Kristen Hanlon

if not war then why war shaped

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley demanding DoJ investigate anti ICe activists in Minnesota

I guess if you’re Josh Hawley and you’re the kind of person who flees in terror from a riot you started the courage of ordinary people must seem befuddling

ICE employees on Reddit complain about late salaries and missing insurance, despite promises made upon hiring ICE employees have reported delayed pay and missing health insurance on Reddit, while critics question how staff tolerate dangerous duties for little or no compensation.

they don't make tiny violins tiny enough

That 'now; now?' part? Yes...every-damn-day.

Often start off in the usual fashion, get a bit weirder, happen on luck, choose the wrong thing repeatedly, & then everything works out in the end. Wordle 1,678 6/6 (also, sometimes, life in general 🤞)

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I hear you. The 'talking down' also happens in other fields. I think, though--some who thought AI was magic and/or an answer to 'efficiency problems' are gradually becoming more aware of the harms. At least, that's what I'm starting to see.

one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.

Liberals say that Trump's personal Gestapo is destroying our democracy. They're wrong—Trump's personal Gestapo is destroying our republic.

If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up.

But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1 - NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE STANDING ON THE SIDEWALK WHEN THEY SEE A FAMILIAR FACE… SLUGGO: HERE COMES MR. HOLMAN-. HE'S A NICE MAN, AIN'T HE ? NANCY:BEST IN TOWN P2- SLUGGO: YEP- - HE' SURE IS ONE SWELL GENT NANCY: SALT OF THE EARTH P3- WE FINALLY SEE MR HOLMAN HE IS WEARING A BRAND NEW TOP HAT SLUGGO: AIN'T IT TOO BAD HE HAD TO GO AND BUY A HAT LIKE DAT NANCY: YES.--TOO TOO BAD NANCY AND SLUGGO HAVE A SNOWBALL IN THEIR HANDS READY TO KNOCK MR. HOLMAN’S TOP HAT OFF OF HIS HEAD.

N Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
December 30,1946

This combination in fact describes most people in charge.

Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

I'm old enough to remember when the 'default' was a short, handwritten apology sent via SASE with additional postage added to it because they'd held onto it for so long that the postage rates had gone up. The days of thoughtfulness & common courtesy are long behind us, I'm afraid.

I think 'digital creator' is akin to 'culture worker'--no real definition for either. Can be anything you want it to be. Keep hopin' for a massive solar storm to take it all out, tbh

How this Christmas will be different for single digit billionaires.

Moving from meme to officialdom via Wikipedia...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-L...

TOXIC NEIGHBOR Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers "The historical precedent here is Flint, Michigan." By Joe Wilkins Published Nov 29, 2025 8:15 AM EST Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Emmanuel Dundand / AFP via Getty Images

It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.

We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Another AI rater who started his journey rating responses for Google’s products in early 2024 began to feel he couldn’t trust AI around six months into the job. He was tasked with stumping the model – meaning he had to ask Google’s AI various questions that would expose its limitations or weaknesses. Having a degree in history, this worker asked the model historical questions for the task. “I asked it about the history of the Palestinian people, and it wouldn’t give me an answer no matter how I rephrased the question,” recalled this worker, requesting anonymity, having signed a nondisclosure agreement. “When I asked it about the history of Israel, it had no problems giving me a very extensive rundown. We reported it, but nobody seemed to care at Google.” When asked specifically about the situation the rater described, Google did not issue a statement.

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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Everyone is hope scrolling now

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

fixed that for you

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

if you're not where you want to be as an artist or entertainer and didn't come from money or an industry family try to remember that it was never an even playing field to begin with and you're probably doing great considering

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.