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BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

The kind of jobs we lose to technology

Alysa Liu vibe shift. Prince Andrew: in jail. Tariffs: canceled. War with Iran: canceled. JD Vance: excommunicated. We will ice dance to Donna Summer on the graves of our enemies

I’ve seen several people make this point, but it bears repeating: a staggering number of Americans are about to realize that the government had the capacity to help them all along simply chose not to, because those in power did not prioritize their lives or well-being.

Sorry to be a corny gay but it’s insane that this is real in my lifetime and maybe all the mass psychosis this show has unleashed in people (myself included) really is a net positive.

@SigalSamuel @mpshanahan Love it!!!

@mpshanahan Medieval Christian monks used the sacred reading practice of florilegia (Latin for flower-gathering). You notice phrases that "sparkle" off the page at you, pull the "sparklets" out of context, and compile them into a brand-new sacred text — like gathering flowers into a bouquet.

What happens when an AI expert asks ChatGPT to generate a sacred Buddhist text? As @mpshanahan found out, the resulting scripture can be pretty impressive! But should we actually try to derive spiritual insight from it? Buddhists would say yes. You? vox.com/future-perfect…

I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real. The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error." They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence. The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release. But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more. The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border. But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit. Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.

you want me to do pilates? the thing that killed jesus?

I wrote about memorizing poems as a kind of soul-making—an antidote for social media zombification. Link in profile.

this should be NYC

At the age of 35, I have become the angry New Yorker who yells “LET PEOPLE OFF THE 🤬 TRAIN”. It’s truly one of the most annoying post-pandemic things.

Look man i "get it", I "get" the idea of coasters, I'm not a fucking moron, you don't want to damage your nice table you spent a lot of money on. I'm just saying, what is the table in the first place if not a coaster for the floor. I'm just saying, where does it end

People often romanticize “being in community” without realizing that community is formed and sustained through reciprocity — fulfilling mutual obligations to one another — and that this is sometimes inconvenient and taxing! But you can’t receive support without offering it

my god. just…my god.

@TomZohar A perfect tweet

"There I sat, in a circle with sixty other men. Stark naked. I didn’t know I’d be putting my bare ass on a towel when I signed up for this men’s retreat. Nor that I’d be lined up to have ice cold showers —though, perhaps, I should have seen that coming." caspertk.com/blog/what-i-le…

It would be fun if public libraries were well-funded and open in the evenings and we built a culture where it’s normal to gather at the library after work and browse the shelves and chat about the latest books and read the Saturday night away.

I ADORE this. The unexpected and heartfelt honoring of someone for their contribution is never not gonna make me cry!

@melaniekahl @Jill_Pollock Gaaaargh 😭

@Jill_Pollock @caspertk x.com/lovandfear/sta…

My mom would order a crate of oranges every winter. Now, I collect poems about oranges. 🍊6+ poems on love & citrus to brighten your solstice. bit.ly/orange-poems #poetryfika #wintersolstice