This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Ironic, two years ago, asking news media to take down 🍆 pic of someone's son was considered censorship. Where are all of those free speech warriors today when you need them?

People keep buying Chia Pets bc they keep coming up w/ amazing ideas. I imagine every creative meeting has copious amounts of flower and edibles. They cooked this year.

yep

There’s a Keanu Reeves movie where he is a football player, right?

3. Jeffrey Wigand was a tobacco industry whistleblower whose interview was initially withheld by CBS in the 1990s over legal concerns, a decision that severely damaged the network’s credibility and became one of the most infamous episodes in broadcast journalism.

1. BREAKING Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.

My Mayor, spittin' nothing but truth.

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corporate oligarch media outlets reporting on the malfeasance of other corporate oligarch media outlets isn’t the way out of this btw. give your scoops to independent reporters.

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

she's just doing what she was hired to do

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

[...] -- over their career, they will keep visiting new archives, amassing new information, building a deep network of primary and secondary sources, and it is their job to understand how these sources add up. -- Chat GPT is like telling them to read a Wikipedia article or two and call it a day.

Just so you are aware, the average historian -- will have done comprehensive exams for their PhD where they are expected to have read *all* the research in their area. -- they will then write a dissertation where they add to this by visiting archives and painstakingly amassing new sources. 1/2

So many things to add to this, but I’ll just give the example of the Mark Twain Project, which has been digitizing for nearly three decades, fairly well-resourced, with a sizable full-time staff. And they are, optimistically, maybe half done.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Agree! I think we should use more specific terms too like GenAI, Machine Learning, NLP, etc.

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Happy winter solstice to everyone who’s excited to start getting some sunlight back

the vice president is a klansman

We felt the CECOT story would be unnecessary unflattering to Ms Noem and wasn’t newsworthy

when you have to release the epstein files while also trying to selectively omit the guy who's in them more than anyone else

Goddamn, these people are beautiful. What beautiful people. It makes me cry.

This is my favorite version of the AI push — we don’t have any real ideas for how you should use it, but it’s not going anywhere, so you had better figure out a use for it and then start using it quick! Uh, no. I don’t think I will.

BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law? MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.

Tom got this on repeat RIGHT NOW youtu.be/DCaFf7LfaMg?...

The thing is… you feel like you gone die But you … don’t You keep living but you can’t get the love out your body So … cry

You gone try and play it off… but it’s different when she got all your kids They ain’t made a drug strong enough for what you feeling

You supposed to be old… you supposed to be washed You supposed to be in the house telling jokes to your Brazilian supermodel wife who do a little bit of witchcraft on you to make sure your day go smooth I would cry to

A high proof bourbon … something local A pack of wine tipped Black and mild (you don’t have to smoke them they are just for effect) You gone need a chewy snack and a crunchy snack (nothing healthy… healthy just gone remind you of her) A hat… to cover your face (you finna do the ugly cry)

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

Holyyyy!!!!

Calm

Look at God! 🤧

seeing both Andrew Tate and Jake Paul get knocked out this weekend

We need a natural experiment where no one listens to tech bros for a year and we see what happens.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Anthony Joshua said he was getting in that ring to teach him a lesson and I think they were indeed learned. Yoruba home training >>>>>

My God!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Which does often happen too! boltsmag.org/sheriff-elec...

I mentioned that I'd have been lost without The Downballot this year. But there are really 2 outlets that fit that description for me. The other is @boltsmag.org (I can't mention one w/out mentioning the other). Just an amazing resource, and so worthy of a donation: boltsmag.org/donate-page/...

‘He said “WOOO”’ 🤣🤣🤣

Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner

Jake Paul got hit and immediately said "WOO!!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I don’t buy that a proper fight would’ve went 6 rounds.