donut shoot the balloon please there is a kid in there

The problem with nerds having cultural and economic power is not that they are not cool, it’s that they are not adults

the man on the subway watching a cockfighting video was wearing a hat with a chicken on it. sometimes, the world does make sense.

Today my German class teaches me vocab AND radical empathy as I learn what it is like to be this old person begging for help. Thank you.

1. So, I recently took a trip out to North Idaho. I was tracking down rumors about Christian nationalism(s) rising in the region. But I wasn't prepared for just how *big* it'd become, how powerful it is in the state, and how it may impact the future GOP. religionnews.com/2023/02/22/how…

when will we be ready to discuss the festering crisis of wrinkles on that part of the pants where the knee bends?

if this is a cancellable take i'm very sorry but i don't think you need to feel guilty about enjoying an absurdly warm day in february. you did not make climate change happen and your guilt is not going to fix anything!

go birds

telling you what I ordered at the wine bar is a HIPAA violation

"Designed by an influential 19th-century doctor with a cocaine addiction, residency in America has had extreme hours and low compensation for more than a hundred years." motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Gary Indiana for T Magazine. nytimes.com/2023/04/04/t-m…

SF is *crawling* with tech workers who stalk and photograph homeless people and then stab each other to death. A real mess.

I spend way too much of my time browsing the weird little things people lob onto google maps and The Atlantic allowed me to say why. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

A lovely ode to procrastinating on Google Maps, by will peischel: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

"Google Maps offers something many other platforms no longer can: a hodgepodge of truly unfamiliar stuff that hasn’t been packaged for your taste or mine," writes will peischel. on.theatln.tc/p9lKlen

who knew google maps could maps be a soothing reprieve from getting dragged through the hell of social media's algorithmic slot machines? will peischel, evidently theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Please RT this thread. It’s an important one. Some news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically cut the org's workforce. I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting. But this time, alone.

Looking for a different social media platform that's weird and different and where the algorithms are sculpted to give you exactly what the machine thinks you'll want? Try Google Maps. bit.ly/3V22iQt

There is SO much money going into plugging orphan wells, but relevant state agencies are underfunded and companies capable of the work are sparse. I wrote about it for grist grist.org/energy/abandon…