Bad Bunny's historical advisor is an assistant professor at UW-Madison. Hell of a flex for your tenure file.

Italians would be SICK if they knew there was an ad running during the Olympics in America implying that some Italians intentionally drink Starbucks coffee

i need an emotional support perogi

Andrea Bocelli: Sings at Opening Ceremonies Me:

This is so neat! @meghancarnold.com

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Algorithm fail: Bought a bird feeder on Chewy once as a gift and had it sent to my parents' address. Autoship and primary address for me and my 10-year-old pet stayed the same. Today my parents notified me they received the birthday card from Chewy for my cat.

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

Motion to require more maps of voters/opinion #polls to adjust for people over land mass projects.gelliottmorris.com/trump-approv...

Not the most comprehensive data analysis, but I love a niche topic votehub.com/2026/01/20/t...

Prime Minister Carney at #Davos: youtu.be/qMJcZpvyNok?...

I worry a lot about how, unless we fix this, very few of the other issues - political polarization, nativism, urban vs rural, red vs blue and all that stems from these conflicts - will ever get addressed with any satisfaction

the horror of this is compounded by the fact that the whipple building sits on the same military fort where 1600+ Dakota, mostly women and children were held in a concentration camp in 1863, where over 300 died

Public libraries are the best. Exhibit 276 www.popville.com/2026/01/psa-...

Everything once again going swimmingly in the world of generative AI 🫠 Zero reasons to be concerned please continue with your regularly scheduled scrolling. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

if your headline ends with "Feds say," you are not doing journalism you are doing stenography

If I could rip the defensive talking mechanism out of the brains of every writer I have ever worked with I would, and install this operating chip instead ⬇️⬇️⬇️

This is incredible. Research funded by NIH. Our tax dollars at work (past tense).

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

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i don't see how Section 230 protects Google on this one, am i wrong?

This might be the funniest case of AI chaos I've seen yet. Thread: x.com/moorehn/stat... WSJ gets AI vending machine: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Prefacing to say this is more a media criticism than political... it's disheartening to see CNN, with this headline, frame working across the aisle for the benefit of the American taxpayer as "choos[ing the] nuclear option." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

OMG I've been WAITING for this all season!

Not gonna lie, a part of me welcomes this kind of thing because it gets us closer to all abandoning social media for real world interaction and community.

Y'all, why are we doing this for a technology nobody wants that has, so far, failed to provide a level of value in our lives that would even be worth all of this? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

and i’ll use @donmoyn.bsky.social’s post here to make the point that the other piece of the unitarian view seems to be that the purpose of the executive branch is to be an extension of the president’s will, rather than a tool to execute the commands of the legislature.

Mind-boggling sports.yahoo.com/soccer/artic...

More aggressive driving from robo-taxis? As a pedestrian, no thank you www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Each December, thousands of art world denizens descend on Miami for a weeklong extravaganza anchored by fairs like Art Basel Miami Beach. This year, two museums hope locals and tourists alike will also spend time with art by some of the region’s original inhabitants.

DDOT continues to publish before/after analyses of safety projects. The numbers for the 9th street NW bike lanes suggest that we should be doing these projects everywhere we can. Crashes plummeted, pedestrian and bike traffic skyrocketed, and vehicle travel times dropped.

Can't help but think it's pretty bad that we're willingly outsourcing what it means to be human to the point where we, as a collective, forget how just so a handful of companies can make tons of money for a short period of time.

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

Reason #674 why I moved to a place where I wouldn't be dependent on a car for transportation

This is your annual reminder to check your bills like TV/internet and see if you can save money with any service deals they've got going on. Just saved $20/month with Verizon Fios and they gave me Netflix and HBO for my troubles.

I love absolutely everything about this story as reported www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

There's such a dearth of good local journalism, but I'm glad @51st.news exists, because this is what we would miss without them and others like them 51st.news/mount-pleasa...

OMG

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

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You can read the UN's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (PDF):

i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation

Mychal Threets, a social media star librarian, is hosting the new iteration of the series. It's back for four episodes starting on Saturday. From @anastasiat.bsky.social

TIL that the word "cliché" is an onomatopoeia

Hey, Washington Post I, too, have read Joseph Glatthaar's 2006 book, "Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Natives in Hollywood would not be where they are today without this man. *I* would not be where I am today. He made the Sundance Film Festival & Sundance Native Lab I was in. So much more than an advocate, he created space. He was one of the few who invested in our future. To Robert Redford 🕊️ RIP