newmethos
@newmethos.bsky.social
Freelance projection designer, climber, and hiker. Mixology is a habit and a hobby. Movies when I have time for them.
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Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
Just a solid reminder that some of these assholes are gonna complain about Mamdani immediately and we should ignore their fascist asses
Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Just a solid reminder that some of these assholes are gonna complain about Mamdani immediately and we should ignore their fascist asses
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As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Damn. You could do yourself a favor and find Rock ‘n’ Roll, about Czech folks who find themselves becoming dissidents because of Syd Barrett and a Velvet Underground cover band
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Damn. You could do yourself a favor and find Rock ‘n’ Roll, about Czech folks who find themselves becoming dissidents because of Syd Barrett and a Velvet Underground cover band
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
I’m not entirely sure why that Jackson goal isn’t offside, oh because the defender had the first touch
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I’m not entirely sure why that Jackson goal isn’t offside, oh because the defender had the first touch
Heartbreaker for St Pauli. I’m a Bayern supporter, I love hearing the Can Can at home, but Pauli played really well today, a point would be well deserved
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Heartbreaker for St Pauli. I’m a Bayern supporter, I love hearing the Can Can at home, but Pauli played really well today, a point would be well deserved
Sankt Pauli, man. When they dig in, they can stand up to any team
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Sankt Pauli, man. When they dig in, they can stand up to any team
To be fair, a lot of humans are bad at this skill as well, though probably not at this scale
AI: Confidently wrong?
AI Search Has a Citation Problem www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... via @cjr
Incorrect answers to > "60% of queries".
"...bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately..."
"Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers..."
AI Search Has a Citation Problem www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... via @cjr
Incorrect answers to > "60% of queries".
"...bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately..."
"Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers..."
AI Search Has a Citation Problem
We compared eight AI search engines. They’re all bad at citing news.
www.cjr.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
To be fair, a lot of humans are bad at this skill as well, though probably not at this scale
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BREAKING: The majority of executives and upper management are totally talentless hacks.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
BREAKING: The majority of executives and upper management are totally talentless hacks.
I love that on some set pieces literally every Bayern player, including Neuer, the keeper, are in the opponent’s half, however briefly
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I love that on some set pieces literally every Bayern player, including Neuer, the keeper, are in the opponent’s half, however briefly
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One thing that people don’t talk about enough is just how much less qualified this second Trump cabinet is compared to the first one. When COVID hit, HHS had serious people in charge. Now we’ve got RFK. A weekend Fox News host is about to direct an *international war* 1/2
Very strong piece by Jack Goldsmith:
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
One thing that people don’t talk about enough is just how much less qualified this second Trump cabinet is compared to the first one. When COVID hit, HHS had serious people in charge. Now we’ve got RFK. A weekend Fox News host is about to direct an *international war* 1/2
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It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.
WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.
Gosh, some of these people are idiots. Buy the NordStream 2 pipeline? What a dipshit idea.
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Gosh, some of these people are idiots. Buy the NordStream 2 pipeline? What a dipshit idea.
To be clear, the food delivery companies are using lowly-paid gig workers to run the robots and if you encounter these vehicles you should ABSOLUTELY NOT cede the right of way, they are fucking robots
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
To be clear, the food delivery companies are using lowly-paid gig workers to run the robots and if you encounter these vehicles you should ABSOLUTELY NOT cede the right of way, they are fucking robots
I don’t have a Netflix sub at the moment, but I might need to cave and pay for a month because this is also me
I think @rianjohnson.bsky.social made WAKE UP DEAD MAN just for people like me (angry exvangelicals who still find value in Jesus’ teaching even though the Church is really bad at living those teachings out, bonus points if you like U2). Paired it with CONCLAVE in my latest column @bwdr.bsky.social
Double Features: Wake Up Dead Man and Conclave
Wake Up Dead Man and Conclave depict faith at work in a world that’s dark and growing darker. Both films hold faith up to the light and ask: In times like these, what are the faithful to do?
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I don’t have a Netflix sub at the moment, but I might need to cave and pay for a month because this is also me
Maybe it’s a pipe dream, but I want every single official involved in this process to, AT A MINIMUM, lose their jobs
Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Maybe it’s a pipe dream, but I want every single official involved in this process to, AT A MINIMUM, lose their jobs
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More good news about coffee: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/coffee-...
Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness – up to a limit | King's College London
New research from King’s College London finds that coffee consumption within the NHS recommended limit is linked to longer telomere lengths – a marker of biological ageing – among people with bipolar ...
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
More good news about coffee: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/coffee-...
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The administrators at Northwestern put this statement out on the Friday night of Thanksgiving week. That is not a confident position.
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The administrators at Northwestern put this statement out on the Friday night of Thanksgiving week. That is not a confident position.
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It's Black Friday. You might as well pre-order the first mainstream published version of the Church Committee Report. Abridged to its most essential findings, this 1975 report reads like the very best investigative journalism mixed with a spy novel covering assassinations, surveillance, sabotage.
The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State
Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State
bookshop.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
It's Black Friday. You might as well pre-order the first mainstream published version of the Church Committee Report. Abridged to its most essential findings, this 1975 report reads like the very best investigative journalism mixed with a spy novel covering assassinations, surveillance, sabotage.
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The baseline structure of the US constitution can survive many things. What it cannot survive is the speaker of the house being an omega male who is completely submissive to the president and willing to surrender all of his power. Mike Johnson is genuinely groundbreaking in this regard.
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The baseline structure of the US constitution can survive many things. What it cannot survive is the speaker of the house being an omega male who is completely submissive to the president and willing to surrender all of his power. Mike Johnson is genuinely groundbreaking in this regard.
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The Constitution was designed around the assumption that the US government was going to be composed of men who would kill each other over slights to their honor. And it worked for a long time because the assumed checks and balances based on greedily protecting individual power transitioned to norms.
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The Constitution was designed around the assumption that the US government was going to be composed of men who would kill each other over slights to their honor. And it worked for a long time because the assumed checks and balances based on greedily protecting individual power transitioned to norms.
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It all boils down to the core weakness of the American system which is that it was written for people who were pathologically violently protective of their own personal power and all the checks and balances are dependent on said people engaging in said pathologies.
i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
November 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It all boils down to the core weakness of the American system which is that it was written for people who were pathologically violently protective of their own personal power and all the checks and balances are dependent on said people engaging in said pathologies.