Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Just a heads up, tomorrow is Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder, hope you've done your shopping and holiday meal prep.

Fascinating essay on *why* some cultures are terrified of reheating rice and others just...do it every day. The justification cycle - racialised thinking, call to science, appeal to long past and/or 'traditional' wisdom - seems universal for this sort of food story #histFood

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I am HOWLING

My Magic hot take for the weekend. Ignore the TMNT cards. Stay off the subreddit, do not engage. Just go and enjoy the incredible set that is Lorwyn Eclipsed. A bunch of folks put a lot of love into this set, and it deserved its time to shine.

Maybe the best thing on the internet still? Certainly the most essential counter we have to our current shitstream of social media-driven misinformation.

New dating strategy just dropped

i’m sure ICE guys with their guns and masks fancy themselves big brave men, but when you see real, honest courage it knocks you on your ass. it’s a glimpse of something holy.

Begging leftists not to dismiss the crucial role of radical clergy in mass protest movements as happened so often during his first term. At every one of my most formative experiences, they’ve been there. The most brutal violence I’ve experienced at a protest was side by side with radical clergy.

Watching JD Vance since he entered politics has really made me understand the kind of person that led Dante to write about someone so monstrously amoral and treacherous that his soul could fall straight to Hell while still walking around alive and well.

(homoousios)

Super interesting thread on why this is not only illegal but also deeply stupid

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”

Rince Cannon saying “ao-dience” is some of the cleanest, finely pointed characterisation I’ve seen in a long time. Bravo, @graham.loadingreadyrun.com and @loadingreadyrun.com I do so very much enjoy a visit to the land of CFÜT

My prayer for you this year.

Spent the final minutes of 2025 with my son getting the last of the year out of his system (as vomit) Onward and upward! Here’s to a healthier, hopeful 2026.

The greatest comic strip of all time came to an end 30 years ago today, in one of the finest endings to any series.

Royal bastard and assassin. Slightly psychic.

It’s just very hard to imagine a functional society anywhere in the world where people both trust the computer to tell them what reality is and the computer then lies to them like a treacherous vizier

There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship

So, they’re doing it on purpose now, right? #tormentnuexus

This would break me. In a good way.

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

shel silverstein was a prophet

This feels like a good week to remind everybody that:

I took unseemly pleasure in locking a talking toy, while talking, in the trunk of my car. Take that, motherfucker.

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

To my Christian siblings, I pray that the birth of your Lord, the Word made flesh, brings you peace and joy. May we remember that He was born of refugees in the most trying of circumstances, to give comfort to the lost and hopeless, the wretched of the earth. May we see His face in each other.

Come, thou fount of every blessing!

When they ask me what radicalized me

And that's what AI sacrifices--it produces fully formed things but they don't reflect anything. They're just pixels or words strung together to approximate what we expect to hear And that's not what art is

Game designer: After lots of hard work we’re proud to announce we’ve created the Wheel of Saṃsāra from the ancient Buddhist classic Don’t Get Trapped in the Wheel of Saṃsāra

I saw a video the other day of a guy sitting at a piano that was like "Christmas in 2025 feels like this" and then he played the peanuts Christmas song entirely in minor and this post has the same, accurate energy

A master speaking of the master

J.R.R. Tolkien, literal Butlerian Jihadist

Who has made this 🤣

I am of the simple opinion that stuff like this is the peak of human endeavour and we can cut it out with the missiles and demonic computers in favour of getting really good at a cool little thing

2024: hahaha suck it troglodytes, this thing's gonna be replacing your job and dating your girlfriend 2026: we continue to see modest gains at the edges of our applications. we believe 14% of consumers may be ready to spend up to three dollars a month on this by end of Q4

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

'"There is no good way to say this" but to say this: AI is the antithesis of education. It is the antithesis of the future. As such, it is a kind of epistemological death, and I recognize... we have long been surrounded by such efforts; we are grieving already. And yet, we go on.'

A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?

He just got a trillion dollar package, and sure it's bullshit and imaginary but still, imagine inking a deal where you get a trillion dollars, more than anyone has ever had, and then going to your little computer and asking it to make a fake woman who pretends to like you. Weapons-grade cringe.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Remeber NFTs?