Silas Hansen

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

An expert in media and communications helped me understand 25 years ago what a tiny percentage of America knows what’s on NPR but MANY Americans know what’s in People. @amyactonoh.bsky.social story is in People. people.com/amy-acton-st...

there are only two genetic modifications we should to make to cats and dogs. one is to make them live longer, healthier lives, and the other is to stop cat piss from smelling like That

maybe getting up every morning and reading 300-character synopses of all the terrible things people did without consequence in the past 24 hours is bad for my mental health, who can say really

AirBnB host making me shave his wife’s back to complete checkout ?

Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to a different senator. A network of fake news websites seeded messaging about state & local candidates that AI answers picked up on. My story on how the AI midterms are going: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

wow, JKR & HBO must be scared shitless about the backlash to the new HP series. I can't wait to cancel my HBO subscription on December 1st – you should too!

She was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥

you guys, when @joshgondelman.bsky.social started reading about "Doctor Worm" by They Might Be Giants at our Words & Guitar show last week my whole life changed in an instant, and you can now read it in word form in his excellent newsletter. www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/206-music-sn...

It’s depressing to see schools use AI to create flyers, banners, & t-shirts. When I was in high school the faculty would come to the art department to have students create these things. I learned so many skills that have followed me my entire professional life. That’s what I thought school was for.

we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course

This is why we protect survivors’ identities! (Said again for the people who seem to not understand why we blur names and faces 🙃)

You know, Jean Twenge has been saying some real dipshit stuff since the early days of Millennial (then Gen Y) coverage but this really takes the frozen diarrhea cake.

My favorite part of this is how Jack Smith is so utterly baffled by Schmitt's bonkers conspiracy theory that, when Klobuchar is like "the Iowa Hawkeyes, right?", his response is just "uh, I just wanted to see Caitlin Clark play Maryland."

It’s really great that Eric Schmitt wasted everyone’s time because he can’t tell the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes, meanwhile people in Missouri are struggling to pay for utilities, gas, groceries, housing, and child care.

lmao @ Schmitt getting DRAGGED by Amy Klobuchar

just learned this today

lmao

im really and truly not the kind of person to shame people for the media they consume but if you watch the new harry potter you can get fucked

If you want to watch children get abused, there's always Texas high school football.

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

There is something so frustrating about watching basically every staff sports writer completely mangle this story about transphobia in the WNBA, while so many trans journalists who would do a great job (and who have been pitching stories about this!) are struggling to get hired and make ends meet.

people are treating this like a pivot but i think she’s espousing a very narrow form of transmedicalism that has some purchase among TERFs

Went to see Spa Weekend, which is very much Written by Two Men, but god I fucking love Leslie Mann so much that it was still worth it.

Remembering how during the Claudine Gay scandal, one of its biggest promoters of the story was Bill Ackman. Then someone uncovered that Ackman's own wife was a professor alleged to have committed much more serious academic misconduct than Gay and then nothing happened to her.

I HATE it when people say “the culture wars” or “the discourse” are ruining the WNBA. BE PRECISE. Right-wing fascists are introducing misogyny and bigotry through their narratives and demands, in an effort to delegitimize an organization full of popular black women who vocally champion inclusivity.

oh this guy's a NAZI nazi. yeah that checks out

Needed this as I am overthinking my new faculty role in an all white department in an academic space where I absolutely deserve to be. Thanks, @profkori.bsky.social

FYI, they will not work through clothing unless that clothing is thin or wet. Also, they can't handle being doused with water. Wear layers, carry water. Stay safe out there

stop making me know about joe rogan jesus christ!!! i am a BEAUTIFUL WOMAN i shouldn’t have to KNOW about that my GOD

We told you this would happen. ♥️🕊️👍🏿

of all the washed up players who could do this, Royce White is the funniest. he literally had to leave the NBA because he’s too scared of flying.

SIX YEARS???????

yes, the Tiresome Literature Boy could be exhausting at parties when he tried book mogging you while looking down his nose at you over his bottle of Vermont craft beer but you could feel reasonably confident he wasn’t going to unhinge his jaw and attempt to devour you in the name of proteinmaxxing

and look - I’ll take a boy who has mildly annoying takes on modernist novels, noise bands, and Leonard Cohen over a boy who cares for no one and nothing but meme stocks and anabolic steroids ANY day

Similarly, if a random citizen at your daughter's soccer game wanted to check the genitals of the kids playing, you would call the fucking cops, and rightly so. Stop debating these people and call them out for what they are -- creepy perverts, freaky busybodies and utter hypocrites.