Regarding unemployment numbers, anecdote that my firm started quiet firings last November through this month. A number of people also voluntarily left - including my former boss. The employment climate right now isn’t favorable for anyone other than HRs.
While the surge of federal agents in the Twin Cities grabbed much of the attention the past few months, stories of children hiding at home, crying in class and being detained have quietly gripped some Minnesota small towns since January.
When will CNBC or any network yell these guys off the air? Giving them unchallenging air time serves no purpose.
Add to that human rights abuses, war crimes. No idea what it’s going to take.
Hmmmmmm
Yeah. A nonprofit I worked with dropped Google because of this (among a couple other smaller frustrations).
New York Times headline of “big revisions are a reason to question job numbers, not dismiss them. Subheading includes that economist “worry the quality of data is eroding” Duh. Everything the government does is eroding in quality, which is the point of laying off hundreds of thousands of government employees
Yeah; the quality of everything our government does is eroding. Very badly.
Because that’s the point of mass layoffs of career civil servants. The plan here is to make everything the government does worse- except the security apparatus (but they’re screwing that up too 🤷🏻♂️)
Christ on an ass they are not. This regime is all the policy hallmarks of American evangelical fascism with its leaders featured in the regs
I haaaaaaate this about Google
Can we not be the globe’s biggest jackass?
Can we also have legitimate justice meted for the Trump regime and the majority of Congress?
Holy crap this moving company is FAST
Right? The denomination bears his name
Happy early birthday!
French photographer Guy Bourdin, a protégé of Man Ray and one of the most radical and influential photographers of the 20th century.
French Vogue 1960
#GuyBourdin #Photography #Vogue
"This is what true civic participation looks like: I was informed, I voted for Harris, and the machinery of state went into motion as a direct result of my action."
someone was saying they thought maple syrup just came out of the tree, and it’s funny because we have a story about this in ojibwe
like, the syrup used to come out that way but people got lazy and fat so the creator thinned it out into sap so we wouldn’t take it for granted
kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it
Anyways.
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social A history of our community public health buildings and the architecture of public health. circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2026/03/05/d...
Also, I'm fucking moving and not at work for the next two business days. So good luck, consultancy firm.
If the statement of work doesn't start until Tuesday, you cannot send consultants on Monday (day before). This is not how anything works.
90% of media literacy is blocking out or ignoring sources with a bad agenda, and I’ll die on that hill
As Keynes famously said, "Anything we can actually do, we can afford." We're just choosing to do war.
MPD turning out its usual low-quality work
The ides of March are coming if you need ideas about what to get your local emperor.
Iwao Takamoto was one of the Disney greats. Films like Sleeping Beauty owe a lot to his meticulous lines.
The studio was a kind of home for him -- it was a big change. Just before, he'd been in the camps. We explore the story:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/takamoto-a...
Full page "ad" in The Onion for "60 Minutes": "Is NBC Hiring? Lesley Stahl investigates."
Waiting for a world where AI publications are consumed by AI readers. AI creators tout high readership numbers. Shareholders and finance bros interpret the AI sector news conversion reporting as gospel.
Meanwhile back at the meat ranch, the rest of us live a different existence.
Hahahaha totally fair - present company excepted
My new boss referred to execs as (respectfully) having the attention span of raccoons. I think I'm going to like this new arrangement.
