Times editor grudgingly offered a comment that amounted to "run along, peon. We're the Times."

Elizabeth Minkel@elizabethminkel.bsky.social · last mo.

WELL. If you wondered why I had zero things to say about the NYT piece on the HR AI fic situation last month...I had zero things to say publicly then. 🥲 Thank you to everyone who discussed this situation with me and read a draft of this. I tried my best to illustrate these longstanding dynamics:

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.

You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

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I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

This will be a wonderful event – come see @sesmith.lol and pick up their new book, too!

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3mo ago

BAY AREA! I will be at Books Inc Alameda in two weeks (Wednesday, August 5th) for a book event and I would love to see you there. Please RSVP so they know to expect you!

My book on grief and loss under capitalism (and so much more!) comes out in two weeks, which is a wild thing to say. If you haven’t preordered yet, grab a copy from one of the two independent bookstores I’m partnering with, threaded below, so you can get a signed bookplate and other fun things!

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

In our newest series, Farming 250, we’ll be profiling the work and ideas of farmers across the country. Our aim is to paint a picture of farming today and to point the way toward a better food future.

Introducing Farming 250, a New Series from Civil Eats

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, we aim to paint a true picture of American food production.

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Sorry not sorry for the next several months of relentless book promotion, I didn't create this system! But for real, though, if you've ever thought anything I do is any good at all, I hope you'll read this book I poured everything into: geni.us/broughttoyouby

Amy Westervelt, investigative reporter and host of Drilled, shows how the tentacles of corporate propaganda infiltrated our media ecosystem, undermined democracy, and now threaten the very nature of t...

Order now:

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... the Prairieland sentences are a national emergency

Cannot fucking believe an external 4TB SSD drive that cost me $200 last year is now $1100. Had to check receipts to make sure. They’re really out there trying to keep you from having a PC, phone, or a gaming console so they can have hallucinating, polluting chatbots that drop bombs on kids’ schools.

10 years ago, days before the Brexit referendum. There was a deadly terrorist attack in Britain. Afterwards, nothing happened and very few people today will refer to what happened by its name. 1/

World Cup starts today, and as referees and players suffer deportation & scrutiny while crossing borders into the fascist US of A, @katelynburns.com reminds us that FIFA is regularly in tune with suffering and authoritarianism. www.theflytrapmedia.com/this-world-c...

This World Cup is Bad

How I fell out of love with football and became a World Cup hater.

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so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 5mo ago

"People have stopped believing that the economy can be good, and have lost the willingness to admit that they are doing well. That pessimism might be harder to fix than an actual downturn," @annielowrey.bsky.social argues.

Grocery retailers are replacing paper price tags on shelves with small digital screens called electronic shelf labels. Some worry the technology will enable companies to engage in “surveillance pricing” and will put grocery workers’ jobs at risk.

Union Seeks Ban on ‘Surveillance Pricing’ at Grocery Stores

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union argues that digital shelf labels and AI are harmful to workers and consumers alike.

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A good read from @faultlinenews.bsky.social - $30/hr minimum wage is on the radar in California and other high-cost states: faultlinenews.org/they-earn-do...

California's Minimum Wage Is $16.90. That's Still Not Enough.

Essential workers say rising costs for housing, groceries and transportation have already swallowed the gains from California's new $16.90 minimum wage.

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Happy Flytrap Tuesday! Today, @freeblackgirl.bsky.social writes about how 2016 was a turning point for black women, and 10 years later, how that moment simply was not enough: 

The Vulnerability of Visibility

Ten years ago, Black women were more visible than ever. It didn't get us—any of us—very far.

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The Marion Barry Avenue Market and Cafe offers a full-service grocery store in Washington, D.C.’s Ward 8. Christopher Bradshaw, the executive director of the nonprofit Dreaming Out Loud, says the goal is to provide food access, work opportunities, and a place to gather. ➡️ buff.ly/NKrb4q0

Today, we're thrilled to share an excerpt from @sesmith.lol's upcoming book, "All My Dead Cats and Other Losses," on what it means to experience grief that others see as inappropriate, "wrong," or too upsetting. Plus some great pics of their dear cat, Ember. www.coyotemedia.org/grief-is-pol...

Grief Is Political — Even When It’s About Your Pets

The author of the forthcoming book "All My Dead Cats" talks about disenfranchised grief, the politics of mourning, and why a dead cat is the perfect gateway into one of our most avoided conversations.

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Reading my advance copy of The Emergency Playbook, and seriously, preorder this, fam. You can't get it soon enough, and everyone should own a PHYSICAL copy.

The Emergency Playbook: A Bunker-Free Guide to Disaster Preparation

A Bunker-Free Guide to Disaster Preparation

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Here it is, my first post for @weareravenous.com. It's about chef Telly Justice of HAGS, and her mission to bring pay-what-you-can dining to restaurants across the country, and the world. I'm so excited its out in the world. www.weareravenous.com/pay-what-you...

Paying What You Can

Even amid tightening margins, some restaurants are putting mutual aid over profit. And it’s working.

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We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to move about two-thirds of its food safety workers out of Washington, D.C., raising alarms about further expertise losses in the agency.

USDA Reorganization Expanded to Include Food Safety Inspection Service

Food safety experts worry that relocating inspectors could ‘fracture’ a critical arm of the agency.

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Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

FWIW, “girly” jobs means anything women do more than men. Teaching? Used to be a male profession. So did veterinary medicine. So did psychology, pharmacy, and even nursing. Guess what happens as the percentage of women approaches parity? Men literally FLEE from those jobs. 💀

NPR@npr.org · 6mo ago

Over the past year, the vast majority of new jobs have gone to women. One economist says to help men find work, we need to embrace ways to "make girly jobs appeal to manly men." n.pr/3OwioTq

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

In the original script for The Matrix, the character of Switch was male in the real world but female in the Matrix. Warner Bros ordered the Wachowskis to cut this from the film. Trans Visibility Day is necessary because our cultural gatekeepers have deliberately erased trans voices.