I am blown away by Hoon Lee and the Asian American representation in Netflix’s EAST OF EDEN. I have become so inured to Chinese folks being sidelined in histories of America that to see a depiction done with so much depth and sensitivity was staggering.

“SHE” threw “HER” cellphone at him and “SHE” wrestled him to the ground.

Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · 13h ago

The teacher threw her cellphone at him and then wrestled him to the ground. She was unarmed.

I did not know that some states permit one guy to run against himself, but with a hat and without glasses

Meet the Candidates: Cupps, Foster run for District 158 seat | McDonald County Press

Two candidates will face off on the Nov. 3 ballot for the Missouri House of Representatives District 158 seat, responsible for representing about a third of McDonald County, and all of Barry County, i...

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This is a cool feature that I immediately took advantage of and I do think the tech industry appears incapable of reckoning with the fact that so many people violently hate generative AI and want art by real human beings.

Jennifer Liao@averagejenn.bsky.social · yesterday

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

This was partly an excuse to write about my growing conviction that Vance is the new Nixon

Alex Shephard@alexshephard.bsky.social · 19h ago

I wrote about JD Vance newrepublic.com/article/2167...

We actually do know how to reduce rape. We do it the same way we disincentivize other behaviors: we punish it severely and consistently. The issue is not that we don’t know the solution, but that we lack the will to carry it out.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 3d ago

So the question isn't "What can universities do about rape culture at fraternities", it's "How are universities benefiting from rape culture"

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

schumers silence on omar is fucking enraging, he needs to go

y'all... 🤭😭

The slop party: "More than 80 percent of the [AI-generated] ads were produced by Republican campaigns or Republican-aligned political action committees."

$137 Million in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms (Gift Article)

Republicans have used A.I.-generated content more often than Democrats, ranging from subtle enhancements to convincing deepfakes.

nytimes.com

Look there are so many admirable italian americans to choose from that at some point you just gotta assume it’s not that they don’t believe he did all those horrible things, but that’s one of the things they like about him bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 3d ago

Today I learned that Sam Alito, a sitting Supreme Court justice, has gotten personally involved in the fight to save a Christopher Columbus statue in his hometown, providing a statement to the city council about the "insult to the Italian American community" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/o...

👀 "Since May alone, the share of people living near data centers who plan to vote Democratic has risen from 54% to 61%... [AND] 75% of data centers under construction, and 80% of data centers in the planning stage, are in red states" datacenteropposition.com

Data Center Opposition Report Data Center Opposition Report

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Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 3d ago

The majority of AI data centers are being built in red, rural areas. The result? It's pushing these Republican voters to the left.

wait what

Jamison Foser@jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 2d ago

Big Streaming doesn't want you to know that Kanopy is kind of like Amazon Prime Video except that you have to pay for Prime and Kanopy is free. Oh also Prime shows ads even though you pay for it and Kanopy doesn't show ads even though you don't pay for it. Oh and Bezos doesn't get Kanopy's data.

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

There's new hope for reversing widespread coral decline go.nature.com/4zwy3nF

‘Incredible’: bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour

A coral fragment can form a tissue bridge with a dying counterpart — and provide it with crucial microalgae.

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emergency hotdog that heats up when you crack it like a glow stick

Your drunk liberal aunt is ready for civil war

Hunter Dunn@hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust:

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

you should be praying for a glimpse of the ankles of the city’s finest courtesan and treasuring miniature paintings of your beloved. trading daguerreotypes, things of that nature

men today have instagram and onlyfans and god knows what else - to say nothing of IRL women who are well fed and notably free of smallpox - and do they appreciate this unprecedented access to beauty??? NO.

Nice lede

L.A. Material@lamaterial.com · 2d ago

JUST IN: President Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, has been busted at least twice in Southern California for driving while using her phone. Read Tomo Chien and @matt-hamilton87.bsky.social’s full story: buff.ly/W0pEHYF

whomst among us

Tess Owen@tessowen.bsky.social · 3d ago

Scoop from @timmarchman.bsky.social & I: New WH press secretary Katie Zacharia never passed the bar, despite calling herself an attorney. She was, however, once part of a multi-level-marketing fitness program that she described to us as "sort of a pyramid scheme" www.wired.com/story/white-...

Again, it is ...odd that before Elon Musk bought Twitter, the regular refrain lobbed at people using the site was that it was not real life, and now that it is owned by the world's richest white supremacist, that same crowd finds it much more reflective of real life.

Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 3d ago

I know I'm a broken record on this, but one part of what is going on is that people have literally no idea what the US immigration system actually is; effectively, that there are no pathways into the country legally for someone who wants to wait in line.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d ago

New Marist poll of Texas finds 61% say undocumented immigrants should stay in US if meet certain requirements. Only 35% say they should leave. A majority of noncollege white men (Trump base) says stay. Supports my case (see piece/thread below) that Trump opened way for new pro-immigrant consensus

Five hundred people on hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE concentration camp in Georgia.

Approximately 500 participate in hunger strike at Folkston immigration detention center - The Current

Approximately 500 detainees at a private ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia, launched a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions and alleged asylum protocol violations while awaiting judicial he...

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Student debt is at the heart of why campus sexual violence derails victims’ lives too. The primary reason victims drop out of college is because they are encouraged to take temporary leaves of absence—and then they can’t return until they are current on student loan payments.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · 5d ago

An acquaintance is being sexually harassed at this job. I see him about once a week and ask how it’s going. Today he confessed, he can’t afford to leave because of his student loans. The point of debt at a national level, at an indivisible level, is docility. It’s capital’s greatest asset.

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 4d ago

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

Feel free to correct me but I'm pretty sure he is the only politician in history where the actual words coming out of his mouth do not matter in the least to his supporters. Coherence is simply not a requirement.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump's brain is busted: "You couldn't vote. They wouldn't let you vote. And they grabbed her and they said 'you'll vote over here,' and they took her to a Democrat area. She voted. She came back. You couldn't vote. They came back late in the night."

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d ago

New Marist poll of Texas finds 61% say undocumented immigrants should stay in US if meet certain requirements. Only 35% say they should leave. A majority of noncollege white men (Trump base) says stay. Supports my case (see piece/thread below) that Trump opened way for new pro-immigrant consensus

Hi. I would very much like it if black gamers/devs (specifically those from Chicago) would get in touch for a story. You can get me here or on discord @adashtra