MG
@mgaleti.bsky.social
It is hard enough to be a person in the world. The least we can do is be gentle with ourselves and each other.
And be generous with applause.
And be generous with applause.
Reposted by MG
I’m tired but if anyone’s starting an angry mob I could muster the energy
February 12, 2026 at 2:58 AM
I’m tired but if anyone’s starting an angry mob I could muster the energy
Reposted by MG
🔭🧪 Are you interested in having a night sky? (Like at all?)
File comments with the FCC telling them to deny permission to Starlink for “a million satellites” and to Reflect Orbital for their giant sunlight mirror in space.
The American Astronomical Society has info on how 👇
File comments with the FCC telling them to deny permission to Starlink for “a million satellites” and to Reflect Orbital for their giant sunlight mirror in space.
The American Astronomical Society has info on how 👇
How to Submit Comments on Satellite Applications to the FCC
Step-by-step guide for submitting comments on satellite applications to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
aas.org
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
🔭🧪 Are you interested in having a night sky? (Like at all?)
File comments with the FCC telling them to deny permission to Starlink for “a million satellites” and to Reflect Orbital for their giant sunlight mirror in space.
The American Astronomical Society has info on how 👇
File comments with the FCC telling them to deny permission to Starlink for “a million satellites” and to Reflect Orbital for their giant sunlight mirror in space.
The American Astronomical Society has info on how 👇
Reposted by MG
No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk.
Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.
Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.
February 11, 2026 at 5:53 PM
No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk.
Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.
Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.
Reposted by MG
Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.
Reposted by MG
February 11, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by MG
Everyone is loving America's new hit game show Incompetence or Malice! Where we all get to figure out if whatever the government is doing that day is just out of sheer stupidity, or something far darker! You'll never be more on the edge of your seat!
February 11, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Everyone is loving America's new hit game show Incompetence or Malice! Where we all get to figure out if whatever the government is doing that day is just out of sheer stupidity, or something far darker! You'll never be more on the edge of your seat!
Reposted by MG
Poster is an El Paso City Council Rep:
February 11, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Poster is an El Paso City Council Rep:
Reposted by MG
I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
Reposted by MG
“They are refusing to review a new vaccine with a more flexible technology, while creating a real risk we will not have traditional vaccines for next year," @doritreiss.bsky.social said.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
FDA declines to review Moderna application for new flu vaccine
Moderna requests meeting to discuss refusal as decision could have implications for all new and updated vaccines
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:08 AM
“They are refusing to review a new vaccine with a more flexible technology, while creating a real risk we will not have traditional vaccines for next year," @doritreiss.bsky.social said.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Reposted by MG
A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...
February 10, 2026 at 2:50 PM
A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...
Reposted by MG
99 red balloons, if you just listen to the music, is a bubblegum synth bop. but if you listen to the words jfc. anyway enjoy the web's best defense newsletter www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Why ‘ 99 Red Balloons’ Is Stuck In Your Head
The New START treaty limiting the US and Russia to a mere 3,300 deployed nuclear warheads was allowed to expire. Now they can load a combined 6,000 or so onto their missiles and bombs.
www.bloomberg.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM
99 red balloons, if you just listen to the music, is a bubblegum synth bop. but if you listen to the words jfc. anyway enjoy the web's best defense newsletter www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Reposted by MG
Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:
What Mira Nair Taught Zohran Mamdani
The mayor’s famous filmmaker mother reveals the origins of his ferocious ambition.
www.vulture.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:
Reposted by MG
Reposted by MG
A former book critic at Washington Post Book World wrote about last week's cuts, and while the whole thing is worth reading, the end cuts through the bullshit of algorithm/click-driven generated content to articulate the need for actual criticism and culture.
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
February 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM
A former book critic at Washington Post Book World wrote about last week's cuts, and while the whole thing is worth reading, the end cuts through the bullshit of algorithm/click-driven generated content to articulate the need for actual criticism and culture.
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
Reposted by MG
It's more than 762,000 people from the dismemberment of USAID alone.
February 10, 2026 at 1:39 PM
It's more than 762,000 people from the dismemberment of USAID alone.
Reposted by MG
In 1947 the US War Department released “Don’t Be a Sucker,” now archived by the National Archives. It shows how fascism grows through fear lies and scapegoating. This should not be history. It is a reminder our government once wanted remembered.
Don't Be a Sucker
YouTube video by US National Archives
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
In 1947 the US War Department released “Don’t Be a Sucker,” now archived by the National Archives. It shows how fascism grows through fear lies and scapegoating. This should not be history. It is a reminder our government once wanted remembered.
Reposted by MG
Obviously you will all be called upon to avenge me after my death, but now I'm thinking, why wait? Get out there and prevenge.
February 10, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Obviously you will all be called upon to avenge me after my death, but now I'm thinking, why wait? Get out there and prevenge.
Reposted by MG
“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
— Kurt Vonnegut
February 10, 2026 at 12:41 AM
“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
— Kurt Vonnegut
Reposted by MG
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk
The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.
on.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:53 PM
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Reposted by MG
one thing that has always confused me about these hypos where the House refuses to recognize Dem winners—the House isn't a continuing body, and it wouldn't be the current House that would be seating anyone. it's the incoming House. www.vox.com/politics/478...
February 10, 2026 at 12:44 AM
one thing that has always confused me about these hypos where the House refuses to recognize Dem winners—the House isn't a continuing body, and it wouldn't be the current House that would be seating anyone. it's the incoming House. www.vox.com/politics/478...
Reposted by MG
@protectdemocracy.org has launched a really cool Civil Service Archive that tracks documents related to changes of the civil service since January 2025.
civilservicearchive.org
civilservicearchive.org
The Civil Service Archive
Tracking changes affecting the shape and operation of federal government agencies under the second Trump administration.
civilservicearchive.org
February 9, 2026 at 9:32 PM
@protectdemocracy.org has launched a really cool Civil Service Archive that tracks documents related to changes of the civil service since January 2025.
civilservicearchive.org
civilservicearchive.org
normal view. Normal View. NORMAL VIEW. NOORMAL VIIEEEWWWWW
Does anyone else have an MST3K line they use regularly, even if it makes no sense out of context?
Because I have both "That'll keep your panfish down for a while." and "Come come, boys, we must confound Jerry at every turn!" from MST3K the movie alone.
Because I have both "That'll keep your panfish down for a while." and "Come come, boys, we must confound Jerry at every turn!" from MST3K the movie alone.
February 9, 2026 at 9:20 PM
normal view. Normal View. NORMAL VIEW. NOORMAL VIIEEEWWWWW
Reposted by MG
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Reposted by MG
I don’t think looking at companies that have enough money sloshing around that they can drop $10 mil+ on an ad spot is a good way of thinking about the economy, personally
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
I don’t think looking at companies that have enough money sloshing around that they can drop $10 mil+ on an ad spot is a good way of thinking about the economy, personally
Reposted by MG
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.