dan solomon

honestly i’m incredibly surprised it took this long

doe he get to keep the fuckjet

the ol texas triage

the rest of america is gonna get to meet steve toth apparently, get ready, the rest of america

boy and how

a glimpse of our bleak future!

on the bright side there's a panel with the great lili taylor about how birds are good

the last human at the f.d.a.: a.i. on a skeleton crew.

r slash health answers everywhere: who to trust in the age of a.i.?

we, the people: confronting a rapidly accelerating autocracy.

conflict contagion: the new amr threat. The CDC calls antimicrobial resistance(AMR)-when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and more stop responding to medicine-the next global epidemic, estimating 10M deaths/yr from AMR by 2050. Infectious disease expert Dr. Antoine Abou Fayad's new findings show that global conflict is greatly increasing the spread. Heavy metals left in soil by munitions are causing bacteria to become resistant in additional ways, and this version of AMR spreads easily via animals, humans, & even inorganic products. So, you may be far from Gaza or the Ukraine, but those conflicts are still very dangerous to your health.

all of these are before noon on monday

better

there's a futurism panel with two humans and an ai that i shall not be attending

finger on the pulse tbh

i am too—i think it'll *feel* smaller no matter what, without the convention center, but i am also curious if that's ultimately a good thing (and sorry to hear about her arm!)

this isn't a full picture of the thing, the upbeat panels have names like "how ai might not completely ruin everything if we get really lucky"

will your job still exist in five years?

our lying eyes: climate storytelling in a world of misinformation.

can media survive ai? the fight for public trust.

is search totally fucked? what do we do now?

these are all just in like a four hour block on saturday afternoon

i've been working on a story about sxsw that dives deep into the sort of hopeful things the festival programmed from like 1995-2019, and contrasting that with this year's schedule, which is all panels with names like "when ai kills your job" and "does anybody know what is happening anywhere anymore"

Photo of a woman wearing a shoulder brace. Caption: Shoulder Pain is Not From Sleeping Wrong. Meet The Real Enemy

I will destroy her

screenshot of a text message that reads: Jasmine Crockett won't stop attacking ICE. Now SHE'S under attack because she won't back off. and another: PAID FOR BY AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY Crockett signed on to impeaching Kristi Noem. Voted against ICE funding. She's not apologizing - she's PROUD to be ICE's #1 Enemy.

screenshot of a text that reads: ICE needs funding - but Jasmine Crockett won't give it to them. All she does is call them a "rogue organization" and accuse them of executing American citizens. Now she's under FIRE for it. and another: If you're an ICE supporter, you need to know Crockett's real record: She voted to defund ICE and supported impeaching Noem.

genuinely shocked to learn that these are apparently not coming from a pro-crockett super pac

i think they fleeced those people but also they might have read the rules and/or thought about it for two seconds?

the reason why these things don’t pay out when someone dies should be extremely obvious

back in 2011, i profiled a couple of soldiers who refused deployment to afghanistan, which is possible and comes at an incredibly high cost www.texasobserver.org/standing-down/

did you leave out another pandemic but this time the cdc is run exclusively by idiots on purpose or did you just run out of characters

there’s a lot to say about bombing iran but one thing i suspect trump misreads is that generally speaking, young men don’t like war because they think it proves america is tough, they hate war because they’re terrified they could end up getting drafted

i was in high school when the paducah shooting happened and it didn’t change much in terms of security, how weird kids were treated, etc; friends a year or two younger had a different experience after columbine. i guess it might have just been my school? but columbine was a sea change there at least

i think school shootings as a regular facet of childhood has to be part of it too. i’m xennial too and a lot of my high school experience would have been different if columbine had happened a year earlier, let alone if i were 5-10 years younger

this is such a textbook illustration of how constraints and limitations fuel creativity, you could teach the side-by-side comparison in a classroom

if you are the person who put their dot in texas, please email me at dsolomon@texasmonthly.com if you are available for an interview

sometimes the only thing that keeps me going is spite for the people who cheer for blowing up children while they insist that anyone without kids doesn’t have any skin in the game for a better future

i barely want to be alive now, are you kidding me

in nuts and berries

is there a kalshi betting market for “does the world still exist in six months”