"...if you’re drinking a can of Fremont Brewing’s beer in a park, you’d better hope you have a permanent address." @mshannabrooks takes on Seattle's ongoing criminalization of public drug use — and the hypocrisy of one of its biggest cheerleaders. realchangenews.org/news/2024/06/1…

BIG INVESTIGATION: Big Tech is hiding AI energy use - and is deploying lobbyists to hide it. The government is refusing to track AI energy use. Utilities are raising your rates to subsidize data centers. AI now on track to consume 9% of all electricity. levernews.com/the-unknown-to…

For Shepherd.com 📚, I curated a reading list on building a better digital future. I chose books that offer bracing analyses of our digital present & that center care & imagination. Picks include books by @alexispauline, Jathan Sadowski, & N. K. Jemisin. shepherd.com/best-books/bui…

Still think Kamala should pick this guy

Not having a serious primary appears to have been a Joeversight

Farmers are pumping so much groundwater in Idaho that they’re drying up parts of the Snake River — depriving other farmers of water. Good story by Daniel Rothberg on a growing challenge across the West, getting worse with climate change: insideclimatenews.org/news/20072024/…

🌍🌡📈 We are back at breaking absolute (rather than anomalies) global temperature records! And as al days of July are above the pre-2023 records, this month will become the 14th month in a row with temperatures above anything seen in over 100,000 years.

“oh, you take delight in vexing me! you have no compassion on my poor nerves!”

For this week's issue of The New Yorker I wrote about a new biography of the Brothers Grimm, the role of their work in crafting German identity, and the dark, twisted fairy tale that is the nation-state. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

we can’t just critique soullessness and cultural decline & depravity, we have to also actively embrace soulfulness, earnest vulnerability, transparency

I’ve gone to that bluest of skies, find me there as jstnmrrs dot bsky dot social

"I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us" -Nicolas Cage, with a critique of ai I've been feeling but unable to articulate

DOGE’s recent slashing of government contracts jeopardizes payments intended for thousands of farmers producing fruits and vegetables, row crops, milk, and meat, most of them on small farms. buff.ly/4kfeXM0

phenomenal piece --

ive read a lot of books and essays about the attention economy and digital labour. but truly nothing makes the humiliation stick better than this tiktok skit recognising social media use as "volunteering for Big Tech"

What’s crazy is that AI is doing all this—stealing water, stealing books, destroying public education and higher ed, melting brains and making people insane—for the sake of a machine that guesses the next words in a sentence. We’ve ruined the world for a more efficient Google.