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This essay on "AI and Internet Hygiene" by kate wehwalt really how AI is ruining the experience of using the internet (and knowing how to use it), while also crippling the social infrastructure of trust that makes the internet work. web.archive.org/web/2025012106…

ICYMI (cuz it is getting very little coverage): former LA deputy mayor pleads guilty to calling in a fake bomb threat against City Hall in October 2024 — a threat he attributed to a made-up anti-Israel actor.

“Greece” radiates meaning: classical Athenian, Socratic, hemlock-laced meaning that overwrites the real place, thumped out like club music and yachts in the harbor...But mostly, at the Greek Festival, it’s lamb." oaklandreviewofbooks.org/lamb-at-the-oa…

"I keep going to Friday Nights at OMCA with my kids, and barely seeing it, because you can bring your kids there to see it while you see them." oaklandreviewofbooks.org/tambor-at-frid…

Ms. Rachel has more balls than any entertainer you like

"I practise a Weberian politics of responsibility that engages int he slow, boring work of implementing rational bureaucratic policies which is why I support a completely corrupt pol who has messianic fantasies and is completely disengaged from reality. My name is Matt

"Scotch Irish" is a not dissimilar form of mythical ancestry in Appalachia, actually

I just got a refund from a gaza gofundme because the entire family is dead ...

i think about this often lol

Of all the images they could have used to show what happened, they chose a map.

The NYT suggested that Donald J. Trump is a young Chinese woman well-suited to manufacture iPhones and I say we teach the controversy

shorter The Rehearsal s2, Nathan Fielder: if I'm fucking up in a way that has consequences, will you please just tell me in a friendly and straightforward way, I want to do better

Notes from the Transit Books fundraiser in Temescal: oaklandreviewofbooks.org/transit-and-t-…

imprisoning children as young as 12 for life "could violate the Convention on the Rights of the Child"

if abundance neoliberalism brought you to this,

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, May 27 – June 1: oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-review…

"Given a direct choice, 59% of Democrats preferred the populist argument, compared to just 16.8% liking the abundance one."

"It will not surprise you that the outward-facing architecture of this place is as "a man's food court is his castle" as it is." oaklandreviewofbooks.org/irritated/