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always invoking the pasts of industrial extraction, never the pasts of ice sheets disintegrating, glacial scouring, and an ancient lake covering the entire region creating 3 distinct watersheds, one of them containing 10% of the world’s freshwater. but let’s get that rock I guess

The only data centers that communities actually need are PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

The part of Uptown people in the suburbs seem to mourn was effectively a destination outdoor mall that’s always had terrible parking, when these buildings are replaced with housing it will be better for the community

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Your eyes can only see the moon in gray. It's actually covered in color, blues and oranges and pinks, all from different metals sitting in the rock. You just need a camera and some patience to pull them out. These photos are called "mineral moons." A photographer points a telescope at the moon, takes hundreds or thousands of pictures, stacks them on top of each other to clean up the image, then slowly turns up the color intensity in editing software. The colors that show up were always there. Too faint for your eyes to catch on their own. Each color is a different metal. The blue areas have a lot of titanium in them. The orange and brown zones have more iron. The pinkish-red patches around the edges are the oldest parts of the moon's crust, full of aluminum and calcium. That deep blue region on the left side is called the Sea of Tranquility. Apollo 11 landed right there in July 1969. When Armstrong and Aldrin brought back 47 pounds of rock from that blue titanium zone, scientists cracked the samples open and found three minerals that had never been seen on Earth before. They named one "armalcolite" after the three astronauts (Arm-Al-Col: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins). They named another "tranquillityite" after the landing site itself. For 40 years, tranquillityite was known as "the moon's own mineral" because nobody could find it here. Then in 2011, a geologist in Western Australia spotted a speck of it inside a billion-year-old rock. Andrew McCarthy, a photographer in Sacramento, once stacked 150,000 separate pictures of the moon to build one color map. Each splash of blue or orange in these images is a real metal deposit on a surface that's been getting hit by space rocks for 3.5 billion years. The moon was never gray. We just couldn't see it.

i’m sick she is so beautiful

I don't know that words will ever be able to adequately express how insane it feels to sit at a desk and respond to trivial emails while the President of the United States threatens to destroy an entire civilization.

During the last Gilded Age, the robber barons founded universities, museums, libraries, etc., to discourage workers from organizing & staging a revolution. We know this because they wrote it all down in letters to each other, congratulating themselves on being very clever.

April fools doesn’t hit the same living in a misinformation epidemic

We didn’t fight to work. Women have ALWAYS worked. We fought to get paid.

Every professional writer who uses AI for anything except transcription should change careers right now. Give your spot to somebody who loves the work.

At the height of ICE operations in Minnesota, reporters descended on the Twin Cities. I wanted to know what was happening in the small farming & meatpacking towns in the rest of the state. So we sent @emmarjanssen there & she produced this stunning report. prospect.org/2026/03/30/apr…

this “minneapolis first” attitude is misguided. we can care about our international neighbors & our local neighbors at the same time. also, both minnesota & cuba have been facing retaliation from the authoritarian trump regime. we need our leaders to be making these connections

Look at that. Illegal wildcat strikes work.

Delta is making headlines for suspending perks for Congress members. The company also made headlines for flying 5-year-old Liam Ramos + his dad home from the detention center in TX. But did you know they also flew Liam out of MN? 🧐 gillianbrockell.com/video-proves-d…

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The web’s transformation from a place of knowledge to a place of mindless amusements is soul-crushing. The places where you could once access books have been gutted. Billionaires seek to dismantle Wikipedia. We built & destroyed the Library of Alexandria in a few years.

if you’ve ever worn black to a protest, used Signal, or carried a first aid kit, a federal jury just decided that can all be evidence of terrorism. a quick thread on the Prairielands convictions from last week, and what they mean for the right to protest in the US:

> you open a website > it says: "click all the traffic lights" > it takes you 10 seconds > 200 million people do this every day > you weren't passing a security check > you were labeling training data for a self-driving car > google acquires recaptcha in 2009 > deploys it on every bank, store, and government site on earth > turns the entire internet into an unpaid AI annotation factory > waymo is now worth $45 billion > you didn't pass the test. you built it.