S.E. Sinkhorn
@sesinkhorn.com
Mother. Bi. She/her/hers. Californian. Atheist. Writer. Marketer. Occasional watercolor artist. Still loves sci-fi and feminism. altChristian newsletter author: https://altchristian.beehiiv.com/
genuinely need more detail about this one, because a 14-way auction and a $2.5 million dollar two-book deal is insane. I find it difficult to swallow that at least 14 editors/houses looked at a book with a "flat prose style" and went "I need it."
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 6d ago👀 Fascinated by the "withdrawn by its agents" detail. So the AI use was so blatant that the agents due a huge payday preemptively withdrew the contract?
A.i. use is addictive. That's exactly what the euphoria he describes sounds like. It doesn't free up time to spend on other things, in encroaches on your time by making you want to use it more. I've had multiple clients who use A.i. describe this exactly, and their work-life balance is in shambles.
Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖@urbanbohemian.com · 5d agoMore context here, with his response, but still… big oof. www.reddit.com/r/nerdfighte...
being a transphobic fuck will LOSE YOU AN ELECTION. the public is OVER THIS CULTURE WAR BULLSHIT that targets and harms literal kids (and their adult counterparts). Democrats need to burn this shit out of their policy agendas, permanently. we already have an anti-trans party. fuck. off.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3w ago1. The Democratic Party of Ohio has erupted in an intra-party firestorm as Democratic candidate for governor, Amy Acton, endorsed the sports ban and vowed to enforce it in the wake up the Title IX SCOTUS decision. It threatens to sink a close race for governor. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Not dunking but a number of people have this impression so let’s be clear: Haley Stevens is not only not Jewish, she in fact ran against and beat a Jewish member of the House for her seat
Wendy Shamblin@wendyshamblin.bsky.social · 5d agoomg I thought she was Jewish. What the fuck
UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
404media.co
lol do it man. waste your money on being an albatross.
Joe Sudbay@joesudbay.bsky.social · 5d agoVia @pressherald.com (gift link) Elon Musk planning to throw financial support behind Susan Collins’ U.S. Senate bid Collins "had friendly meetings with Musk in the past while also saying last year she was “very concerned” about some of DOGE’s moves" www.pressherald.com?p=7697086&uu...
I have indeed many times been saying this lol
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 5d agoHave you ever noticed that most of the major AI company logos look like buttholes? For my Sick Burns Friday post, I judged and ranked each of them based on how much they resemble hole: www.burnsnotice.com/ai-company-l...
morning. my county's on fire again. I swear I remember a time when every year wasn't like this. www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/07/31/w...
Containment reaches 30% on Woodside Fire as heavy smoke continues to affect much of Sonoma County
Evacuation advisories remained in place for hundreds of coastal residents and Highway 1 remained closed between Stewarts Point and Timber Cove.
pressdemocrat.com
If you believe your own rights & liberty are non-negotiable then you know that you’re an audacious asshole, like, a real piece of shit, if you find yourself willing to negotiate the rights & liberty of others.
RE: last repost - when we tell you Gavin Newsom really freaking sucks, we're not just being grumpy locals. he truly sucks.
If you ever feel unqualified, remember that a gang of billionaires spent $900 million for 60,000 acres with no water, no infrastructure, a roster of endangered species, and a voter-approved ordinance that specifically bans building a city there. Now they’re begging politicians to bail them out.
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 6d agoLooks like Gavin Newsom is going to bat for California Forever, the Network State "tech utopia" project backed by Marc Andreessen and other tech billionaires. 70% of local residents oppose it. But the billionaires hired Newsom's favorite lobbyist. Welcome to Sacramento. nypost.com/2026/07/29/u...
I'm fuckin muting that dude's name, you guys just cannot let it alone. jesus.
it's difficult to convey to someone who hasn't lived near wildfires how it feels. it's like being in a horror movie if you walk out your front door. neighborhood silent except for dogs baying at the sound of distant sirens, air hazy, sky tinged slightly red, smell of smoke thick in the air.
do I think there's a secret progressive wing in America just waiting to show themselves? no I don't. do I think a lot of Americans don't actually understand what right/center/left means? yeah I do. many Americans have mixed bag beliefs.
All this talk about the early, terrifying days of Covid .. and I couldn't help but look back at a project I worked on at the time. We memorialized the lives of people who ran into the burning building. Time well spent and worth a moment of yours: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Lost on the frontline: US healthcare workers who died fighting Covid-19
More than 3,500 Americans in the healthcare system have died fighting Covid-19. We count them and investigate why
theguardian.com
When a boat hits a wave, the jolt can intensify 10x between the deck and the head of a crew member. That counter-intuitive physics is leaving some of the Coast Guard's most elite rescuers with serious brain injuries that go undiagnosed. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
Rescue Boat Crews Show Signs of Brain Injuries, but Coast Guard Isn’t Looking
Untreated and undiagnosed, the crews that save lives in the roughest seas face the relentless pounding of waves.
nytimes.com
So I wrote a much longer thing explaining why Minnesota's anti-nudify tech law, while it might be well meaning, is TERRIBLY DRAFTED in a manner that almost guarantees it will be thrown out, giving Elon Musk a win. But also, I don't understand WHY MN legislators wrote such a bad law...
Techdirt@techdirt.com · 6d agoThe Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban There's been a bunch of news this... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/30/the-worst-person-you-know-just-filed-a-good-first-amendment-lawsuit-against-a-very-badly-drafted-nudify-app-ban/
Read the post for the details, but Minnesota's Supreme Court literally wrote out a roadmap for how to make a law like this stick when it said that MN's earlier law against disseminating nonconsensual intimate imagery survived strict scrutiny. Yet MN's legislators appeared to ignore...
... literally every single aspect of what MN's Supreme Court said. And I honestly don't understand why. The end result is incredibly counterproductive. MN could have written a better law and appears to have deliberately chosen not to. And that's only going to help Elon.
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
newrepublic.com
you guys leave the little raccoon cryptid alone big "people helicoptering into California superblooms for the photo ops and destroying them in the process" energy
WIRED@wired.com · 6d agoAccording to Jessica Castillo-Vardaro, whose lab at San José State University studies molecular ecology and urban wildlife, urban raccoons have small “home ranges,” and locals tracking Jimothy down to film him “can be really disruptive and may stress him out.” www.wired.com/story/dont-g...
sometimes it just really floors me that a lot of American Evangelicals are out here literally trying to force humanity into global suicide, but don't worry about it because THEY won't die, they'll just get plucked up by God so they can watch the rest of us suffer with popcorn
like at this point it should be abundantly clear that any article headlined "This Tech CEO says blah blah blah" is not to be given the time of day
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 6d agojournalism is just repeating the things various high-level executives say without context, correction, or cues that the speaker might not be a competent or reliable narrator
"it's not the women who are rejecting me, no, I am rejecting THEM. because of the hip dips."
Playboy@playboy.com · 6d agoWhat are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...
