pizza king

[madonna @madonnarealstar]

I took a pill that relaxes and calms me. It makes me like the warm water while I do the dishes

[frankie steins gay uncle @ewkewpid]

tomorrow is the first day of fall

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“Not one single person in that room was for the data center. And the city council just went ahead and approved it,” says Jazmin Villegas, who lives in Red Oak, Texas. https://t.co/xC0BUP0cuc

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen.

The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

More from @DRBoguslaw below:

https://t.co/pZv9kQr4eB

[Isaac @iTalkStudiosYT]

I've seen enough extend Payton Tolle NOW

[ProPublica @propublica]

Leonard Leo is a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office.

But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.
https://t.co/tj3BcguvGt

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Zohran Mamdani: “A lot of what we’ve come to accept as the facts of life across our country is driven by democratic socialist principles. If today you and I were to introduce the idea of a building that lends out books for free, we would be slandered in the same way that so many new ideas are slandered today and yet that’s the library. And the same thing with the fire department and the same thing with public schools”

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[Joon Lee @joonlee]

The Red Sox didn’t lose their way overnight.

Their incentives shifted.

When private equity enters sports, the questions change — and so do the answers.

Inside the organization, some describe the culture as “toxic positivity.”

The story behind it: https://t.co/U0vk3vemvK

[Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog]

A 2023 German psychiatric study found that playing Super Mario Odyssey significantly improved depressive symptoms in clinically depressed individuals compared to regular psychotherapeutic treatment, reducing depression by 43%.

[Pull up shoot @NElGHT_]

Como se dice “Young Game Changer”

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The Marshall Project asked incarcerated people what might have kept them out of prison.

Their responses: Affordable housing, vocational programs, cheaper college classes, grief counseling, drug prevention programs, daycare vouchers and more. https://t.co/1kpCTf7uE0

[𝓛𝓾𝓱𝓪𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷 @luhaenten]

In your twenties there may be love. It's very important to ignore this love and pursue a Masters instead.

[Dyylas @DylanDyylas]

"but what if your favorite celebrity is in the epstein files?"

poliwhirl ain't gonna be in there man

[Celtics on CLNS @CelticsCLNS]

Joe Mazzulla asks a reporter about his haircut mid-answer 😂

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