I don't show up in the footage, but I spoke at this today. Hadn't realized the news was there, but it was a great workshop. Congrats to the organizers and thanks for inviting me! @stevenljohnson.org

UVA researchers examine AI’s impact on democracy >>> https://www.29news.com/2026/01/09/uva-researchers-examine-ais-impact-democracy/

Gamergate is as big a moment to understanding the modern right in America as 9/11 is and there are still people who think it is insane to say that.

They didn’t just hate Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Gretchen Whitmer, and Kamala Harris. They hate me. They hate you. They hate any woman who isn’t performing attractive feminine submission for their pleasure.

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

"Never assume malice…" I'mma stop you right there: At this point in human history, when it comes to corporations in particular, any sufficiently advanced capitalist interest is indistinguishable from malice, so I'm gonna go riight on ahead and assume it.

(And yes I think they did this shit on purpose to make people less likely to turn it off.)

A picture of dysfunction. archive.is/6SDL6

New book post today 🥳 Looking forward to reading this @fractalecho.bsky.social ! 💜

"Don't eat gay cereal for girls. Here, put these huge balls in your mouth." is one hell of a pitch.

This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen

The fact that the right thinks this new video of Good’s murder is exonerating is more proof that none of what is going on right now is about people being convinced by evidence, whether accurate or false, but about collective make-believe.

Do you know how frickin pissed off you have to make Minnesotans for them to not only NOT help you, but HECKLE you?

Maybe I'm entirely ruined but this is the funniest thing I've read all day.

It's totally understandable if you're dooming about any facet of the American experiment right now. So your feelings are "valid" in the sense that they represent real anxiety, and I get that. But to vent that anxiety in other people's spaces is wrong for three reasons.

Excommunicate him Leo, please excommunicate him it'd be SO funny I need this Leo I'll even start going back to church if you publicly excommunicate him.

"The imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural" always got me.

Something, something, that Pacific Rim meme where we should see a double event within days, soup, something.

Holy fuck they actually did it

i love the idea of a guy who’s still been on the edge of getting into jeopardy after 61 years of it airing

this guy is a fucking hero

These authors wanted to know whether mothers face discrimination in hiring, even when they are equally qualified as other applicants. So they ran two experiments...

Apple and Google have previously removed apps providing nudify services from their app stores. So why havent they taken action against X and Grok? @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports

* zooms in on "If all Dems/Independents voted no, given absent Republicans, the vote would've failed" *

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Let's not clown on people for whom this week was their radicalization moment. "Oh, NOW you get it!?" isn't helpful. Most of us get here later than we should (esp white folks, including me), but we should welcome those who get here at all.

Apparently including the name of the ICE officer who killed Good seems to hide posts from the search function. So re-upping this, my latest in @slate.com, on the politics of Minneapolis’s DA charging him w homicide. She has gone hard after cops before, and it’s clear Minneapolis is angry.

see also: body cameras

Whew, Proton can't get a Slides app working too soon.

The sign lady lol

As of 18:45 UTC (10:15 PM local), traffic to Iran has stopped as the country has completely severed itself from the global internet.

variety.com/2026/digital... And… we f-ing won another one! Keep it coming. Watch out Home Depot. Karma is a stink that stays on you.

side discussion but anyone saying the real issue with ICE is a lack of proper training is subtly arguing for increased funding and should probably be ignored going forward regarding all substantive matters

For @conversationalist.org, I wrote about how eugenics never left us, and the role it's playing in political conversations right now. My unsurprising conclusion is that to dismantle eugenics, we need to dismantle empire.

Yeah, clocked this

I cannot stress enough that you should not do this.

Iranian state media claim "radical groups" are torching police stations and vehicles in Tehran. Early reports say security forces have begun using live fire. Attacks on military and police personnel are now being reported in multiple provinces. This is going to be a long night in Iran.

So, it's been a while but I'm pretty sure of this, Goebbels remarked in his diary that their regime didn't need to go out of their way to manipulate the press. They'd show up to the briefings and dutifully repeat whatever they said. Anyway.

Undocumented students in Virginia could be at risk of losing their eligibility for in-state college tuition after the DOJ filed a suit challenging current state laws, but advocates have asked the court to pause the case so students’ voices can be heard.

So yeah: abolish the fucking police. Tear that institution down to the foundations and salt the earth where it grew.

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

This story was reported with support from @spotlightdc.bsky.social. You can read more about what we're hoping to do with our new beat below. What health stories should we tell in 2026? 51st.news/health-equit...

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Only one hater in the SET evals... I consider that a win.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

This isn't the point of Mr. Serwer's thread, but a huge number of white, left-leaning men love to add "white" in front of their complaints about women to cloak their rank misogyny in faux-intersectionalism. This is just the right running the same playbook.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

there will be new chores.