Whatever happened to Jeff Bezos's Courage and Civility Award?

Fourteen years ago, a white supremacist attacked the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek — killing seven people and wounding many more.

McMorrow standing behind him.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

National Socialism!

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 4h ago

Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

Hard to believe that this guy himself is an astronaut.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."

You will be surprised to learn that I do not believe there is a “moral imperative“ to teach educators about AI.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

I remember someone recently telling me they thought Uber had cleaned up its act since Travis left years ago. But then...

Veena Dubal@veenadubal.bsky.social · yesterday

“The litigation has revealed a clear pattern: Uber’s lawyers scour women’s private communications, medical records, therapy notes …They grill the women about those issues, their sex lives and their behavior on the night of the incident.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...

Birria ramen is where it's at and not enough menus have it.

dissected@trepanation.bsky.social · 17h ago

don’t give a Fuck about tech innovations. make birria tacos bigger

This is sad.

19thnews@19thnews.org · 16h ago

Former Democratic Rep. Cori Bush will not be returning to Congress after, failing to retake her old seat from Rep. Wesley Bell in the heated primary for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, according to projections by Decision Desk HQ.

Me and @theactivestick.bsky.social once did this for Montreal's downtown poutine and published it in the McGill Tribune and it was not nearly this rigorous. I'm presuming this kid has been to Pommes Frites in East Village as frame of reference. At least, he started off with mid poutine at chains.

Thalia [tə'lɪə]@letsaskyourmom.com · 22h ago

We spent a couple weeks in Vancouver and my kid wanted poutine any and every day. So we turned it into a full on poutine ranking tour. As one does.

We didn't even use video monitors (which definitely existed) with our kids. We just used those vtech walkie-talkie type of monitors.

Aw, It’s Baby’s First A.I. Surveillance System (Gift Article)

Nanit and other start-ups want to track your children through the night — and soon, for much longer than that.

nytimes.com

Just having another conversation about how private equity x industry consolidation = wealth hoarding, erosion of choice for consumers, erosion of sustainability for small biz, and unaffordability through the entire system of capital. Every industry, from restos to veterinary hosps to bowling alleys.

Yeah that's right

What Boston can learn from Montreal’s car-free summer - The Boston Globe

Miles of city roadway become places for gardens, art, outdoor dining, and unhurried discovery.

bostonglobe.com

Well they combined the headshot from the guy two weeks ago and mixed in the draft title, but I'm up for this weekend.

There's a free library in Logan. I noted a lonely book on the shelf: The Mueller Report. Way too many folks invested way too much belief that the process and outcome of that investigation would be the be-all, end-all, "tick tock" of Trump's career. Safe to assume that it was not.

Imagine bringing your family to a waterpark in Ohio, and all of the indignity that involves, and then some chud turns up with some racist messaging about an election in *Michigan*. These guys are so weird

Brendan Gutenschwager@bgonthescene.bsky.social · 3d ago

Jake Lang unveils a banner at Cedar Point Shores Waterpark in Ohio reading “Stop Muslim Takeover of Democrat Party!!” and calling for the deportation of American-born U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed

Flight home tomorrow night got canceled. Hopefully the cats are good til Monday morning.

Commenter on FB: You never see any women in these pictures of migrants. It's always men. What are the odds none of these men have a wife? A girlfriend? Baby mama? Why is that? 🤔 Me: Dude, it might be worth reading a book about US immigration from 1880-1920s...

I hope Emily said yes

The only way your institution will survive this administration is if you counterpunch it in the clams and tell it to fuck itself.

FIFA has scrapped $20 billion World Cup sell-off plan, New York Post reports

July 31 (Reuters) - FIFA's plan to sell a piece of its business empire to outside investors has collapsed following an open revolt by soccer officials worldwide and a major rift among top FIFA

ca.finance.yahoo.com

Trump should personally be reimbursing Hearn's legal fees for wasting everyone's time.

Well that was a couples of news cycles of distraction

Charges to Be Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool

President Trump had repeatedly accused vandals of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. On Friday, federal prosecutors acknowledged it was “the result of flawed installation.”

nytimes.com

Tomorrow is August 1. The first day of the semester isn't until September 1.* I have 31 full days to submit all these papers and prep all these classes and I will not have this place being down my optimism on that. *for me

“For all his gifts, Rollins’s defining feature as a musician and a man was his attitude. A liberating feeling of ‘I don’t give a fuck’ charged everything he did.” New online: Nate Wooley on Sonny Rollins. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Let Everything Change | Nate Wooley

I became a Sonny Rollins fan on my 13th birthday, when my dad took me for the first time to his favorite record store in Portland, Oregon. He gave me $50, which in 1987, netted me twelve LPs. One was ...

nplusonemag.com

The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.

SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch

SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.

techcrunch.com

Are corporations factoring in CO2e/water footprints from AI tokenization and data center use into their own CSR/ESG reports? Guessing no.

Back in 2025 here, he didn't specify which "September." I'm sure this coming one will be the one. /s

RFK Jr. pledges an answer to the 'autism epidemic' by September

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting that, by September, his agency will "know what has caused the autism epidemic."

abcnews.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

TRUMP: How are you doing on the autism research? RFK Jr: We will have an answer for you

We possibly live in the postmodernist of societies.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Are corporations factoring in CO2e/water footprints from AI tokenization and data center use into their own CSR/ESG reports? Guessing no.

Given how much energy Paxton has spent trying to gender-bait in this race, +4 among males (MOE 4.5) seems pretty pathetic.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6d ago

I would not want to be a Texas GOP official right now looking at this polling data from Fox News. Mr. Talarico is in good shape: +3 among all voters +18 among moderates +18 among Hispanic voters only -4 among men only -4 among 65+