Out of my walk videos so far, this one easily has the most views, with some people calling me a wuss for not walking further and others calling me crazy for walking what I did

Keith Plocek on Instagram: "After walking to Santa Monica Airport for my previous video, I took a flight to Las Vegas. Upon landing at the JSX terminal at Harry Reid International, I could see the Veg...

328 likes, 48 comments - keithplocek on July 25, 2026: "After walking to Santa Monica Airport for my previous video, I took a flight to Las Vegas. Upon landing at the JSX terminal at Harry Reid Intern...

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It’s pretty jarring we’ve just come to expect that the feds will lie to us and publicize false information and that there is virtually no consequence for it.

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj

I haven’t seen y’all this excited about a negative review since that takedown of Guy Fieri’s restaurant in Times Square

One of my passions is helping people learn about the business of freelancing, so I was excited to help organize this event with AAJA-LA & @lapressclub.bsky.social Featuring UC Irvine Prof. Erika Hayasaki & Robert Lopez, McGraw fellow 🍕 & 🧋 provided. RSVP: lapressclub.wufoo.com/forms/zzspwh...

Every independent coffeeshop in Colorado Springs is also a church

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Good morning

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4w ago

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

State-supported gas stations selling gas at prices set artificially low by the government to a vanity price meant to make the president feel special? Sounds like communism to me.

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4w ago

See, the difference from Mamdani's grocery stores is that these are called "Freedom." www.cbsnews.com/news/freedom...

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Skateboarding is the most important American invention since jazz music and it's not even close.

For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up

30 years for moving some zines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The FBI is sending agents and spending resources on harassing unhoused people in Skid Row over unsubstantiated voter fraud claims.

Did you know there were two San Vicente boulevards? For years I thought it was one illogical street that somehow crossed Wilshire twice www.instagram.com/reel/DZvbmzY...

the standard joke about how you always try the wrong side of the USB first, but me opening up ChowNow or Grubhub

OK, Jean Paul Sartre. Sure.

I have long felt it’s far more OK — or at least far less not OK — to tag an outdoor advertisement placed on public property than, say, a stained glass window in a church

Art of the Bus Stop

What are the ethics of tagging an outdoor artwork with fake graffiti already on it?  I ask myself this question as I sit on one of Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.’s mock bus benches, staring at another across f...

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I wrote about the Laura Aguilar show at the Huntington

Laura Aguilar Is Out There

There is a landscape. It is the desert. Not the sandy desert. Rocks. I see cracks and shapes. I see boulders. One of them is not a boulder. It is a human. A nude human. A nude human with a crack. Hidi...

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It’s not really surprising that people are becoming more distrustful and cynical about tech (and everything else) when there’s a constant drumbeat of stories, like this, about a seemingly innocuous game/tool/website harvesting data that is then used for murderous purposes:

Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones

Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.

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I walked the length of Harbor Gateway, that thin strip that connects Los Angeles to the port

Walking Harbor Gateway in Los Angeles

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It’s hard to imagine any technology that has ever fucked it this badly, and purely through arrogance, it’s like if the people who invented the car decided to showcase its utility by driving over your family dog and then backing up and doing it again, and also the car sucked and was bad

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2mo ago

"The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months" lol heatmap.news/politics/ame...

def going on the reading list for this fall’s storytelling for action sports class

Cole Nowicki@colenowicki.com · 2mo ago

Pleased to publish this lovely comic by Ruby Arnone about skating, transitioning, and the endurance required for each. www.simplemagic.ca/i-dont-have-...

“The only benefit to being a journalist is that you get to call bullshit on powerful people. If you’re not interested in that, do something else!”

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hello we'd like to hire you as the new head of Emperor's New Clothes, Inc. There's just one rule. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-you-tak...

that is right, motherfuckers. the soul is BACK and it's beautiful.

Kathleen Rooney@kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"...no one can be reduced to productivity, to cognitive performance, or to mere data. The person bears within him- or her-self a freedom, an interiority and a vocation to love and worship that no machine can replace or block." www.americamagazine.org/speeches/202...

The fuck is this, NPR?

NPR@npr.org · 2mo ago

DHS was originally conceived in the interest of unity and harmony — and the phrase "homeland security" was originally meant to be reassuring. n.pr/4nOx8KP

From 2024:

Jay Rosen@jayrosen.bsky.social · 2y ago

If both parties went off the rails into paranoia, voters in both parties would call the other party a danger to society. But if one party went off the rails while the other remained within normal range, voters in both parties would still call the other party a danger to society.

You can tell he never read any fables or folklore or even played a little D&D — magical items usually carry a curse. Anyone know “The Elves and The Shoemaker?” In this version evil elves (AI) help the shoemaker (“author”) make terrible shoes. AI does your work but good luck selling your bookslop.

USC's OSINT Conference! Save the date.

osintconference.bsky.social@osintconference.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Save the Date! 🗓️ Join us in Los Angeles on October 9th–10th for USC Annenberg's second annual Open Source Journalism Conference 🌍 Stay tuned for Registration, Schedules, Speakers, and more! 🔔 Have questions? Reach us at: osint.conference@usc.edu 📩 #OpenSourceJournalism #USCAnnenberg

Great piece from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on how tiring it can be trying to figure out whether something was written by a bot. "Our brains are now performing untold numbers of calculations per day: Is this AI? Do I care if it’s AI? Why does this sound or look or read so weird?"

Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

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