential 68' onward: +8 goal differential
The associative principle of “above the law” at play yet again. Reprehensible.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3w agoHAWAII — Tulsi Gabbard’s brother charged with trying to lure children to a hotel room with gum and money
Vitamins and exercise were aggressively suppressed…?
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2y agowelcome to the Age of Diarrhea
Please stop with the AI crit edging - no one buys your bullshit “glimmer of hope”, but we do increasingly know that you are pandering @theatlantic.com
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4w agoFrom the canals of Venice to the DJ booth at Berghain, @skornhaber.bsky.social traveled across Europe to engage with the artists at the forefront of the AI-art scene—and what he found left him with a glimmer of hope.
Thanks for the link to your paywall, @bostonglobe.com ! Unfollow.
The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · last mo.Could Massachusetts become the first state to reverse marijuana legalization? Voters will likely weigh in on the answer in November, after anti-marijuana advocates said they’ve submitted enough signatures to make the ballot.
Congrats to Brad, Claire, and Darializa. Yesterday, NYC rejected AIPAC, big real estate, and corporate PACs. This August, St. Louis will do the same.
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · last mo.⚡️Drop Site Daily | June 24, 2026 Mamdani-backed Israel critics sweep NYC; Texas anti-ICE protesters get 30-100 years; Peru’s Sánchez rejects runoff results www.dropsitenews.com/p/nyc-primar...
Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com
Springer Nature to divest its consumer media businesses | Springer Nature Group | Springer Nature
Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development
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We were the only UNIONIZED employees he’d ever had, too. I am broke as hell now, but I’ll never regret saying this: EAT SHIT, YOU PATHETIC TWERP. No matter how much cash you accrue, you’ll never know the joy of solidarity. Your life is empty, and you’ll be remembered as a warning to children.
Yep. We argue in this piece that it's no accident that Musk decried "civilizational suicidal empathy" while his USAID cuts were going into effect, resulting in untold numbers of deaths abroad. It's a test run for a much worse abdication of empathy later:
Nils Gilman@nilsgilman.bsky.social · 2mo agoMusk’s desire to scrap empathy is really a declaration that at some point, he believes, we'll need to cut loose all the civilizational dead weight (global poor and global south) to save the parts of humanity "worth" saving. It’s 1970s “lifeboat ethics” all over again. newrepublic.com/article/2119...
Albanian Protestors have named their movement The Flamingo Revolution. 🦩🔥 They’ve protested 10 straight days against Ivanka’s resort. This is a country of 2.7 million taking on entitled billionaires. 🤍 The EU has warned that environmental concerns might threaten Albania's application into the EU.
Is this a joke? Or is @theguardian.com not a real newspaper anymore?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoElon Musk is a trillionaire now. Is that bad for the economy? – Stateside with Kai and Carter
How did @nytpitchbot.bsky.social or @mcsweeneys.net get hold of a @theatlantic.com byline?!
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2mo ago“Data centers are allegedly an unmitigated disaster: They guzzle water, strain electric grids, and raise prices ... But the data-center panic is overblown,” Elias Wachtel argues. In some contexts they can bring real benefits, he reports.
Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%
