In Berlin and reading An Honest Man by Ben Fergusson. Novels give such a feel for a place. And it’s nice to have his characters add to what I’m seeing here. 📚
A court in the US has thrown out the justice department’s attempt to gain access to the medical records of trans children.
If anyone thinks they are safe just because it’s happening to someone else this time, they are not paying attention to history.
This puts the conditions in place to criminalize being unhoused.
The conditions for detainment outlined in the order are poorly defined, which means it could be interpreted broadly to detain and involuntarily institutionalize people in public spaces. And it doesn’t detail who may make determinations on institutionalization.
[Dr. Lisette Sanchez] helps first-generation Americans and others who’ve been told, both overtly and covertly, they don’t belong – and experience the exhaustion, silencing and self-doubt that accompanies such alienation.
The 19th spoke with Sanchez about pressing forward in an unforgiving year, healing intergenerational trauma and how immigrant communities can weather a reactionary political climate.
Speaking of the effects of technology on individuals and society as a whole, Marshall McLuhan wrote that every augmentation is also an amputation. I first heard that quote twenty years ago from a computer scientist at Stanford who was addressing a room full of colleagues—all highly educated, technically proficient, motivated experts who well understood the import of McLuhan’s warning and who probably thought about it often, as I have done, whenever they subsequently adopted some new labor-saving technology.
On the contrary, staggering transformations are in full swing. And yet, on campus, we’re in a bizarre interlude: everyone seems intent on pretending that the most significant revolution in the world of thought in the past century isn’t happening. The approach appears to be: “We’ll just tell the kids they can’t use these tools and carry on as before.” This is, simply, madness. And it won’t hold for long. It’s time to talk about what all this means for university life, and for the humanities in particular.
Taking feedback at the same time you’re giving it means that you’re building trust - and getting an early signal on where you might be going wrong as a leader.
I remember very well being handed a list of feature requests by Apple’s lead evangelist from a new exec they just hired at Apple. I looked at the list, and handed it back and said I’d like to meet him. On the paper was the top ten list of every MORE user at the time. We knew what they wanted because we listened, studied, and learned. I knew his new boss was a real user, and thus I knew we could do stuff together. It worked out exactly that way.
The memo is fueled by Tuesday’s supreme court decision allowing the Trump administration to enforce a ban on trans military members. The defense department has said it will follow up by going through medical records to identify others who haven’t come forward.
“Tonight, President Trump fired a patriotic public servant. The Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has spent her entire career serving people — from helping kids learn to read to protecting some of our nation’s most precious treasures. She is an American hero,” Morelle said in a statement.
40 Acres and a Lie – Mother Jones. A Pulitzer Prize finalist.
What is fundamentally interesting about vibe coding is that it frees the imagination. It allows for simple and rapid iteration on tech ideas. It helps lower the barrier to entry for software creation, even by non-coders.
As a result, thanks to vibe coding, it is easier to imagine a lot of home-cooked software, personal software being built.
Good news for libraries is good news for all of us.
Mark now envisions Meta’s social apps as “discovery engines” — constantly churning out content that you might find engaging. Then, when you discover something you like (or hate), you’ll share it with your friends, whether that’s in a public feed or privately in DMs and WhatsApp group chats.
The cruelty doesn’t end.