A Thousand Autumns

"Almost none of his net worth is held in cash. Nearly all of it is **unrealized equity** in companies he still runs, and he draws no salary. His wealth is not money he extracted and stored. It is the market’s estimate of promises he hasn’t yet kept." fortune.com/2026/06/23/e...

yes. conservatives looked at the american experiment in mass, high quality education over the course of the 20th century and concluded that it was a failure that threatened to overturn existing hierarchies of status.

Fellow profs, remember this the next time someone is guilt-tripping you into re-writing your curriculum around AI.

What was once a gradual slide into autocracy has become something like free-fall. We should all be in the streets. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

You could create generations of bird watchers and advocates by showing this video to kids just after they get into dinosaurs and saying, “welp, there they are.”

Not many people know this, but William Safire wrote that in the event that everything went okay.

ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.

There is no such thing as AI art.

Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket.

We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.

My kids aren't in private school, but had we not moved they would be in a Charter school and this does a lot to cover my own conflicted emotions about the whole thing

Just also want to note that trans people and advocates for the unhoused have told people for years that Gavin Newsom is trash. If this is what makes people realize how awful he is, great, but I really hope this is also a wake-up call to listen the first time someone tells you who they really are.

ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.

All this stuff about AI bros wanting to slow down AI development just means they’ve been grinding midterm polling data. I don’t think there’s much more to it.

Dem: We need to vote to protect our children from fascism! Trans: I will vote to protect trans children from fascism! Dem: Not them. Other children! Vote to protect the other children! Trans: I will vote for anyone who'll protect trans children from fascism. Dem: Wny do you love fascism????

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

i think much of the democratic party's low ratings reflects a palpable sense that it is institutionally incapable of standing up for itself or going on the hunt

It occurred to me that it's been a rough couple of days for the Muppets.

Tim Cook's legacy is spineless capitulation

Here's a fun game, let's see how long a mid-size American city can go without electricity before the New York Times notices. Two weeks, so far. (Clarifying: not actually fun.)

The state of Kentucky has the juice www.sos.ky.gov/civic-initia...

Seems bad?

Data show Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg underestimated how many people would be targeted when he agreed to give ICE more time to detain immigrants at the city jail.www.lpm.org/investigate/...

that one dostoevsky quote about how to judge the degree of civilization in a society now applying to a US warship turned prison barge. our leaders don’t give a shit about these people.

The push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it.

maybe copilot knows why www.techspot.com/news/113326-...

It’s true, it’s just terrible that JK Rowling hasn't washed her hands since 2018..

After being detained at the Louisville Airport, friends and family say a Kentucky jail is holding Sarafinah Bukirwa for federal immigration charges and isn’t giving her proper care – as she has sickle cell anemia and is now in a health crisis. From @justinhicks.lpm.org

Just sent an email to Rand Paul's office asking for Proof of Brain. I'll let you all know if I get a response.

A lot of education tech is extractive. Schools are underfunded but governments keep shoveling money at tech as a magical cure-all. Most school districts don’t need more tech. They need well-paid teachers, never-ending school supplies, and good textbooks. They want in on the grift.

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

On a day trip, we met this super-sweet pup. She does not need to be rescued but the temptation was mighty.

This guy gets it www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*