I say my dog because this experience taught me something about fascists: if you don't admit to owning the world's stray dogs, they'll shoot them.
"My Life Under Fascism, or Franco Killed My Dog", William Gibson for Space Junk
(Light spoiler for those who might not want to read an essay involving a dog dying that the dog doesn't actually die! This does not really detract from Gibson's point, I think.)
We will miss the shining brave idea we had of you.
"Stepping down as Framework Linux Community Ambassadors", post by Tommi Marmo and Andreas Frisch on the Framework community forum
Submitted by Wesley.
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised.
"Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani", Peter Coviello for Lithub
Submitted by Chris. A runner-up picked by me:
I did this because, in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot.
Bury him in a salt cavern.
"Dick Cheney Departs the World He Made", Albert Burnkeo for Defector
Faith sort of runs on a subscription model now: misogyny for men, astrology for women, wellness for the rich, conspiracies for the alienated.
Anika Jade Levy in an interview in Chicago Review of Books
Submitted by Rachel.
I wonder sometimes if what I'm chasing isn't just the masked bastards snatching our neighbors, but the ghosts of the life we lead before all this.
"Ghosts in the Graveyard", Dan Sinker on his blog
Republicans understand in their marrow that confidence is contagious.
"A Crisis of Confidence Solved", Denny Carter for his newsletter Bad Faith Times
Submitted by James.
Objectively, I have to twerk.
Lina Ahmed as quoted in an article in Hell Gate
Sharing these findings publicly carries the risk of encouraging adversaries to try such attacks in practice.
"A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size", blog post from Anthropic
Submitted by Anne "with nothing but pure intentions."
I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life.
Zohran Mamdani's election night speech
I just also believe that if God has chosen to divide himself into billions of subjective beings he must have had some reason for doing so, and it’s kinda jumping the gun to try to rejoin the absolute consciousness.
"Numb at Burning Man", Sam Kriss for his newsletter Numb at the Lodge
Submitted by Michael.
The question cannot responsibly be answered with any certainty, even if one feels that incidents of people getting riled up and burning down the mill owner’s house have gone way down since 1830.
"The Lonely New Vices of American Life", Dan Brooks for The Atlantic
Submitted by Natalie.