Worth remembering, reading the absolute horror show that Pixar was under Lasseter, that he was unemployed because of this for a grand total of 6 months before Larry Ellison put him in charge of an animation company again, presumably to recreate this nightmare atmosphere there. Still has that job btw
Matt has been a mentor and a friend to half the critics coming up in the past few decades. He helped me get my very first gig. His bookstore is a treasure trove of gorgeous art and behind the scenes knowledge. I can't recommend it enough.
If he's the best hope to unseat Collins, I'll take it, but the fact that we're now rooting hard for "He's a giant dope" as the best-case scenario indicates a massive systemic failure--an indolent party apparatus combined with an enduringly dumb populist taste for unvetted blowhards.
this was what the Obama administration did to Gaddafi...which was wrong THEN too, by the way
We don’t kill people for sucking! We shouldn’t kill people for anything really!
Lina Khan as future Chairwoman of the FTC, please
Political cartoon of Teddy Roosevelt swinging a big stick with the bodies of "R.R. Trust, Oil Trust" and others at his feet.
Bring him back!
Lina Khan was the only person I can think of who tried to do the job the way it’s meant to be done.
People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws
not sure how long this will last but good news?
they're really building an alternate reality out here
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.
This is pure cruelty.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.
They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.
"Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead."
To read the words is to damn all involved, from Trump on down.
Woke 2 needs to include a complete and total purge of post-GG 4chan influence on our culture.
A lot of AI safety is a grift and the moment they have to do anything that requires Anthropic to actually handle a safety issue that exists in the here and now they relent. They don’t care. They never have.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...
One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.
The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money.
In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it.
Taxation without representation.
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
If this is true…
San Antonio,Tx state troopers show up in RIOT GEAR at a student protest full of middle schoolers !! This is an intimidation tactic to keep the next generation in check !! I don’t think so !!!
zohran increased the number of snow shovelers from 500 to 1,400 for this blizzard, paying them $30/hour to shovel sidewalks with at least a four-foot berth so that wheelchairs and strollers can get through. he didn't overhaul city government to do it, he just used the power given to him and did it!
i think it's cool how zohran was like, yea i made some mistakes during the first snowstorm, so i'm gonna take everything i learned and do better this time around, and so far it seems like he has. accountability! responsiveness!
these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion
I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website*
I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...
the only person who called the US the "West" was Putin
alysa liu!!!
TEXT: Libraries are a model for the kind of publicly minded, livable communities that electeds like Mayor Mamdani so eloquently advocate for. I’m writing this from a New York Public Library, surrounded by neighbors and a few tourists who are working, reading, and resting. I can see laptops, notebooks, open magazines. Parents and babies are toddling in for a read-aloud in the back, there’s a table nearby where people are picking at jigsaw puzzles, and a guy in a lounge chair across the room keeps saying “wow” at the art book he’s flipping through. These spaces are more than just an archive of objects and services, they are the city itself in miniature.
lithub.com/new-york-may...
So many news stories lately about the result of our wide ranging tech and content ecosystem shoring up virulent misogyny
my honest guess is that ICE agents are too stupid to do their jobs, so they make up shit to justify whatever incompetence they end up displaying
